Becker Book Club

If you like Jack Reacher, you might also like the Presidential Agent series by W.E.B. Griffin, or the Mitch Rapp series by Vince Flynn.
 
I've read a few of the Flynn books and they were pretty good. I'll have to look into Griffin's work.
 
I just picked up The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan. More than twice, I have read, and subsequently used, The Fine Art of Baloney Detection, and I wanted to finally read the whole book in which that specific chapter is contained.
 
Sitting on the balcony reading this one:
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I finished couple months ago I read Shake Hands with the Devil. It is a first hand account of the Rwandan civil war and genocide that took place in 1994 written by the UN force commander to the UNMAIR peace keeping mission. After that I read We Were Soldiers once...And Young and then I read Night which is an account of of a 16 year old holocaust survivor. I'm gonna go watch some puppy videos on youtube for a while.
 
Skunk Works by Ben Rich is a heck of a read about the origins and projects of Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works during Ben Rich's tenure at the helm.

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Just started Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed. I'm really enjoying it, went through the first third or so in an afternoon.
 
House of leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.

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bigghoss said:
Just started Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed. I'm really enjoying it, went through the first third or so in an afternoon.
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Excellent choice. She's a fantastic writer.

I am reading 2312, by Kim Stanley Robinson. Great sci-fi, if you're into that sort of thing.
 
Here's my latest read - 240+ pages of semi-sharp, pointy goodness. :D Finally snagged one that didn't require an arm and a leg.
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Read two books on vacation - both fiction.

1) "The Martian" by Andy Weir. Great story. Pretty good science. Nice and easy as a whole. Summary - guy accidentally gets abandoned on Mars and has to try to figure out how to survive - if he can. If you get the Kindle sample, you'll know within minutes whether you are going to love it or hate it. ESRB - T for langauage.

2) "Natchez Burning" by Greg Iles. It's LONG- 860ish pages. I actually read half and then stopped to read "The Martian" when it came available through the local library online and then went back to "Natchez." No really simple summary here. Race relationships, racial violence of the past and present, family dynamics. The medical ethics of euthanasia are really minor though they kind of kick off the story. ESRB - T - language, violence, and sex. (Maybe that makes it an M??? but not NC-17).

I recommend both, but plan to be reading a lot longer if you pick up "Natchez." Plan to laugh a lot more with "Martian."
 
DunkEm said:
Read two books on vacation - both fiction.

1) "The Martian" by Andy Weir. Great story. Pretty good science. Nice and easy as a whole. Summary - guy accidentally gets abandoned on Mars and has to try to figure out how to survive - if he can. If you get the Kindle sample, you'll know within minutes whether you are going to love it or hate it. ESRB - T for langauage.

2) "Natchez Burning" by Greg Iles. It's LONG- 860ish pages. I actually read half and then stopped to read "The Martian" when it came available through the local library online and then went back to "Natchez." No really simple summary here. Race relationships, racial violence of the past and present, family dynamics. The medical ethics of euthanasia are really minor though they kind of kick off the story. ESRB - T - language, violence, and sex. (Maybe that makes it an M??? but not NC-17).

I recommend both, but plan to be reading a lot longer if you pick up "Natchez." Plan to laugh a lot more with "Martian."
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The Martian sounds interesting. I'd read it, but I'm lazy. So I'll just wait for THIS.
 
At the moment, I'm reading the Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey on my old Kindle. I don't really ready as much anymore with the kids and work but when I'm traveling for work I read pretty voraciously.

Still waiting on the next Game of Thrones novel, like everybody... :grumpy:
 
I'll just say:



Aside from the 5 bookshelves you can't see, this represents the bulk of my home library. Sci-fi/fantasy, military, or historical fiction? I have read a few books here and there...
 
crimsonfalcon07 said:
I'll just say:

Aside from the 5 bookshelves you can't see, this represents the bulk of my home library. Sci-fi/fantasy, military, or historical fiction? I have read a few books here and there...
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You obviously haven't moved in quite some time...!

Pretty sweet collection. I'm betting they are all users. ;) :p
 
On vacations this summer I've been reading Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See. Good read, but I haven't finished it yet.
 
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