Reading “Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas” by Harley Rustad. It is about the unsolved disappearance of American backpacker, Justin Alexander Shetler.
If you enjoyed Jon Krakauer’s “Into the Wild” or “Into Thin Air” you should enjoy this book. However it is not as “can’t put down” as Krakauer’s books but it is a well-written book on Shetler’s adventurous pilgrimage.
I did. Way better than the movie “Everest.”
I read “Into Thin Air” without stopping. Could not put it down once I started.
Shoot! Wrong book!
I was thinking of “Into Thin Air” about his ascent of Everest in 1996.
But, yes, I’ve also read “Into The Wild,” which I found better than the movie that was based on it.
“Into Thin Air” was the book I was thinking of primarily because of the Himalayan setting. Am going to edit my earlier posts accordingly.
Well, they’re both good.
It may be impossible to make the movie version better than his books. He is so good at engaging you in the story.
Hulu is releasing a limited series based on Krakauer’s “Under the Banner of Heaven,” another awesome book.
I think someone in my household has a Hulu account.
Noted.
Finished “Lost in the Valley of Death” and it is much more like “Into the Wild” than “Into Thin Air”. “Lost in the Valley of Death” would make a great miniseries even though you know how it is going to end.
Starting “Big Lonely Doug” by the same author.
Um, someone dies?
You can’t handle a sad story? No spoiler alert as it is clear from the outset that this is a reconstruction of the young man’s life
I figure “Valley of Death” is a clue.
so my genre list had some I put on the side. As just not genres I read or see truly as genres. {Cookbooks, poetry, Essays, Comic book/Graphic novel}, I also added self help. Mostly because I believe I have a few on the shelf that fit the bill. I reserve the right to put them back to the side.
I chose Everything’s Eventual by King
Sourdough by Robin Sloan
The Up Side of Down by Megan McArdle
Keep meaning to mention that I did read “We” a few months ago and quite enjoyed it. The writing style is very different from Wells and Huxley but the message was equally chilling.
Coincidentally I am now reading “Every” by Dave Eggers and it could be a modern version of “We”!
I went into Goodreads to add “We” and ran into one of my pet peeves. If you search for “we”, you get everything but exactly what you typed in. You’d think a search might give you the exact match above “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business” and a whole bunch of other stuff. To find it in Goodreads, I had to open another search tab, search for “we book”, find the author, then add that to the Goodreads search.
I found myself stalling rather than reading Shantaram. I barely started before I eventually switched to Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time. I’m most of the way through that one. What I’ve read makes sense pretty much, but for some reason I find the whole book annoying. I’m not sure if it is just the slightly arrogant hype-iness of it, but that’s really par for the course in all books in its genre. Or maybe it’s just that I’ve been through various versions of “quality training” at various companies and I’ve seen varying results from the application (or not) of the (and here I already get into trouble, as the book claims it’s not a process, but that’s the word I most definitely would have had to use at the various companies), and this is kind of a specialized/focused version of the quality process.
It will be interesting to apply it.
I’ll probably read a couple more books on the topic before re-trying Shantaram.
Shantaram is a good read but best appreciated if you have been to India or are planning on going there.
After listening to snippets of several food related mysteries I found I wasn’t in the mood. I still think this might be a fun project but I’m putting it off until I have more time to look at reviews, etc., before selecting my books.