MaverickM11 From United States, joined Apr 2000, 11871 posts, RR: 51 Posted (3 years 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 385 times:
I've got some really long flights coming up and I'd like to start a new book. Any suggestions? I prefer nonfiction and some of my favorite books are Hard Landing (Duh) and Talk of the Devil (conversations with former dictators).
Mbmbos From United States, joined May 2000, 2146 posts, RR: 2 Reply 2, posted (3 years 3 days 8 hours ago) and read 372 times:
"The Rings of Saturn" by W.G. Sebald.
Nonfiction. A walking tour of coastal England as the author ruminates about Western history and his own mortality. It is beautifully written and very introspective.
IAH777 From United States, joined Mar 2008, 0 posts, RR: 8 Reply 5, posted (3 years 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 353 times:
"Dr. Spock's Guide To Caring For The Old"
Signed,
Skidmarks
Seriously, though, I've been meaning to pick up "Dexter's Somethingorother", on which the new Showtime series is based. Sounds just twisted enough to pique my interest.
JGPH1A From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 12, posted (3 years 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 309 times:
Quoting 9V (Reply 1): It's about Dracula -Vlad the Impaler.
This one was excellent - very unputdownable. It does go on a bit, but it was fun.
I'm reading "Volpone" at the moment, by Ben Jonson - it's OK, but I prefer Shakespeare. When I'm done with that I'll carry on with "The Moonstone" by Wilkie Collins - it's 19th century pulp fiction, but it's amusing.
767Lover From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 13, posted (3 years 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 304 times:
The Glass Castle: Definitely gives a different point of view on homelessness
The Devil in the White City: About Chicago's bid for the World's Fair in the late 1800s, the politics of it and also a mass murder that took place concurrently.
EasternSon From United States, joined Jun 2006, 554 posts, RR: 1 Reply 14, posted (3 years 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 301 times:
I'm trying to read "Running with Scissors" before the movie comes out. My wife has been raving about authors like David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs for years, and I think I should finally start listening to her.
I hope I can find the time.....
"The only people for me are the mad ones...." Jack Kerouac
MaverickM11 From United States, joined Apr 2000, 11871 posts, RR: 51 Reply 16, posted (3 years 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 289 times:
Quoting 767Lover (Reply 13): The Devil in the White City: About Chicago's bid for the World's Fair in the late 1800s, the politics of it and also a mass murder that took place concurrently.
I heard about that one on NPR...sounded good but creepy.
RNOcommctr From United States, joined Jan 2001, 779 posts, RR: 6 Reply 17, posted (3 years 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 288 times:
I'd recommend "The Reader" by the German author Bernhard Schlink. It is a haunting, thought-provoking story about a young boy and an older woman in post-World War II Germany. Lots of unexpected twists and turns, but I won't spoil the plot by saying more.
Now I am reading an old American classic, "Tender is the Night" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I am disappointed. Not only do I not care to read about the affluent and elite in the French Riviera in the 1920's, but also the style really shows its age. As opposed to the German novel I mentioned above, whose style is spare, efficient, and austere, the Fitzgerald style seems verbose and extravagant.
9V From China, joined Aug 2008, 0 posts, RR: 0 Reply 18, posted (3 years 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 284 times:
A really great book I just read was Mr Clarinet. Although it's fiction I couldn't put it down for a second. It's a first novel by Nick Stone and I can't wait for his next one but it won't be out until next year.
Vivek0072 From India, joined Jun 2005, 284 posts, RR: 0 Reply 23, posted (3 years 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 253 times:
The last book I read was "Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies" by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras. Was a good read and would suggest it.
Have to start reading "From Third World to First : The Singapore Story".
That life's most failures were people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up. - Edison.
Piercey From Sweden, joined exactly 4 years ago today! , 2233 posts, RR: 1 Reply 25, posted (3 years 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 250 times:
Anything Grisham, except for his new book. I'm not a big non-fiction.
Well I believe it all is coming to an end. Oh well, I guess we are gonna pretend.
26 Piercey: Anything Grisham, except for his new book. I'm not a big non-fiction fan.
27 SmithAir747: Books I have finished reading lately: Tom Clancy: The Sum of All Fears and Red Storm Rising. Now currently reading: Whitley Strieber: Majestic (a nove
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