What book are you reading?

Started John Hersey's "Hiroshima" yesterday. It's a short story originally published in the New Yorker in 1946 that chronicles Hersey's interviews of a group of post-bomb survivors in Hiroshima. It's hard to imagine the level of destruction he describes.
 
SilverFoxKnows said:
Wizard for Hire - by Jim Butcher. It's the book the Dresden Files was based off of. Fun read.

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Just finished Butcher's Storm Front and Fool Moon. About 5 chapters into Grave Peril. Takes the edge off the other heavier reads currently active - Romeo Dallaire's Shake Hands with the Devil about the failure of the UN mission in Rwanda and The Writings of Nicherin Daishonin.



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Have reread Old Man and the Boy by Robert Ruark many times and am stll trying to get thru Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged , just once.
 
I'm reading a book right now that I feel every American citizen should read. It is titled: 9/11 Synthetic Terror; Made In The USA, by WEBSTER GRIFFIN TARPLEY. Check out the grade this book made on Amazon. It changed the guy who reviewed it. Thanks.
 
Been on a Cormac McCarthy spree at the moment....went from Blood Meridian to The Road and now No Country For Old Men.
 
I'm working on a book that was wrote in the 1930s regarding mentalism and mentalism effects. good concetps, yet a lot of it is unfortunatly outdated.

I also started a book called "The Magician and the Cardsharp" It's a true story about 2 magicians that went to Kansas to seek out a card operator that was able to false deal not from the top, or the bottom of the deck, but could deal from the middle of the deck. Ricky Jay explained the story years ago in one of his old tv specials.


One I will definatly suggest to you all book wise, and I couldn't put it down until I finished it is. Gentelmen's Blood, a history of dueling by Barbara Holland. really really good.
 
This last week I read

The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
Illium, Dan Simmons
Olympos, Dan Simmons (extremely horrible ending)

and tomorrow I'm going to see if the library has the hyperion cantos in, another dan simmons series
 
I went to the base library and asked the lady how many books I could check out at one time and she said as many as I could carry. :D
I brought home about 50 pounds of wood working books and am enjoying them totally!!!
 
I've read 'The Road' and 'No Country For Old Men'. I reckon McCarthy is the new Hemingway. Love his lean prose. Dark subject matter, heavy with impending doom, but somehow not depressing (for me anyway)
 
Larry S. said:
I just finished an excellent book entitled "The Devil In The White City" which has a dual theme........the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and a little known serial killer that preyed on a certain segment of the attendees.
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Yep, read that one,,,,very good.

I just finished "We Were the Mulvaneys," enjoyed it.

Started on "This Much I Know to be True", very good so far.
 
I really enjoyed Blood Meridian and am in agreement that McCarthy's in the running as one of the great American novelists out there. The only thing I found distracting about his writing at first is his punctuation, or lack thereof (he doesn't use quotations for character dialog, for example).
Normally I'm a science fiction/fantasy/horror reader but a good friend with great taste introduced me to McCarthy....I was so impressed I picked up his whole catalogue in one swoop in a lucky auction bid.

Jared, as I big fan of Dan Simmons myself I must say if you enjoyed Illium/Olympos.....the Hyperion Cantos is superior to those so do pick them up. Also check out his horror titles like Song of Kali or Summer of Night.
 
"Old Boys" by Charles McCarry, which simply blew me away and sent me looking for his other books, one of the best things I've read in years. "Patriots Acts" by Greg Rucka, a new Atticus Kodiak novel. "Lost Girls" by Robert Doherty, one of his "Cellar" special operations books.

next up: a new Executioner book penned by one of our very own forum members :-)
 
RockyNomad said:
Terror at Beslan: A Russian Tragedy With Lessons for America's Schools.
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ps how did you like this? I heard a discussion about this book on the radio but it's genuinely hard to find at bookstores. Plus the last two gun shows I went to sold out their copies one the first day...
 
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