Books... What are you reading? And what do you recommend?

BleedsGreen said:

Love The Pickett Series

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I was thinking about one of those books the other day. The one where he arrested the Governor. Not too smart, but totally bad ass.

Starting the Hitchhikers Guide series over. Been a couple years since I read all the books through. I love Douglas Adams. Another of my favorite authors is Terry Pratchett and his amazing Discworld series. Start in any order. It won't make sense either way.

InigoMontoya said:

Starting the Hitchhikers Guide series over. Been a couple years since I read all the books through. I love Douglas Adams. Another of my favorite authors is Terry Pratchett and his amazing Discworld series. Start in any order. It won't make sense either way.

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Pratchett did a good collab with Stephen Baxter called The Long War.

cannabineer said:

Pratchett did a good collab with Stephen Baxter called The Long War.

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Heard of it but haven't gotten to read it yet. Anybody else have the privilege of reading Good Omens? Or is it Bad Omens? Anyway it's Neil gaiman and terry pratchett and it's phenomenal

InigoMontoya said:

~snip~ Start in any order. It won't make sense either way.

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LOL

When traveling I like to listen to audio books.

I started one and by the 3rd disc I was thinking this is a weird book, difficult to follow.
After it finished, a 5 disc set, I noticed the disc player was set on RANDOM play.

My latest:

The super carb diet / Bob Harper with Danny Pellegrino.

Oil pulling therapy : detoxifying and healing the body through oral cleansing / by Bruce Fife.

Okinawa, 1945 : gateway to Japan / Ian Gow ; consultant, H.P. Willmott

June 1944 / H.P. Willmott

Brady's Civil War : a collection of memorable Civil War images photographed by Mathew Brady and his assistants / Webb Garrison ; introduction by Alan Axelrod.

When Montezuma met Cortés : the true story of the meeting that changed history / Matthew Restall.

Gulag : a history / Anne Applebaum.

Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires / Wills, Shomari

The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and Three American Heroes
/ Sadler, Anthony

The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War / Steil, Benn

InigoMontoya said:

Starting the Hitchhikers Guide series over. Been a couple years since I read all the books through. I love Douglas Adams. Another of my favorite authors is Terry Pratchett and his amazing Discworld series. Start in any order. It won't make sense either way.

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If you don't read any of the late Sir Terry's Discworld books without a smile on your face, you seriously need to get your head looked at.

BarnBuster said:

My latest:

The super carb diet / Bob Harper with Danny Pellegrino.

Oil pulling therapy : detoxifying and healing the body through oral cleansing / by Bruce Fife.

Okinawa, 1945 : gateway to Japan / Ian Gow ; consultant, H.P. Willmott

June 1944 / H.P. Willmott

Brady's Civil War : a collection of memorable Civil War images photographed by Mathew Brady and his assistants / Webb Garrison ; introduction by Alan Axelrod.

When Montezuma met Cortés : the true story of the meeting that changed history / Matthew Restall.

Gulag : a history / Anne Applebaum.

Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires / Wills, Shomari

The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and Three American Heroes
/ Sadler, Anthony

The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War / Steil, Benn

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wtf? did you graduate at the top of your class from Evelyn Woods? i haven't even finished one book since the last time you posted

Currently reading the light bringer series by Brent Weeks, just started book 2, I really like his Night Angel series.

Roger A. Shrubber said:

wtf? did you graduate at the top of your class from Evelyn Woods? i haven't even finished one book since the last time you posted

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I'll slack off some now that the weather's getting nice

I "listened" to all the Harry Potter books and loved them. IMO, not really children's books. They were damn good and the British reader made them even better

I read a lot of Non-Fiction

The Moral Animal - Robert Wright
The Blank State - Steven Pinker
How the Mind Works - Steven Pinker
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
The Extended Phenotype - Richard Dawkins
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
How Pleasure Works - Paul Bloom

McKenna made me laugh and was interesting...some shits a little out there.

Food of the God's - Terence McKenna
Archaic Revival - Terence McKenna
True Hallucinations - Terence McKenna

And for a good mind fuck

Gobekli Tepe, Genesis of the God's - Andrew Collins
Worlds in Collision - Immanuel Velikovsky

Fiction
Game of Thrones Series - George Martin

Weed
The Cannibis Breeders Bible - Greg Green
The Marijuana Growers Guide - Ed Rosenthal
Marijuana Cultivation - Jorge Cervantes
The Grow Book - Grow Boss
Dank 2.0 - Subcool

I also "listened" to the Thrones series. Excellently done by the British readers once again. My eyes suck now days

Available at Amazon. A book methodically revealing the truth about why you aren't free.

Check it out.

I just finished Women by Chuck Bukowski. It was a gooder. I love those drunk pieces of shit. Remind me of myself. Makes me want to release my garbage writings to the world for a slight chance at hipster fame. I've moved on to Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky. Keeping up that misanthropic shit. I'll admit, though I loved Crime and Punishment, he gets to be a windbag at times. That 100 page argument between Ivan and the priest on theology in Brothers Karamazov? Piece a piss. Maurice Walsh. That's where it's at. I don't think I've read a finer prose stylist. I feel like I'm out on the moors when I read him. Most probably known by most as writing the short story The Quiet Man which gave us the great albeit misguided John Ford adaptation with Wayne and O'Hara. There's this good story of Jack Hemingway getting into an argument in a bar whether ole Ernest or Faulkner was the better author and interjecting with Walsh, to Walsh as it turned out. Before being outed as a kiddie diddler.

These are the latest, newly released:
Fight like a girl : the truth behind how female Marines are trained / by Kate Germano ; with Kelly Kennedy.
The first family / Michael Palmer and Daniel Palmer.
The fallen / David Baldacci.
Rocket men : the daring odyssey of Apollo 8 and the astronauts who made man's first journey to the Moon / Robert Kurson.
Flash points / David Hagberg.

These are rereads for me:
Empty sleeves : amputation in the Civil War South / Brian Craig Miller
When men lost faith in reason : reflections on war and society in the twentieth century / H.P. Willmott.

CJ Box The Disappeared. These Joe Pickett books are so good I probably won't go to bed until it is finished.

BleedsGreen said:

CJ Box The Disappeared. These Joe Pickett books are so good I probably won't go to bed until it is finished.

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IKR? Also, any of Wood's Stone Barrington I read all the way thru.

Newest and latest:

Quicken WillMaker plus 2018 : book & software kit.

How to survive an active killer : an honest look at your role in the age of mass violence / Aaron Jannetti.

Hype : a doctor's guide to medical myths, exaggerated claims and bad advice - how to tell what's real and what's not / Nina Shapiro, M.D., with Kristin Loberg.

Secrets of the snout : the dog's incredible nose / Frank Rosell ; foreword by Marc Bekoff ; translated by Diane Oatley.

The trauma cleaner : one woman's extraordinary life in the business of death, decay, and disaster / Sarah Krasnostein.

Robert B. Parker's old black magic : a Spenser novel / Ace Atkins.

Overkill : an Alex Hawke novel / Ted Bell.

Immunization : how vaccines became controversial / Stuart Blume