What Book are you reading, just read, plan to read?
Let's share good books.
I recommend
"Fall of Giants" (pre-WW1 drama history) 1k+ pages
"Pillars of the Earth" (medieval drama history) 1k+ pages
"Dreyfus Affair" (France SNAFU history) 500+ pages
currently reading
"SpyMaster" (autobio from Olec Kalugin) 450+ pages
and plan to read online the latest book from Latif Yahia "Black Hole",same guy who wrote "Devil's Double" book & movie about being Uday Hussain's bullet catcher.
http://latifyahia2006.blogspot.com/2009 … lcome.html
Finished reading "SpyMaster" from Olec Kalugin and now reading Into the Mirror: The Life of Robert P. Hanssen by Norman Mailer and Lawrence Schiller.
Very interesting that the two books mention the same names. In Spymaster, the SVG didn't know who was feeding them info until Hanssen was arrested.
Read Spymaster first
then Comrade J
and then Into the Mirror
They are all related
I'm in a reading frenzy because even though I have a swimming pool - can't be out there all day in the merciless sunshine even with SPF 50 all day long and it's 98 degrees.
Planning to go to library for more books.
Can I talk about non-fiction?
I used to be a Stephen king fanatic until about the third book of the Gunslinger series when he said that he was planning a total of 7,000 pages in total. Heard in the last of the book series - he puts himself in it. Must've wrote himself into a corner like the TV series "LOST"?
Still like the short story about the werewolf with Gary Busey in it.
Silver Bullet
I tend to read a few books at a time. I'm actually reading "Niacin the real story," and "vitamin C the real story." Boring I know.
- ksinllposted 11 years ago
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- Motown2Chitownposted 11 years ago0
Just finished reading the most excellent book by maria goodavage - Soldier Dogs -
This is what I wrote in the FB page for Soldier Dogs:
"There seems to be a dichotomy with Solder Dogs having a higher rank than the handlers yet are still considered 'equipment'. A gun does not have rank.
Perhaps this is a way to get Soldier Dogs recognized as canine personnel or nonhuman personnel under UCMJ - Article 134 - (Abusing public animal)"
Please add link to petitioning DOD to continue funding after 10/12 as referred on page 187. Thank you in advance.
Question: How do you pick out books?
I do it 2 ways: when I'm on a subject - I reserve it from the library.
when I'm at the library - I browse the new book non-fiction section.
Sierra Vista Library is well-funded
I read a book a long time ago called "Christ On Trial" but I don't remember the author's name. I plan on reading from the "Book Of Life", but, I misplaced the key that unlocks it. 'Come and see!'
- klarawieckposted 11 years ago0
Slowly reading that bio on Steve Jobs. But the book i am looking forward to reading is Magician's End by Raymond E Feist, only problem is its not out until May 2013
- jomineposted 11 years ago0
Yes, I loved the Chronicles as a kid, too (blissfully ignorant of the disguised christian apologetics, which is doubtless an indication of Lewis's genius!) but interestingly Tolkien didn't like them. He shared Lewis's faith but said he didn't like 'analogies'. However, they were both very influential and while I find the Lord of The Rings quite tedious I still love The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - and what a great title! Boy do I wish I'd thought of that.
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen (2012)
Damn, This guy is a bloody thug-thief. Check this out:
"In June 2005, while hosting a group of American businessmen in St Petersburg, Putin pocketed the 124-diamond Super Bowl ring of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. He had asked to see it, tried it on, allegedly said, ''I could kill someone with this'', then stuck it in his pocket and left the room abruptly. After a flurry of articles in the US press, Kraft announced a few days later that the ring had been a gift - preventing an uncomfortable situation from spiralling out of control ..... In September 2005, Putin was a guest at New York's Guggenheim Museum. At one point his hosts brought out a conversation piece another Russian guest must have given the museum: a glass replica of a Kalashnikov automatic weapon filled with vodka. The gaudy souvenir costs $300 in Moscow. Putin nodded to one of his bodyguards, who took the glass Kalashnikov and carried it out of the room, leaving the hosts speechless."
I am reading a very interesting historical book, which kept me up last night, I'm 1/3 done.
I am not sure, I found the book in a pile of used books for sale
- i4uposted 11 years ago0
Mary's Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace by Peter Janney 2012
The author's father was Wistar Janney, who worked for the CIA ...he eventually discovered a role that his own father had to play in the murder.
So far a very good book (page 21)
Text field only, can't copy the cover image. Some sites have a button to pull up a picture from file saved to your computer, one of the ways I've done it that's easier than multiple sites, like loading it to image hosting (Photobucket), then getting the HTML for them to read it here as it's frame instead of address. Ugh. My head spins. I still don't know how to use an offline address if image is saved to Windows file like Pictures, you know? So I have to go to Photobucket...more loading pages...anyone hate loading things as much as I do?
BAM! Creativity skill point two-thirds full until level...six. Like the devil.
Neil Gaiman is someone I'd heard positively about the works of and I had to wait a long time before I could find anything by him to read, being lost in some other dom of darkly fuming porous cycles. Really hope the image is showing up right. Sometimes it's that IMG type of code, other times, it's the http. I can take another page load to preview it before submitting, right?I have most recently been reading, Death: A Life, by George Pendle
I find this book smart and utterly hysterical! However, I know some who would find this book highly offensive...those with closed minds and no sense of humor! ;-)
For those who prefer reading series (and not the 50 Shades kind), I LOVE the Outlander series, by Diana Gabaldon.
I love this so much, because she combines history with a bit of sci-fi. I have never been a sci-fi person, but this is written so well...
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