Posted on 01/23/2012 8:52:51 PM PST by WilliamEaton
What books are people currently reading? Any particular fiction or non-fiction of note? Any recommendations from some recent reads?
I just downloaded the novel Hunter by Robert James Bidinotto for my kindle. It's an indie novel and has received good reviews on Amazon. Will report back once I finish up.
Well, that's it for you. You can never be president. Have you come to the part about niggerheads yet?
I’m reading the Perry Mason novels. There are about 80 of them, written from 1933-1970. There are some cultural roadbumps, but overall, they are well written and fast moving. (& I’m getting them all from the library)
Regnum Celorum: Patterns of Millennial Thought in Early Christianity
Men to Boys: the Making of Modern Immaturity
Evil Under The Sun. Agatha Christie. Hercule Poirot in white suit and hat in lounge chair at the beach in a swanky hotel in England. It’s fun.
My husband reads aloud one chapter each morning the Bible starting January with Genesis. We read some Proverbs and Psalm. My personal reading is book of Romans right now.
Best fiction/ best author ( I believe) Len Deighton. His 9 or 10 Bernrd Samson books are my favorite but his first book, Ipcress Files is a fav too. Not part of Samson series, Goodbye Mickey Mouse, great book about bombers in England bombing Germany. He is an expert on England and Europe, Germany, Berlin, WW11, Hitler, British intelligence, Russia and cold war, East and West Berlin and the wall. He is wonderful. I reread all his books every couple of years.
As to the question of the thread, I am finishing Shmuel Katz's two volume biography of Jabotinsky, Lone Wolf. My next book will be Reappraising the Right: The Past & Future of American Conservatism by George Nash, author of "The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945", which is a must-read.
I finished all the Aubrey/Maturin books, and now I’m on a P. G. Wodehouse binge (Jeeves and Wooster, etc.).
Ameritopia and a politically incorrect British history book by an NRO Weekly Standard American Spectator guy.....Crocker
I read that years ago while I was sick with the flu. Being wracked with fever added a certain realism to the book.
I have read so many books in the last 52 years I can’t name them all. From Captain Blood by Rafiel Sabatini, three volumes, to Tacitus’ histories. Lots of J Frank Dobie’s books, Beau Geste, Beau Sabeur, Beau Ideal, Beat To Quarters (three volumes and many others) The books kept me from going insane in my youth, along with The Illiad, The Odyssey and The Anead, and many, many more.
I am currently working on Alfred Hitchcock’s Tales or Terror, and the Bible for the third or fourth time.
Along with HP Lovecraft novels, and Eusebius’ Histories of the Christan church.
Not to mention THE LOST GOD bt Russell, or the works of Kipling, or way too many histories of the early Americas or Indian wars or pirate stories, and way, way too many short si-fi stories by Isamov, Ray Bradbury, or Richard Matheson.
I would rather read than watch TV any day, except when I am painting.
I have read so many books in the last 52 years I can’t name them all. From Captain Blood by Rafiel Sabatini, three volumes, to Tacitus’ histories. Lots of J Frank Dobie’s books, Beau Geste, Beau Sabeur, Beau Ideal, Beat To Quarters (three volumes and many others) The books kept me from going insane in my youth, along with The Illiad, The Odyssey and The Anead, and many, many more.
I am currently working on Alfred Hitchcock’s Tales or Terror, and the Bible for the third or fourth time.
Along with HP Lovecraft novels, and Eusebius’ Histories of the Christan church.
Not to mention THE LOST GOD bt Russell, or the works of Kipling, or way too many histories of the early Americas or Indian wars or pirate stories, and way, way too many short si-fi stories by Isamov, Ray Bradbury, or Richard Matheson.
I would rather read than watch TV any day, except when I am painting.
In case anyone is still up, I’m reading Hedy’s Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, by Richard Rhodes.
I always knew Hedy Lamarr had been an incredibly beautiful actress in Hollywood, but I had no idea she was brilliant as well. She hated the Hollywood scene, and struggled to be taken seriously. I’m just loving this book.
Niteowl BookMark :)
May God bless.
Tatt
Just finished “Alone in Berlin”, by Hans Fallada. A masterpiece about one man’s resistance during Nazi oppression, based on true events.
He said he liked to avoid political words and agendas in his songs and let the music say it all.
Stories of Natural Gas by Ralph E. Davis (1964).
Published by Ralph E. Davis.
This is THE book on the history of the natural gas ‘bidness’ as told by one of its pioneers.
The Litigators was funnier than I remember the other Grisham books being. Especially in the beginning. Laugh-out-loud funny.
The Bible
Steve Jobs (do as I say not as I do liberal) great book
Rick Harrison (Pawn Stars)
Demonic is Ann’s best book, in my opinion. She gets deeper into the causes of liberalism, rather than just pointing out their illogicalities and contradictions—which she also does very well.
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