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Post by Wolfgang on Feb 19, 2018 13:01:29 GMT -5
The last few books I read (all were excellent!):
Nonfiction: Red Ink (David Wessell) Islamic State: The Digital Caliphate (Abdel Bari Atwan) Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (Joby Warrick) The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Lawrence Wright) No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam (Reza Aslan) In the Heart of the Sea (Nathaniel Philbrick)
Fiction: The Sense of an Ending (Julian Barnes) Zuckerman Unbound (Philip Roth) The Ghost Writer (Philip Roth) All the Little Live Things (Wallace Stegner) Riddley Walker (Russell Hoban) The Snapper (Roddy Doyle) Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha (Roddy Doyle)
Memoirs: The Boys of My Youth (Jo Ann Beard) Another @$$%*!* Night in Suck City (Nick Flynn) (Edit: @$$%*!* = Bulllshiite (if spelled properly))
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Post by mikegarrison on Feb 19, 2018 13:01:30 GMT -5
Guy uses prime numbers for his chapters. Not something you see every day. Everybody loves the prime numbers. Why not give 4,6,8,9,10,12,14,etc. some love too?
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Post by mikegarrison on Feb 19, 2018 13:17:52 GMT -5
Since you ask, in the last week or two I've been reading (or re-reading) stories by Seanan Mcguire. In particular, her Incryptid stories, which should be terrible based on the genre, but in fact are really good.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2018 13:23:45 GMT -5
Hulu is doing The Looming Tower, I hear. Coming out soon?
PG Wodehouse. Always a treat. Never a terrorist.
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Post by mikegarrison on Feb 19, 2018 13:35:33 GMT -5
PG Wodehouse. Always a treat. Never a terrorist. Possibly a Nazi collaborator, however. Or possibly just a guy who made a mistake.
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Post by VBCOACH on Feb 19, 2018 14:10:31 GMT -5
A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan - (Just finished) The Best And The Brightest by David Halberstam - (about 1/3 into it.) Now I'll have to re-read The Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg next.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2018 14:13:25 GMT -5
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Post by Wolfgang on Feb 19, 2018 14:22:13 GMT -5
In the Heart of the Sea (Nathaniel Philbrick)
One of the best nonfiction books I've ever read. Never saw the movie. I don't really like movie adaptations of books (fiction, nonfiction, or otherwise).
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Post by mln59 on Feb 21, 2018 19:49:38 GMT -5
had to search for this thread....bump from the depths of volleytalk currently reading provenance by ann leckie...author of the ancillary justice trilogy. highly recommend her stuff finished provenance mere minutes ago. great book. for anyone interested, i highly and strongly recommend reading the trilogy first. provenance is set in the same universe and things from the trilogy are mentioned. one can read it as a stand alone novel but you would understand more of it by reading it fourth
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Post by Wolfgang on Feb 22, 2018 14:56:35 GMT -5
had to search for this thread....bump from the depths of volleytalk currently reading provenance by ann leckie...author of the ancillary justice trilogy. highly recommend her stuff finished provenance mere minutes ago. great book. for anyone interested, i highly and strongly recommend reading the trilogy first. provenance is set in the same universe and things from the trilogy are mentioned. one can read it as a stand alone novel but you would understand more of it by reading it fourth The trilogy received great reviews. But the summary sounds like a video game plot.
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Post by mln59 on Feb 22, 2018 14:57:48 GMT -5
finished provenance mere minutes ago. great book. for anyone interested, i highly and strongly recommend reading the trilogy first. provenance is set in the same universe and things from the trilogy are mentioned. one can read it as a stand alone novel but you would understand more of it by reading it fourth The trilogy received great reviews. But the summary sounds like a video game plot. not at all. it's super awesome
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Post by mln59 on Mar 5, 2018 19:31:57 GMT -5
just picked up 'the grave's a fine and private place' by alan bradley. it's his 9th book in his flavia de luce series and i cannot recommend them more highly. flavia is a great protagonist.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2018 15:11:45 GMT -5
Two Kinds of Truth. It's a Harry Bosch story. Did you know his real name is Hieronymus? I know. I know. Who the hell is Harry Bosch? And who the hell is Hieronymus Bosch? I don't think they are related, but who knows?
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Post by Wolfgang on Mar 8, 2018 20:29:09 GMT -5
The instruction manual for Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag. Turns out, I can takedown an enemy without killing him.
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Post by Phaedrus on Mar 14, 2018 12:09:54 GMT -5
How did I just stumble on this thread?
Working on:
DaVinci, Walter Isaacson. Meditations, Marcus Aurelius. The Sea, The Sea, Iris Murdoch How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life Hardcover, Massimo Pigliucci
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