If you could pick ONE book to take out on your hike, what would it be?
>>2842604karma sutra
>>2842604One of my grandpa's Zane Grey novels.
>>2842604Freedom of the Hills or SAS survival guide.
>>2842606it's kama sutra, numbskulland it's not that great of a read, you clearly have never looked at it before
"The Year of the Hare" by Arto Paasilinna.Plot from wikipedia cause i cant summarize things: "It tells the story of Kaarlo Vatanen, a frustrated journalist, who, after nearly killing a hare with his car, turns away from an unhappy and unwholesome life. On an impulse, Vatanen abruptly abandons his urban lifestyle, job, and wife, in exchange for the freedom of the road and the wilderness, living off his cash savings and casual employment, all the time accompanied by the hare which he has nursed back to health and kept as a pet. A year of unlikely encounters and adventures ensues, during the course of which Vatanen repeatedly runs afoul of the law and conventional mores but manages to stay afloat thanks to the help and understanding of other sympathetic free spirits."
The Holy Bible. All the rest of you niggas are heathens.
What else? Only the best book ever written.
The one I'm reading right now.Why would I take more than one?
>>2842669Don't be stingy niggy share with the class
>>2842627thanks prajwald
50 shades of grey, there's like 50 books in one package
>>2842604All that the rain promises and more
I'm almost done with Lonesome Dove, and I'd like to know how it ends, so probably that.My second pick would be The Arabs - A History, which I'm set to read next.
>>2842604Probably invisible citiesIt is small and doesn't really mean anything but offers a lot of avenues for creative pondering
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>>2842604The relevant flora book for the area
>>2842604Doesn't matter because in the end I would leave it at home to save weight.
this is quite a confronting read, especially when camping out in spookie New England woods
>>2843312>what book would you bring>erm, no book because le weight Then why answer? This is why people call UL a bunch of faggots.
>>2843312https://youtube.com/watch?v=V1c3yNCRn18
Obviously my travel journal
A dichotomous key to the flora of the region.
Schizoid Phenomena: Object Relations and the Self, GuntripYou don't want to be here forever bros
>>2842604I've been reading "My Part in Germany's Fight", which is seemingly a translated record of Goebbel's diary from 1933. I suppose I'd take that with me. It's just getting to the good part, where the party's detractors in power start to flake and unjust restrictions on their actions are lifted.
>>2842604The Bible.
>>2842604"What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well."
>>2842604"The art of worldly wisdom", sometimes "The art of discretion" or "A hand oracle" by Baltasar Gracian. A priest from the 1600s offers advice on how to deal with society and its retards. Witty, sharp, smart, cunning, constantly reminding you why society is shit."The Penguin Guide to Symbols" by Chevalier and Gheerbrant. Encyclopedia of symbols, stars, colours, gods, habits, trees, animals, numbers,... and how they were interpreted throughout the ages by different civilizations.Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man. A 23 yo kid came up with the ideas of equality, free will and self-determination of mankind. Founding "father" of Humanism, written in Florence, Italy, 1486.
I unironically bring “Leaves of Grass” with me sometimes. Whitman puts me in an /out/ mood like nobody else
>>2842662This.
>>2842662You cant even read it in the original Koine Greek how would you know whose a heathenMarcion was right
>>2842662>>2844443Which version, edition, revision of the edited word of man do you prefer?
>>2842604Ashley Book of Knots. Endless cordage-based entertainment.
>>2842604Mein Kampf
>>2842604usually something in the aphoristic tradition sort of nature poetryindigenous mythology. this is a good collection of ainu myths
this
>>2842604It is such a great read.
>>2842604Ive enjoyed reading pic related.>A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros
>>2844667I thought it was terrifying, particularly the story about the guy who loaded a nuclear warhead in his truck just to show his girlfriend that he could disarm it.On the other hand, there's something very human about seeing how even the people in charge of potentially world-ending weapons can be fucking retards who have scraped by with way more luck than what makes sense.
>>2844895It's absolutely hair-raising, lol. I'd love to read a Soviet equivalent to this. Imagine what must've been going on there.
>>2842668Good pick, it has a certain charm that’s lacking in the Lord of the Rings books. But I might just be a smooth brained retard.
Impeachment of man by savitri devi.
>>2845028It had more of a whimsical tone for sure, I'm pretty sure tolkein wrote it for a younger audience and then LOTR for more mature readers.
Pic related
Into the wild, of course. Why the religious Bible when you can have a real outdoors bible?
>>2845296This is the /out/ Bible as far as I am concerned. Recommended for anyone who goes into the actual backcountry far away from civilization
>>2844546NTA, but I read the NIV.
>>2842662the ramblings of some desert rat have ZERO relevance to any of living in the north. keep your nonsense to yourself
>>2842604"cry of the kalahari"im a slow reader, taken me 3 years to get halfway through it, and thats a good thing in a way i dont pick up books unless im seriously bored and then reading just a few pages makes my day and get my mind flowing. i can make a book last years this way.
>>2845505>342 pages totalThis makes it sound like you have actual mental retardation. I could finish that book in literally one day.
>>2844546Editions arent that important to me, but Im currently reading LSB as thats supposedly very conservative and literal in translation. But I also like NIV because of David Suchets narration of it.
>>2842604I thought about this question for an hour before realizing that you said HIKE. I do not need a book on a hike, but I'd go for some Andrzej Sapkowski's the Witcher. Just for the 'on the road' stuff and wholesome stuff, it's a combination of lighthearted and contemplative, romantic. Goes well with a campfire and hot mug for sure.
>>2845884Oh and monsters. Any creepy stuff gets points, and some of the monsters in the witcher are my kind of spooky, like the lesser vampire that falls in love with the beauty-and-the-beast guy.
>>2842604for me its>Seashore Life of the Northern Pacific Coast
Big Yum Yum: The Story of Oggie and the Beanstalk
>>2842604William Blake, Songs of Innocence/Experience.Nice: >>2844452
>>2843254good taste
Why one book? Take an e-reader, one of those that last weeks on battery.With SD card, you can have some 30 books.Have fun reading.
>>2846618cringe.
>>2842604PoetryFor me, Hermann Hesse
>>2846618I do like my Kobo, to the point of being angry with regular books if I don't like the font or the size of the letters, but there's something different about a book when you're outdoors. Once it's too dark to read, and you have to choose between lighting a lantern or putting the book down to go to sleep, it feels so much more like living in the now. Disconnecting from technology, as it were.
