deadeyedick
7 years ago

Killers of the Flower Moon

poor reading habits, but I'm hooked.

frankj1 wrote:



You'll learn all about Drafter.
frankj1
7 years ago

You'll learn all about Drafter.

deadeyedick wrote:


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.
HuckFinn
7 years ago

Only way it gets more interesting is if you can relate to addiction.

shaun341 wrote:


Good call.
HuckFinn
7 years ago
The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer

Written when he was just 24. Autobiographical. About his ww2 experiences in the Pacific.
Good.
fiddler898
7 years ago

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

deadeyedick wrote:



Funny, I just finished Grapes of Wrath. I realized there was a hole in my education that needed patching. What an incredible ending...
HuckFinn
7 years ago

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

deadeyedick wrote:


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.
deadeyedick
7 years ago
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.
8trackdisco
7 years ago
Still chopping away @ The Mixer. Homework on evolving strategy and tactics of the Premier League.

Feeding my rabid fascination with sport and league.
MCAddict
7 years ago
Re reading Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.
opelmanta1900
7 years ago

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.

deadeyedick wrote:


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...
frankj1
7 years ago
gonna take another shot at Saul Bellows' Humboldt's Gift.

I am a painfully slow reader, and it is so loooong.
HuckFinn
7 years ago

gonna take another shot at Saul Bellows' Humboldt's Gift.

I am a painfully slow reader, and it is so loooong.

frankj1 wrote:



Great book.
frankj1
7 years ago
that's what I expect...and you once asked me if I have read Bellows.
HuckFinn
7 years ago

that's what I expect...and you once asked me if I have read Bellows.

frankj1 wrote:


I did. It's one of my favorite Bellow books.
MACS
7 years ago
Tower Lord - Anthony Ryan
opelmanta1900
7 years ago
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...
HuckFinn
7 years ago
Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky

Page 8 and hooked
8trackdisco
7 years ago
Do any of you use Audible or some other service to listen to your books?
HuckFinn
7 years ago
I don't, but I know a bunch of people who do. Mixed reviews. I like actual books.
fiddler898
7 years ago
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.
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