What are you reading?

[Don W]

D Day through German Eyes...very interesting.

[jseth]

This past week, I've been splitting my reading time between "Twenty Thousand Roads" by David Meyer (Gram Parsons' biography) and "Charon's Landing" by Jack Du Brul...

The book about Gram has thus far been VERY thick and a bit ponderous in the early going... but I ain't putting it aside!

[Slothead56]

I'm exploring fly fishing as a hobby so I'm reading A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean..

[Bikewer]

Currently, Neil Tyson's new one, "Astrophysics for people in a hurry", and also William Gibson's "Peripheral".

[annw]

I just finished Silence by S. Endo which Scorcese recently made a film on it.

[Rondoraymundo]

Originally Posted by Glennwillow

I have been reading "At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor" by Gordon Prange. It's about 1000 pages long of the smallest type imaginable, but a fascinating book about the attack on Pearl Harbor from all sides. I am nearly finished, so at this point in the book, late 1944, who let Pearl Harbor happen has become a political football.

- Glenn

I'm floored that something I said in this forum actually had an influence on someone. Do you remember the discussion in here some time back about what makes one a historian? My comment was that the answer is the closer one gets to emulating Gordon Prange.

[nacluth]

Originally Posted by annw

I just finished Silence by S. Endo which Scorcese recently made a film on it.

I just finished that one too. I'm not sure I got out of it what Scorsese did, but I don't begrudge the reading.

[Glennwillow]

Originally Posted by Rondoraymundo

I'm floored that something I said in this forum actually had an influence on someone. Do you remember the discussion in here some time back about what makes one a historian? My comment was that the answer is the closer one gets to emulating Gordon Prange.

Hi Ray,

Yes, I do remember. In fact, I got hold of the Prange book on Pearl Harbor because of your recommendation, I am pretty sure.

This book has been quite an incredible read!

- Glenn

[BrunoBlack]

I have read some enjoyable fiction, but here are 3 non fiction books I've just finished reading this summer. I thought they were all well written and interesting.

[00Buck]

John Boles's biography of Jefferson. Lots of interesting detail but sometimes he seems a little too enamored of his subject.

Mark Bowden's book on Hue. Told from the perspective of multiple participants on both sides of the battle.

[Bob Womack]

Fascinating...

Bob

[M Hayden]

Been working through Mickey Baker's jazz guitar book. Well worth the time.

For fun, Nick Bostrom's "Superintelligence," in which we learn we have no idea what the motivations of a given AI will be, and how we might deal with intelligences that exceed our own in both speed and capacity. Interesting and not at all apocalyptic or hysterical - it's very much a reflection on how we might deal with something orders of magnitude more intelligent than we are with which we can actually interact.

[jpd]

[AX17609]

Originally Posted by jpd

I'm reading exactly the same book but was reluctant to mention it.

[jpd]

Originally Posted by AX17609

I'm reading exactly the same book but was reluctant to mention it.

..........why are you "reluctant"? No one will criticize your reading interests. (unless it is very controversial)