Posted on 05/28/2016 6:09:42 AM PDT by vis a vis
Good bad or ugly----what are FReepers reading?
I always get a lot of good ideas from these threads.
Force Recon Diary, 1969-1970: Bruce H Norton
Read it years ago. Should be required reading for all high schoolers. Yeah, yeah, I know...
ever read
Campaign in Russia: The Waffen SS on the Eastern Front by Leon Degrelle
or
The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer
I’ve recently become interested in George Pelecanos, who writes crime novels based in Washington, DC. I’m wondering if anyone here is a fan, and what book to start with. I think he has more than one series.
-JT
My Life On the Run (Bart Yasso)
I'm reading THIRTEEN HOURS by Deon Meyer, a mystery written prior to and having no relation to the Benghazi nonfiction (which I had read last year.)
A few Lee Child books, the Novella Day of Wrath, and a good techie novel Lash Up.
I picked up the whole set for a dollar at a garage sale.
I also have Dragon in Exile by Lee and Miller waiting when I finish.
Day of Wrath was very chilling too. Reading it, I was afraid it would become an instruction manual for terrorists.
Lyonesse trilogy by Jack Vance
Just started in on Nero Wolfe. Was looking for something that would match up to my all time favorite - Le Carre. Stout doesn’t measure up on that score but they do provide interesting windows into life in the 30s a world that is now 80 years behind us.
The Plantagenets : the warrior kings and queens who made England /
by Jones, Dan
good read
I just read World Order by Kissinger and learned a lot from it very easily.
A biography of Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance.
The guy has an unrelenting will and determination.
It’s amazing what he gets done, but I would hate to have to work for him.
Fascinating personality - a great example of will to power.
He’s a force to be reckoned with.
2nd read through of the Bible this year, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, and getting ready to pick up the new biography about the guy who starred in Chariots of Fire (drawing a blank on his name, unfortunately).
“”I’ve recently become interested in George Pelecanos””
I’m in the mood for new authors. Thanks. I like crime stories especially if they involve Washington, DC. I’m not nearly as self righteous as most of the replies here imply. I cannot take heavy reading now. My reading has to be FUN in my down time.
I am cleaning out all my David Baldacci books because I decided I am not going to be run all over the mulberry tree with multiple characters and multiple plots at my age. A third of the way through his latest books I’ve nearly thrown them at the wall. I will put them in a bin at my library and will have more room on my bookshelves now - Hurray!
Used to be a favorite of mine but no longer. Maybe it was because I read that he met obozo’s plane (OUR PLANE, IN FACT), on one of their trips to Maine?????
A lot of people have that concern. But, honestly, many of those bastards are university-educated (often in the U.S.), are smart and are clever. They aren't all kindergarten drop-out goathumpers living in caves. I doubt there's much that could be written that they haven't already conceived.
The new and HUGE worry has to be C4 delivered via drone to a big event. Who needs to evade the metal detectors at venue entrance lines when you can easily airlift a good size bomb over the fence?
Right now I am going through to Patrick O’Brian Aubrey/Maturin novels. On number 7, I think there are 21 altogether. Reading them on my Kindle, which is very handy, as the author uses a lot of Napoleonic Era words and references that I can look up on the Kindle.
A lot of the events, and all the naval battles, are based on actual events. The hardships these people went through, and accepted as normal, is just stunning. Well worth the reading, if you are interested in history.
(BTW, the movie, “Master and Commander” is based on these books.)
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