Member: xkyzero

Hi,

Was wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing my new novel and posting your comments here as well as a few other book-related sites. Saw you liked Tideland, and I thought you might like my novel since it's also southern and a bit dark. I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like. Let me know if you're interested. Here's a link to a summary in case you're interested:

http://christophertusa.com/

Thanks,

Chris

posted by cmtusa at 12:02 am (EST) on Mar 31, 2009

Hi. Thanks for your question. I don't think we can add the whole library here - we've got 20,000 circulating books and 6000 rare books, and will be getting about 30,000 rare books from a private donor soon. All of our cataloged books are on the online library catalog at http://americanalpineclub.library.net/

I do think we'll be adding books to Library Thing as we get new ones, probably quarterly. I really like the social aspect of LT and want to grow more of a community around our books. If only I had more time!

Hope to see you in here!
Beth

posted by aaclibrary at 2:36 pm (EST) on Jan 15, 2009

Thank you for joining Pro and Con (Religion). I hope this is a place where the comfortable are afflicted and the afflicted are comforted. Let’s go it with all seriousness, but I hope we can have great fun at the same time. If I were God, I would part the waters of distance, and instantly transport us all to this great pub I used to frequent in Germany with a group of other Auslanders, but alas, I am but a lowly mortal, and so we have to do this via the internet.

All I ask is that every one remain respectful, even if there are times when you are spewing your coffee over the screen.

posted by Arctic-Stranger at 2:58 pm (EST) on Oct 2, 2008

Thanks for the comment on my climbing books.

Thanks to your excellent example, I just updated my LT profile. :)

I've only cataloged a *fraction* of the 700+ climbing-related books we own. I have tracked them for some years now via an Excell spreadsheet as so many are unusual or valuable for various reasons: imported, first editions, long out-of-print, or who* has signed them. I just got a CueCat, in the hopes it will make the process less laborious. In any event, I'm needing to scan quite a few covers because LT dodn't have them yet. The asterik (*) in my tags means I've completly cataloged the book, & that the cover & other info are correct for the edition that I own.

This is a wonderful site! Reading Fox is active on another site (literary science fiction) I'm on, & kindly alerted me to LT.

*"There are old climbers, and there are bold climbers, but there are no old, bold climbers." ;)

posted by MtnSk8tr at 12:34 pm (EST) on Dec 22, 2007

I think the book is an amazing example of the untrustworthy narrator. Is nearly everyone he knows screwing him over in the way he describes, or is he a delusional conspiracy theorist? The fun of Zero was more the content of the narrative, where the fun and interest of this one was more trying to figure out whether the author was merely neurotic in a huge way (and he is, regardless of the ultimate honesty of his romantic partner; his actions as self-described were not the actions of a reasonable person), or if various people (his romantic partner foremost) were treating him poorly.

About 2/3 of the way thru I was convinced he was a loon and his woman was putting up with more lunacy than most would; by the end he had me convinced she probably was sleeping with anyone she wanted to while proclaiming an intent toward monogomy. The problems is, all the evidence we have for this (in the book itself) comes from the author, and since this is a memoir, the author is the main character and narrator, and how much can we really trust it? Were the "facts" and "admittances" that make sense only if she is sleeping around during their relationship things that actually happened outside the book, or are they massaged by the author?

I find myself wanting to deal with this intellectual problem (not peculiar to this book or to memoirs) when thinking about the book and not wanting to investigate the website's supporting materials, which may or may not make things clearer. If they stay on the web, however, I will probably end up looking thru them eventually.

Either way, I find the author to be a compelling and interesting writer, and I hope he can get this book into print again in some way, and I hope his future book and screen writing projects also bear fruit. I'm glad I noticed and purchase the ARC version for the brief time it was available.

I highly recommend his fiction book, Cosmic Banditos, if you enjoyed this one. Think of the narrator of Zero and Can't You Get Along With Anyone fictionalized (and therefore not bound to any historical "truth") with a large dose of Stanislaw Lem and a touch of Hunter S.

posted by charlesclark at 1:00 pm (EST) on Jun 6, 2007

Thanks. Still need to create tags for them!

posted by CafeNomad at 4:18 pm (EST) on Apr 18, 2007

Yup, I just graduated '02 CompSci. I think that I've got version 10 of the book...

posted by trantjd at 12:24 pm (EST) on Dec 29, 2006

Hey, I see that you're the only other person that has an economics book by Frank Stermole. I'm guessing that you took his class at Colorado School of Mines also? Just thought I'd say hello!
Jeremy

posted by trantjd at 1:42 am (EST) on Dec 22, 2006

Thanks for the comment. I enjoy the outdoors and trying to visit the mountains of each of the Continents. Next month I go to New Guinea to climb Carstensz Pyramid then a few days in Australia. Should be a challenging and interesting trip. Bill

posted by wildburd at 7:31 pm (EST) on Aug 22, 2006

Hi- I just entered UNCOMMON WISDOM and came up with your name. I have one other Capra book- In Converstaiosn With Michael Toms...I'm straying away from these kind of books, favoring more fiction, history and memoirs but the principles elicited in Uncommon...remain as a compass for me in the, at times, crazy world we live in.
Peace.

posted by berthirsch at 9:54 pm (EST) on Jul 28, 2006