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“It’s a select few who let their passion dictate their lifestyle. Doing so requires the sacrifice of a certain sense of normalcy, but the payback is tenfold in experiences that are extraordinary. Rothman is one of those few, and he articulates the highs, and lows, of that life choice perfectly in these pages. Living the Life is about one man’s relationship with the mountains, but the stories are applicable to anyone who lets his passion lead the way.” —Derek Taylor, editor, mtnadvisor.com, and former editor, Powder“Poet, powderhound, musician, ex-racer, teacher, philosopher–all sides of Renaissance man David Rothman are on display in this collection, which ranges from satire to whimsy to the profoundly grateful and the essential questioning. Emerson? Check. Thoreau? Check. Petrarch? Only David Rothman would put Petrarch in a story about skiing’s 'earthly enjoyment.' In a voice that sparkles with intelligence, he is capable, in the end, of deep sincerity . . . David Rothman is a writer who skis and a skier who writes, very well.” —Peter Shelton, author, Climb to Conquer“David has tuned his words as well as his skis, and this collection offers the equivalent of playful jump turns, graceful arcs and high-speed cruisers . . . He can be affectionate and smart-ass, funny and philosophical . . . At times David’s words conjured the wind-nip on my cheeks, snow billowing over my skis or a warm campfire surrounded by friends.” —Sandy Fails, editor, Crested Butte Magazine“If you’re supposed to write what you know about, Rothman is clearly in his element on skis in the mountains. This is a mesmerizing compilation of essays as deep as the Wasatch snowpack.” —Eugene Buchanan, editor/publisher, Paddling Life“This book is filled with well-written, thoughtful, and quick-paced essays that cover topics as varied as post-skiing food, the characters of a ski town, and the ancient Greeks and their thoughts on climbing peaks.” —Backcountry Magazine
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About the Author
David J. Rothman is a former NCAA Div. I alpine ski racer, mountain sports journalist, and ski-and-snowboard-academy headmaster who currently teaches creative writing and composition at the university level. He is cofounder of the Crested Butte Music Festival and poet-in-residence for Colorado Public Radio. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.
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Product details
Paperback: 226 pages
Publisher: Conundrum Press; 1 edition (November 5, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1938633326
ISBN-13: 978-1938633324
Product Dimensions:
5.5 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.1 out of 5 stars
19 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#464,220 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Beautifully written, a collection of essays and the occasional poem about a sport - sort of - but more, about a way of life. These little stories transport us to mountains in New England, New York, New Jersey, Colorado, Utah - I can't remember them all. The skiing is phenomenal, but there is so much more here. These are stories of living in community, raising self-reliant children, having grand adventures, and discovering deeper meaning in life.I didn't love every one of these stories, but as a whole I loved this book. How wonderful to be transported for a few hours into the high peaks out west, to imagine the view, to feel the speed, to meet the people who give meaning to David Rothman's life.
This author may be a university English teacher but he forgets one of the most important components of being a good writer, which is to tell an entertaining story in an easy to read fashion. The type of storytelling that leaves you hanging on every page wanting to keep reading just to see how good it can get. Instead he tries to impress his reader with rhetorical concepts and words that he probably used on his Freshman class to berate their writing samples. Each page of this book is so dull due to the style of writing that I cannot encourage hardly anyone to read it. I buy and read dozens of books each year and rarely write any reviews at all, but this book disappointed me so that I felt compelled to alert any future reader that the title and book cover suggest much more fun than you can ever find within its pages.
Hmmm well pretty boring. The stories are like 1 page little tidbits. No real "story" about ski life towns. Eh, don't really recommend.
Great book for the skiier who can't get enough of winter. Highly recommended.
made me want to leave the city and move and travel around the mountains following an endless winter.
Artfully written, a good read even for someone who doesn't ski but loves the mountains. For those who do ski, especially Telemark, it will be especially meaningful and fun to read.
"Living the Life" is the best book about skiing and life I've ever read. David Rothman has seemingly organized his entire life around skiing and lived it with enthusiasm, curiosity, and humor. The book consists of 35 short essays and is both a memoir and a meditation about skiing as a way of life that touches "far more than mountains and snow--it comes in contact," as Rothman says, “with friendship ...grief, ambition, faith ...remorse... and regret, which is to say: everything that matters."Rothman grew up and learned to ski on the east coast. Like many others, he graduated from alpine skiing to alpine racing and then from area skiing to backcountry skiing. His metamorphosis paralleled a geographic shift that brought him west: to Utah, Wyoming, Montana, and Colorado, a migration brought on by a chance year off devoted to skiing and racing. His deepest ties are to, and some of the very best stories are about, Crested Butte and Boulder, Colorado and all the many skiable peaks in between. This is not a book like Chris Davenport's account of skiing all the 14,000 foot peaks in Colorado in a year, an epic adventure by an extraordinarily skilled climber, skier, and winter mountaineer.What makes this book work is not Rothman's exploits so much (although his account and the accompanying photos of him dropping into "Spit" for Brains at Snowbird is scary enough) as Rothman's skill as a writer. He writes with clarity, grace, and with a poet's awareness of the tenuousness of life, the fragility of relationships, and the importance of asking why skiing matters, where the mountains end, when do turns stop, and how we will ski if we completely destroy the alpine environment? What makes this book work is not Rothman's exploits so much (although his account and the accompanying photos of him dropping into "Spit" for Brains at Snowbird is scary enough) as Rothman's skill as a writer. He writes with clarity, and grace and with a poet's awareness of the tenuousness of life, the fragility of relationships, and the importance of asking: why skiing matters, where the mountains end, when do turns stop, and how we will ski if we destroy the environmental conditions it requires?Rothman is a storyteller and the many stories in "Living the Life" range from those that describe a particular skiing adventure (and the friends who were also there) to those that describe the small town life of Crested Butte or simply a memory from his past, for example, of skateboarding outside his father's "dusty office where he went to document the unheralded alienation of the elites." I'm a telemark skier so was partial to Rothman's stories of telemarking or trying to, but there are stories enough here for all who inhabit the winter world outdoors armed only with planks and poles and persistence. If you are a skier (alpine, telemark or backcountry) you'll want someone to give this to you for your birthday, Christmas, or Hanukkah. If you know a skier, you'll make her happy if you put "Living the Life" in her stocking. And if you are not a skier but just want to understand what makes skiers (and snowboarders) tick, why we live for cold, steep mountains and the people in them, buy it for yourself. No other book has ever explained or explored the skiing life so well.
I read this book in one great gulp, not because I'm a skier but because I'm a devourer of David Rothman's writing. But as I read, a miracle happened: by the end of Living the Life I had become a skier. What Rothman does so skillfully is first to grab you with the power of his story-telling, and then he hauls you up into the mountains with him, and cuts you loose on the steepest slopes. Believe me, the book's a rush!
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