The Grapes of Wrath for sure! And no matter our age, Charlotte’s Web by EB White is number one on my list of must reads. Don’t let the fact that it is considered a children’s book fool you. EB White weaves in some amazing common sense and life advise, all the while telling this amazing story from the view point of the unlikely friendship between a pig and a spider.
I love Charlotte's web! It is such a classic children's story, but can be appreciated and liked by all! As many times as I have read it, I still cry with it!
American classics - Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Of Mice and Men, Grapes of Wrath, The Great Gatsby, Moby Dick, Little Women, Fahrenheit 451, The Crucible, Call of the Wild, Atlas Shrugged, anything by Edgar Alan Poe, East of Eden, The Jungle, Catcher in the Rye, poems of Emily Dickinson, 1984, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, In Cold Blood. That’s a list (not in any order except from my memory).I think many would agree pretty solid. No idea how many are audio books, probably most of them. Some of these are very very tough to read both from how it affects you and what the author is trying to say with the characters and things in the book. Moby Dick is really, really hard.
@@timmethy A lot of American literature takes political positions, in fact I would say 95% of it does. RR is not an American by birth and doesn’t know US History well so this group of books covers a huge spectrum of that. She also did not ask for literature with or without a certain political idealism. Moby Dick, Tom Sawyer and Fahrenheit 451 are all quite political for their times in US History. I’ve read everything on this list in my 62 years of life, some several times. I would add that British literature for instance Ivanhoe plus the King James Bible had a huge influence on American Literature especially in the early days of America. I left off some very controversial books that caused political fires such as Red Badge of Courage, Invisible Man, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Gone with the Wind and 1984. I accidentally left off Hemingway(Farewell to Arms, Old Man and the Sea) and Faulkner and McCarthy (The Road). Probably others too. Lots of Sci-Fi could be added but a lot of people don’t think of it as literature.
Many thru-hikers are carrying on the tradition of nomadic adventure and exploration. From a US centric POV, there are a handful of books that capture those experiences from years past. Two years before the mast, Roughing it, and On the road would be instantly familiar and relatable to any hiker, van lifer or sailor.
@bigdog2024 I agree with your OP list and your follow-up list, a broader spectrum is an American tradition and provides an understanding of the debate between opposing viewpoints. While Atlas Shrugged is polemic, it defines what many of the other books warn against. I would add writing by Sherman Alexie and other Native authors, while including more Black authors and books like Twelve Years A Slave, The Color Purple, and writing from Langston Hughes. Also, I would add reading/listening to Last Of The Mohicans as a depiction of early American attitudes on race, religion, wilderness, Manifest Destiny, American exceptionality, and more, written in the early 1800s. Your suggestion of Tom Sawyer is excellent for defining the Southern White boyhood experience, but we should remember that Mark Twain felt it was a bowdlerized novel and wrote Huckleberry Finn as a statement skewering the Jim Crow attitudes and actions of the time. Some more current themes would be in Arctic Dreams, Teaching A Stone To Talk, Stepping Westward, among others. What a great idea of Roadrunner to use listening time for a specific purpose.
"Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck, and "The Old Man and the Sea," by Ernest Hemingway, which won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and a Nobel Prize in Literature. Written for folks like us, who enjoy outdoors travel, challenge, and who beat to our own drum.
RR, my wife and look forward to watching your videos every day, and so I have to list a few recommendations for your book list on common sense: 1. “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” (a novel about a young girl growing up in poverty after the turn of the 20th century, learning life lessons and making her way in the world); 2. “Lonesome Dove” (a western novel about a survival in the 1800s on a cattle drive from Texas to Montana, made into an acclaimed TV miniseries and available on DVD); 3. “All The President’s Men” a non-fiction book written by the reporters who exposed the Watergate scandal of President Nixon in the early 1970s (also a motion picture starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman). Each of these have some “common sense” lessons and American colloquialisms.
I didn't read these books as a teenager, but they are awesome books on military history. I'm a retired Marine, so reading about military history is my thing. Here are a few of my all time favorites: "Iwo Jima: Legacy of Valor" (WWII), "Death March" (WWII), "My Father, My Son" (Vietnam), "A Different Kind of Courage", "War Letters", "D-Day". These are all non-fictional storys mostly told by those service members that lived through it. Another favorite if mine is a 10 book series called, "The Corps". These are fictional stories that begin pre-WWII and end right after the Korean War. They are based on historical events and facts with some historical figures, but mostly have fictional characters. Cannibals, huh! ;p
Great book. I just reread that one, "1984", "Animal Farm" and "Farhenheit 541". Some of my favorites from high-school. Also Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" is an American travel classic. Safe travels.
I love your teaming. You crack me up setting outside there tent waiting for them to come out.🤣🤣🤣🤣 I loved it. I have been watching hikers now for about 5 years. And I must say you all are my favorite and I am going to cry and miss you all like crazy when you’re done. ❤❤❤❤
Most of the Bill Bryson books. "A Short History of Nearly Everything" , "A Walk in the Woods:" , "The Body: A Guide for Occupants" , "One Summer: America, 1927" . "In a Sunburned Country / Down Under" and many other.
I could barely tell that you were originally from Germany. your accent and knowledge of colloquialisms is petty on for the most part. I love your attitude and look forward to watching your adventures!
I applaud you for wanting to supplement your education, though I bet a lot of American students only read the cliff note versions of the classic novels. I'm also pretty blown away by the beauty of that area. I guess that's why it's so expensive to live around Tahoe.
I'm so impressed that you're educating yourself about American literature. A couple of my favorites are "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain. I home-schooled my kids and my daughters' really liked "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" and also "Calico Captive", both by Elizabeth Speare. Another American author that I like is Scott O'Dell. His "Streams to the River, River to the Sea" is the story of Sacajawea and the Lewis and Clark expedition. "To Kill a Mockingbird" was one of our favorites, too. I notice a lot of people are recommending John Steinbeck. I find his novels depressing. Just my opinion.
Great day on trail Wonderful music, an incredible meadow/mountain side to go with it and hamburgers and beer to top it off. Thanks for sharing your day. Happy trails.
Haha, I love the pun in the title! Running to Donner Pass for food is definitely a memorable moment on your Pacific Crest Trail thru-hike. Your journey has been so inspiring to watch. Thanks for sharing and also for highlighting the Fowler-O’Sullivan Foundation - such an important cause. Keep up the great work and stay safe out there! Cheers, Simon - Tales From Abroad
I was just there a few days ago as we drove to our cabin at Donner Lake. I have skied there but never eaten. That was quite a hike! I'd recommend " Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck.
I ate at that same place while trapped there during a winter snowstorm! This is not a Donner joke 😂 You got some great book suggestions and I love that you are using the listening trail time to catch up on the American historical perspective through literature. By the end of the trail you'll have a very good understanding of the American polarization, the Dream, and the constant renewal.
I absolutely love to read. I'm a very slow reader however. I don't know if I've really read any from these lists in high school. If we did, I don't remember them. So I'm going to take these lists and put them down for myself to read as well. That beer was freaking huge!!! Happy Trails!!! - Shybee
Love the music during your hike through the mule's ears! I have been trying to catch up with your videos, as I am a few weeks behind. I love hiking vicariously through you!
Lots of great book recommendations. I have to add John Steinbeck probably had the biggest impact on me and I’m British. However just enjoying going along with your journey at the moment.
Wakeing up and start drinking 😅 heck why not 😅 and bossbay comeing out of that tent 😅 she's so silly.... crazy beautiful views 🤩🤩... hey im 39 and never read a book in life. 😅 and I turned out ok.
As always, I enjoyed today's video. Some American books that I enjoyed, influenced me and illuminate the American experience. Hmmm. There's always 'Huckleberry Finn' by Mark Twain. 'Desert Solitaire' by Edward Abbey is a classic. 'The White Indian Boy...' by Elijah Nicholas Wilson tells the story of a young pioneer LDS boy who chose to live with Chief Washakie's family for a while. It jives well with my relationships with traditional Shoshoni people. 'God is Red' by Vine Deloria Jr. can be enlightening. "John Adams' by David McCullogh is a good one. Then there are always the John Muir books. Apparently, 'My First Summer in the Sierra' is only on Audible. This may help you reflect on your own experience.
Regards books that would recommend reading. -Mice and men -Walk across America . That is a really good book. It’s about a guy who backpacks across America. - Michael Connolly, book 🎉Harry Bosch Keep up the great work I’m really enjoying watching all your videos. I’m now on day 84.
I recommend and agree with all the books mentioned below. Most of them were required reading in my high school years (1960's). Just be careful--reading some of these might get you thrown out of Florida these days. ;)
Steinbeck is great, but start with his shorter books. The Bean Trees (series set in Arizona) by Barbara Kingsolver, and The Joy Luck club (series set in San Francisco) by Amy Tan.
OK cracking that beer first thing in the morning cracked ME up. You burn and sweat that out in the first 2 miles. PS- Bird call = youthful Jeff Bridges. Especially when he smiles. Proof me wrong!
If you want a taste of what the early pioneers in America experienced, the Little House On The Prairie series is a great way to understand what it was like. Even though they are loosely based on Laura Ingalls Wilder's real life, they give a true snapshot of early pioneers. I read them as an adult and really enjoyed them all.
One year I read a Nicholas Sparks book and at the end he explained he is doing well and he is still reading 100 books a year. Wow, right? So I spent a year reading as many books as possible while working full time and family. I read only the classics in that year(25 books). My fav was “Animal Farm”.
Good morning, Juliane. How neat, you found Somewhere somewhere on the mountain top. You could make a song out of that. Burger motivation works everytime. Beer for breakfast. Ugh. Donner Pass was beautiful. I've always wondered what it looked like today, as opposed to when the Donner Party was there. The original one, that is. Take care. Stay safe. See you tomorrow.
I appreciate your comments on reading and love your choice of “Mockingbird “. Much of our American history is founded in English writers esp on government. I recommend some of the early American Writers on American history. Unless you have some grounding in why our Constitution is the measuring stick of government you have no appreciation of individual rights and why we re so leary of the mob. Avoid the noise of the X,Y, and Z generation and cling to the legacy of history. Stay safe and careful👍🏼
Mark Twain. Huckleberry Finn is probably the most important, in some sense, and one of his best, but given what your life is like at the moment you might prefer Roughing It.
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Herman Melville's Moby Dick, Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, George Orwell's Animal Farm (theme is very current in todays politics), John Kennedy OToole's A Confedercy of Dunces. Those should get you to Canada.
LOVE WATCHING YOU EVERY DAY! YOU ARE AMAZING. MAY I SUGGEST AN AMERICAN NOVEL. "A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN." I READ IT AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR. MY FAVORITE ALL TIME BOOK. SAFE TRAVELS .......
Atticus Finch! 😊 Also recommend "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck, also by the same author "Travels with Charley" - of particular interest to a wanderer like your sweet self. 😊
Your smile an positive attitude is refreshing and it nice to see you enjoying the journey. You have admirable traits that many could follow. Keep on rockin on and cant wait to see what happens next!
Enjoyed the video and all the views. Pretty spectacular..I 🤔 you videoed good today 😊 wow. What a beer ..a good meal for a long day 😊😊 blessings and safe trails
A lot of good recommendations on the comments another one would be Empire of the summer moon if you wanna hear about Indian Apache, American history and the wild stories
That is so great that you are listening to audio books. I love reading! My favorite subjects in school were .English Literature and Spanish. To Kill A Mockingbird is a great story. I know someone commented on this already, but a great children's literature classic is Charlotte's Web. Even though, it is classified as children's literature,, it is a story that can be enjoyed by all. It is a timeless story. It was read as a read aloud in school and then now students also still read this book today or it is done as a read aloud. Other classics I recommend are Of Mice and Men, Fahrenheit 451, The Great Gatsby, and The Scarlett Letter. It's not an American book, but also one of my favorite novels in high school was Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. I even had the opportunity to play the role of "Young Jane" at a local theatre company and ended up doing a research paper on the novel in high school. Nowadays, I read a lot of Nicholas Sparks books because they take place in North Carolina and it's my favorite state. I have also been reading a lot of biographies as well.
Not a joke: Some Turkish nationalists wanted to forbid the use of "Döner" as a description of a meal in Germany arguing that it is a meal only genuine when it's prepared in Turkey or made out of Turkish ingredients. Don't worry about your education. Even if you just did 9 years of school in Germany most Americans would agree, that your general education is way better, just because you manage to speak at least 2 languages. A classic American author would be John Steinbeck, the boos made a song out of one of his most famous works: the ghost of Tom Joad. And of course Hemingway. Island in the Stream would be fitting with your drinking habits...
A book addendum that I almost forgot. I don't know if this is the book I read because it was hard to find and I read a friend's copy. I hope this audiobook contains the snippets of Ruess' writings. There are such gems as "I have seen almost more beauty than I can bear." "I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time." The audiobook is 'Finding Everett Ruess.'
Good for you on listening to the book. The movie done 60 years ago was very good too. Try "The Mouse That Roared" also a good movie. Best as movies: Butch Cassidy and the Sun Dance Kid, The Sting, Secondhand Lions, and All of Mel Brook's movies(Young Frankenstein). Mark Twain , Jack London, Steven King, and John Steinbeck were good authors. You must see the movie "Idiocracy" and then look at where we are. Happy Trails. Good Luck, Rick
I mostly read sci Fi novels. Battlefield earth was one I liked for the intricate and suspenseful story Jon Carter novels and Edgar Rice Burroughs generally including all the Tarzan books
The Grapes of Wrath for sure! And no matter our age, Charlotte’s Web by EB White is number one on my list of must reads. Don’t let the fact that it is considered a children’s book fool you. EB White weaves in some amazing common sense and life advise, all the while telling this amazing story from the view point of the unlikely friendship between a pig and a spider.
I love Charlotte's web! It is such a classic children's story, but can be appreciated and liked by all! As many times as I have read it, I still cry with it!
American classics - Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Of Mice and Men, Grapes of Wrath, The Great Gatsby, Moby Dick, Little Women, Fahrenheit 451, The Crucible, Call of the Wild, Atlas Shrugged, anything by Edgar Alan Poe, East of Eden, The Jungle, Catcher in the Rye, poems of Emily Dickinson, 1984, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, In Cold Blood. That’s a list (not in any order except from my memory).I think many would agree pretty solid. No idea how many are audio books, probably most of them. Some of these are very very tough to read both from how it affects you and what the author is trying to say with the characters and things in the book. Moby Dick is really, really hard.
Atlas Shrugged doesnt belong on that list. Its terrible writing with ideological BS.
@@timmethy A lot of American literature takes political positions, in fact I would say 95% of it does. RR is not an American by birth and doesn’t know US History well so this group of books covers a huge spectrum of that. She also did not ask for literature with or without a certain political idealism. Moby Dick, Tom Sawyer and Fahrenheit 451 are all quite political for their times in US History. I’ve read everything on this list in my 62 years of life, some several times. I would add that British literature for instance Ivanhoe plus the King James Bible had a huge influence on American Literature especially in the early days of America. I left off some very controversial books that caused political fires such as Red Badge of Courage, Invisible Man, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Gone with the Wind and 1984. I accidentally left off Hemingway(Farewell to Arms, Old Man and the Sea) and Faulkner and McCarthy (The Road). Probably others too. Lots of Sci-Fi could be added but a lot of people don’t think of it as literature.
Many thru-hikers are carrying on the tradition of nomadic adventure and exploration.
From a US centric POV, there are a handful of books that capture those experiences from years past.
Two years before the mast, Roughing it, and On the road would be instantly familiar and relatable to any hiker, van lifer or sailor.
@bigdog2024 I agree with your OP list and your follow-up list, a broader spectrum is an American tradition and provides an understanding of the debate between opposing viewpoints. While Atlas Shrugged is polemic, it defines what many of the other books warn against. I would add writing by Sherman Alexie and other Native authors, while including more Black authors and books like Twelve Years A Slave, The Color Purple, and writing from Langston Hughes. Also, I would add reading/listening to Last Of The Mohicans as a depiction of early American attitudes on race, religion, wilderness, Manifest Destiny, American exceptionality, and more, written in the early 1800s. Your suggestion of Tom Sawyer is excellent for defining the Southern White boyhood experience, but we should remember that Mark Twain felt it was a bowdlerized novel and wrote Huckleberry Finn as a statement skewering the Jim Crow attitudes and actions of the time. Some more current themes would be in Arctic Dreams, Teaching A Stone To Talk, Stepping Westward, among others. What a great idea of Roadrunner to use listening time for a specific purpose.
After I read Moby Dick, I followed it up with on-line lectures to understand what I read. But a very enriching experience!
"Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck, and "The Old Man and the Sea," by Ernest Hemingway, which won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and a Nobel Prize in Literature.
Written for folks like us, who enjoy outdoors travel, challenge, and who beat to our own drum.
If you’re going to listen to the old man and the Sea I highly suggest Donald Sutherland’s reading.
Of Mice and Men is a must-read!!
RR, my wife and look forward to watching your videos every day, and so I have to list a few recommendations for your book list on common sense: 1. “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” (a novel about a young girl growing up in poverty after the turn of the 20th century, learning life lessons and making her way in the world); 2. “Lonesome Dove” (a western novel about a survival in the 1800s on a cattle drive from Texas to Montana, made into an acclaimed TV miniseries and available on DVD); 3. “All The President’s Men” a non-fiction book written by the reporters who exposed the Watergate scandal of President Nixon in the early 1970s (also a motion picture starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman). Each of these have some “common sense” lessons and American colloquialisms.
I didn't read these books as a teenager, but they are awesome books on military history. I'm a retired Marine, so reading about military history is my thing. Here are a few of my all time favorites: "Iwo Jima: Legacy of Valor" (WWII), "Death March" (WWII), "My Father, My Son" (Vietnam), "A Different Kind of Courage", "War Letters", "D-Day". These are all non-fictional storys mostly told by those service members that lived through it. Another favorite if mine is a 10 book series called, "The Corps". These are fictional stories that begin pre-WWII and end right after the Korean War. They are based on historical events and facts with some historical figures, but mostly have fictional characters. Cannibals, huh! ;p
Beer before 7am... Breakfast of champions!
Carbo loading ! 😉
Somewhere. Sometime. Some place. Over the mountain.
Red Badge of Courage
When you get home, make sure you see the 1962 movie of To Kill A Mockingbird. It's great.
I really look forward to your daily videos. I love your positive attitude and humor and your tramily rocks! Such a great team!
That is the way to end the day. awesome views
Great book. I just reread that one, "1984", "Animal Farm" and "Farhenheit 541". Some of my favorites from high-school. Also Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" is an American travel classic. Safe travels.
Kerouac's "On The Road" for sure!
Grapes of wrath
I love your teaming. You crack me up setting outside there tent waiting for them to come out.🤣🤣🤣🤣 I loved it. I have been watching hikers now for about 5 years. And I must say you all are my favorite and I am going to cry and miss you all like crazy when you’re done. ❤❤❤❤
yes, you picked a great book. since you are in California outdoors, would recommend john Steinbeck, of mice and men to start
Most of the Bill Bryson books. "A Short History of Nearly Everything" , "A Walk in the Woods:" ,
"The Body: A Guide for Occupants" , "One Summer: America, 1927" . "In a Sunburned Country / Down Under" and many other.
Read anything that's on any banned book list, they're usually the best reads 😊
I could barely tell that you were originally from Germany. your accent and knowledge of colloquialisms is petty on for the most part. I love your attitude and look forward to watching your adventures!
Jane Eyre, is a classic!!!
I applaud you for wanting to supplement your education, though I bet a lot of American students only read the cliff note versions of the classic novels. I'm also pretty blown away by the beauty of that area. I guess that's why it's so expensive to live around Tahoe.
I'm so impressed that you're educating yourself about American literature. A couple of my favorites are "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain. I home-schooled my kids and my daughters' really liked "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" and also "Calico Captive", both by Elizabeth Speare. Another American author that I like is Scott O'Dell. His "Streams to the River, River to the Sea" is the story of Sacajawea and the Lewis and Clark expedition. "To Kill a Mockingbird" was one of our favorites, too. I notice a lot of people are recommending John Steinbeck. I find his novels depressing. Just my opinion.
As far as a book is concerned the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is a work that I have enjoyed.
Always have fun watching you and your cronies.
Great day on trail Wonderful music, an incredible meadow/mountain side to go with it and hamburgers and beer to top it off. Thanks for sharing your day. Happy trails.
Another classic American novel-“Forrest Gump”
I'm glad to see you all survived that epic 274,000 foot climb!
I recommend Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe if you are interested in science.
To kill a mockingbird is my favorite book!
Haha, I love the pun in the title! Running to Donner Pass for food is definitely a memorable moment on your Pacific Crest Trail thru-hike. Your journey has been so inspiring to watch. Thanks for sharing and also for highlighting the Fowler-O’Sullivan Foundation - such an important cause. Keep up the great work and stay safe out there!
Cheers,
Simon - Tales From Abroad
I was just there a few days ago as we drove to our cabin at Donner Lake. I have skied there but never eaten. That was quite a hike! I'd recommend " Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck.
I ate at that same place while trapped there during a winter snowstorm! This is not a Donner joke 😂 You got some great book suggestions and I love that you are using the listening trail time to catch up on the American historical perspective through literature. By the end of the trail you'll have a very good understanding of the American polarization, the Dream, and the constant renewal.
The Outsiders my fav book as a teen
I absolutely love to read. I'm a very slow reader however. I don't know if I've really read any from these lists in high school. If we did, I don't remember them. So I'm going to take these lists and put them down for myself to read as well. That beer was freaking huge!!! Happy Trails!!!
- Shybee
For Oregon, read Sometimes a Great Notion. Kesey
Love the music during your hike through the mule's ears! I have been trying to catch up with your videos, as I am a few weeks behind. I love hiking vicariously through you!
'1984' and 'Fahrenheit 451'
You and "Frozen" did the AT at the same time. Now you are both on the PCT. I think that he is about a day ahead of you. Cheers
Lots of great book recommendations. I have to add John Steinbeck probably had the biggest impact on me and I’m British. However just enjoying going along with your journey at the moment.
Wakeing up and start drinking 😅 heck why not 😅 and bossbay comeing out of that tent 😅 she's so silly.... crazy beautiful views 🤩🤩... hey im 39 and never read a book in life. 😅 and I turned out ok.
As always, I enjoyed today's video. Some American books that I enjoyed, influenced me and illuminate the American experience. Hmmm. There's always 'Huckleberry Finn' by Mark Twain. 'Desert Solitaire' by Edward Abbey is a classic. 'The White Indian Boy...' by Elijah Nicholas Wilson tells the story of a young pioneer LDS boy who chose to live with Chief Washakie's family for a while. It jives well with my relationships with traditional Shoshoni people. 'God is Red' by Vine Deloria Jr. can be enlightening. "John Adams' by David McCullogh is a good one. Then there are always the John Muir books. Apparently, 'My First Summer in the Sierra' is only on Audible. This may help you reflect on your own experience.
Regards books that would recommend reading.
-Mice and men
-Walk across America . That is a really good book. It’s about a guy
who backpacks across America.
- Michael Connolly, book 🎉Harry Bosch
Keep up the great work I’m really enjoying watching all your videos. I’m now on day 84.
I recommend and agree with all the books mentioned below. Most of them were required reading in my high school years (1960's). Just be careful--reading some of these might get you thrown out of Florida these days. ;)
My German colleagues love their Doner!
The filming was beautiful view's, thank u
Pacifico beer is what I stock in my refrigerator. It tastes the best among the lower-priced beers if you ask me.
A great inspirational hiking book---> "Grandma Gatewood's Walk" It's available in audio form.
Steinbeck is great, but start with his shorter books. The Bean Trees (series set in Arizona) by Barbara Kingsolver, and The Joy Luck club (series set in San Francisco) by Amy Tan.
OK cracking that beer first thing in the morning cracked ME up. You burn and sweat that out in the first 2 miles. PS- Bird call = youthful Jeff Bridges. Especially when he smiles. Proof me wrong!
If you want a taste of what the early pioneers in America experienced, the Little House On The Prairie series is a great way to understand what it was like. Even though they are loosely based on Laura Ingalls Wilder's real life, they give a true snapshot of early pioneers. I read them as an adult and really enjoyed them all.
I have watched that series in Germany
One year I read a Nicholas Sparks book and at the end he explained he is doing well and he is still reading 100 books a year. Wow, right? So I spent a year reading as many books as possible while working full time and family. I read only the classics in that year(25 books). My fav was “Animal Farm”.
Ah, yes, the Donner Party. Also known as the Dinner Party.
Good morning, Juliane. How neat, you found Somewhere somewhere on the mountain top. You could make a song out of that. Burger motivation works everytime. Beer for breakfast. Ugh. Donner Pass was beautiful. I've always wondered what it looked like today, as opposed to when the Donner Party was there. The original one, that is. Take care. Stay safe. See you tomorrow.
I appreciate your comments on reading and love your choice of “Mockingbird “. Much of our American history is founded in English writers esp on government. I recommend some of the early American Writers on American history. Unless you have some grounding in why our Constitution is the measuring stick of government you have no appreciation of individual rights and why we re so leary of the mob. Avoid the noise of the X,Y, and Z generation and cling to the legacy of history. Stay safe and careful👍🏼
Mark Twain. Huckleberry Finn is probably the most important, in some sense, and one of his best, but given what your life is like at the moment you might prefer Roughing It.
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Herman Melville's Moby Dick, Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, George Orwell's Animal Farm (theme is very current in todays politics), John Kennedy OToole's A Confedercy of Dunces. Those should get you to Canada.
What a joke about Donner Pass..lololololol
I love watching your journey!
Somehow eating at Donner Pass seems wrong.
A great read is "The Indifferent Stars Above" by Daniel Brown. The story of the Donner Party is one I would add to her reading list.
Anything by John Steinbeck!
Be sure to read (or listen) to The Scarlett Letter
LOVE WATCHING YOU EVERY DAY! YOU ARE AMAZING. MAY I SUGGEST AN AMERICAN NOVEL. "A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN." I READ IT AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR. MY FAVORITE ALL TIME BOOK.
SAFE TRAVELS .......
The velveteen rabbit 🐇🐰🐇🐰🐇 is a great short 🥾👢🥾👢🥾🥾 hike on
I like the music you chose
You must read "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck. I see someone else also suggested it.
Gathering blue I red as a teen. Huckleberry book. All quiet on the western front.
Atticus Finch! 😊 Also recommend "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck, also by the same author "Travels with Charley" - of particular interest to a wanderer like your sweet self. 😊
I recommend Uncle Tom's Cabin and Tom Sawyer. Distinctly American.
Enjoy your extremely large 🍺😂. Happy trails.🤘🏻🥾⛰️
Great book
Wooohooo! Your own Donner party 😅
In middle school, it took me a year to read Stephen King IT.
You just hiked past my favorite place to backpack. Donner pass is so amazing in the early/late Fall and Winter.
Your smile an positive attitude is refreshing and it nice to see you enjoying the journey. You have admirable traits that many could follow. Keep on rockin on and cant wait to see what happens next!
On The Road by Kerouac. You'll probably relate🙂
Love that area...many summers there...what a fun group
Nice choice and timing of music. Really added a special touch.
Enjoyed the video and all the views. Pretty spectacular..I 🤔 you videoed good today 😊 wow. What a beer ..a good meal for a long day 😊😊 blessings and safe trails
Books in the ancient days when I went to HS, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Huck Finn, etc.
Stunning!
A lot of good recommendations on the comments another one would be Empire of the summer moon if you wanna hear about Indian Apache, American history and the wild stories
Gone with The Wind. A must read.
The View at the rim is amazing!! ..and there is somewhere 😊
That is so great that you are listening to audio books. I love reading! My favorite subjects in school were .English Literature and Spanish. To Kill A Mockingbird is a great story. I know someone commented on this already, but a great children's literature classic is Charlotte's Web. Even though, it is classified as children's literature,, it is a story that can be enjoyed by all. It is a timeless story. It was read as a read aloud in school and then now students also still read this book today or it is done as a read aloud. Other classics I recommend are Of Mice and Men, Fahrenheit 451, The Great Gatsby, and The Scarlett Letter. It's not an American book, but also one of my favorite novels in high school was Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. I even had the opportunity to play the role of "Young Jane" at a local theatre company and ended up doing a research paper on the novel in high school. Nowadays, I read a lot of Nicholas Sparks books because they take place in North Carolina and it's my favorite state. I have also been reading a lot of biographies as well.
Read / listen to "On the Road".
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Thanks!
next AM beer on me😊
Wow thank you
Great video! And your channel gets great comments- I always read them and learn something. I would add anything by Willa Cather.
Audio books? I figured you would be jamming out to some Hasseloff. 🇩🇪 lol?😅
Only my Grandma did 😉
@@hikingdancer Throwing shade on Hasseloff is Un American and hurtful!! Shame!!!🇺🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇩🇪
Read Moby Dick by Hermann Melville. True American Classic!!
Not a joke: Some Turkish nationalists wanted to forbid the use of "Döner" as a description of a meal in Germany arguing that it is a meal only genuine when it's prepared in Turkey or made out of Turkish ingredients. Don't worry about your education. Even if you just did 9 years of school in Germany most Americans would agree, that your general education is way better, just because you manage to speak at least 2 languages. A classic American author would be John Steinbeck, the boos made a song out of one of his most famous works: the ghost of Tom Joad. And of course Hemingway. Island in the Stream would be fitting with your drinking habits...
Yes to Hemingway and Steinbeck…Hemingway’s short stories are fabulous…
Get it GIRLLLLLL!
A book addendum that I almost forgot. I don't know if this is the book I read because it was hard to find and I read a friend's copy. I hope this audiobook contains the snippets of Ruess' writings. There are such gems as "I have seen almost more beauty than I can bear." "I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time." The audiobook is 'Finding Everett Ruess.'
I love To Kill a Mockingbird. I named my dog Scout after it. Hope you enjoy.
Just to add one since everyone covered most of them - animal farm😊
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Good for you on listening to the book. The movie done 60 years ago was very good too. Try "The Mouse That Roared" also a good movie. Best as movies: Butch Cassidy and the Sun Dance Kid, The Sting, Secondhand Lions, and All of Mel Brook's movies(Young Frankenstein). Mark Twain , Jack London, Steven King, and John Steinbeck were good authors. You must see the movie "Idiocracy" and then look at where we are. Happy Trails. Good Luck, Rick
Ok....hiking the pct...haha.......or pct in Canada and where does it go to .............I'm a biography guy........John meir ......cheers
Read the book, ‘Coming Out Of The Ice,’, by Victor Herman, it will grow hair on your balls, LETS GO!
I mostly read sci Fi novels.
Battlefield earth was one I liked for the intricate and suspenseful story
Jon Carter novels and Edgar Rice Burroughs generally including all the Tarzan books
John Carter and Tarzan were my personal summer reading, haha, fun stuff!
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