Just finished Hillbilly Elergy and Dispatches from Pluto. Very good reads. Any have suggestions for my next read?
OT: What's the Pack reading these days?
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Just read Hunt for Red October
You may have read it 30 years ago when it was written. It was really good.
Just finished Hillbilly Elergy and Dispatches from Pluto. Very good reads. Any have suggestions for my next read?
You may have read it 30 years ago when it was written. It was really good.
Currently reading Hitler: Ascent, and also Dispatches From Pluto.
The Hitler book is good. Dispatches is good and easy read, but the obvious exaggerations of the author are annoying. He can't ever just see a snake. It's always got to be curled up and hissing at him wide mouthed.
The Hitler book is good. Dispatches is good and easy read, but the obvious exaggerations of the author are annoying. He can't ever just see a snake. It's always got to be curled up and hissing at him wide mouthed.
Just finished the 14th Colony by Steve Berry. It was great if like historical fiction. After 11-22-63 it was probably the best I've ever read.
Castles of Steel by Robert K. Massie. It's the follow up volume to his book Dreadnought. Dreadnought is about Britain, Germany, and the run up to the Great War. Castles of Steel is about the actual naval war between the two in the Great War. I am currently in the midst of re-reading them both. There are no better books on their subject matter that I have ever run across.
I loved his early stuff
But I felt the last couple I read had a progressive liberal slant I didn't care for.
But I felt the last couple I read had a progressive liberal slant I didn't care for.
When I was being recruited at State ...
... to be a submarine officer, the first thing he recruited doc was jam a copy of "Hunt For Red October" in my hand.
It worked.
... to be a submarine officer, the first thing he recruited doc was jam a copy of "Hunt For Red October" in my hand.
It worked.
I love these threads. Currently, I am reading Go Set A Watchman (not worth it) and Sacred Bond: Covenant Theology Explored. Some books that were great that I read lately are the Unbelievable Gospel: Say Something Worth Believing (one of the best books on evangelism that I have read), The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert, and The Candybombers (great book about the Berlin airlift which does a great job in showing the politics of 1948). Ahead are The Stars, Like Dust by Isaac Asimov and Be Still, My Soul by Martyn Lloyd Jones.
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I've been on a graphic novel/comics kick lately. Don Rosa's 'Return to Plain Awful,' Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa & Robert Hack's 'Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: The Crucible,' and Box Brown's 'Andre the Giant.'
Read the mistborn books and they were great
Just ran through the dark tower series. Was more frustrating than good.
Jumped through a couple of harlan coban booms. Fool me once was decent. The stranger was so-so. Both had rushed endings and that annoys me.
Reading all the chronicles of narnia right now. What a bunch of whiny sniveling *****.
Also reading the whistler but havnt formed an opinion yet.
I listen to a lot of books while in the car so i knock out a lot quickly outside of physical reading
Just ran through the dark tower series. Was more frustrating than good.
Jumped through a couple of harlan coban booms. Fool me once was decent. The stranger was so-so. Both had rushed endings and that annoys me.
Reading all the chronicles of narnia right now. What a bunch of whiny sniveling *****.
Also reading the whistler but havnt formed an opinion yet.
I listen to a lot of books while in the car so i knock out a lot quickly outside of physical reading
Players- the Story of Sports and Money, and the Visionaries---Matthew Futterman
Great read about the history of sports marketing, starting with Mark McCormick.
Great read about the history of sports marketing, starting with Mark McCormick.
Im about 3/4 into it. Not a bad read but i agree, far from his good stuff.
Still think The Testament was Grishams best
Still think The Testament was Grishams best
I thought it was pretty good as well, yet I wouldn't say it was in his top 5. The testament was one of my favorites. It was the first Grisham book I ever read. My high school Accounting teacher gave me a signed copy, her husband was his college roommate. I had had a bad wreck and she sent it to me when I was in the hospital. It was a great introduction to his work. Hated Gray Mountain, easily his worst.
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The Nix by Nathan Hill was the best fiction of 2016. And since someone else said they were reading some theology I'm not too ashamed to admit I've been reading the Critique of Pure Reason for about 3 weeks for hours a day on average. Books like that are labors and suck for a while but when you get into them offer one psychological trip after another.
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To me Tell No One was Harlan Cobens best. His Myron Bolitor series of sports agent books are good light reads.
I haven't met anyone who agrees with me but, for my money, Go Set A Watchman is twice the book to kill a mockingbird is, and a very interesting contrast. In TKAMB Scout is idealistic and the portrait of Atticus reflects that. GSAWM is an older, more reflective Scout, with a more realistic view of the man she made into god...a perfect story for the present age as far as I'm concerned. So many were upset that it wasn't the Atticus they knew and loved, but that Atticus was always a fiction, and GSAWM is all about Scout having that very revelation.
The meeting with Calpurina and the last 20 pages or so, when Scout begins to comprehend the dynamics of the town in full, are the best writing Lee ever did. People love TKAMB because people love a godman fighting the good fight. I love GSAWM because I love complex (REAL) human beings making character revealing decisions. But I understand why people who loved TKAMB's Atticus hate the book—it was written in a way that brings the image of that man down to flesh.
The meeting with Calpurina and the last 20 pages or so, when Scout begins to comprehend the dynamics of the town in full, are the best writing Lee ever did. People love TKAMB because people love a godman fighting the good fight. I love GSAWM because I love complex (REAL) human beings making character revealing decisions. But I understand why people who loved TKAMB's Atticus hate the book—it was written in a way that brings the image of that man down to flesh.
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I am currently reading I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes and it is excellent......props to the poster that recommended this book the last time we had one of these threads.
Try TRAIN MAN by PT Deudermann. It is about someone destroying the MS River bridges and is party set in Mississippi. Very good.
I enjoy Erik Larson's books. Devil in the White City was good. Just finished Dead Wake about the sinking of the Lusitania. Currently reading In the Garden of Beasts about the American ambassador to Germany during Hitler's rise to power.
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