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

#976
#976
Lost Light - I've read most of the Harry Bosch books

Gone Girl - Really liked it. Looking forward to the movie
 
#977
#977
vader said:
Wow, what a jerk! :)

What is your book about?
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SamRebel35 said:
That's pretty awesome. What's it called?
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It's the first in a trilogy called Weight of the World that I started when I was 17 and finished when I was about 20.

It's about a kid who's from rich divorced family in a small town who also happens to be a oxycodone addict. The first book is him meeting a girl, getting caught being on the drugs, trying to quit, etc. and its one of the more morally grey things I've ever written. It has a lot of football games (some at actual locations in east TN) and UFC elements, as the main character likes to fight.

The second one is called Dreaming With a Broken Heart, and is much like the TV show the Odyssey that used to run on Sci Fi, at least the concept of. and the third is called Behind Blue Eyes, and it switches the perspective of the first two and makes it be from the lead females view in most instances, and it ends the story completely.

It was placed in the Young Adult, Romance, and Science Fiction categories, in that order.


jjay2518 said:
Congrats! That's definitely something I plan on doing hopefully sooner than later. What is the book, and how was the whole process of putting it online for sale?
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It was honestly the easiest thing you could imagine. As long as you save it in the format they want its as simple as putting in proper bank info so you get paid and then uploading the book like you would a normal file.

I'm hoping to get enough money to get hard copies for people, and do the entire trilogy either in one book or separately. My first book that I did when I was 16 did extremely well in our small town for the paperbacks, but the digital versions of it did not, so in small towns in the south, hard copies are still the way to go.

I think I'll do a kickstarter for it, to be honest.
 
#978
#978
PKT_VOL said:
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene

Our Mathematical Universe by Max Tegmart

The Science before the Science by Anthony Rizzi

The first is the gold standard of current physics. The second is more theoretical (speculative) and centers on the implications of various experimentally tested theories. The last I haven't read yet, I am about to start tomorrow, it has great reviews from everything I have read about it.
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Terrible attempt at epistemology and the philosophy of science. Stay away.
 
#980
#980
Currently reading Frindle, The Report Card and Stone Fox with my 4th graders. Good stuff!
 
#981
#981
I'm in the middle of two books right now. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and Paddle Your Own Canoe, the Nick Offerman autobiography.
 
#982
#982
I recently read "Life After Life" by Kate Atkinson and it was pretty good. First time that I had willingly read a book in years.
 
#983
#983
Panthro said:
I'm in the middle of two books right now. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and Paddle Your Own Canoe, the Nick Offerman autobiography.
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Nick Offerman is a really interesting dude. I'll put his book on my list. He is hilarious in Parks and Rec, but he is really just playing himself I believe.
 
#984
#984
SamRebel35 said:
Nick Offerman is a really interesting dude. I'll put his book on my list. He is hilarious in Parks and Rec, but he is really just playing himself I believe.
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In some ways, but he is extremely liberal politically. Other than that, the similarities are there by they changed the character once they met and cast Offerman. Ron Swanson was originally supposed to be a grumpy old man.
 
#990
#990
Just finished another in the Donovan Creed series. #4 I think. I like to pepper them in between "real" books. Entertaining as hell. I think they're great.

Just starting The Light Between Oceans.


Amazon has some unbelievable deals on Kindles right now. If you haven't jumped in yet-Best Gift Ever.
 
#991
#991
An unexpected grace by Kristen Von Kreisler

So far its great Lila a woman that survived a shooting rampage at her office is tryimg to make sense of why she survived, and the why of the shooter.
She's afraid of dogs revealed why early on the book. It takes place in San Francisco Grace is the formerly abused female golden retriever that suffered throughno fault of her own much like Lila.
A lot of great themes in this book including the healing power of dogs, wanting to know the why of a shooter, also the why of surviving a tragedy, and what makes dogs great, the past shouldnt forever dictate a perception of a animal.
 
#997
#997
LittleCat said:
dont worry fs. i understood you. sort of i think.
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Anything need clarified?
I need help remembering the name of a book. The description is below.


There is a book I read the plot of but I can't remember the name of. The plot of it is the people in the city are living in debauchery and other sins. As a result there is a person seen from heaven if I recall right he's called the standing man sent I believe to destroy the city.
There is only person I think that could stand up to the standing man so he's the last hope for this doomed City.
 
#998
#998
MSUDuo said:
Currently reading Frindle, The Report Card and Stone Fox with my 4th graders. Good stuff!
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Frindle is what taught me that if you get offended or hung up by words you're doing life wrong. One of my favorite books for kids.
 
#999
#999
SamRebel35 said:
I really loved One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Was president me funny? I hesitate to buy his books because I feel like it would all just be regurgitation of the stuff from his podcasts.
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Sorry, I just saw this. It was OK, but his politics are the thing I like the least about him. We agree a lot, but for different reasons and a lot of his opinions aren't based on solid reasoning. JMO

If you listen to the podcast I would say just read Not Taco Bell Material and skip the other 2.
 
#1,000
#1,000
Just read these. Recommend the ones in bold:

Dear Mrs Fitzsimmons: Tales of Redemption from an Irish Mailbox - Greg Fitzsimmons
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Middle East - Martin Sieff
Think Like a Freak - Leavit & Dubner
Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
Undeniable - Bill Nye
 
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