Current book being read/just finished

[PghSkins]

Amazon has a compilation of all the Sherlock Holmes books for Kindle for $0.99. This is going to be my reading for... the rest of my life or so.

[Troy Loney]

Amazon has a compilation of all the Sherlock Holmes books for Kindle for $0.99. This is going to be my reading for... the rest of my life or so.

Great decision, those stories are so entertaining.

[MWB]

Finished the Steve Jobs book about a week ago. Interesting read. Now reading John Feinstein's latest book, One on One. For anyone who's into sports nonfiction, especially college basketball or golf, Feinstein is a great read.

[shafnutz05]

Just finished Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett (WWII spy novel)....awesome book.

[AlexPKeaton]

Just finished: I, Claudius. Now moving on to Claudius the God. Very very good books if you are into Roman history.

[IronDukes37]

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[eddysnake]

my wife read the first 5 John Le Carre - George Smiley cold war spy books and really enjoyed them. I'm thinking about diving into that or tale of two cities. Has anyone read The Lost City of Z?

[Gaucho]

Recently finished Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. Excellent, makes Sam Peckinpah look tame. Read The Road before that. Excellent. Also: Ubik by Philip K. Dick. Excellent as well. Will read Dick's Valis next. It's probably excellent.

[eddysnake]

Recently finished Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. Excellent, makes Sam Peckinpah look tame.

I'm not sure what it is about that book, I flew through the first half, loved it, then I got stuck, had a real tough time with it and put it down. I need to pick it back up. Every time I stopped reading, I felt as if I could use a shower.

The Road is up there with my all time favorite books.

[LeopardLetang]

Has anyone read The Lost City of Z?

ya. very easy, fun read. i usually plod through books slowly but i read that one so fast i often forget about it.

[Shyster]

I read too much to keep up with this thread. Recent reads include:

Japanese Destroyer Captain by Tameichi Hara.
Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston.

Shyster, or anyone, have you read Shattered Sword yet?

I have not. It’s on my Amazon wish list (along with 231 other books I haven’t got around to buying yet).

[Digitalgypsy66]

Just finished Alan Furst's Mission to Paris. Good stuff, as always. If you are into spy thrillers, particularly set during/before WWII, Furst is your guy. He never takes the easy story - Nazis stealing a-bomb plans or D-Day plans - it's always something a little more obscure. As with most authors, his early WWII books are best, but all are great reads.

[the wicked child]

Finished Abe Lincoln:Vampire Hunter. I would say it qualifies as decent and interesting... definitely not great. I figured out where it was going at some point and was maybe just a bit out there for my liking. Not bad though.

[MWB]

Recently finished Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. Excellent, makes Sam Peckinpah look tame. Read The Road before that. Excellent. Also: Ubik by Philip K. Dick. Excellent as well. Will read Dick's Valis next. It's probably excellent.

Blood Meridian is on my list. Read and really like The Road and No Country for Old Men.

[Godric]

Finished all of the George RR Martin books... better known as "Game of Thrones"

"A Dream of Spring" is the last book I read

[obhave]

Just finished "the Line of Beauty" by Alan Hollinghurst. Found it be a very moving and powerful novel.

[columbia]

Just started reading "The Disappearing Spoon." I was a terrible chemistry student, but am enjoying it.

[IronDukes37]

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[obhave]

Just finished "the Line of Beauty" by Alan Hollinghurst. Found it be a very moving and powerful novel.

Powerful??
how so?

Spoiler:

The story is truly about someone who is adopted, but a complete outsider. The author uses homesexuality, sex, and class to show this detachment. The Nick uses sex and partying as a way to cope and combat the growing feeling of being looked down upon and rejected. Nick's interactions with the other characters act to de-romantacize the decadence around him and that class of people. I find it powerful just because of the boldness of the author is using homesexuality, sex, and the hiding of ones sexuality to show the terribleness and falsity of an entire society of people.

[Shyster]

Finished all of the George RR Martin books... better known as "Game of Thrones"

"A Dream of Spring" is the last book I read

Are you from the future? If so, did Shero trade for Rick Nash?

[Godric]

Finished all of the George RR Martin books... better known as "Game of Thrones"

"Dances with dragons" is the last book I read

Are you from the future? If so, did Shero trade for Rick Nash?

fixt. I had just got done reading info on the upcoming books lol

[Shyster]

In the last couple weeks, I’ve read:

Non-fiction:
Keynes the Man by Murray Rothbard
A Century of War by John Denson
Why American History Is Not What They Say: An Introduction to Revisionism by Jeff Riggenbach
White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Race Riots to America by Colin Flaherty

Fiction:
The Gripping Hand by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (sequel to their acclaimed 1974 sci-fi book The Mote in God’s Eye)
The Long Earth by Stephen Baxter and Terry Pratchett
Slave of Chu Kutall by Michael McCloskey

[TheHammer24]

I read my first fiction book since High School on vacation: the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Very good. On to The Girl Who Played with Fire. I'm hoping I keep up with reading.

[Troy Loney]

I'm about to finish War and Peace. I like the story of Anna Karenina better, but in terms of historical fiction, this is definitely worth the commitment.

[Shyster]

Just finished Benchslapped: Publicly Humiliating Judicial Opinions. It's a good read if you're a lawyer.