OT: What's the Pack reading these days?

[Shmuley]

Any image of man as god-like is hopelessly flawed. "There is none good. No not one."

 

[Cubswillwinitonedaydawg]

About to start "The Price of Silence" about the Duke Lacrosse story. I remember the news stories, and watched the ESPN 30 for 30 recently and wanted to read more about it. About 600 pages, and my dad said it is almost too detailed, but interested to see the full story.

 

[InTheIttaBenaHotSun]

Appreciate the input by everyone....a lot to consider here. I had someone outside "The Pack" mention Erik Larson and Dead Wake to me last night so I might go in that direction next.

With Pluto, I didn't realize until I started reading it that I had spent 5 years of my youth living, as a crow flies, just 6 miles to the Northwest from the house that centers around this book. I have many fond memories of my time in the MS Delta as a kid......dove hunting, battle royal's with friends in half filled cotton trailers, little league baseball against the other communities in our area, riding 3-wheelers anywhere we wanted (in town or out in the country), swimming and playing in sloughs and bayous. The Delta was a good place to be a kid back in the 70's and the early part of the 80's.

 

[RingN2012]

I'm currently reading "A Perfect Union of Contrary Things" - the authorized biography of Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan. he's a weirdo but a very complex individual with unique views on life.
I'm going to start "Gunslinger" next, Jeff Pearlman's book about Brett Favre. Pearlman writes great sports books such as "Boys Will Be Boys" about the early 90's Dallas Cowboys

 

[houstonutsack]

News of the World by Paulette Jiles

Fans of Larry McMurtry and Lonesome Dove will enjoy this small book. I will give 4.5 stars out of 5. Was a National Book Award Finalist.

 

[MedDawg]

Not a recent read, but one of my favorites is "Replay" by Ken Grimwood. https://www.amazon.com/Replay-Ken-Grimwood/dp/068816112X/

 

[patdog]

Just read most of Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War. The first 100 pages or so were interesting seeing how they got to the point of going to war over an assassination of a minor noble (short story is most of the leaders of Europe were morons), and the first weeks of the war seeing how so many armies still used 19th Century tactics against 20th Century weapons (when you march a whole platoon across an open field against an enemy with machine guns, it's a slaughter).

Just started Alexander Hamilton. Looks promising so far. Dude came from a very interesting background.

 

[mount lefroy]

"Blacklisted BY History"

The untold story of Joe McCarthy and his fight against America's enemies.

Its the opposite of what we were taught about him in school with evidence to back it up.

Reading "What's wrong with inviting young boys over to eat for dinner?" By Dahmer

And

The ***** and that waiter almost got away by Orenthal J S.

 

[patdog]

I highly recommend anything by Erik Larson. Didn't realize he had s new book out. Dead Wake will be next on my list.

 

[preacher_dawg]

I'm a little further along in the book and it is getting better. However, the style of writing just does not seem to be up there with Mockingbird, but it's almost as if one needs to forget everything about Mockingbird when u read it. JungRebel, I'm curious on your opinion. Do you think most Go Set A Watchman was actually Harper's first draft? And how much, if any, did Trueman Capote contribute to Mockingbird?

 

[JungRebel]

I really don't know the answer to either. Certainly Capote was a huge influence in Lee's life and inspiration in her writing. However much, if any, he contributed directly to the books is unknown to me. As for when the draft was written, I've read that it was her first go at it and that she was sent back to the drawing board after being told that the flashback scenes were the best parts of the book. No doubt the flashback scenes (Scout's bra, Scout on the water tower) are great, so I think that's believable. On the other hand, the GSAWM has such a great final message to me that it was either 1) amended throughout the years or 2) just truly an empathetic, born of one's own blood, ahead of its time work sixty years ago. I will be very interested in your take on the final scenes. As someone posted earlier, no man lives up to the ideal named 'God,' and I would like to hear a preacher's take on what Scout's image of Atticus is and becomes near the end of the book. (I know I've said a lot, but trust me, I haven't spoiled the rising action or climax.)

 

[III.sixpack]

Thanks, It was I. And, in this go-round, I recommended TRAIN MAN by PT Deudermann. His stuff is great. Try them all starting with TM or GHOSTS OF BUNGO SUIDO=a WW11 submarine epic.

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

"How to Not Be Wrong" (It's not by a SPS or former SPS poster, believe it or not)
"The Man in the High Castle" by Phillip K Dick

 

[SanfordRJones]

I haven't read Castles of Steel, but Nicholas and Alexandra by Massie is great. It's about the fall of the Romanovs in Russia and reads like a novel.

 

[garndawg]

I highly recommend anything by Erik Larson. Didn't realize he had s new book out. Dead Wake will be next on my list.

Read this when it first came out. He's now on my 'must watch for' list of authors...

 

[xxxWalkTheDawg]

Graffiti on the wall by I Flung Poo

Seriously though I just picked up "No Easy Day" and intend to start on it soon

 

[VillagepeopleDogs]

SPS Magazine cliff notes.