What are you reading?

[Cyclonepride]

Oh, man. That book is gripping. After a while, you "almost" start saying to the young women "Don't go with him! Don't go with him!"
Of course, they do, and it gets creepy and wild from there.

My hesitation on that is "how creepy?". The book sounds really good, but I don't want to read something that is really dark (beyond the whole serial killer theme lol).

 

[Rabbuk]

My hesitation on that is "how creepy?". The book sounds really good, but I don't want to read something that is really dark (beyond the whole serial killer theme lol).

It's pg13 I'd say. Good read pretty fast read.

 

[CycloneErik]

My hesitation on that is "how creepy?". The book sounds really good, but I don't want to read something that is really dark (beyond the whole serial killer theme lol).

There's one point where the writer describes how the killer waited outside the room listening moment-by-moment to his victim's demise. The purpsosefulness of renovating a city block into a kill palace gets very creepy.

 

[ccruzen]

Currently listening my way back through The Expanse by James S. A. Corey. I had read the first 7 but never finished the series. Up to number 8 of 9 now. If you enjoy SciFi I can't recommend it enough.
Before this I re-read The Wheel of Time. Once done with The Expanse I was thinking of starting Discworld (Terry Pratchett) while I wait for The Lost Metal (Brandon Sanderson).

 

[Mr Janny]

If you are into the medieval fantasy genre, I can't recommend the First Law Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie, strenuously enough. It's well worth a read.

 

[ccruzen]

If you are into the medieval fantasy genre, I can't recommend the First Law Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie, strenuously enough. It's well worth a read.

I loved First Law and his standalone's. His Age of Madness trilogy is coming up soon on my TBR

 

[BillyClone]

The Seven Storey Mountain - Thomas Merton's autobiography

I've always wanted to read this and finally have the time this summer. Merton seems like a unique character.

 

[Cyismymonkey]

The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck

Should have read it years ago.

Really good stuff.

 

[Cyismymonkey]

Favorites of the past year:
Cloud Cuckoo Land -Anthony Doerr (superb imagination, 3 eras in one story that all intertwine)
Project Hail Mary -Andy Weir (favorite book ever maybe)
The Paradox Hotel -Rob Hart (Time travel mystery)
The Godfather, Mario Puzo (classic that I'd never read)
The Lincoln Highway -Amor Towles --could have been better, but the young kid in it was such a good character

Towels “A Gentleman in Moscow”is as good as anything I’ve read in a long time.

 

[3TrueFans]

I started Isaac’s Storm on the plane, same guy that wrote devil in the white city which I’ve also read, I really like his style.

 

[Yaz]

I would not say I read a lot, but... (As a reference my wife reads a book in 1-2 weeks easy....I could never do that.) Preference is Non-Fiction..., but will read anything I guess.

Read recently:
Rage - Bob Woodward
Camino Winds - John Grisham
Here, Right Matters - Alexander Vindman
The Longest Day - Cornelius Ryan

Reading:
American Sniper - Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice
Dave Whitlock's Guide to Aquatic Trout Foods - Dave Whitlock

On Deck:
The Gates of Europe...A history of Ukraine - Serhii Plokhy
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
A Matter of Honor - Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan

PS. Great thread BTW.

 

[cycub51]

Currently working my way through the series that turned into The Last Kingsom on Netflix called the Saxon Stories.

 

[GMackey32]

Books I've read this year so far:
A Promised Land by Barack Obama (I always read Presidential Memoirs)
Yearbook by Seth Rogen (funny insight into his life)
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham
The Last American Vampire by Seth Graham-Smith

Books on deck:
D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II by Sarah Rose
The Splendid and Vile by Erik Larson (Devil in the White City author)
I'd like to play alone, please by Tom Segura

 

[Cyclones1969]

Just finished John Mellencamp’s auto biography.

Gonna read the one on the beastie boys next.

 

[GBlade]

Pretty much exclusively read fantasy and SciFi.

The Expanse series, Murder Bot series, The Stars My Destination

 

[Bipolarcy]

I've been reading the Cold Dead series by Blake Banner and just finished the last one. It's about detectives Carmen Dehan and John Stone, who runs a cold case unit in the New York police department. They also get married to each other about a third of the way into the series. There's, I believe, 27 books in that series.

Right now I'm reading "The Old Man," because I started watching the FX series by the same name, found it interesting and learned it was based on a book. It's useful to have a Kindle when something like that happens, so you don't have to go searching in a bookstore to find the one you want. You can just download it.

 

[MartyFine]

Towels “A Gentleman in Moscow”is as good as anything I’ve read in a long time.

The Lincoln Highway is also excellent. Towles is a great writer.

 

[Sparkplug]

The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd. Actually reading it for the second time. Mix of mystery and fantasy

 

[(563)]

It Takes What It Takes - Trevor Moawad
Breath - James Nestor
Atomic Habits - James Clear

All three are about chasing excellence, in some form or another. Breath was surprisingly hard to put down.

The Billion Dollar Spy by David Hoffman also turned out to be pretty good.

 

[BigTurk]

I'll preface this by saying I'm doing my best to keep this out of the cave. So, I won't get into the specific stuff he says...

So the thesis of the book is really that we should appreciate nature more which includes national parks and farming practices. The book has three parts: 1) a guided hike he did with his friends in Yellowstone, 2) a sustainable farm in Europe that he frequently visits and 3) his airstream trip he did with his wife during the pandemic.

His stuff about caring for nature, sustainable farming, his family, etc are all great stuff and he is a humorous writer. (There's even an Iowa State shoutout!) But he takes these very hard turns into political topics out of nowhere. (He's a progressive liberal.) So, at one moment you'll be reading about this great hike he did in Yellowstone, then the next page is a long rant about supreme court hearings, or Jan 6, etc etc.

I even agreed with some of the thoughts he posited. However, I did NOT pick that book up to read more political opinions. I can get plenty of that crap just walking down the street.

It was just a let down from that regard. An otherwise good book ruined by injecting topics that I was trying to avoid in the first place.

Thank you.

Ever read Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods? He gives some history and politics when hiking the Appalachian Trail but doesn't get heavy handed with the politics. Great read. Movie is ok.