Has anyone ever read: Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes A Commonwealth of Thieves by Thomas Keneally Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson If so, what'd you think? One of these is my next book.
Apathy and other small victories by Paul Neilan should be required reading for all TMBers. Here is the description from Wikipedia: I know the highlighted quote is supposed to be a knock on the book but is the type of thing that makes me want to read it more. Super easy read and one of the rare books that made me laugh out loud at parts.
Just finished reading...... Decision Points: Bush's new book, it was a pretty good read and interesting Ford County Stories by John Grisham: Awesome book, probably put it in my top 5 Grisham books, couldn't put it down Manhunt, 12 Day Hunt for Lincolns Killer: Out of the 3, this was the best IMO.....recommend to everyone Just picked up the first book in the Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan......so far it's awesome
Okay so should for those who have read both the Song of Fire and Ice series and World War Z, which one should I read first?
Thank you sir. Not worried about time consuming and If i started a series id have my next books lined up
In all of 2010 I finished two books. Since getting Kindle for Christmas I've read six. Goddamn loving that fucking thing.
You mean the movie Blade Runner? I haven't seen it but lots of people say it's great Movies are never as good as the book though. I'm reading the book "The World at War" by Mark Arnold-Forster. It is a companion to the tv series of the same name about WWII. The tv series is like 15 parts and I always love watching it when it comes on Military Channel. I'm at the part where Germany is about to invade France by rolling through the supposedly impenetrable Ardenne
W. J. Cash's "Mind of the South". Helps understanding the section and where/who I'm from. Old book that breaks down what we do and why we do it.
Yeah. If I never read the book it might have been good but the two were so different it was hard to get into it.
Liked American Assassin, but definitely not my favorite of his. I think Consent To Kill is his best work, Separation of Power and Act of Treason closely behind.
read and loved 'the rise', obviously, but my mom told me rex was hardly worth the time, so i've hesitated to get into it
Go pick up any David Gemmell I have tried to put his name out there in this thread, but got no replies. He is my favorite fantasy writer Legend was his first big hit but everything he has written is great.
I am finishing the fountainhead. ONe of those books I was supposed to read a hell of along time ago but never found time. Great book
I think a lot of people felt this way, but I haven't read The Rise yet. Colonel Roosevelt looks cool too, but I watched like an hour interview with Morris and he basically told the whole book then, so I don't know if I'll pick that up. My aunt asked me what I wanted for Christmas and I just told her to get me some book about Presidents or U.S. History, so that's how I ended up starting way out of order
purchased A Game of Thrones at Borders tonight. I'm not into fantasy at all but I reached the point where too many good things are being said about this series for me to let it go unread. Read the first 60 pages in the store and now I'm pretty much scrapping all the yard work plans I had for this weekend. Also picked up Zeitoun by Dave Eggars since they were running a "buy one book get selected others at 50% off sale". At this point I'm pretty cynical about the plethora of writers exploiting my hometown and it's suffering after Katrina in another tired endeavor to capture a Great American Tragedy while at the same time beating the same dead GWB was a bad president horse, but I really like What is the What so I'll give Eggars a shot with this.
Finally finished Armageddon by Max Hastings. Great book but took a while to read. So much information packed into it. Just started Day of Battle, the second in Atkinson's Liberation Trilogy.
Just finished "A Dangerous Man" by Charlie Hudson the third book in the Hank Thompson trilogy. First two books are Caught Stealing and Six Bad Things. Books are good crime/action/thriller types. Easy reads full of mobsters, drugs and violence. Highly recommend. http://www.amazon.com/Caught-Stealing-Charlie-Huston/dp/034546477X
guy walks through his house and explores the history of random/everyday objects interesting and very funny
Haha. Wow this guy has pretty much covered the spectrum -- from this to "A Short History of Nearly Everything", which is the history of the universe from the big bang.
Alright so I finally figured out how to download books to my kindle. Need some books to get now before I go back overseas. I already got SOIAF and WoT as well as a bunch of Harry Harrison stuff. I'm up to try and read just about anything that's good.
So I just returned from Amsterdam with some friends of mine and spent some quality time drinking coffee and window shopping.. In addition to doing stuff that we can't do in the states, we went to the Dutch Resistance Museum and the Anne Frank house. I used to be really into WWII history with Band of Brothers, Call of Duty (on PS2 before it became mainstream multiplayer online), Microsoft's "Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far", books about WWII pilots, etc. Going to 'dam and reading/learning all of the things that happened in occupied Holland during the Nazi regime really sparked my interest again in the stuff that I kinda lost in the woodwork of growing up. My question is if any of you are history majors or could point me in the direction of a book that is not only good to read, but also full of history. Maybe something like following EASY company but like a different point of view with the Axis Powers or something?
Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer is incredible. WWII on the Eastern front from a teenage German soldier's perspective. Absolute hell that they went through. I highly recomend
I'm reading a WWII book right now and I'm at the part where they talk about the Eastern front. Good God those fucking Russians and Siberians are tough in the winter. The German tanks and guns were so cold they wouldn't even work anymore and they were dropping left and right from frostbite and the Russians could just lay there in the snow all day waiting to attack again. And when the Siberians showed up from the far east, the Germans about shit themselves. I can't believe Hitler was such a dumbass to not give his men winter provisions and not allow them to retreat.
Reading it from the German perspective it's incredible that even one of those Germans survived. They lived through absolute hell in every facet of their lives there.
Found out I am a nonfiction reader, rather than fiction. I'm sort of disappionted by that, as I love a good story. I just have a really hard time reading fiction books. Last few books that I have read: Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead The Book of Basketball Hero of the Underground The Road Am currently reading Lone Survivor. Next one I want to read is On the Road.
I read On the Road; it was good as hell. The only problem is it made me want to travel so bad and I can't right now KW did your book talk about how they couldn't touch the metal on their guns without gloves because it would cause their skin to come off from the cold?
I'm a nonfiction guy too I throw in a novel here and there but mostly there is just too much cool shit I want to learn about to waste time reading made up stories
It's not even that I want to learn about things, it just grabs my attention so much more. Take the Road for example. One of the best fiction books I have ever read, and it took me about a month to read it. Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead is about the same length, and I read it in 3 days. Could not put it down. I loved the Road, but I had zero problem putting it down. I don't know what it is.
The only fiction I can get into is shit that is CIA thriller, espionage, terrorist in DC type of shit that reads like a movie. Any fiction that is heralded as great works of fiction or whatever bores me to death. Call me a simpleton but I just don't get off on that. Nonfiction literature fascinates me and intellectually stimulates me enough.