Posted on 01/23/2024 5:03:13 AM PST by Tanniker Smith
A long time ago, there was a Free Republic Book Club ... mostly because I opened my mouth and a bunch of people told me to organize one. I haven't pinged it in a long time. (Actually, another book club started, so I stopped.)
Any way, has anyone read any good books lately. Fiction, non-fiction, genre, mainstream. Anything you want to share?
Has anyone WRITTEN any good books that the rest of us should check out?
Last couple years though, I started the Expanse and the Caineverse series (Charles Gannon). Those books are THICK.
These days nonfiction tends to annoy me unless it’s, say, “the history of locomotives” are something silly and non-pretentious.
Okay ... who’s the current conservative poster girl/woman?
Currently reading Michener’s The Source.
Finished his book Iberia just before Christmas. Reading the Bible Old Testatament….ongoing.
The three cornered war looks like it was written by a woke historian. Check out her picture here - https://www.amazon.com/dp/1501152556?tag=bravesoftwa04-20&linkCode=osi&th=1&psc=1&language=en_US
Too much use of the term “indigenous people” for me.
Check out Indian Depredations in Texas for aa completely unwoke, first hand account of Indian battles.
I was actually encouraging any resident FR writers to step forward and let us know.
You enjoyed "Three Body Problem"? I haven't read it, but I've read mixed reviews about it. Initial feedback was great, but later I started seeing dissent present itself.
Some of the older titles, I found free ebook copies online and downloaded those instead.
Sadly, I have over 100 Doc Savage books I haven't read yet despite owning them since the 80s -- mostly because I'm trying to get rid of books that I read and I don't want to get rid of them.
Baen Books
Free books - short stories/stories/non-fiction/multiple authors by year:
https://www.baen.com/allbooks/category/index/id/2012
I’m halfway through Patrick O’Brien’s Aubrey - Maturin series. Highly recommend it!
I haven’t read any of his “Killing” series. Probably should.
Good to know! (I’m commenting so I can find this later. At work now — lunch)
I actually went to one of their mini-conventions (held within a different sci-fi convention) and met Eric Flint and Charles Gannon (who cowrote some of the books). Pity Eric passed away not too long after that.
They are NOT math books.
You have to read all 3, and the fan book
Three Body Problem;
Dark Forest;
Death’s End, and;
The Redemption of Time
These are not light reading; they require you to bring some thought to the table. Its basically an alternative to Fermi’s Paradox and agrees with Stephen Hawking in part.
If you like space opera, then go elsewhere.
The Expanse (all 9 vol.) is sort of a bridge between the two genres of syfy.
It’s a tough problem.
Finally realized that I didn’t *have* to feel guilty about not reading all of the books in my library, any more that I feel I need to eat all the food in our refrigerator. Sometimes we end up getting rid of some food that goes bad. Same with books.
So...
We will either do it now and make our kids lives easier now or we’ll stick them with the task.
And as I get rid of boxes of books with a low likelihood of being read/read again, it is energizing.
Good luck!
PS - used to feel obligated to read every word of every book. No more. I look over the table of contents, read the intro and first 60 pages, read the conclusion, and make a decision whether it is worth my limited time. If not, out it goes.
Yup, woke she is, it runs through the entire book but I was not reading it for that perspective. We had just returned from visiting Santa Fe area and most of the book concerns the people and the arduous battles. Not as grand scale as those in the east but deadly. Guys marching to battle in winter with no shoes fore instance. It was informative once when over lays the area and topography into that facet of the war.
I’ve read every book Lt. Col. Dave Grossman has written. They sure will give a person pause. Had the privilege of watching him speak several years ago at The Kansas State Rifle Association annual membership conference in Junction City, KS. A remarkable man and motivational speaker. By the end of the day he pretty well had me ready to jump out of an airplane at 63 years old.
I often read just to enjoy a good yarn. I also like nonfiction. I get free books online from Gutenberg, and I’ve read all of Edgar Rice Burroughs Mars books. I also enjoy J.S. Fletcher’s books, some of Wilkie Collins, Father Brown and Sherlock Holmes stories, anything by P.G. Wodehouse. One nonfiction book I enjoyed was, A Short History of Russia, by Mary Platt Parmele. It only goes up to the 1890’s, but it’s very interesting, and gives an idea of the Russian psyche. A Christian book that is awesome, is The Kneeling Christian, by Albert Richardson. He was a Church of England cleric, when the Church of England was still a good denomination, in the early 20th century. Our friends and I did a Bible Study on it, and we could feel the presence of the Lord many times, as we read it aloud. My husband enjoys Kurt Schlicter’s novels.
Very interesting!
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