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Anyone Read Any Good Books Lately?

RobertK said:
Another book I read recently was Ready Player One. If you're not a partial geek or have a fondness for 80s lore, it might not be as appealing, but I love it. I don't know how to summarize it quickly, so you'll have to look it up.
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I had forgotten about that one, great book!
 
Been on quite a reading kick lately.

Re-read Dead Six by Larry Correia and Mike Kupari, then read the sequel Swords of Exodus. Loved 'em.

Warbound, by Larry Correia. Kickass final book in the Grimnoire Chronicles trilogy.

Also, Damsel in Distress and My Man Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse. Lots of fun. That guy knew how to turn a phrase.

Fearless: Powerful Women of History, by Zachary Hill. Finally, a history book that isn't boring as hell. Who could have imagined?

The Nazi Occult, by Kenneth Hite. A look into the occult history, both rumored and real, of the world's ultimate villains.

Under a Graveyard Sky, by Jonn Ringo. Ringo's take on the infected zombie genre, and how to win the war. Good stuff.

Task Force Desperate, by Peter Nealen. Near future thriller about US mercenaries rescuing captured US soldiers, written by an actual US Marine. I liked it a lot. Reading the sequel, Hunting in the Shadows, right now.

Blood and Tequila, by Colin Webster. Sequel to Blood and Silver. Cowboys vs. Vampires in the Weird West. Gotta love it.
 
Anything by Larry Correia
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
God Touched series by John Conroe
Anything By Stephen Brust
Harry Dresdan Series by Jim Butcher
Anything by Simon R. Green
 
Books are always better than movies. Usually can't sit through a movie if I have read the book first. Bit of a history buff and it is reflected in my reading.

Churchill's 6 volume set on WW2 is fantastic.
Eisenhower's Crusade Across Europe- had a signed first edition until my dog took an interest in it when I first got her :(
Can't go wrong with Stephen Ambrose or Robert Leckie, I have not read anything from them that I have not enjoyed
Currently reading- Twilight War by Crist
Next up is some Sci Fi- The Wheel of Time series that some friends have been trying to get me to read for years.
 
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I went along time without reading cover-to-cover purely for the enjoyment of reading (ie fiction, not informational texts/references). I'm on about my 4th 'Jack Reacher' book here in about as many months. I've read 'Bad Luck & Trouble,' 'Worth Dying For,' 'The Affair' and am currently about half way through 'One Shot,' the book that's the basis for the movie Tom Cruise starred in. They're all decent reads if you like the scheme of them, tho I don't know how many more I'll read. Child's style is very similar throughout the 3 1/2 books I've read...the things he describes and the way he describes them. I guess the stories are good, but there's alot of overlap in the details/background description. That and its pretty far fetched, someone of Reacher's stature going around blowing people away as freqently as he does without getting tangled up more in the legal system. But good reads.

BOSS
 
I'm reading "The Shirley Letters" which is a first person account of life in a small gold mining encampment at the peak of the northern California gold rush (1850-51). It was written as a series of letters by the wife of the camp doctor. Very interesting read. It was recommended to me by an old-time fella on a mountain job site near where the letters were written. Cool stuff.

I really want to read the Game of Thrones books but I need to read the Lord of The Rings trilogy first and still have two to go...:o
 
I recently read the original Dune by Frank Herbert. I read it years ago and loved it, so I took the adventure again. I love the classic sci fi authors. They set the standard for everything sci fi we know today. Another was Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series. Just awesome.

Edit - and the H. P. Lovecraft Omnibus books. Full of black horrors and delicious ancient evils. soooo good.
 
I don't read very much fiction, but I recently finished One Second After. It was surprisingly good! It physically takes place about 35 minutes drive from me & even has mention of the nervous hospital I work at.

And yeah Rob's right about Lovecraft!
 
How about some true classics, the John Carter of Mars series by Burroughs, the Tarzan series as well at least the first 3. Often overlooked as pulp but truly well written and the first of there kinds. In that same vein the Conan series by Robert Howard and any collections of his short stories you can find, mostly out of print but worth the search. Very well written dark fantasy. Current fun reads, The book of Riley by Mark Tufo and the Zombie fallout series by him as well, very fun and funny as well. "Confessions of a d list supervillan" is a riot by Jim Bernheimer.

The Tarzan and John Carter and Conan books have nothing to do with the semi crappy films so don't let those influence you against reading them.
 
Blood Meridian, by Cormack McCarthy. I read it five times in the last three years... it is the bloodiest, most violent novel I've read--BUT, it is also absolutely beautiful, profound, and utterly tragic as well. It's his masterpiece... but really, The Road, No Country for Old Men, and quite a few others by him are very good too.
 
Other Lives available on Kindle. A bit of knife action, some cold weather survival, bounty hunting ,serial killers and a touch of reincarnation for sake of diversity.
 
I'll second the recommendation of "Aias". If you haven't read any Cormac McCarthy then I would highly recommend it. Just finished "All the Pretty Horses" for about the 6th time. I haven't read anything of his yet that I haven't re-read several times. His style is unique,absolutely my favorite writer. "No Country for Old Men","The Road","All the Pretty Horses","The Crossing","Cities of the Plain" & "Blood Meridian" are my favorites. Incredible author,incredible reads. Anytime,everytime.
 
rickc71 said:
I'll second the recommendation of "Aias". If you haven't read any Cormac McCarthy then I would highly recommend it. Just finished "All the Pretty Horses" for about the 6th time. I haven't read anything of his yet that I haven't re-read several times. His style is unique,absolutely my favorite writer. "No Country for Old Men","The Road","All the Pretty Horses","The Crossing","Cities of the Plain" & "Blood Meridian" are my favorites. Incredible author,incredible reads. Anytime,everytime.
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Read the classics. They are that way for a reason. Most people who say they read them are probably lying to you; they were assigned them in school, read the cliff's notes, and then remember themselves as actually reading them.
 
frankjuka said:
Read the classics. They are that way for a reason. Most people who say they read them are probably lying to you; they were assigned them in school, read the cliff's notes, and then remember themselves as actually reading them.
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That's a good call... if so, start with the Iliad; Lattimore trns. is the best--I say so bc I read the original Greek too... which shouldn't come as a surprise given my moniker. Blood Meridian evokes Homeric epic, but it's set on the US/Mexico border, circa 1849.
 
I just read MINUS 148* by Art Davidson for the 2nd time. It is a great story of mountaineering.About the first winter ascent of Mt. McKinley.
 
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