Favorite Reads

[RaZon]

Love Jimmy Burke.

Prefer Preston and Child to Reacher. But still read the Reachers.

Try F Paul Wilson.

Found this pretty cool......

I am a blues geek, if you read Burke and Child so are they. Didn't know that when I first started reading them.

F.Paul Wilson........hmmmmm? I think I might have a book or two by him, do buy boxes of books at yard sales.

Will check him out, thanks1

 

[H2S]

We returned to Michigan after 37 years in Georgia in 2017. Snows regularly in Michigan (gasp). Read Peter Kray's THE GOD OF SKIING, 2014 (soft cover, less than 200 pages)... thing is an absolute gem... got old retired me interested in downhill skiing again. Thanks to multi-resort season passes I've taken it along to more than 24 major Rocky Mtn resorts in Canada and Murica since 2019. Working on a book of my own about the (ongoing) experience... gonna call it COLD SMOKE GYPSIES.

btw... s'nice to see the old thread still slithering on

 

[ill]

Reading Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Trembley

figured I needed something a little scary for the end of the month.

 

[JohnShadows]

Been reading a lot lately, one recommendation is 10 years old, but very good: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Also, Poverty Safari by Darren McGarvey.

 

[H2S]

Peter F. Hamilton's SALVATION sequence... I'm halfway into the second of the trilogy and still have no idea what's going on... hoping it gets mo killa quick like or I may not get to the third installment. Reviews refer to the trilogy as "grand space opera." (may's well be in Italian then, might be easier to understand.)

 

[Hank Kingsley]

People of the Earth - Michael and Kathleen Gear

The 3rd of approximately 30 titles about the early years of history of North American indigenous peoples.

Authors are archaeologists and build their knowledge into the fictional stories.

No ray guns or warp speeds. Just clubs and atlatls....

 

[Bridgeburner]

About half way through Leviathan Falls.

1. Holy shit this is good.
2. Holy shit I wish I was smarter.

 

[Bridgeburner]

Reading Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Trembley

figured I needed something a little scary for the end of the month.

Excellent read. What did you think?

 

[ill]

Excellent read. What did you think?

I enjoyed it. Well written and not your normal straight forward horror. I need to read more horror.

 

[ill]

reading Harrow the Ninth, second book in a series. I liked the first one a lot but this one has me confused....the writing style or something just isn't clicking with me and it is annoying the shit out of me.

I am trying to finish off any series or trilogies I have started lately so I can start some new ones. I need to do the final Iron Druid book next...I might put Harrow down for that

 

[Hank Kingsley]

How to Stop Time - Matt Haig

Interesting read. A guy who has lived for over 400 years with another 500 or so to go.

 

[H2S]

Peter F. Hamilton's SALVATION sequence... I'm halfway into the second of the trilogy and still have no idea what's going on... hoping it gets mo killa quick like or I may not get to the third installment. Reviews refer to the trilogy as "grand space opera." (may's well be in Italian then, might be easier to understand.)

Bump on this one. Just finished re-reading the sequence (Salvation, Salvation Lost and Saints of Salvation)... jebus.

Goofy plot (aliens kidnapping all of humanity for a ride to the end of time to meet some mysterious god dude) and implausible technology (jumpdoors capable of transporting anyone/anything anywhere, city shields, etc)... but

Hamilton goes way beyond mere plausibility and into the realm of "har har, of course that's possible!" with stuff like dragging a neutron star through a wormhole 50 light years to destroy another star, uh huh, like incorporating/transferring human personalities into starships, whoa, and like looking 10,000 years into humanity's future on thousands of worlds/habitats (while depositing terrestrial DNA throughout the galaxy.)

Recommended - as, at the least, a way to gauge just how much plausibility you can deny while enjoying first class science fiction prose.

 

[Hank Kingsley]

Author - Lars Keppler (husband and wife Swedish team)

Start with the Hypnotist and go from there.

When you get to #4, The Sandman you're gonna be poleaxed.

Awesome series of books.

Joona Linna is my new pulp fiction hero. Fuck Bosch... Fuck Robicheaux... Fuck Rebus...

And I say none of those 3 lightly. I love those guys.


No sci fi, no horror, no fantasy, just creepy as fuck goodness that I have a really hard time putting down once I start.

 

[H2S]

ok... so I finished a fourth re-read of the glorious 20-volume Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian (s'like a fine, but gotten tired wine) and traded the bunch to my brother - who has been touting C. S. Forester's 11-volume Hornblower saga since forever... am presently on the 4th book and hoping soon to be impressed... all he's said so far about his O'Brians is that he can't understand half of what he's read.

 

[H2S]

Just finished The Sandworms of Dune, the 14th book and last of the DUNE saga.
Read everything in chronological order, starting with The Butlerian Jihad.
Was spooked that Herbert Jr and friend would not be up to the brilliance of Herbert... they weren't, but I think they did an excellent job of supplementing pre-Dune history and, especially, with their post-Chapterhouse grand conclusion.
My inner geek is content.

 

[ill]

Just finished The Sandworms of Dune, the 14th book and last of the DUNE saga.
Read everything in chronological order, starting with The Butlerian Jihad.
Was spooked that Herbert Jr and friend would not be up to the brilliance of Herbert... they weren't, but I think they did an excellent job of supplementing pre-Dune history and, especially, with their post-Chapterhouse grand conclusion.
My inner geek is content.

I have never gotten past the first Dune novel...and don't have a ton of interest in doing so.

 

[Nasty_Magician]

I have never gotten past the first Dune novel...and don't have a ton of interest in doing so.

Loved the first. I have the second lined up this year mainly because they've stated they plan on making it the third movie.

 

[foster4prez]

Best books I've read recently.

 

[ill]

I started this one and tossed it. The fucking privilege from Coyne just pissed me off to no end. I just hated it.

 

[foster4prez]

I started this one and tossed it. The fucking privilege from Coyne just pissed me off to no end. I just hated it.

What privilege? That's he's lucky enough to get paid to play golf and write about it? What set you off so bad? I thought it was a great read and he came across as very humble to me. The interweaving of stories about his dad had me in tears.