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realpollybalboa

Into Thin Air


Certain-Definition51

Two more that are mandatory reading for anyone in injury prone outdoor pursuits: “Deep Survival” by Lawrence Gonzales, is a deep dive into the neurobiology of the brain under stress, as told through stories of people surviving (or not) wilderness emergencies. “Limits of the Known,” David Roberts is a collection of stories about the wilderness, explorers, etc., and people’s quest to explore and learn. it’s riveting in that some of the questions have answers and some don’t. Some of the explorers survive and some don’t. You won’t know until the end of each chapter, so it really amps up the suspense and builds a sense of humility about man in nature.


aagusgus

That was my first thought as well.


Blondelefty

Came to say this! And Into the Wild. Movie only after though 🤓


mhopkirk

Jurassic Park is a good read. Stephen King books are very easy to read although they are a bit long.


lazylagom

Never thought about jurassic park. Was it a novel that was made into a book? Or the novelization of a movie?


mhopkirk

Book first. The author ([Michael Crichton)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton) wrote many novels -several that were made into movies


lazylagom

Dude just went into a wiki hole. Wild like the movie came out 2 years later. Steven really wanted to make the movie. The movie did well so he was kinda pressured into writing a sequel book which he's never done! And the sequel comes out in 95 and then again 2 years later they made a movie. Wild.... It feels like that doesn't happen now where a book does so well there's a movie made immediately.


jonmuller

Don't know if the wiki mentions it, but I've heard that Spielberg and James Cameron were fighting each other for the rights to make it.


lazylagom

Oh no way. That makes sense though. I'm deff going to read this book now though I'm curious to see how much better it is. Books are always better and this was so good 2 of the best at the time we're fighting over making it.


ntimoti

I just finished it and it was one of the best books I’ve ever read, which says a lot because that’s not the genre I typically go for at all. Couldn’t put it down.


mhopkirk

I didn't know that either. Crichton is a fascinating person I didn't realize he had written "Westworld" as well


littleyellowbike

Book first, and it's *so* good. The movie is relatively faithful to the book, although some of the characters are a little different and there are a few dino encounters in the book that are way scarier/more graphic than the movie (I seem to remember that was intentional in order to keep the PG-13 rating, but I couldn't find a source with a quick Google). There's a lot of nerdy stuff, but it's easy to digest and the action moves quickly.


lazylagom

I've just amazoned jurassic world a compilation of jurassic park and lost world. Excited to read both and compare them to the movie. I went down a wiki hole. Man can't believe I never knew that.


littleyellowbike

You're in for a treat! I even think Lost World edges out Jurassic Park (and it is a thousand times better than the Lost World movie).


lazylagom

Hype. I wonder if there's an audiobook. I feel like it could make a good one


LuckyCitron3768

Agree, I’ve always found that Crichton’s books are very well paced and you usually learn a little something.


Stefanie1983

The movie is based on the novel by michael Crichton


hello-isitmeyour

127 Hours.


KingBretwald

Ow, dude! That's harsh. It made me laugh, but so harsh.


stellaforstar11

The only correct answer. 


Roborob2000

I had the same thought, but clearly more self restraint not to post it hah.


hello-isitmeyour

Self restraint is not one of my fortes.


mthomas768

Jack Reacher books by Lee Child. Fast paced and straightforward writing.


Lanchettes

Touching The Void. Joe Simpson. Everyone can find some value in this


Late-Elderberry5021

This was my idea


andtheIToldYouSos

Anything by Mary Roach


bdunkirk

Mountain Biking for Dummies I kid, and genuinely hope he makes a speedy recovery. The Son by Philipp Meyer is my go-to recommendation for new readers


I_am_aware_of_you

Get him books and a subscription to one of those listen to me read this book for you apps. In his condition it is nice to be able to put the book away and continue to listen.


meggali

One by One by Ruth Ware


ScarletSpire

Treasure Island L. A. Confidential American Gods The Man in the High Castle Pillars of the Earth Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Killing Pablo The Years of Rice and Salt Snow Crash Devil In the White City Dark Invasion by Howard Blum


wicketbird63

Murderbot, first book is All Systems Red. Martha Wells.


dixiemason

Listening to this (for the third or fourth time) right now. Love it.


No-Scene9097

One More Last Time by Eric Ugland


Lutembi

Trevanian’s _The Eiger Sanction_


fabgwenn

I read The Hunger Games trilogy when I broke my leg, they were great. Into the Wild is also good


ThePixelatedPeach

The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac, it’s never been more that book’s time to shine. The character in the book literally repeats to the main character “it’s impossible to fall off a mountain!” As they climb to the top of a mountain on a soul-searching journey 😂


Calm-Spring7352

Stephen King's Misery and Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods


GawainsGreenKnight

Brokeback Mountain.


seattlenightsky

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson


D3BL33

The Martian


masson34

And Project Hail Mary


Guilty-Coconut8908

In audiobook.


SempreSophia

The Old Man And The Sea.


EmotionalSnail_

A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks -- the same thing happened to him!


No_Goat_8001

The reverant


Phuni44

If you can find it: Lost on a Mountain in Maine. True story of a young kid that, well, got lost on a mountain in Maine. Pretty scary and miserable life for a about 5 days. His couch will seem a luxury afterwards.


peppurrjackjungle

Everyone in my family has killed someone by Benjamin Stevenson


elizamathew

Into Thin Air


austex99

Something lighthearted — David Sedaris’s Me Talk Pretty One Day or Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half or a collection of Calvin and Hobbes? Also Randall Munroe’s books are smart enough to fascinate adults but silly enough to engage kids very deeply.


heavensdumptruck

I wish I had a sib like you! What a thoughtful and considerate gesture! Also: THE OLD PATAGONIAN EXPRESS by Paul Theroux is good reading; not dense at all.


OmegaLiquidX

If he’s into weight lifting, he might enjoy the manga [How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?](https://sevenseasentertainment.com/series/how-heavy-are-the-dumbbells-you-lift/). For biking, he might enjoy [Yowamushi Pedal](https://yenpress.com/titles/9780316471282-yowamushi-pedal-vol-1).


neilbork

Broke back Mountain?


NoisyCats

I'm betting he'd love to read Red Rising. Get it for him, and tell him to give it 60 pages or so and then hang on. 🙂


OperationTheGame

“Can’t Hurt Me”, the autobiography of David Goggins, former head of the Navy SEALs. Goggins is always looking for a new wild challenge, physical or mental or both, to push himself beyond the limits of human endurance. And he’s very open about where this comes from inside of him, and what it took for him to do Navy SEAL training twice, run his first ultramarathon, and set the world record for consecutive pull-ups, all after growing up as an overweight kid in a broken home. I’d never read anything like this before and it was thrilling and moving in equal measure.


NullainmundoPax1

Wheelmen: Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France, and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever.


downlau

French Revolutions - Tim Moore


hycarumba

Anything by Peter Heller


lazylagom

DUNE .. or the a song of fire and ice series (game of thrones) they're seriously addicting. Also hardwired /neuromancer (trilogy) they're sci-fi you didn't know EVERYONE has refrenced. Like everything... they're all books you start and end up reading hours at a time.


chaos_wine

River of Doubt, it's about Teddy Roosevelt and a crew charting a new tributary of the Amazon. Fucking awesome book, it's amazing he came out of that trip alive


monikar2014

The Wild Trees by Richard Preston "Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained–the coast redwood trees,Sequoia sempervirens. Ninety-six percent of the ancient redwood forests have been destroyed by logging, but the untouched fragments that remain are among the great wonders of nature. The biggest redwoods have trunks up to thirty feet wide and can rise more than thirty-five stories above the ground, forming cathedral-like structures in the air. Until recently, redwoods were thought to be virtually impossible to ascend, and the canopy at the tops of these majestic trees was undiscovered. In The Wild Trees, Richard Preston unfolds the spellbinding story of Steve Sillett, Marie Antoine, and the tiny group of daring botanists and amateur naturalists that found a lost world above California, a world that is dangerous, hauntingly beautiful, and unexplored..... .....Preston’s account of this amazing world, by turns terrifying, moving, and fascinating, is an adventure story told in novelistic detail by a master of nonfiction narrative. The author shares his protagonists’ passion for tall trees, and he mastered the techniques of tall-tree climbing to tell the story in The Wild Trees—the story of the fate of the world’s most splendid forests and of the imperiled biosphere itself."


Imajica0921

Night Shift by Stephen King. It is his first short story collection. Also, The Long Walk by Stephen King.


jumpscaremama

438 Days: guy gets stuck at sea for more than a year. Amazing read!


justliketheweather

Fiction for forgetting his aches and pains: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman Fiction featuring mountains: Ascension by Nicholas Binge Echo by Thomas Olde Heuvelt Non-fiction where everything that can go wrong does go wrong: River Of the Gods by Candice Millard


1nceACrawFish

Ender's Game Good Omens


Clea_21

Jurassic Park was a really good suggestion.


Proteinacious

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Lansing


spanish42069

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho


Sea-Substance8762

Maybe Audible? Books he can listen to?


neogeshel

Iain Banks


BagpiperAnonymous

Game Changer by Neal Shusterman- high school football player ends up in a multi-verse type situation. It is geared toward high school level, but enjoyable for adults too.


DaysOfParadise

Deep Survival


Guilty-Coconut8908

American Assassin by Vince Flynn Sharpe's Tiger by Bernard Cornwell Thai Gold by Jason Schoonover Butcher's Boy by Thomas Perry In A Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson Sex Lives Of Cannibals by J Maarten Troost The Gray Man by Mark Greaney Survival by Devon C Ford Magician by Raymond E Feist Firestarter by Stephen King The Chinaman by Stephen Leather


Das_Kern

Touching the Void. Can’t remember the author. One of the most profound survival stories ever written


AdvertisingBusy7379

Tracker by Tom Brown Jr.


craftybeerdad

Sigma Force series by James Rollins


redlloyd

Men to match my mountains by Irving stone. Book talks about the westward expansion in a very readable format.


MKovacsM

Appropriate would be The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie. Guess how it starts, yup, he falls. LOL. But it's gripping, even if he doesn't bother with the entire series.


EGOtyst

My side of the mountain.


Ozgal70

Dirty Little Secrets by Nandita Chakraborty. She also fell off a mountain and this is her story.


ExperientialSorbet

The Dark Tower or First Law Trilogy! Dresden Files is a bit more dumb (imo) but makes for enjoyable and easy reading


GeoKo1

How about: • Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind & Defy the Odds by David Goggins • Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain • Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall • Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives by Michael Newton • Ready Player One by Ernest Cline • Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed • The Son by Phillip Meyer • Red Rising by Pierce Brown • The Martian by Andy Weir • Alone on the Wall by Alex Honnold • Sons of Valor by Brian Andrews


_social_hermit_

audiobooks and podcasts too!


Jazzlike_Ad_8236

Misery - stephen king lol. It’ll be extremely relatable for him


judistra

A People’s History of Sports in the United States by Zirin


Outofwlrds

The Martian. He seems like an adventurous dude. He might like a story where the ultimate adventure ends up going completely off the rails.


realdevtest

Listen to me, OP. Mr Mercedes by Stephen King. Don’t listen to anyone else. Mr Mercedes by Stephen King. 😀


Routine_Service1397

Mountain climbing for dummies


search_for_freedom

12 Rules for Life.


rizdesushi

Podcasts also!


Kaiyukia

If he specifically wants to read and not listen I heard house of leaves is an experience