What are you reading?

BigWaylon said:
About to start this one:

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Admittedly I haven’t read a majority of those authors. So, it may be a great source of future books for me. There’s a second one as well...which is how I found this one. I’ll read it next, but it has a Kathy Reichs & Lee Child combo. Two of my absolute faves.
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I like collaborations like this, It gives you a chance to find out a different writers style and characters.
 
J R Green said:
I like collaborations like this, It gives you a chance to find out a different writers style and characters.
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Yep, I’ve already ruled out a half dozen and found two that interest me.
 
Defending Dixie, by Dr. Clyde Wilson
 
Started reading two;
'Sheep No More' by Jonathan Gilliam
'77 Days In September' by Ray Gorham
Too early to review them.
 
Currently reading the Mitch Rapp book “Order to Kill”. I like how Kyle Mills is carrying on after Vince Flynn’s passing.
Next up is “The Terminal List” by Jack Carr. Seems to have great reviews.


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bashman said:
Currently reading the Mitch Rapp book “Order to Kill”. I like how Kyle Mills is carrying on after Vince Flynn’s passing.
Next up is “The Terminal List” by Jack Carr. Seems to have great reviews.


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I had no idea Flynn passed.
I generally like the books in the Rapp series, although I havent read one in a while.
I'll have to give the new guy a try
 
BigWaylon said:
About to start this one:

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Admittedly I haven’t read a majority of those authors. So, it may be a great source of future books for me. There’s a second one as well...which is how I found this one. I’ll read it next, but it has a Kathy Reichs & Lee Child combo. Two of my absolute faves.
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Reading the follow-up to this one now...

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In both of these there’s a little page or two intro that describes the various ways the pairs worked together. I think I just figured out @gunbelt must ghost write under the name Val McDermid:

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Only thing right now is The Liberator, about an Army...leader, goes into Italy and fights all the way to one of the concentration camps.
Felix Sparks is the guy its about, I dont remember his position.

But I need something else. I think I'll go shopping tomorrow for another book
 
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Finished William Forstchen's Final Day. If you liked One Second/Year After, you will enjoy this one.

I hadn't read Animal Farm since high school, so picked up a copy from thriftbooks.com and finished it.
 
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I just finished King Solomon's Mine. It was better than expected. I'm starting Tragedy of the Korosko now. Im only a couple of chapters in, but has been intriguing. The book was mentioned in America Alone which is what piqued my interest. It is funny how similar our role in the world is now to the British Empire of then. That and other similarities show how technology and cultures change, but the people don't for the most part. I remarked to my wife how Americans seemed to be much more respected back then, at least in the eyes of novelists.
 
bashman said:
Currently reading the Mitch Rapp book “Order to Kill”. I like how Kyle Mills is carrying on after Vince Flynn’s passing.
Next up is “The Terminal List” by Jack Carr. Seems to have great reviews.


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The Jack Carr books (“Terminal List” & “True Believer”) we’re excellent. If you are a fan of the early Bob Lee Swagger books, or Vince Flynn’s “Term Limits”, you should check Carr out. His third is due out in April. The most technically accurate re:guns novels I’ve ever read.


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Starting this one today or tomorrow. Started watching the show and thought the books might be good.

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Currently reading Vols IV (First Age Legends before LotR) and VII (the 2nd volume on LotR itself) written/edited/compiled by Christopher Tolkien who died back on 16 JAN at the age of 95.
 
GreatGazoo said:
Currently reading Vols IV (First Age Legends before LotR) and VII (the 2nd volume on LotR itself) written/edited/compiled by Christopher Tolkien who died back on 16 JAN at the age of 95.
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You've read the Silmarilion right? Any Tolkien fan does themselves a disservice if they don't.
 
ChickenHawk said:
You've read the Silmarilion right? Any Tolkien fan does themselves a disservice if they don't.
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For heaven's sake, man, I'm reading through the entire History of Middle-Earth series (for the 2nd time): that's like reading the Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales four or five times over in sequence as the mythology was drafted and redrafted from the earliest forms written around the First World War to the post LotR reworkings and the later philosophical and metaphysical works as found in Morgoth's Ring and War of the Jewels.

The Book of Lost Tales
The Sketch and the Quenta Noldoriwa
The Annals & the first draft of Quenta Silmarillion
Etc.

I highly recommend the series if one wants to be "inside" the development of the mythology.

Btw, the ranger at Bree as originally written was a hobbit named "Trotter" that wore wooden shoes, not Aragorn son of Arathorn, Isildur's Heir.
 
GreatGazoo said:
For heaven's sake, man, I'm reading through the entire History of Middle-Earth series (for the 2nd time): that's like reading the Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales four or five times over in sequence as the mythology was drafted and redrafted from the earliest forms written around the First World War to the post LotR reworkings and the later philosophical and metaphysical works as found in Morgoth's Ring and War of the Jewels.

The Book of Lost Tales
The Sketch and the Quenta Noldoriwa
The Annals & the first draft of Quenta Silmarillion
Etc.

I highly recommend the series if one wants to be "inside" the development of the mythology.

Btw, the ranger at Bree as originally written was a hobbit named "Trotter" that wore wooden shoes, not Aragorn son of Arathorn, Isildur's Heir.
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Oh yes. Fellow Tolkien nerd here.
 
Still working through some Jeffery Deaver books. Two series at the same time, as they crossover into each other. The Lincoln Rhyme series (aka Bone Collector) and the Kathryn Dance series. Currently reading The Broken Window...book #9 out of 18.
 
BigWaylon said:
Still working through some Jeffery Deaver books. Two series at the same time, as they crossover into each other. The Lincoln Rhyme series (aka Bone Collector) and the Kathryn Dance series. Currently reading The Broken Window...book #9 out of 18.
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Finished the 18th one last week. About to start a 7-book series featuring Patrick Kenzie, written by Dennis Lehane. It includes Gone, Baby, Gone. I might squeeze in a Cussler book first.

(the Deaver books are listed in the BST if anyone is interested...actually, they’re still listed even if you’re not interested)
 
REVOLVER..Sam Colt and the six shooter that changed America.........Killin me with extra info..I did learn that the population of NYC was 200,000 in 1832. There was a Cholera problem that closed NYC to close their borders and ports. 3,500 people died. That disease was Tough. They said you could be perfectly healthy at breakfast, sick for dinner and Dead by supper.
 
first, from random:
"Anyone read Lucifer's Hammer?"
yes.
years ago.
if you like it,
Footfall is next.

while recovering from rotator cuff surgery, i finished some classics.
list and short review:

War And Peace.
a Soap Opera about the Russian Nobility 1% during the Napoleonic War.
Moby Dick.
how the Whaling Industry used to do it.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
T.E. Lawrence's desert strategy and travelogue.

right now:
How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog, Orzel
(our dog is already really smart, too.)
 
Legends never die
book 12 of the omega force series.
by Joshua Danzel

I’m a sci-fi fiend.
 
BigWaylon said:
Finished the 18th one last week. About to start a 6-book series featuring Patrick Kenzie, written by Dennis Lehane. It includes Gone, Baby, Gone. I might squeeze in a Cussler book first.

(the Deaver books are listed in the BST if anyone is interested...actually, they’re still listed even if you’re not interested)
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Read Cussler’s Celtic Empire. Working on this one now...

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I’m reading Donald Miller’s latest:
Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign That Broke the Confederacy

(Donald Miller also wrote Masters of the Air—absolute must read for WWII history fans)

also have Killing Crazy Horse next in line.
 
Just finished

Huntin' Gun
Men, Gun Feel, and Game

Walter R. Rodgers & Jim Berryman

Only available [Amazon] as a scanned reprint from the US Infantry Association via NRA Publications, this is reminiscences by a gun guy of some renown during the early years of the 20th century, set in the Southwest, mostly Texas. It's a good quick read with some very interesting observations that might make you think.
 
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