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

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Currently reading...James Patterson's The Mystery Of King Tut. Just started it so I can't really comment on it yet..:blush2:
 
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A couple of books I've read lately - The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman and The Secret Man by Bob Woodward. Just started a couple of long reads. 'Our Nation's Archive - The History of The United States in Documents' by Bruun & Crosby. The other, the famous Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
 
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Books I have just read -

Lost Symbol - not bad, if it was Browns first book he would be getting some props, but the angle he is playing has been beaten to death.

The Road - On recco's from VolNation members, good writer, kinda stumped why everyone loves this book so much considering this theme is also beaten to death.

Pirate Latitudes - easy, light read, good story.

Lone Survivor - This book turned out a lot better than I thought, take out the sometimes over the top bragging and this is something all people who read the political forum should be required to read.

Ford County - Good book on short stories, well written.

Working on The Dome right now.
 
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Read the 1st book of the Dark Tower series, Gunslinger by Stephen King a few weeks ago. It was pretty good but the last quarter was a little boring. I've heard great things so I'll continue with the 2nd book which I checked out last week.
 
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The Pacific - On page 100 right now and Hugh Ambrose has already made his first main character a UT football player, later on he talks about General Neyland and his days as a coach at UT.

Added bonus: Ambrose is hammering MacArthur :)
 
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MontereyVol said:
The Pacific - On page 100 right now and Hugh Ambrose has already made his first main character a UT football player, later on he talks about General Neyland and his days as a coach at UT.

Added bonus: Ambrose is hammering MacArthur :)
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Have you read the two memoirs the series is based on?
 
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Good thread bump. I was just thinking of this one.

Recently I have read the Sackett series and Hondo by L'Amour, a few of the Alex Cross books by Patterson (total junk food for the brain) and the Great Santini at the suggestion of BPV (fantastic book).

I also read The Road and No Country for Old Men in there. I am going to get my hands on a copy of Suttree pretty soon.

At the suggestion of one of my work colleagues, I am about 90 pages into "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin. Looks like an interesting series of books.
 
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I read parts of "The Lovely Bones" after I watched the movie. Wow am I glad that they didn't show everything in the movie that they talked about in the book.
 
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vader said:
Good thread bump. I was just thinking of this one.

Recently I have read the Sackett series and Hondo by L'Amour, a few of the Alex Cross books by Patterson (total junk food for the brain) and the Great Santini at the suggestion of BPV (fantastic book).

I also read The Road and No Country for Old Men in there. I am going to get my hands on a copy of Suttree pretty soon.

At the suggestion of one of my work colleagues, I am about 90 pages into "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin. Looks like an interesting series of books.
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Suttree is good, but not like his other novels. It reminded me of early Steinbeck (with 200 more pages).
 
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awebb7 said:
Suttree is good, but not like his other novels. It reminded me of early Steinbeck (with 200 more pages).
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I'm mainly curious because of the Knoxville connection. I'm a little ticked that my local library doesn't have it. I'm probably going to end up buying it.
 
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For any horror novel fans here are a couple of guys that I have now read pretty much every book from each one:

Edward Lee - very in your face and some nasty stuff but tells good stories. Alot of the stories deal with Hell and demons and such.

Brian Keene - read a couple of his books that dealt with Zombies and really liked those. Then discovered the series is about much more than zombies. It incorporates alternative universes and various types of monster type creatures. I have read nearly every one of Keene's books and they just keep getting better and better.
 
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vader said:
Good thread bump. I was just thinking of this one.

Recently I have read the Sackett series and Hondo by L'Amour, a few of the Alex Cross books by Patterson (total junk food for the brain) and the Great Santini at the suggestion of BPV (fantastic book).

I also read The Road and No Country for Old Men in there. I am going to get my hands on a copy of Suttree pretty soon.

At the suggestion of one of my work colleagues, I am about 90 pages into "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin. Looks like an interesting series of books.
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The Great Santini, I havn't thought of that in a long time. It is good.

I have never read Louis L'Amour, isn't he a romance novelist :ermm:
 
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Currently reading "The Sword and the Shield" about the Mirtokhin KGB Archive as well as "Why does E=mc^2 .... and why should we care?".
 
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awebb7 said:
Suttree is good, but not like his other novels. It reminded me of early Steinbeck (with 200 more pages).
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Suttree is great. It's the one that got me hooked. I get the feeling he pretty much "lived" that book to some extent. I like it a lot because I can identify with everything in the book. It's a good look at an old Knoxville from the 50's-60's. But, in the name of progress, a lot of it has long since disappeared. I have The Orchard Keeper ready to read again once my eyes decide to focus. Any eyeball/brain docs in the house?:blink:
 
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MontereyVol said:
I have never read Louis L'Amour, isn't he a romance novelist :ermm:
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Dude...really?!

Classic American western. His Sackett series follows a family from their roots in Scotland, coming to America and making their way to the mountains of east TN (mentions Clinch mountain a lot) and their migration out west for badass cowboy stuff. Pretty entertaining.
 
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#424
Just finished Shutter Island. Halfway through The Last Town on Earth.
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