Whatcha reading?

[luv2fly]

Doc,

I really enjoyed this book on the Titanic and would highly recommend it to anyone that is interested in this part of history.

[Doctorossi]

Excellent! Thank you, again. I'll grab a copy.

[Stormin691]

A Drinking Life

Peter Hamill

 

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books i've read in last 3 month's

Wilbur smith, pharaoh

Cussler's

poseidon's arrow

the race

the chase

Havana storm (current read)

Sharon K Penman

Lionheart & A Kings ransom

 

[JoeyGunz]

My mother gave me the nod on this one, 'elmet or helmet is a term me and my friends fondly refer to as but it turns out the book looks a great read so I bagged it, just waiting for a chance to get started now.

 

Fresh and distinctive writing from an exciting new voice in fiction, Elmet is an unforgettable novel about family, as well as a beautiful meditation on landscape.

Daniel is heading north. He is looking for someone. The simplicity of his early life with Daddy and Cathy has turned sour and fearful. They lived apart in the house that Daddy built for them with his bare hands. They foraged and hunted. When they were younger, Daniel and Cathy had gone to school. But they were not like the other children then, and they were even less like them now. Sometimes Daddy disappeared, and would return with a rage in his eyes. But when he was at home he was at peace. He told them that the little copse in Elmet was theirs alone. But that wasn't true. Local men, greedy and watchful, began to circle like vultures. All the while, the terrible violence in Daddy grew.

Atmospheric and unsettling, Elmet is a lyrical commentary on contemporary society and one family's precarious place in it, as well as an exploration of how deep the bond between father and child can go.

[Tave1225]

[feral]

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[CrankYanker]

We are spending 9 days at the beach aka Punta Cana. Here is what we are taking:

Grit

Too Big To Fail

Daily Guidepost 2017

Whatever she wants to bring. 

[Iznogood]

I stumbled across Great Gatsby movie and realized that I did not read the book. So that's what I'm reading now.

[Nino]

Just finished this book on the experiences of a Briton jailed in Cuba for a few years - businessman, 10 yr resident of Havana, then all went very wrong very fast and he didn't get out of Cuba when he could have ....

Here is an informative article on him with an excerpt from his book :

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2017/mar/19/life-in-a-cuban-jail-for-a-british-man
 

The book :

[irratebass]

Reading this one now

Went on Sunday and seen legendary punk band GBH, and picked up their book.

*I'm very good looking, and great with rice.*

[BMWBen]

I just finished the biography of Jim Morrison "No One Gets Out Alive" and "Caveat Emptor" about the art forger Ken Perenyi, both great books! Now I'm starting "Sapiens A Brief History Of Humankind"

[irratebass]

I just finished the biography of Jim Morrison "No One Gets Out Alive" and "Caveat Emptor" about the art forger Ken Perenyi, both great books! Now I'm starting "Sapiens A Brief History Of Humankind"

No One Here Gets Out Alive was a good read, Check out John Densmore's book as well. I've read a few Doors books, I haven't read Ray's yet though.

*I'm very good looking, and great with rice.*

[zepp69]

Eyewitness Auschwitz...

 

[feral]

Enjoying a Warped Guardian of the Farm with this new book. There's an old picture of Doug and Louie C.K. and Louie is not the one that's about to pull his genitals out. I'm amazed at the accidental genius timing of the publication of this book.

[Isaac]

I just finished Ernest Cline's Ready Player One.  I enjoyed it so much, that I picked up his book Armada.  Im about half way through that one as well.  

[anacostiakat]

Reading Nelson DeMille's The Panther right now.

[SirVantes]

Big fan of Murakami

Also found this very compelling

 

[ponfed]

I recently read The 20 days of Turin...

https://www.amazon.ca/Twenty-Days-Turin-Novel-ebook/dp/B01HDSU0QU&ved=2ahUKEwi72IWFoYzeAhXIT98KHTC0AakQFjALegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw2B3SyuFxj_FtaqGuGK4324&cshid=1539737473353

Let me tell you it's a trip! Paranoid and hallucinatory supernatural horror.

Like if Vonnegut wrote Lovecraft stories.

It's definitely a love it or hate it deal though.

 

[anacostiakat]

Just finished another John Sandford Virgil Flowers series book.  Am revisiting John Dickson Carr's books.  Starting at the beginning with It Walks By Night.  A good old fashioned locked room mystery. 

[hedgeybaby]

On 8/7/2017 at 2:54 PM, Tave1225 said:

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Gambler

Didn't he write that in a rush to pay his gambling debts?

[Thig]

Finished The Life and Death of Che Guevara by Jorge G. Castaneda last night.  Very interesting read on the commandant. 

[Frozen North]

Just finished "FEAR" by Bob Woodward. What a waste of money.

[Guest Nekhyludov]

My last few months of reading. Not sure what to get into next. I may circle back to some new Tolstoy translations ...

[earthson]

Running through Asimov's Foundation series again.  Could be the best sci first I've read.  Time and time again.