Book recommendations

Egads said:
I went down a Hesse path in college, and really enjoyed it. I Narcissus and Goldmine, Steppenwolf, and Glass Bead Game were my favorites. He was quite a Renaissance Man, author, poet, artist, sex symbol. Well, maybe not that last point.
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Sex symbol! Bahaha!
 
‘11/22/63’ showed up today so I started that, already very interesting. And I had just watched Tenet so time travel was on my mind.

I wanna put Lonesome Dove out there also, in my top 5 of all time.
 
Anything featuring Beavis and Butthead, but the early stuff is better in my opinion. Pure emotion.
 
Its probably foolish to do so but I am picking up Don Quixote again , say goodbye to my frontal lobe. I only made it 10 pages in before burnout in 2018.
 
Working my way thru Bernard Cornwell's 'Richard Sharpe' series. Think I'm about 1/2 way thru the 20 or so in the series.
 
jimfisher said:
Working my way thru Bernard Cornwell's 'Richard Sharpe' series. Think I'm about 1/2 way thru the 20 or so in the series.
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That was a great series. I really enjoyed them. If you haven't gone down the Aubrey-Maturin path yet, you should. Written by Patrick O'Brian, the first being Master and Commander. There are 21 books in the series all set around the Napoleonic Wars, but from the Navy perspective. That series led me to Sharpe. Cornwell was hugely influenced by O'Brian.
 
bodia said:
That was a great series. I really enjoyed them. If you haven't gone down the Aubrey-Maturin path yet, you should. Written by Patrick O'Brian, the first being Master and Commander. There are 21 books in the series all set around the Napoleonic Wars, but from the Navy perspective. That series led me to Sharpe. Cornwell was hugely influenced by O'Brian.
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Good to know...thanks!
 
Powered through a bunch over the last couple months.

  • 11-22-63 - Stephen King
  • The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
  • David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
  • Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain ( second time I’ve read this one)
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
  • I’ll Be Gone In The Dark - Michelle McNamara
  • Blood of Elves - Andrzej Sapkowski

I started Swan Song but had to put it on hold, a bit too punishing. I’ll come back to it.

About to start Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson.
 
I read oliver stone's book recently, 'chasing the light' about his life up to the making of platoon.

Gets a 10/10 from me, he is such a good writer and what a life lived, brilliant
 
pac90 said:
I read oliver stone's book recently, 'chasing the light' about his life up to the making of platoon.

Gets a 10/10 from me, he is such a good writer and what a life lived, brilliant
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I’m friends with his ex wife Elizabeth, I’ll pass the compliments along.
 
In the Music category...always re-reading Neil Peart's Far and Wide, Far and Near, and Far and Away stories...
Just ordered Martin Popoff's 3 Rush books...Anthem, Limelight, and Driven...yup, kinda in a rut!!!!
 
11top said:
It appears there are many fans of science fiction and S King here. It was listed in my group above, but I’d really recommend SWAN SONG. It was just awesome. It was included in the PBS list of 100 books everyone should read.
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NoisyDante said:
I started Swan Song but had to put it on hold, a bit too punishing. I’ll come back to it.
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Finished this last night. It's not a sunshiny tiptoe through the tulips kind of book, but very gripping. Some compelling characters - and not always in a good way. I thought it was kind of an odd choice to make Macklin a Viet Nam vet, but about halfway through the book (or more), they mentioned B. Dalton Booksellers, and I had to go to the publishing info to see that it was published in 1987. How I missed this back then, I'm not sure, because I was reading a lot of this kind of stuff back then (notably the Jerry Ahern series The Survivalist).

Thanks for the recommendation, Steve!

NoisyDante said:
I’ll Be Gone In The Dark - Michelle McNamara
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Read this a while ago (before the HBO series). Another dark read, but you can feel Michelle's obsession to find this guy. They got him years too late, but I was still very happy to see that they did get him. I felt bad for his family members, though - they were clearly pretty blindsided (on the HBO thing).

Thinking about going back and rereading The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - all five books of the trilogy. It's been too long. And I'd love to reread Ken Grimwood's Replay. I read the paperback years ago, and later found out it was abridged. Somewhere along the line, I picked up the hardback version, and that's what I'll read the next time around. For those unfamiliar (likely close to all of you), it's about a guy who dies of a massive heart attack - and wakes up in his bedroom 30+ years earlier. With the memories of his 'earlier' life. Which turns out to be a recurring cycle. And it turns out he's not the only one.
 
alantig said:
Finished this last night. It's not a sunshiny tiptoe through the tulips kind of book, but very gripping. Some compelling characters - and not always in a good way. I thought it was kind of an odd choice to make Macklin a Viet Nam vet, but about halfway through the book (or more), they mentioned B. Dalton Booksellers, and I had to go to the publishing info to see that it was published in 1987. How I missed this back then, I'm not sure, because I was reading a lot of this kind of stuff back then (notably the Jerry Ahern series The Survivalist).

Thanks for the recommendation, Steve!
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I got to where Roland helps rescue Macklin and they are attacked by the mob that includes his parents. I’ll finish it later, just didn’t want to get into something as dark yet.
 
Bill SAS 513 said:
In the Music category...always re-reading Neil Peart's Far and Wide, Far and Near, and Far and Away stories...
Just ordered Martin Popoff's 3 Rush books...Anthem, Limelight, and Driven...yup, kinda in a rut!!!!
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I also just ordered the 3 Popoff books!
 
NoisyDante said:
I got to where Roland helps rescue Macklin and they are attacked by the mob that includes his parents. I’ll finish it later, just didn’t want to get into something as dark yet.
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Yeah - it does get darker. In retrospect, I’m glad this turned out to be from 1987. It could have easily devolved into the torture porn genre, but it didn’t. Bad stuff happens, but the worst of it is off-screen, so you see that it happened, you don’t actually see it happen.
 
alantig said:
Thinking about going back and rereading The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - all five books of the trilogy. It's been too long.
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I'll definitely read those again. One of a few series I'll reread. Probably go with The Hobbit first, then I suppose I should wait a bunch of years before Lord of the Rings. I might only read the first half of the Dark Tower books. Women of the Otherworld (Kelly Armstrong) are fun reads and not as dependent on the sequence.

I noticed a couple of people (not here) recently saying Atlas Shrugged was the best book ever. I found the message captivating, but much of the telling tedious.
 
I just finished reading Rob Halford's book CONFESS cover to cover. I very much enjoyed the book. But I also think that the only people who will really enjoy the book are life long hard core PRIEST fans such as myself. I'm also a Rob Halford fan and have a few of his solo career CD's that get played regularly while I'm out riding my Harley.
Note: Some of the subject matter may be uncomfortable for certain individuals. Reader digression advised.

https://www.amazon.com/Confess-Rob-Halford/dp/0306874946
 
veinbuster said:
I'll definitely read those again. One of a few series I'll reread. Probably go with The Hobbit first, then I suppose I should wait a bunch of years before Lord of the Rings. I might only read the first half of the Dark Tower books. Women of the Otherworld (Kelly Armstrong) are fun reads and not as dependent on the sequence.

I noticed a couple of people (not here) recently saying Atlas Shrugged was the best book ever. I found the message captivating, but much of the telling tedious.
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After The Hobbit you may not be able to hold off too long before staring LOTR. I’ve read them both a few times over, they’re very entertaining.
 
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