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tonaderspeisung · 12-05-2013, 07:18 PM

Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
by Donnie Eichar

In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the incident—unexplained violent injuries, signs that they cut open and fled the tent without proper clothing or shoes, a strange final photograph taken by one of the hikers, and elevated levels of radiation found on some of their clothes—have led to decades of speculation over what really happened.

i'm about 2/3 through so i can't give an opinion on the authors final explanation of the incident
but i have found the book to be quite enthralling

nycfem · 12-05-2013, 07:57 PM

Let us know what you think at the end. Sounds fascinating!

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Originally Posted by tonaderspeisung

Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
by Donnie Eichar

In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the incident—unexplained violent injuries, signs that they cut open and fled the tent without proper clothing or shoes, a strange final photograph taken by one of the hikers, and elevated levels of radiation found on some of their clothes—have led to decades of speculation over what really happened.

i'm about 2/3 through so i can't give an opinion on the authors final explanation of the incident
but i have found the book to be quite enthralling

Kätzchen · 12-12-2013, 06:13 PM

I'm finally back from my day, gazelling about the universe, and stopped by my favorite library to check out and bring home a few books, to read during the holidays. I found two at the library and one is on the way: I had to order it on an inter-library loan because not many people ordinarily want to read it, but I do.

Czeslaw Milosz: Legends of Modernity (1996; trans. in 2005), A Treatise On Poetry (begun in the winter of 1955, finished by spring of 1956; published and trans., in 2001), and The Captive Mind (1953; trans: Vintage International; NY, NY: 1990).

Here's an interesting article (LINK), authored by Tony Judt, concerning Milosz' book, The Captive Mind, which appeared in The New York Review of Books (September 30th, 2010 issue).

Kobi · 12-12-2013, 07:19 PM

The golden notebook / Doris Lessing

I don't ever remember reading this classic.

The Golden Notebook is the story of writer Anna Wulf, the four notebooks in which she records her life, and her attempt to tie them together in a fifth, gold-coloured, notebook. The book intersperses segments of an ostensibly realistic narrative of the lives of Molly and Anna, and their children, ex-husbands and lovers—entitled Free Women—with excerpts from Anna's four notebooks, coloured black (of Anna's experience in Southern Rhodesia, before and during WWII, which inspired her own best-selling novel), red (of her experience as a member of the Communist Party), yellow (an ongoing novel that is being written based on the painful ending of Anna's own love affair), and blue (Anna's personal journal where she records her memories, dreams, and emotional life). Each notebook is returned to four times, interspersed with episodes from Free Women, creating non-chronological, overlapping sections that interact with one another. This post-modern styling, with its space for "play" engaging the characters and readers, is among the most famous features of the book, although Lessing insisted that readers and reviewers pay attention to the serious themes in the novel.

ClassyStud · 12-12-2013, 07:47 PM

Trying to get this done before I see the movie but my reading time is limited. Maybe the movie will stay in the theaters until I am done or Christmas can wait so I can finish.

~baby~doll~ · 12-13-2013, 09:30 AM

The Actress (A Rita Farmer Mystery) by Sims, Elizabeth

i read every lesbian mystery/detective book that comes my way.
i read all of Elizabeth Sims Lillian Byrd Mysteries. i was impressed by her framing of Lillian so real and like me flawed. l.
i am hoping Rita Farmer will be as charming as Lillian. This is the first of a series of mysteries. The Extra and On Location follow.

tonaderspeisung · 01-06-2014, 08:56 PM

finally finished
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
by Donnie Eichar

overall a pretty good easy read and i was all in all the way through

the author's theory of the hikers last night - chilling

mystery solved to my satisfaction

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12-05-2013, 07:18 PM	#1
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12-12-2013, 07:19 PM	#4
Kobi Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Biological female. Lesbian. Relationship Status: Happy Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Hanging out in the Atlantic. Posts: 9,234 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,840 Thanked 34,635 Times in 7,642 Posts Rep Power: 21474861	The golden notebook / Doris Lessing I don't ever remember reading this classic. The Golden Notebook is the story of writer Anna Wulf, the four notebooks in which she records her life, and her attempt to tie them together in a fifth, gold-coloured, notebook. The book intersperses segments of an ostensibly realistic narrative of the lives of Molly and Anna, and their children, ex-husbands and lovers—entitled Free Women—with excerpts from Anna's four notebooks, coloured black (of Anna's experience in Southern Rhodesia, before and during WWII, which inspired her own best-selling novel), red (of her experience as a member of the Communist Party), yellow (an ongoing novel that is being written based on the painful ending of Anna's own love affair), and blue (Anna's personal journal where she records her memories, dreams, and emotional life). Each notebook is returned to four times, interspersed with episodes from Free Women, creating non-chronological, overlapping sections that interact with one another. This post-modern styling, with its space for "play" engaging the characters and readers, is among the most famous features of the book, although Lessing insisted that readers and reviewers pay attention to the serious themes in the novel.

01-06-2014, 08:56 PM	#7
tonaderspeisung Member How Do You Identify?: asleep at the synthesizer Preferred Pronoun?: crown prince of dirty disco Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: the dollar bin Posts: 1,392 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,082 Thanked 1,752 Times in 849 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	finally finished Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie Eichar overall a pretty good easy read and i was all in all the way through the author's theory of the hikers last night - chilling mystery solved to my satisfaction