Official Book Thread - What You're Reading & Everything Book Related (merged)

#377
#377
After reading a few later novels by John Le Carre, I went back and picked up Russia House. The man can create characters. I'm not a big fan of having too much pulp in one's fiction, with decently crafted spy novels being the lone exception. Le Carre is one of the best, even if he is producing a book a month these days.

The new Daniel Silva was worthwhile, and he is the best I have found of the new generation. There are a couple of plot holes, and it isn't quite up to his other Allon books, IMO, but it's still a decent way to pass the time on a long plane ride.
 
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#381
PowerT83 said:
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I need a new book. I'm in to sports, history and war any recommendations?
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I just finished up 'A Few Acres of Snow' about the French and Indian War, pretty good read. Also "The Dark and Bloody River" about the post-Revolution colonization of the Ohio River Valley, the Indian Wars, and such was pretty darn good. Those are ones i read recently and hence are off the top of my head.
 
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#382
kiddiedoc said:
I'm reading "Better Dads, Stronger Sons"...very challenging and hopefully rewarding book...so far, I'd recommend it to any father or grandfather.
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this is a great book. I have been reading it on and off.

I am currently reading Facing your Giants by Max Lucado, and it is really good too.
 
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#383
Ive been away for a long while now, so its good to see that yall have kept the thread active. Im currently reading One River by Wade Davis. It has turned out to be one of the most interesting nonfic adventure novels that Ive read yet. The book details the field research in the Amazonian rainforest of several renouned ethnobotanists. The stories told within are amazing. Highly recommended to anyone who enjoys adventure novels.
 
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JTrainDavis said:
I just finished up 'A Few Acres of Snow' about the French and Indian War, pretty good read. Also "The Dark and Bloody River" about the post-Revolution colonization of the Ohio River Valley, the Indian Wars, and such was pretty darn good. Those are ones i read recently and hence are off the top of my head.
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Thanks . Being 3/4 Cherokee "That Dark Bloody River" sounds like a good one for me. Not so much my ancestors though.
 
#385
#385
If you are interested in America's little known version of Thermopylae I suggest "Last Stand of Fox Company" by Bob Drury.
 
#388
#388
Angels and Demons was a great book I thought. Dan Brown also has one out called Deception Point that is an interesting read. I'm reading one now called The Language of God, written by one of the scientists that mapped the human genome. It's tough to keep up with but it's good so far
 
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#390
I'm not sure if you are talking o me chavisut, but if you are then no sir, Deception Point is an older book. The Lost Symbol is his new book I believe, I would like to pick it up.
 
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lylsmorr said:
I'm not sure if you are talking o me chavisut, but if you are then no sir, Deception Point is an older book. The Lost Symbol is his new book I believe, I would like to pick it up.
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This is what book I was talking about. I believe it's the next in the Robert Langdon series.
 
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chavisut said:
This is what book I was talking about. I believe it's the next in the Robert Langdon series.
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Ooh my mistake, i thought you were talking about another one. There was a special about it on tv last night and I missed it. I really like the Langdon series so far
 
#394
#394
I just finished Mike Huckabee's A Simple Christmas, but it didn't necessarily blow my hair back.
I just got The Shack as a Christmas gift, so I'm pretty excited to start reading it. I've heard very mixed reviews. Has anyone else read that one?
 
#395
#395
Hey, I knew you people still read books!

I went to the bookstore yesterday and picked up a hardback copy of Italo Calvino's most popular novel, If On a Winter's Night a Traveler. It's hard to say what the novel is about at the moment, since I have just begun reading it, but I do know that it is narrated in the second person point of view. How he manages to pull this off throughout the entire novel, I do not know, but what I do know is that it sure makes for an entirely original, unique, and captivating novel. So far it's completely unlike anything Ive ever read before.
 
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#397
lylsmorr said:
"The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown is a pretty interesting reading. I would recommend it
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Really, you would recommend it? It seemed everyone who I talked to viewed it in a negative light. And Ive talked to a dozen or so people who had read it and they all say the same thing ; Dan Brown's narration of the novel is like reading a screen play for the movie adaptation. That I'm not interested in. I was also told by several people who read the book that it was entertaining, but also repetitive, boring, and far too drawn out in it's prose, especially in it's descriptive prose. An employee at a book store I shop at said it was the worst book he's read this year. So, I have to ask, is there anything in particular that you liked about the book, besides that is was entertaining? I was very close to handing over $15 for it up until I was told by the employee at the book store that it was the worst book he's read all year.
 
#398
#398
Picked up Le Mort d'Arthur again for the first time since highschool. Arthur is pimp, although he did do some dirty things with his sister.

I have a feeling Lancelot is about to do something most unchivalrous with the King's wife.
 
#399
#399
Volunteer_Kirby said:
Really, you would recommend it? It seemed everyone who I talked to viewed it in a negative light. And Ive talked to a dozen or so people who had read it and they all say the same thing ; Dan Brown's narration of the novel is like reading a screen play for the movie adaptation. That I'm not interested in. I was also told by several people who read the book that it was entertaining, but also repetitive, boring, and far too drawn out in it's prose, especially in it's descriptive prose. An employee at a book store I shop at said it was the worst book he's read this year. So, I have to ask, is there anything in particular that you liked about the book, besides that is was entertaining? I was very close to handing over $15 for it up until I was told by the employee at the book store that it was the worst book he's read all year.
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I read The Lost Symbol and I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as The Davinci Code. It was still an interesting read, but a bit more "geeky" than I cared for. With "Code" the dots were easier to connect, and the story seemed a bit more plausible, where in "Symbol" it requires more suspension of disbelief in order to follow the story due to it talking about "noetics" (is that even a real science?) and lots of physics/metaphysics mumbo-jumbo. With my varied tastes, I also recently read Meat Market, the inside story about college football recruiting. Learned alot about Coach O's methods. I read A Season On Rocky Top which is Clay Travis' chronicle of the 2008 season. It was decent. Currently reading Light Blue Reign which covers the history of the North Carolina Tarheels, basketball of course! Two more book recommendations I'd make for the sports fan are:

1- Blue Blood It's the history of the UNC/Duke rivalry. You don't have to be a fan of either team to enjoy the book, but it would give you "outsiders" a peek at what makes it, IMO, the best rivalry in sports.

2- Where Football Is King: A History Of The SEC An excellent read about SEC football in general, with several quotes and stories about the various rivalries. Good stuff.
 
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Regulator said:
I read The Lost Symbol and I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as The Davinci Code. It was still an interesting read, but a bit more "geeky" than I cared for. With "Code" the dots were easier to connect, and the story seemed a bit more plausible, where in "Symbol" it requires more suspension of disbelief in order to follow the story due to it talking about "noetics" (is that even a real science?) and lots of physics/metaphysics mumbo-jumbo. With my varied tastes, I also recently read Meat Market, the inside story about college football recruiting. Learned alot about Coach O's methods. I read A Season On Rocky Top which is Clay Travis' chronicle of the 2008 season. It was decent. Currently reading Light Blue Reign which covers the history of the North Carolina Tarheels, basketball of course! Two more book recommendations I'd make for the sports fan are:

1- Blue Blood It's the history of the UNC/Duke rivalry. You don't have to be a fan of either team to enjoy the book, but it would give you "outsiders" a peek at what makes it, IMO, the best rivalry in sports.

2- Where Football Is King: A History Of The SEC An excellent read about SEC football in general, with several quotes and stories about the various rivalries. Good stuff.
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I can definitely agree it was more "geeky" than his other hit books
 
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