What are you reading?

[Pitar]

Letters From The Earth - Mark Twain

[Jeremy]

Just started "Version Control" by Dexter Palmer: http://www.npr.org/2016/02/26/467133...me-travel-tale

[bkwrm]

I'm reading "Men without Women," the latest collection of short stories by Haruki Murakami.

[Nailpicker]

Originally Posted by Pitar

Letters From The Earth - Mark Twain

I really like that book. Read it once in high school, again in college and at least one more time in my 30s. Think I'll have to pull it out again.

[rbock]

Originally Posted by dirkronk

If you appreciate golf and hilarity intertwined, I DO hope you've read the "Gawf" books by P.G. Wodehouse. Not as famous as his Bertie & Jeeves or Blandings novels, but utterly classic nonetheless.

Cheers,

Dirk

I read a lot of golf books and one of my favorites is "A Mulligan for Bobby Jobe" by Robert Cullen, coauthor with Bob Rotella of "Golf is Not a Game of Perfect." Jobe is an arrogant pro golfer who is struck blind by a lightning bolt and then battles his way back to competitive play and character redemption with the help of his caddy and a sexy sports psychologist. Improbable as that may sound, it works on a variety of levels.

[bil]

I've got 2 going at the moment - "In Spite Of Himself", the John Prine biography, and "Astrophysics For People In A Hurry", by Neil DeGrasse Tyson. The Guy Clark biography is next up in the rotation.

[TerryC]

I always have an actual book and an audio book on the go at the same time.

Physical book is Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel -- simply superb, historical fiction at its best.

Audio book is Catch-22 by Joseph Heller -- I've read it a couple times before and it's one of my favourites; hilarious and poignant at the same time.

[Ryler]

Secrets in the Dark; A Life in Sermons Frederick Buechner
Sacred Journey; a Memoir of the Early Days: Frederick Buechner
My Reading Life: Pat Conroy

[Glennwillow]

Originally Posted by rlb9682

You can't go wrong with Heinlein I'm always amazed at concepts and stories he came up with at the time he wrote those books.

I remember reading through all of Heinlein's books at about age 22-24. I was fascinated by his writings, too.

- Glenn

[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.

I also just finished, "My Sister's Grave" by Robert Dugoni, fairly light reading.

I've also been reading, "The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt" by T.J. Stiles. Fascinating reading about an earlier time in America and New York City.

- Glenn

[RP]

My summer reading list generally consists of the entire Doc Ford library https://smile.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb...=2MXL2H9WAQ5Q8 by Randy Wayne White. If I'm really focused, I'll get through 2-3.....

[BrunoBlack]

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.

I also just finished, "My Sister's Grave" by Robert Dugoni, fairly light reading.

I've also been reading, "The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt" by T.J. Stiles. Fascinating reading about an earlier time in America and New York City.

- Glenn

I thought that was a great read too Glenn.

[Tele1111]

A Modest Genius
The story of Darwins life and how his ideas changed everything.
Great read. I will probably re-read it. So interesting.

Also the Niel Young book: Shakey
A hard read for me. It's just plain boring and a lot (to me) of information about things maybe a die hard fan might like. I got it because of a thread like this, but I really don't think it's well written at all.

Mark

[Pitar]

Originally Posted by Nailpicker

I really like that book. Read it once in high school, again in college and at least one more time in my 30s. Think I'll have to pull it out again.

Depending on your sensitivities, you'll hate or appreciate Twain's humor and wit bundled into his treatment of the ironies begging his sarcasm. I think he's a stitch, a bit long in his selected contextual jabs, but I chalk that up to his era and his unchecked swordsmanship in artistic license, aka blasphemy in his case.

Funny thing about this particular book is that it was contained in a package bequeathed to me by a man I thought I knew well as a career soldier and a minion of piety. Twain had a wide and surprising audience.

[guitarget]

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