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DustB 
A Canticle for Leibowitz.
Back in high school the school's library erroneously accused me of checking out and not returning this book, thus stealing it. Charged me some money too, although I'd never ever picked it up much less checked it out. Skip forward to a thrift store visit last spring--there's a copy. Figured I'd better read it since the high school injustice has always sat with me.
Walter M. Miller Jr's masterpiece! I read this when I was just out of high school and loved it. Re-read it several years ago and loved it all over again. One of the best SF books of all time in my opinion.
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Right now I am well into another of John McPhee's well crafted and thoroughly readable books,
Rising From The Plains is the third in a 'series' following his
Basin and Range and
In Suspect Terrain. Most of the book centers in Wyoming and the Rocky Mountains near and around US Interstate 80. Ancient seas, plate tectonics and mountains that form and erode away are the central themes but they well integrated with a personal trip of discovery that co-features geologist David Love as guide and tripmate.