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I also just ordered this, not sure when I'll be able to read it. Hopefully this summer
Humble. To be honest I don't have patience with fictional novels anymore, and I loved them from 5th grade till I was in my 40s. Now I prefer a quick movie or tv when it comes to fiction, most of my reading is non-fiction these days. I'm not saying it's a better way, great fiction really opens the mind, it's just where I am.
finesse. our natures are beastly as well as civilizing. When we learned to farm and began to congregate long term in villages the ability to cooperate beyond pack hunting became a prime survival trait. I never was hung up on the need to feel superior to our animal cousins anyway.
you should read this then. I love this book
tfk. This may seem like a contradiction after my comments on our natures, but I haven't hunted or even fired a gun since 1988.
I just decided I wanted to live my life from a different perspective. I put down the gun and camo in favor of a camera and hiking gear.
FirePlugDawg I thought Rise and Fall of the Third Reich was great.
I like history and anything by Robert Caro. He is most famous for his works on LBJ. He does not consider himself a historian but seeks to understand power. His first book won a P Prize on Robert Moses. Moses built NYC infrastructure, is America's architect, urban designer and had enormous power without ever being elected.
Youtube Robert Caro, hear him answer questions about his books to get a feel for them. And read the preface. The author himself is quite a story.
I've read 10 on this list...I am going to have to accept.the challenge and polish off the rest of it.
America's greatest political philosopher is Henry George and he's practically unknown nowadays. You can't buy his work "Progress and Poverty" at barnes and nobles but they sell it on Amazon. wish I still had it but I loaned it to a girl I dated who broke it off and never returned it buts its absolutely worth a read.
Charlesgate Confidential was one of the best mystery books I've read in a long time
Kind of enjoying these IQ series of crime novels by Joe Ide. He's no George Pelecanos, but I've read all his books
Enjoyed this novel from Beevor many years ago. Good account of Stalingrad. Long, brutal battle for both sides.
With all this talk about books and Game of Thrones, I highly recommend "city of thieves" by David Benioff. I hope he goes back to writing novels when the show is done
Just finished that one. I knew from school the Nazis were all hopped up on meth during the war. This book goes into painstaking detail about the whole sorry affair. If you are interested in history or WWII its a good read.
Ha! I thought I was the only one who knew that Benioff had a career outside of GoT. He also wrote The 25th Hour which was made into an underrated movie: Ed Norton...Phillip Seymour Hoff. I'm not usually a Spike Lee guy but the story was good. I ran across City of Thieves randomly before GoT was even a show.
Spike Lee is best when someone else writes the story
The black klansman was really good. An example of that.
@swilkerson73 Is that actually good? I found the title and subject so off putting I didn't give it a chance.
Back to books, I just finished the Thrawn book from the Star Wars saga. Apparently there are a LOT of books that take place in between all the different movies. And I gota say, if they're all as good as Thrawn was then I'm in for a very good literary treat. I've never rooted for a villain as much as this. Although he doesn't exactly come off as a really bad guy in the story. It almost reads like a detective novel, just with the addition of the Imperial Navy with all the star destroyers and TIE fighters and such. Really fun book and I plan to read through much of them now.
@Bulldawg1982 Seeing this book cover just brought back a massive flood of sweet childhood memories where I can just now hear Larry Munson (inside my head) in his own determined, and excited, somewhat gravel-ly voice saying to him (Loren Smith) in the radio listening days of my youth, "What-ya-got Loran?", or other times "Loran, What-ya-got?"
I saw today that Showtime is starting work on a series based on Rothfuss' Kingkiller Chronicle(The Name of the Wind). Apparently it's going to start out in a prequel form set before the start of TNOTW.
I wonder if they are doing this to try to lessen the chance of getting stuck waiting on Rothfuss to finish like GoT did with GRRM.
I really loved the books and wish Martin..err Rothfuss would finish the third one. If it's done well I'm definitely interested though I find it hard to believe that Showtime has the resources to do anything like HBO did with GoT.
On the other hand, the more story driven and less CGI dragon obsessed earlier years of GoT were the best IMO. As long as this doesn't have just laughable effects it could be good. Anyone else interested or know more about it?
Reading In Cold Blood by Truman Capote right now - nonfiction account of a mass murder in rural Kansas in the late 50's. Interesting insight into the minds of remorseless killers.
Started reading the FairTax books by Neal Boortz. Pretty dang interesting stuff. This was recommended to me by one our members. Good call.