anacostiakat Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 Reading David Baldacci's The Target (Will Robie series) now. Have been alternating between Greg Iles' books and Baldacci. I think I am going to start Baldacci's Camel Club series as it is located in Washington, DC. I will check out Brett's Warded Man series! Thanks! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shlomo Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 Reading David Baldacci's The Target (Will Robie series) now. Have been alternating between Greg Iles' books and Baldacci. I think I am going to start Baldacci's Camel Club series as it is located in Washington, DC. I will check out Brett's Warded Man series! Thanks! Just know the 5th and supposedly final book is not due out until 2018. Found out only when I was halfway through book 4. Frustrating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigben Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 Anyone looking forward to the new novel "Purity" by Jonothan Franzen? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FHFinster Posted September 24, 2015 Share Posted September 24, 2015 so pleased to see another vote for 1Q84. just an extraordinary book. the only negative for it being a holiday read is that you don't ant to do anything but read the thing. will have a look for cloud atlas. Thanks to this forum I'm halfway through 1Q84 (pg 500). Love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Gargett Posted September 24, 2015 Share Posted September 24, 2015 If you want an action packed, fantasy (demons), very broad range of characters, yet all with good depth, I suggest Peter V Brett's Warded Man series. Finishing up the 4th book now. I have even started using some of the unique dialect created for the novel's in my everyday life. Wonderful! Anybody ever read anything by Sherrilynn Kenyon? Thinking of starting one of her series in the next couple of days. shlomo, thanks - will definitely try him. have tried a few different series lately. started the mazalan/stephen erikson series and gave up. all felt a little pointless. two i think you mentioned - patrick rothfuss's kingkiller chronicles. recently finished the first one. immediately ordered the second. terrific stuff. joe abercrombie. first law series. finished the first and immediately on the 2nd. loving it. anyone tried the brandon sanderson mistborn series? thinking of having a look at them soon. also read some more dennis lehane. seriously good. always. and also the incorrigible optimists club by JM Guenassia. relly worthwhile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shlomo Posted September 24, 2015 Share Posted September 24, 2015 shlomo, thanks - will definitely try him. have tried a few different series lately. started the mazalan/stephen erikson series and gave up. all felt a little pointless. two i think you mentioned - patrick rothfuss's kingkiller chronicles. recently finished the first one. immediately ordered the second. terrific stuff. joe abercrombie. first law series. finished the first and immediately on the 2nd. loving it. anyone tried the brandon sanderson mistborn series? thinking of having a look at them soon. also read some more dennis lehane. seriously good. always. and also the incorrigible optimists club by JM Guenassia. relly worthwhile. I am an Abercrombie as well as Rothfuss fan boy for sure. Wonderful storytellers. Just finished Abercrombie's Shattered Sea trilogy. Not as good as the First Law, but certainly worth the small time commitment. They are fairly short books. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onelove Posted September 24, 2015 Share Posted September 24, 2015 Just finished Red Country by Joe Abercrombie, love the style of writing, definitely going to get some of his others. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colt45 Posted September 24, 2015 Share Posted September 24, 2015 Currently reading Light & Shade - Conversations with Jimmy Page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perkinke Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Cant wait to read Go Set A Watchman. To Kill a Mockingbird was my favorite book as a kid. Just finished that one a little while back. It was less polished than Mockingbird but I like it a lot, very interesting window into a very turbulent period of our history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drguano Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 I burned through "The Martian" while doing a 22 hour sleep study. I wasn't sure if the book was that gripping or the clinical isolation fit with the subject matter. My wife and sister confirmed it is a good read even if you are not wired from head to toe with biomeds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jat Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 I burned through "The Martian" while doing a 22 hour sleep study. I wasn't sure if the book was that gripping or the clinical isolation fit with the subject matter. My wife and sister confirmed it is a good read even if you are not wired from head to toe with biomeds. +1 but without the biomeds. A surprisingly good read, good science and entertaining. I'm in two minds about seeing the movie though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feral Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 https://mobile.audible.com/search.htm?type=search&cache=1&keywords=digging up mother Plenty of full on belly laughs with this memoir of comedian Doug Stanhope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvickery Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 The necessary war and fight to the finish By Tim Cook ... a 1000 page chronical of Canada's involvement in WWII ... A tiny population that put a million men in uniform . Derrek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinareno Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 I was glued to the pages of One Second After by Wlliam R. Forstchen. It is about a surprise EMP attack on the U.S.A and particularly how it affects residents of a small North Carolina town. What makes this book so interesting IMO is the detailed account of the aftermath and how society begins to 'change' after the attack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miurajus Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 Might be just outside the MSRP by a few months but, "Subliminal" by Leonard Mlodinow was a fascinating read delving into the processes we take for granted in everyday function. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brschoppe Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 37 minutes ago, Pinareno said: I was glued to the pages of One Second After by Wlliam R. Forstchen. It is about a surprise EMP attack on the U.S.A and particularly how it affects residents of a small North Carolina town. What makes this book so interesting IMO is the detailed account of the aftermath and how society begins to 'change' after the attack. Agreed. I read that book earlier this year and it is definitely a page tuner. After reading this book you definitely take a step back when you walk down a busy city street and see everyone glued to their phones. In a world were we automated everything, this book makes you realized how much we have really lost those core skills to produce as a society. It also is a good lesson civics and how governments form and evolve and the hard choices those in those roles may have to make. I know some of the stuff in this book is a bit of stretch, but it does really make you step back and look at your life when you consider this is a real threat. I also read the sequel to this book, One Year After. If you are curious about what happens to the characters one year after the EMP attack it may be a good read. It does lack the strong plot that makes the first novel such a page turner. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErikB Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 Golden Hill by Francis Spufford is the best novel I've read this year. Quality writing . Verzonden vanaf mijn iPhone met Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feral Posted September 20, 2016 Share Posted September 20, 2016 The Gold House trilogy. Nonfiction. The story of a treasure trove in the American southwest stolen by U.S. government officials including LBJ and Nixon. victoriopeak.comSent from my ASUS_Z00AD using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treberty Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 I finally read The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared... Really funny. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David88 Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Over the summer I read and highly enjoyed The Fireman by Joe Hill. A good, long post-apocalyptic horror about a disease that causes people to catch fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khomeinist Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Broken Empire Trilogy by Mark Lawrence. Highly amusing dark fantasy. jorg for prez 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErikB Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Reading " I Contain Multitudes" by Ed Yong at the moment - absolutely fascinating. Will blow your mind.Verzonden vanaf mijn iPhone met Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy_jack Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Left of Bang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedgy Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Currently reading FIVE FAMILIES: THE RISE, DECLINE, AND RESURGENCE OF AMERICA'S MOST POWERFUL MAFIA EMPIRES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feral Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 I Swear I'll Make It Up To You: A Life On The Low Road by Mishka ShubalyA beautifully written painful memoir. A new favorite of mine. Sent from my ASUS_Z00AD using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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