Heading on summer vacation on Saturday and looking for a book so why not Ask the Pack. What's the best book you've read in the last 2 years?
OT: Best Book
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'Replay' by Ken Grimwood is one of my favorites.
https://www.amazon.com/Replay-Ken-Grimwood/dp/068816112X
Lincoln in the bardo - George Saunders
Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain (read it after he took his life, had never read any of his work until someone linked the new yorker article recently)
Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain (read it after he took his life, had never read any of his work until someone linked the new yorker article recently)
"All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
WWII saga set in France. Magnificent imagery and description.
WWII saga set in France. Magnificent imagery and description.
Ditto for The Martian, All the Light We Cannot See
If you like golf... The Match: The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever
If you like golf... The Match: The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever
- A Man Called Ove was excellent if you don't mind reading about cranky old guy.
Killing the Rising Sun was the best of the killing books to me. May have been biased as my grandfather would have likely invaded Japan had we no dropped the bomb(s)
11-22-63 by Stephen King, best I ever read
Tempest at Dawn
The 14th Colony
I like historical fiction and those 3 are best I've found
Tempest at Dawn
The 14th Colony
I like historical fiction and those 3 are best I've found
The Quiet Game - Greg Iles
Or any of his Penn Cage novels.
all set in Natchez. Really great reads
Or any of his Penn Cage novels.
all set in Natchez. Really great reads
These are good beach reads. Read Natchez Burning sitting on a beach last year. Also, these books are definitely fiction but some of the stories told are based on actual happenings during the civil rights struggle in the Natchez area.
Edit: As a follow up to the Penn Cage novels, read Stanley Nelson's Devil's Walking: Klan Murders along the Mississippi in the 1960's. It's most definitely not a beachy read, but it tells the actual stories that the books are based on.
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Shiloh 1862 by Winston Groom
he wrote Forrest Gump also but this is completely non fiction. Uses diaries of soldiers, ppl from the Shiloh area, ppl from Corinth. A GREAT read if you enjoy Civil War stuff. He also wrote Vicksburg 1863, its great as well.
he wrote Forrest Gump also but this is completely non fiction. Uses diaries of soldiers, ppl from the Shiloh area, ppl from Corinth. A GREAT read if you enjoy Civil War stuff. He also wrote Vicksburg 1863, its great as well.
Just finished "All the Pretty Horses" by Cormac McCarthy. Part of a trilogy and I'm about to start the 2nd book.
Any of the Lee Child books, Michael Connelly is good, John Sandford has a bunch to choose from, Vince Flynn is good and I also highly recommend the Quiet Game by Greg Iles and the trilogy that follows up after the Quiet Game, start with Natchez Burning, The Bone Tree, and Mississippi Blood.
“My Years with a Dogman” by Mike McConery.
I’m into training Shepherds and this was one of the most enlightening books I’ve ever read. Stories told from a former Nazi who was Hitlers dog man.
“The Art of Racing in the Rain” was probably one of the best books I’ve ever read and couldn’t put down.
“Fearless” was the absolute best story I’ve ever read.
I’m into training Shepherds and this was one of the most enlightening books I’ve ever read. Stories told from a former Nazi who was Hitlers dog man.
“The Art of Racing in the Rain” was probably one of the best books I’ve ever read and couldn’t put down.
“Fearless” was the absolute best story I’ve ever read.
Pet Semetary
Cujo
The Mist
The Green Mile
These are the Stephen Kings I got around to before having two kids. Like all of them and will continue to read his work when I can
Cujo
The Mist
The Green Mile
These are the Stephen Kings I got around to before having two kids. Like all of them and will continue to read his work when I can
Wait, I just realized the significance of this date.
JFK was assassinated on the same day that C.S. Lewis (AKA Jack) & Aldous Huxley died. There's a book about this, "Between Heaven & Hell" by Peter Kreeft in which I've been vaguely interested. Are y'all telling me that Stephen King took this and turned it into a sci-fi horror?!
If so, this thread has reached its goal & I'm ordering/finding both books immediately.
Gonna cheat and give you a classic I read many moons ago...Trinity by Leon Uris. It's a hefty read, and the first 100 pages or so are so boring you'll be tempted to give up, but don't! It is all just setting the scene for you. Once you get past that part, it may well become the best book you'll ever read, and it will quite likely give you a much deeper understanding of the history and challenges involving Ireland, England and Northern Ireland. FWIW, Uris is the author who wrote Exodus, QB VII and more.
Everyone I've convinced to read it has agreed on both counts...hard to stick with the first part, but incredibly rewarding if you do.
If you're looking for lighter summer-reading, and don't mind science-fiction, Orson Scott Card is a gifted author. He's a legit, big-time talent who brings incredible story-telling to SciFi. I'd start with Ender's Game (book is exponentially better than the movie), then progress through the rest of the books in that series, all great pieces of literature. FYI - Card is the only author to win both the Hugo & Nebula awards in back-to-back years. He's won over a dozen awards over his career, and has written some excellent non-sci-fi fiction as well (Lost Boys comes to mind).
Hope this helps.
Everyone I've convinced to read it has agreed on both counts...hard to stick with the first part, but incredibly rewarding if you do.
If you're looking for lighter summer-reading, and don't mind science-fiction, Orson Scott Card is a gifted author. He's a legit, big-time talent who brings incredible story-telling to SciFi. I'd start with Ender's Game (book is exponentially better than the movie), then progress through the rest of the books in that series, all great pieces of literature. FYI - Card is the only author to win both the Hugo & Nebula awards in back-to-back years. He's won over a dozen awards over his career, and has written some excellent non-sci-fi fiction as well (Lost Boys comes to mind).
Hope this helps.
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