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After realizing that he and his friend Mo will never reach the peak of El Capitan, Ray Connelly's world further collapses when Mo accuses him of stealing some unwritten stories, and the conflict is dramatically resolved on the same mountain where it began. A first novel. Reprint.
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240 pages, Paperback

First published June 1,1998

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240 pages, Paperback
Published
June 1, 1999 by Washington Square Press
ISBN
9780671034832
ASIN
0671034839
Language
English

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Daniel Duane is the author of two novels and four books of non-fiction, including the memoir Caught Inside: A Surfer's Year on the California Coast. He hosts the Sony Music podcast Reunion: Shark Attacks in Paradise, a co-production of HyperObject Industries and Little Everywhere. Duane has written journalism about everything from politics and food to rock-climbing and social justice, and for publications ranging from The New York Times Magazine to Wired, GQ, Esquire, Outside, and Bon Appetit. Duane won a 2012 National Magazine Award for an article about cooking with Chef Thomas Keller and has twice been a finalist for a James Beard Award. Duane holds a PhD in American Literature from UC Santa Cruz and has taught writing for the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference, University of California Santa Cruz, and the MFA program at San Francisco State University. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, the writer Elizabeth Weil, and their two daughters.

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iZombi
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April 16,2025
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I love a good climbing novel. This one was pretty good. A quick read. I read most of it while doing laundry.

It started out really well, but then bogged down in cliched kinda zen philosophy and quasi-Kerouac-ish-ness (totally a word) towards the end.
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cynzx
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April 16,2025
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great story, but not quite as good as Caught Inside.
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Rafer45
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April 16,2025
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Feeling a little let down, now that I finished it. Was waiting for something epic to happen, but was only left to keep waiting. It did had a few good life lessons and lines towards the end, but felt like there could have been more. Maybe it's just me...and something about having "Most of all, I envied the water on the priest's pale, bony fingers" as the last sentence in the book bewilders me.
Nevertheless, makes me want to find my calling in life and strive towards happiness, not in Mo's shadow. I want to create my own shadow.
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AoiRingo
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April 16,2025
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Great book for those that have hiked or climbed the sierras.
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Shickydakubofick
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April 16,2025
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Notes:

Mountain metaphor...perhaps every book is about conquering a mountain

Mo
Ray

Makes the reader think about love of self and others and physical objects and all the meandering thoughts in each of our cavernous minds.

Pseudo philosophy and religion...drags the story...story recovers
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I remember this story being kind of weird, like about stealing someone else's stories.
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MyLoveForManga
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April 16,2025
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Soooo 1998, and reflecting the emotional maturity of an early twenty-something. Squirmily uncomfortable like listening to an overly-earnest person who is searching for their purpose in life and is not yet able to see the fun/contradictions/amusements in the search itself. Seriously, is it actually possible to read about someone else's trip at a Dead concert without gagging?

The climb part itself was the least contrived, if you can make it to that part of the book. Makes me want to go back to Yosemite, even if I still have no desire to climb El Cap...
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