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Originally Posted by Archaea (Post 222090)

Yes. The first one is of Into Thin Air, which generally received good reveiws.

My bad. I was asking Seattle.

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Originally Posted by Archaea (Post 222085)

A review of the Climb and some critical conversations original published in High Magazine are included here.

http://www.pauldeegan.com/expedition...imb_review.pdf

Read about the conversations between Fischer and Boukreev as established by Fischer's publicist.

Yeah, that's the most damning thing.

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Indeed, Fischer’s publicist, Jane Bromet, is quoted in the book as saying: “Scott told
me... [before the summit bid] that if there were problems coming down, Anatoli
would make a rapid descent [to Camp IV at the South Col] and come back up the
mountain with oxygen...” Bromet claims to have told Krakauer about this
conversation. Yet Krakauer makes no reference to it in his book.

Krakauer didn't include it, because it didn't fit with his plan to lynch Boukreev.

I suspect K. did the same thing with the Lafferty clan. He knew the father of the Lafferty clan was CUCKOO, but he did not include any information to that effect. Why? Because it wasn't a crazy father that made crazy kids. It was a crazy religion that did it.

Seattle, our friendly Visigoth, let's compare a quote from Tolstoy, you guess the book:

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A Frenchman is self-assured because he regards himself personally, both in mind and body, as irresistibly attractive to men and women. An Englishman is self-assured, as being a citizen of the best-organized state in the world, and therefore as an Englishman always knows what he should do and knows that all he does as an Englishman is undoubtedly correct. An Italian is self-assured because he is excitable and easily forgets himself and other people. A Russian is self-assured just because he knows nothing and does not want to know anything, since he does not believe that anything can be known. The German's self-assurance is worst of all, stronger and more repulsive than any other, because he imagines that he knows the truth--science--which he himself has invented but which is for him the absolute truth.

My favorite Tolstoy quote:

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The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience.

And then a modest quote from Krackhead after he has thoroughly desecrated Boukreev,

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Mortality had remained a conveniently hypothetical concept, an idea to ponder in the abstract. Sooner of later the divestiture of such a privileged innocence was inevitable, but when it finally happened the shock was magnified by the sheer superfluity of the carnage…

I read "Into Thin Air" many years ago back at the In-laws in Orange County (when I was still married) and enjoyed the book.