| 401. Author: tailgater | Date: Mon, 3/26/2018, 8:59AM EST | |
Didn't Tolstoy write "War, what is it good for?"
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| 402. Author: HuckFinn | Date: Mon, 3/26/2018, 9:52AM EST | |
tailgater wrote:Didn't Tolstoy write "War, what is it good for?"
Absolutely nothin'! Say it again! |
| 403. Author: dstieger | Date: Mon, 3/26/2018, 10:20AM EST | |
deadeyedick wrote:The Danger Within Us - Jeanne Lenzer
About the medical industrial complex which is way bigger than the military industrial complex. Spoiler alert: It is Vic's and TW's fault. |
| 404. Author: delta1 | Date: Mon, 3/26/2018, 3:10PM EST | |
Been unable to read much lately...developed floaters and flashers in my good eye, and one particularly pronounced one sits right in the focal point of my reading sweet spot, making reading difficult...thinking about books on tape, but I like to hold a book and turn pages... |
| 405. Author: HuckFinn | Date: Mon, 3/26/2018, 4:55PM EST | |
delta1 wrote:Been unable to read much lately...developed floaters and flashers in my good eye, and one particularly pronounced one sits right in the focal point of my reading sweet spot, making reading difficult...thinking about books on tape, but I like to hold a book and turn pages... You sure it's a floater in the center of your vision and not onset macular degeneration? |
| 406. Author: frankj1 | Date: Mon, 6/18/2018, 6:57PM EST | |
Killers of the Flower Moon
poor reading habits, but I'm hooked. |
| 407. Author: MCAddict | Date: Mon, 6/18/2018, 7:16PM EST | |
frankj1 wrote:Killers of the Flower Moon
poor reading habits, but I'm hooked. Picked up a hardback copy of this at Goodwill and is on my read-next list. Currently finishing up Nathaniel Philbrick’s “Mayflower”.  |
| 408. Author: HuckFinn | Date: Mon, 6/18/2018, 7:19PM EST | |
Just finished American Pastoral by Philip Roth.
Can't recommend it. |
| 409. Author: SteveS | Date: Tue, 6/19/2018, 4:04AM EST | |
"The Relic Master" by Christopher Buckley |
| 410. Author: 8trackdisco | Date: Fri, 6/22/2018, 8:36AM EST | |
The Mixer- Michael Cox. |
| 411. Author: DrafterX | Date: Fri, 6/22/2018, 8:52AM EST | |
I think Axl wrote that..  |
| 412. Author: burnem2 | Date: Fri, 6/22/2018, 10:00AM EST | |
The Chosen - Chaim Potok |
| 413. Author: Gene363 | Date: Fri, 6/22/2018, 10:14AM EST | |
The train to Crystal City : FDR's secret prisoner exchange program and America's only family internment camp during World War II
Author: Russell, Jan Jarboe, 1951-
Because the interment of Japanese Americans just wasn't bad enough, some US Citizen children of Japanese and German family were traded for other US citizens and shipped to war torn Germany and Japan. |
| 414. Author: MACS | Date: Fri, 6/22/2018, 10:19AM EST | |
Blood Song - Anthony Ryan |
| 415. Author: HuckFinn | Date: Fri, 6/22/2018, 12:08PM EST | |
The Gambler by Dostoevsky.
Thought it would be more interesting cause Dostoevsky was a serious, addicted gambler.
Maybe it'll get better. |
| 416. Author: shaun341 | Date: Fri, 6/22/2018, 9:01PM EST | |
HuckFinn wrote:The Gambler by Dostoevsky.
Thought it would be more interesting cause Dostoevsky was a serious, addicted gambler.
Maybe it'll get better. Only way it gets more interesting is if you can relate to addiction. |
| 417. Author: frankj1 | Date: Mon, 6/25/2018, 8:09PM EST | |
burnem2 wrote:The Chosen - Chaim Potok Ernie! may have read that years ago, but for sure I read My Name is Asher Lev. He has a way of telling stories of the human condition and relationships while using a very strictly defined pool of characters. People whom one does not normally picture when thinking about others in situations common to all, but his people are just colored by circumstances of birth and belief. |
| 418. Author: burnem2 | Date: Tue, 6/26/2018, 8:26AM EST | |
frankj1 wrote:Ernie!
may have read that years ago, but for sure I read My Name is Asher Lev.
He has a way of telling stories of the human condition and relationships while using a very strictly defined pool of characters. People whom one does not normally picture when thinking about others in situations common to all, but his people are just colored by circumstances of birth and belief.
One of the most powerful last 4-5 pages of a book I've read in a long time. The relationships between fathers and sons was truly wonderful. |
| 419. Author: burnem2 | Date: Tue, 6/26/2018, 8:31AM EST | |
HuckFinn wrote:Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
900 freaking pages.. Finished this one a couple of weeks ago. Great story and ending. Highly recommended. |
| 420. Author: deadeyedick | Date: Tue, 6/26/2018, 11:15AM EST | |
Just finished Cannery Row by John Steinbeck. Somehow I missed many of these American classics when I was a kid.
Next up: Darwin Comes To Town by Menno Schilthuizen |
| 421. Author: deadeyedick | Date: Tue, 6/26/2018, 11:19AM EST | |
frankj1 wrote:Killers of the Flower Moon
poor reading habits, but I'm hooked. You'll learn all about Drafter. |
| 422. Author: frankj1 | Date: Tue, 6/26/2018, 2:19PM EST | |
deadeyedick wrote:You'll learn all about Drafter. Kidding aside, I have thought of him. Love the way this nonfiction plays out like a history mystery. Just getting to J. Edgar Hoover now...I really read slowly and not every day. |
| 423. Author: HuckFinn | Date: Sun, 7/1/2018, 10:51PM EST | |
shaun341 wrote:Only way it gets more interesting is if you can relate to addiction. Good call. |
| 424. Author: HuckFinn | Date: Sun, 7/15/2018, 2:24PM EST | |
The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer
Written when he was just 24. Autobiographical. About his ww2 experiences in the Pacific.
Good. |
| 425. Author: fiddler898 | Date: Sun, 7/15/2018, 6:53PM EST | |
deadeyedick wrote:Just finished Cannery Row by John Steinbeck. Somehow I missed many of these American classics when I was a kid.
Next up: Darwin Comes To Town by Menno Schilthuizen Funny, I just finished Grapes of Wrath. I realized there was a hole in my education that needed patching. What an incredible ending... |
| 426. Author: HuckFinn | Date: Sun, 7/15/2018, 7:10PM EST | |
deadeyedick wrote:Just finished Cannery Row by John Steinbeck. Somehow I missed many of these American classics when I was a kid.
Next up: Darwin Comes To Town by Menno Schilthuizen Steinbeck's The Winter of Our Discontent was great. Also really liked In Dubious Battle Never read a bad Steinbeck book. But i think I like Hemingway even better. |
| 427. Author: deadeyedick | Date: Tue, 7/24/2018, 8:29PM EST | |
Reading through some of Steinbeck's classics now.
Finished Cannery Row and Tortilla Flat recently.
Reading Notes From The Sea Of Cortez now. Then on to East Of Eden. |
| 428. Author: 8trackdisco | Date: Tue, 7/24/2018, 9:45PM EST | |
Still chopping away @ The Mixer. Homework on evolving strategy and tactics of the Premier League.
Feeding my rabid fascination with sport and league. |
| 429. Author: MCAddict | Date: Tue, 8/7/2018, 11:07AM EST | |
Re reading Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. |
| 430. Author: opelmanta1900 | Date: Tue, 8/7/2018, 11:41AM EST | |
deadeyedick wrote:Reading through some of Steinbeck's classics now.
Finished Cannery Row and Tortilla Flat recently.
Reading Notes From The Sea Of Cortez now. Then on to East Of Eden. Before i had kids i was literate... i don't remember much of east of Eden but i remember it fascinated me and, if I'm thinking of the right book, there's a very emotional part that involves a couple of people riding horses... again, it's been a long time, but i remember that part being so well written, it felt like i was living in the book... |
| 431. Author: frankj1 | Date: Tue, 8/7/2018, 12:47PM EST | |
gonna take another shot at Saul Bellows' Humboldt's Gift.
I am a painfully slow reader, and it is so loooong. |
| 432. Author: HuckFinn | Date: Tue, 8/7/2018, 1:52PM EST | |
frankj1 wrote:gonna take another shot at Saul Bellows' Humboldt's Gift.
I am a painfully slow reader, and it is so loooong. Great book. |
| 433. Author: frankj1 | Date: Tue, 8/7/2018, 6:13PM EST | |
that's what I expect...and you once asked me if I have read Bellows. |
| 434. Author: HuckFinn | Date: Tue, 8/7/2018, 6:25PM EST | |
frankj1 wrote:that's what I expect...and you once asked me if I have read Bellows. I did. It's one of my favorite Bellow books. |
| 435. Author: MACS | Date: Tue, 8/7/2018, 6:33PM EST | |
Tower Lord - Anthony Ryan |
| 436. Author: opelmanta1900 | Date: Wed, 8/8/2018, 11:17AM EST | |
Haven't read a book in probably 5 years... Gonna dig up my copy of a Connecticut Yankee I'm king Arthur's court... Definitely a fave... |
| 437. Author: HuckFinn | Date: Wed, 8/15/2018, 7:59PM EST | |
Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky
Page 8 and hooked
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| 438. Author: 8trackdisco | Date: Sun, 8/26/2018, 9:41AM EST | |
Do any of you use Audible or some other service to listen to your books? |
| 439. Author: HuckFinn | Date: Sun, 8/26/2018, 10:00AM EST | |
I don't, but I know a bunch of people who do. Mixed reviews. I like actual books. |
| 440. Author: fiddler898 | Date: Sun, 8/26/2018, 11:10AM EST | |
The Rez by Ian Frazier. I've been spending the week among the Lakota Sioux, so I thought this would be a good read, and it is. |
| 441. Author: deadeyedick | Date: Sun, 8/26/2018, 11:50AM EST | |
Just finished East Of Eden 600 pages
I can see why Opel might remember some of it as it's set mostly in the Salinas Valley not far from his stomping grounds.
Next up: The New Middle East - James Gelvin |
| 442. Author: MCAddict | Date: Wed, 8/29/2018, 4:23PM EST | |
Nathaniel Philbrick’s THE LAST STAND. Beginning to think that Richard Mulligan’s portrayal of Custer in Little Big Man was pretty spot on. |
| 443. Author: HuckFinn | Date: Mon, 9/3/2018, 3:11PM EST | |
Just finished Crime and Punishment. Dark stuff. But a great book. And glad I'm done with it. |
| 444. Author: Phil222 | Date: Mon, 9/3/2018, 3:36PM EST | |
Recently finished..."A People's History of the United States" - Howard Zinn |
| 445. Author: SteveS | Date: Mon, 9/3/2018, 4:10PM EST | |
"Lincoln's Last Trial" by Dan Abrams and David Fisher ...
Described as "The true story of Abraham Lincoln’s last murder trial, a case in which he had a deep personal involvement—and which played out in the nation’s newspapers as he began his presidential campaign. At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went on trial for murder in Springfield, Illinois. Abraham Lincoln, who had been involved in more than three thousand cases—including more than twenty-five murder trials—during his two-decades-long career, was hired to defend him. This was to be his last great case as a lawyer."
An interesting read ... |
| 446. Author: HuckFinn | Date: Wed, 9/12/2018, 9:13PM EST | |
Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich |
| 447. Author: tonygraz | Date: Wed, 9/12/2018, 10:51PM EST | |
Did Tolstoy ever write a short story ? |
| 448. Author: SteveS | Date: Thu, 9/13/2018, 3:12AM EST | |
"The Black Hand: The Epic War Between a Brilliant Detective and the Deadliest Secret Society in American History"
The gripping true story of the origins of the mafia in America—and the brilliant Italian-born detective who gave his life to stop it
by Stephan Talty
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| 449. Author: HuckFinn | Date: Thu, 9/13/2018, 9:30AM EST | |
tonygraz wrote:Did Tolstoy ever write a short story ? He did.The Death of Ivan Ilyich is about 50 pages. The guy wrote lots of short stories and stuff like essays, letters, kids books, philosophical things... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Short_stories_by_Leo_Tolstoy |
| 450. Author: deadeyedick | Date: Thu, 9/13/2018, 7:08PM EST | |
Brave New Arctic ~ Mark C. Serreze - global warming, who knew and when? |
