Book recommendations

[chillerdab]

You can read thousands of books for free - on ereaders, in audiobook form, in paperback, or in hardcover with a library card.

Just sayin…

 

[sharkymcwrath]

Are there any movies that are better than the books that they were written after?

IMO Lord of the Rings is damned close.

 

[sharkymcwrath]

The Alchemist by Paul Cohelo.

 

[duke1861]

I thought the The Firm was pretty well done far as the movie n had the same break neck pace of the book. I think someone could pretty much make The Running Man and just follow practically word for word n it could be a spectacular movie. No one has had more butchered by movies than Stephen King. but.................King's The Mist is a better movie than the book as it was true to the book, but the ending change of the movie puts it ovver the top.

Breed, didn't you say the Nicholas sparks novels were your favorite?...lol

I joke...I joke!

 

[duke1861]

IMO Lord of the Rings is damned close.

Yes, especially the fellowship of the rings. Every 5 pages was a song about the shire I swear.

 

[gkekoa]

Well the Hobbit movies sucked so I can’t imagine the books being worse.

 

[Stymietee]

Book recommendations

I’m not sure if you can still find any of these today, but as a very young man Encyclopaedia Britannica issued “Great Books of the Western World” A chronology of the great authors. I bought the set of 59 and often refer to them as necessary. So, much for old man stuff…



Currently reading…

“Children of Virtue and Vengeance”__ by Tomi Adeyemi

It is the sequel to “Children of Blood and Bone.” Both are riveting page turners that don’t disappoint.

Here’s a short list of recent book read/recommended.

• “The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X” _ by Les Payne and Tamara Payne.
• “The Hot Zone”_ by Richard Preston
• “Just as I Am”_ by Cicely Tyson
• “Caste”_ by Isabel Wilkerson
• “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”_ by Rebecca Skloot
• “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the age of Colorblindness”_ by Michelle Alexander
• “Between the World and Me”_ by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• “Inside the Curve: Stories From the Pandemic”_ by Claudi Carreras
• “Coma”_ by Robin Cook
• “Angela Davis: An Autobiography”_ by Angela Y. Davis
• “ Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present”_by Harriet A. Washington
• Any and every book by Walter Mosley… Last read “Trouble Is What I Do” (Leonnid McGill #6)
• “Men Cry in the Dark”_ by Michael Baisden (Stolen er borrowed from my sister’s collection)
• “Contact”_ by Carl Sagan
• “Hidden Figures”_ by Margot Lee Shetterly

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[j_y19]

Book recommendations

I’m not sure if you can still find any of these today, but as a very young man Encyclopaedia Britannica issued “Great Books of the Western World” A chronology of the great authors. I bought the set of 59 and often refer to them as necessary. So, much for old man stuff…



Currently reading…

“Children of Virtue and Vengeance”__ by Tomi Adeyemi

It is the sequel to “Children of Blood and Bone.” Both are riveting page turners that don’t disappoint.

Here’s a short list of recent book read/recommended.

• “The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X” _ by Les Payne and Tamara Payne.
• “The Hot Zone”_ by Richard Preston
• “Just as I Am”_ by Cicely Tyson
• “Caste”_ by Isabel Wilkerson
• “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”_ by Rebecca Skloot
• “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the age of Colorblindness”_ by Michelle Alexander
• “Between the World and Me”_ by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• “Inside the Curve: Stories From the Pandemic”_ by Claudi Carreras
• “Coma”_ by Robin Cook
• “Angela Davis: An Autobiography”_ by Angela Y. Davis
• “ Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present”_by Harriet A. Washington
• Any and every book by Walter Mosley… Last read “Trouble Is What I Do” (Leonnid McGill #6)
• “Men Cry in the Dark”_ by Michael Baisden (Stolen er borrowed from my sister’s collection)
• “Contact”_ by Carl Sagan
• “Hidden Figures”_ by Margot Lee Shetterly

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That’s a lot of books. No wonder you‘ve been gone!

 

[duke1861]

Book recommendations

I’m not sure if you can still find any of these today, but as a very young man Encyclopaedia Britannica issued “Great Books of the Western World” A chronology of the great authors. I bought the set of 59 and often refer to them as necessary. So, much for old man stuff…



Currently reading…

“Children of Virtue and Vengeance”__ by Tomi Adeyemi

It is the sequel to “Children of Blood and Bone.” Both are riveting page turners that don’t disappoint.

Here’s a short list of recent book read/recommended.

• “The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X” _ by Les Payne and Tamara Payne.
• “The Hot Zone”_ by Richard Preston
• “Just as I Am”_ by Cicely Tyson
• “Caste”_ by Isabel Wilkerson
• “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”_ by Rebecca Skloot
• “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the age of Colorblindness”_ by Michelle Alexander
• “Between the World and Me”_ by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• “Inside the Curve: Stories From the Pandemic”_ by Claudi Carreras
• “Coma”_ by Robin Cook
• “Angela Davis: An Autobiography”_ by Angela Y. Davis
• “ Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present”_by Harriet A. Washington
• Any and every book by Walter Mosley… Last read “Trouble Is What I Do” (Leonnid McGill #6)
• “Men Cry in the Dark”_ by Michael Baisden (Stolen er borrowed from my sister’s collection)
• “Contact”_ by Carl Sagan
• “Hidden Figures”_ by Margot Lee Shetterly

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Well done sir...thank you!!!

 

[Breed]

Breed, didn't you say the Nicholas sparks novels were your favorite?...lol

I joke...I joke!

I had to look up who Nicholas Sparks was. That made me laugh. My girlfriend at the time made me take her to go see The Notebook. I then went up in the home-girl of my girlfriend at the time after leaving her ass at the movies by herself for making me go see The Notebook.

 

[Breed]

Book recommendations

I’m not sure if you can still find any of these today, but as a very young man Encyclopaedia Britannica issued “Great Books of the Western World” A chronology of the great authors. I bought the set of 59 and often refer to them as necessary. So, much for old man stuff…



Currently reading…

“Children of Virtue and Vengeance”__ by Tomi Adeyemi

It is the sequel to “Children of Blood and Bone.” Both are riveting page turners that don’t disappoint.

Here’s a short list of recent book read/recommended.

• “The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X” _ by Les Payne and Tamara Payne.
• “The Hot Zone”_ by Richard Preston
• “Just as I Am”_ by Cicely Tyson
• “Caste”_ by Isabel Wilkerson
• “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”_ by Rebecca Skloot
• “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the age of Colorblindness”_ by Michelle Alexander
• “Between the World and Me”_ by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• “Inside the Curve: Stories From the Pandemic”_ by Claudi Carreras
• “Coma”_ by Robin Cook
• “Angela Davis: An Autobiography”_ by Angela Y. Davis
• “ Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present”_by Harriet A. Washington
• Any and every book by Walter Mosley… Last read “Trouble Is What I Do” (Leonnid McGill #6)
• “Men Cry in the Dark”_ by Michael Baisden (Stolen er borrowed from my sister’s collection)
• “Contact”_ by Carl Sagan
• “Hidden Figures”_ by Margot Lee Shetterly

​

What's up, Stymietee. Long time no see. Hope all is good with you.

 

[Stymietee]

What's up, Stymietee. Long time no see. Hope all is good with you.

Same ole' and all is well, how about you and yours?

 

[Breed]

No complaints here. Unless we're talking about a whole buncha things Skins related.

Good to see you again.

 

[duke1861]

I had to look up who Nicholas Sparks was. That made me laugh. My girlfriend at the time made me take her to go see The Notebook. I then went up in the home-girl of my girlfriend at the time after leaving her ass at the movies by herself for making me go see The Notebook.

Apparently, every plot is the same:

A young boy falls in love with a young girl

The young girl faces opposition in returning that love

Years pass and the young boy becomes a man and the young girl becomes a woman

After realizing what she has lost, the woman falls in love with the man

Man marries the woman

The End

You aren't missing out on anything my friend...LOL. Sparks has made a killing by writing book after book with the above plot. Every teenage girl in America has contributed to the Nicholas Sparks retirement fund.

 

[Buffalo_Nickel_1]

Holy cow Trackers is good

 

[chillerdab]

Just finished cloud cukoo land by anthony
doerr. Excellent read.

 

[Buffalo_Nickel_1]

I see that book everywhere I go shopping might have to check cloud cuckoo out it might give me break from Apocalyptic genre ..

 

[skinsdad62]

I am reading the Iliad

 

[Buffalo_Nickel_1]

Reading this one it's part of the Tracker Universe . 2 years after the Fall of America anything past Colorado west is the new frontier So basically the government is not going rebuild that area Colo, Utah To many wild people

 

[Buffalo_Nickel_1]

Started this all I can say is wow .. excellent this is book 1 of a 5 book series