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.
>>2844546KJV because it pisses people off the mostThe modern versions only exist so that Roman Catholics could get rid of the KJV's usage by most denominations
>>2842619she does not have sex with the bear in that ive read it
>>2845508Now I don't know shit about that book, but pretending that a page is a page is retarded anon.There's books where you can read thousands of pages with ease and there's books where a single chapter can take ages to get through, especially very in-depth non-fiction books.
>>2847691Obviously I know that and said it with that in mindwhy didn't you think of that, sherlock
>>2842604Gaze upon my highly pretentious bookshelf.Sadly most of these aren't well suited for taking /out/, either due to their subject, size and weight, or because you have to concentrate too much to enjoy them.Some that would be fun to read on a hike though:- The alchemist (short, easy to read, fun)- Faust I (very short, interesting)- Meditations (Yes i know the reddit book. It's decent though and would fit well while /out/.)- Siddharta (Short, easy to read, fun, topical to being /out/)I also like a lot of post dystopian fiction, but it's a bit of a waste to read those while hiking, they're better suited for at home reading, as are the more academic books.
>>2842604Wisdom in your hands.
Leaves of Grass has been my go to:Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons,It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.Here a great personal deed has room,(Such a deed seizes upon the hearts of the whole race of men,Its effusion of strength and will overwhelms law and mocks all authority and all argument against it.)Here is the test of wisdom,Wisdom is not finally tested in schools,Wisdom cannot be pass’d from one having it to another not having it,Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof,Applies to all stages and objects and qualities and is content,Is the certainty of the reality and immortality of things, and the excellence of things;Something there is in the float of the sight of things that provokes it out of the soul.Now I re-examine philosophies and religions,They may prove well in lecture-rooms, yet not prove at all under the spacious clouds and along the landscape and flowing currents.Here is realization,Here is a man tallied—he realizes here what he has in him,The past, the future, majesty, love—if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.
>>2847828The art of war is more applicable to today
>>2847868I'm convinced, getting it now.
>>2847868my dad made me throw out my copy of leaves of grass because he said it was a marijuana reference
>>2847883He was wrong about the weed but right for making you throw it out. It probably would have made you gay. Whitman was a notorious homosexual and all his writing is faggy shit.
>>2847884qrd
>>2847884i already knew he was gay when i got it, my dad ddnt though..
>>2842794This is the best answer, unless you need to bludgeon an attacking bolete; then you need a hard cover self defense issue copy of Mushrooms Demystified.
>>2847894Notorious is a strong word. There are writings and facts about his life that suggest he was bisexual or gay. His book was scandalous when it came out because it talked a lot of the beauty of the human body, sex, and sensual pleasure in, for the time, lurid terms. He actually got fired from his job at the Bureau of Indian Affairs because his boss read his book and found it filthy, but it’s pretty tame by today’s standards.Excerpt from A Woman Waits for Me:Through you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself,In you I wrap a thousand onward years,On you I graft the grafts of the best-beloved of me and America,The drops I distil upon you shall grow fierce and athletic girls, new artists, musicians, and singers,The babes I beget upon you are to beget babes in their turn,I shall demand perfect men and women out of my love-spendings,I shall expect them to interpenetrate with others, as I and you interpenetrate now,I shall count on the fruits of the gushing showers of them, as I count on the fruits of the gushing showers I give now,I shall look for loving crops from the birth, life, death, immortality, I plant so lovingly now.
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazzI can post faggots who got it right too. It doesn't make Alan Ginsburg less of a power bottom Jew.
>>2847872Not the anon you answered to, but I found the art of war to be mega overrated. It was relevant and great at the time, but it's really basic by modern standards. Meditations is certainly easy to read too, but I found it gave me a lot more stuff to actually think about.
>>2845296just read it, i was actually more interested in the parts that werent about chris mccandles. given his age i am not that surprised by his behaviour, there is a certain romantic naivety that he exhibits, which i do admire in a way, but it is very much accompanied by a certain carelessness. i mean sure, he is sort of surviving for the most part, but he is also losing a ton of weight and not able to properly sustain himself. a diet consisting of mostly rice just isnt healthy, even if rice is cheap and will keep him alive for weeks.
>>2842604finnegan's wake
>>2847695Infinite jest... there's a fuckn book
>>2849118A bit big and heavy for a hike to be fair. Then again you're not at risk of running out of material to read for a while.
>>2849118>>2849124you can get a cheap ereaderi have a small one that's waterproof, battery lasts a month or so when the cover is closed & backlight is off
>>2849133I leave the case behind on my kindle, stupidly heavy for what it is.>>2849118Yeah but then he starts off on that paranormal bent towards the end and it just seems so unnecessary and ill-fitting with the rest of it. I listened to the audiobook after 10 years of procrastinating, and now I am glad I did.
>>2849133>backlightActually e-readers have a front light. Fucking idiot.
>>2849135>I leave the case behind on my kindle, stupidly heavy for what it is.i seemine is pretty light, some cheap waxxy synthetic leather, provides some padding/protection>>2849138;-;
>>2842604The Holy Bible (King James Version)
>>2844535There are ones that show the English side by side with the original Greek along with the translator notes>>2845503> Pic rel
This one, to give to OP
>>2849133>you can get a cheap ereaderI have one. When traveling I usually take it with me, same with hikes.At home I still prefer classical books though, just something about the more tactile experience and you physically having a relationship to where in the book you are.
>>2849191:(
>>2849191This would be a riveting epistle for you.
>>2849192i very much agreei'm a broke neet, but i get interested in different books randomly, so i just download PDFs instead (usually) & use an e-readerhiking seems like a good use for them as well, saves space mainlybut i do hope to be able to collect books eventually
>>2849291awesomebooks.comThis excellent company allows me to buy second-hand copies of books at half price or less. Go on there with 30 dollars and I wouldn't be surprised if you get 4 good paperback books, whichever title you're looking for. I am in the UK but I think they are global.
>>2849294Make sure to set it to "price ascending" and voila honest cheap books.
>>2842660That sounds like a good book. Thanks for the rec my man
>>2849291>but i do hope to be able to collect books eventuallyMuch like >>2849294 I'd recommend checking out used book stores. About half the books in that bookshelf are used. There's probably a website or two for it for your country, and I've found that the quality for "very good" or "good" condition is usually extremely high.Historical books are often also cheap because copyright is long gone, so it's a question of who can put a translation on the market for the cheapest.My default is still that I download ebooks on my kindle for free and if I happen to realize a chapter in or so that I really like it I'll consider buying the real version. Alternatively if it's historical in nature it may just be so cheap I won't even bother and just buy it outright.A solid chunk of these books was in that hallowed 7-12€ range.
I enjoy reading poetry and smoking pipe tobacco while camping. I picked up a collection of Yeats collection recently, will be reading that on my next outing.
>>2849294>>2849455tyvm anons
>>2842604ive been carrying Dr Graham Harvey's book about animism with me to read idly when out. it asks you to consider bird persons, fish persons, plant persons, stone persons, and The Elements, Places, Things made by human hands as persons..
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
