Reccomand a Good Real Life Book.

[mcgaffer]

Iv never really got into the likes of autobiographys and real life books so im looking for some real good ones to start me off.

[Gilda Dent]

Iv never really got into the likes of autobiographys and real life books so im looking for some real good ones to start me off.

To clarify, are you asking for nonfiction recommendations, historical fiction dealing with real-life events, or realistic fiction?

[mcgaffer]

Real-Life events at the moment.

[Shellhead]

One of the most exciting books that I've read was a non-fiction work called The Hot Zone, by Richard Preston. It's the scary story of an Ebola virus that erupted in a laboratory just across the Potomac from Washington D.C.

The other non-fiction thriller that comes to mind is Into Thin Air, by John Krakauer. It's the story of one particularly lethal storm on Mount Everest, and the devastating impact on several climbing expeditions that were caught in that storm.

[mr.brighteyes]

Or hatemail from cheerleaders. Sure its rick rielly's columns but there are true stories in there that will blow your mind. the first one I read was about the moutain climber that cut off his own hand to free him self.

[Shellhead]

the first one I read was about the moutain climber that cut off his own hand to free him self.

I caught a blurb about that story in the news back when it happened.

Many months later, I was sitting in the dry sauna at the gym, reading some fitness magazine left behind by someone else. As was typical at that gym, the magazine was in ragged condition, and some pages had even been torn out, including the first page of the article I was reading.

So I'm reading about this guy who got hooked on climbing, to the point where he was often climbing solo. As I turned to the next page, I was thinking to myself, that's pretty reckless. Next page, I discover that this is a first-person account by that guy who had to cut of his own hand to free himself during a climb. I was floored.

[mr.brighteyes]

The guy actually prefers Rick Rielly's version to his own.