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

#901
#901
FLVOL_79 said:
I just finished Blood Meridian and I had a hard time with the lack of punctuation in a lot of the book. I found myself having to try and remember Spanish and google some obscure and archaic words that he used..but it was a good read. Ultra-ultra violent...but its about Scalp Hunters so to be expected.
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Yeah, I'm 25 pages in. The nearly complete lack of punctuation is killing me, but I like it.
 
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#905
#905
If you don't mind reading a football book based around the Packers, That First Season, about Lombardi's first year as the Green Bay head coach, is a great read. It's by John Eisenberg and I highly recommend it.
 
#907
#907
I am usually more of a fiction fan, but I read both "1776" and "John Adams" by David McCullough and really enjoyed them both.
 
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#909
#909
Crap. I sat down last night to read more of The Road and powered through almost half of it in one sitting. I was up until 2AM. I'm an extremely slow reader. I'll finish it up tonight. I downloaded several books on Monday to my Nook:

Wool Omnibus (Wool #1-5)
The Golem and The Jinni
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Angelfall

Suppose I should figure out which one I was to read next... continue with dystopian/post-apocalyptic fiction and real Wool or Angelfall, or venture to something else with the other two?
 
#910
#910
crusse10 said:
If you don't mind reading a football book based around the Packers, That First Season, about Lombardi's first year as the Green Bay head coach, is a great read. It's by John Eisenberg and I highly recommend it.
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Will look into.
 
#911
#911
“There is no God and we are his prophets.” ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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Quite possibly the most moving line of any book I've ever read. This book is going to leave an impact on me. No shaking this book, nor should I. It should be on everyone's must read list.


Up next is Angelfall by Susan Ee. About 5 chapters into it already. It'll go by fast.
 
#912
#912
Finished Angelfall, now reading The Ocean at the End if the Lane by Neil Gaiman.

Angelfall was a fantastic, quick, and entertaining read. The Ocean at the End of the Lane is pretty good so far. I couldn't put it down last night. I'm already almost 50% finished, but it is only 140 pages. Pretty weird, but very good.

I have a 30 book goal for 2014, but it seems like I'm going to exceeded that by a few. This is already book #4.
 
#913
#913
VOLatile said:
Finished Angelfall, now reading The Ocean at the End if the Lane by Neil Gaiman.

Angelfall was a fantastic, quick, and entertaining read. The Ocean at the End of the Lane is pretty good so far. I couldn't put it down last night. I'm already almost 50% finished, but it is only 140 pages. Pretty weird, but very good.

I have a 30 book goal for 2014, but it seems like I'm going to exceeded that by a few. This is already book #4.
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I'd say you're more than a little bit ahead of schedule if you are already into book four in 13 days.
 
#914
#914
Freak said:
I'd say you're more than a little bit ahead of schedule if you are already into book four in 13 days.
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Eh. We'll see. Once cycling season gets near and I start race training, I won't have as much time to read. I'm also about to start playing Skyrim, so there's a chance I'll slow even sooner.

I have 20 pages left of The Ocean at the End of the Lane. I'll probably finish it before I'm off work. Then I'll start either The Golem and the Jinni or The Wool Omnibus (Wool #1-5).
 
#915
#915
vader said:
I am usually more of a fiction fan, but I read both "1776" and "John Adams" by David McCullough and really enjoyed them both.
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If you haven't checkout the HBO miniseries John Adams starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney its based on McCullough's book.

If you really liked those titles, I highly recommend Paul Revere's Ride (1994) and Washington's Crossing (2004) both by David Hackett Fischer.

Washington's Crossing won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for History but in my opinion Paul Revere's Ride is better.
 
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#916
#916
crusse10 said:
If you don't mind reading a football book based around the Packers, That First Season, about Lombardi's first year as the Green Bay head coach, is a great read. It's by John Eisenberg and I highly recommend it.
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Paper Lion By George Plimpton is a hoot,i liked that book and i can't find it anymore,I have lost it somehow
 
#918
#918
so far I am disappointed in the trilogy of books from Terry Goodkind so far,I was expecting 3 more big books and i have ended up with 3 that should have made maybe 2 of the first books,of course i am only 4 chapters into the first book of them,so who knows :) and they are the 7th 8th 9th novels of the series
 
#919
#919
Wife wants to read a book together. Reading Norwegian by Night

Haven't read a novel probably since college. So far not so bad
 
#921
#921
CagleMtnVol said:
If you haven't checkout the HBO miniseries John Adams starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney its based on McCullough's book.

If you really liked those titles, I highly recommend Paul Revere's Ride (1994) and Washington's Crossing (2004) both by David Hackett Fischer.

Washington's Crossing won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for History but in my opinion Paul Revere's Ride is better.
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I did watch that miniseries. It was fantastic.

Thanks for the recommendations. I'll check those out.
 
#922
#922
I'm finishing up Exploding the Phone and it's so awesome. Before there were computers, geeks spent their time hacking the phone system. I had no idea this was even a thing. The mafia even got into it for bookmaking purposes. One of the original "Phone Phreaks" was from Knoxville and went by the moniker Davy Crockett.
 
#923
#923
n_huffhines said:
I'm finishing up Exploding the Phone and it's so awesome. Before there were computers, geeks spent their time hacking the phone system. I had no idea this was even a thing. The mafia even got into it for bookmaking purposes. One of the original "Phone Phreaks" was from Knoxville and went by the moniker Davy Crockett.
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Mitnick was into that type of hacking.
 
#924
#924
When its cold or nasty outside and or I just get really bored I read this thread and get a grin at the idea that the majority, make that the vast majority of those on here have read a book....
 
#925
#925
Currently reading Wool #2 and The Sword-Edged Blonde. I got kind of bored with Wool, so I put it down in favor of The Sword-Edged Blonde. This book has been very good. I'm about 60 pages into it and it's sucked me in. It's a fantasy/mystery series, with some raunchy dialog. Entertaining, but not a literary masterpiece by any means.
 
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