Need some captivating suggestions.
Printable View
Need some captivating suggestions.
whatever is in the tiny library, i pick up 4 and drop 4, could be anything but some court room drama lately
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
i just finished Fortune Favors the Dead, which kind of reminds of a Rex Stout book if Nero Wolfe was a progressive woman.
I'm now reading To Say Nothing of the Dog, by Connie Willis. It's part of a linked world of books about time traveling historians. I've read two others a long time ago. All of them have been mostly set in World War 2 England, though this one is lighter in tone than Blackout/All Clear.
I was just reading this thread.
https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...hlight=reading
Yeah, but that thread is buried at the very top of that section.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mazderati
Powers and Thrones by Dan Jones
A pretty comprehensive overview of the Middle Ages, centered in Europe but talks about the exchanges between the East and Muslim worlds in a way I haven’t found in most histories. Also has a pretty compelling narrative, doesn’t just read like a history book.
That's a good one. I loaned it out a decade ago and can't remember to whom. Worth rereadingQuote:
Originally Posted by LeeLau
Down And Out In Paris And London, by George Orwell.
His first novel. Life of the poor and destitute in Paris and London in the early '30s.
A few interesting books I have read over the last few years
Born a Crime
The Dog Stars
Station Eleven
The Water Knife
The Fifth Season (trilogy)
Natural Born Heroes
The River
Just blazed through The Martian and Project Hail Mary. Nothing to fancy there, but entertaining.
Currently reading Blindness by Jose Saramago which is a little heavier.
So entertaining. I read PHM in under 24 hours. I haven’t done that since I was a kidQuote:
Originally Posted by oldnew_guy
Can’t wait to see the movie, Rocky is one of the best characters ever. Loved this book.Quote:
Originally Posted by Falcon3
The fact that he runs into Rocky blew my mind when it happens. Really wasn’t expecting that.
If you're looking for ski inspo check out Higher Love: Skiing the Seven Summits by Kit DesLauriers. I'm in the middle of it now, it's great if you like those kinds of adventure stories.
I'm about 1/3rd of the way into American Dirt and it is riveting. Incredibly timely and puts a face on a very, very difficult problem in North America.
^ should have looked there. I'll fly into a rant about Joe Rogan and get it moved
Good suggestions everyone! Thx!
the glass castleQuote:
Originally Posted by byates1
Remembering Mom
by Oedipus Rex
Three body problem trilogy. Badass sci fi.
Attachment 408774
This one celebrates the upcoming holiday with TGRs favorite maggot:
Attachment 408776
https://www.amazon.com/Benny-Farting...7a0d52cbc40INT
I've been reading a few Don Winslow books - drugs and crime in the SoCal surfing set. Good beach reads
I vaguely remember some controversy about that book right? The book publisher PR team saying this white author had an undocumented immigrant husband but not mentioning he (or his parents maybe? ) came fromQuote:
Originally Posted by Marshall Tucker
Ireland not South America.
any body have tinny libraries in their hood ?
I think there might be 5 in town
Blood and Thunder : The story of Kit carson and the final indian wars in the west.
God damn nonfiction reads like this make me think 95% of us wouldn't make it in the gritty murderous world that was here just a few generations ago.
I'll be the first to admit that in the coming apocalypse, I'm a dead man.Quote:
Originally Posted by Asspen
I love tiny library's. Picked up and dropped off a few great reads over the years
Agreed. I read a lot of historical ahit like that and feel like a pansie ass.Quote:
Originally Posted by Asspen
WordQuote:
Originally Posted by Mazderati
Like John Wesley Powell with one fucking arm.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Reverend Floater
yup, i usually swap 4 books at a time sometimes you find a gem,Quote:
Originally Posted by byates1
but even if you don't just quit reading the book
cuz it costs you zero to go back and exchange for another book or 4
The last traverse, about hiking in the white mountains in NH. The hikers seem kinda gumby though.
I stare at my ballsack a lot you illiterate jackass.
Good thread in right forum when you learn how to read you piece of shit
HeyaQuote:
Originally Posted by Mazderati
Is that one book or two?Quote:
Originally Posted by Woodsy
I don't know why I have not read this before now, but George Orwell's first book, Down and Out In Paris and London tells an interesting story that is well worth the time. It is an autobiographical account of Orwell's time spent living in poverty and homeless probably in the early '30s. It is an easy read and I enjoyed it enough to recommend here.
In the past year-ish:
PIHKAL, Alendander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin
TIKHAL, Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties, Tom O'Neill
Breath, James Nestor
Superlative, Matthew LaPlante
Lifespan: Why We Age and Why We Don't Have To, Dr. David Sinclair
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Robert Sapolsky
Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic, Sandra Kahn and Paul Ehrlich
Drug Use for Grown-Ups, Dr. Carl Hart
Just finished book 2 of revelation space trilogy by Alastair Reynolds. Great hard scifi.
Has anyone here read White Trash by Nancy Isenberg?
Written in Written (or published) during the 2016 POTUS campaign, The NY TIMES states, "Formidable and truth -dealing...An eloquent volume that is more discomforting and more necessary than a semitrailer filled with new biographies of the founding fathers and the most beloved presidents."