What was the last book you read? Fiction or non fiction, or both.
For me, "Blood Meridian" by Cormac McCarthy. Not light or easy reading, but I enjoyed it. Following it with something much lighter, "The Remaining" by D.J. Molles.
Non fiction, "Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World" by Donald Sull & Kathleen Eisenhardt. Just started it, so too soon to say much about it. Before that was "F*ck Feelings" by Michael & Sarah Bennett. Enjoyed it, which should surprise no one.
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Loved Blood Meridien, my favorite one of his books, and I have read them all.
Looking at reading "The Road" next, because "Blood Meridian" wasn't quite bleak enough...
"Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant"--autobiography of President Grant, focusing especially on the Mexican-American War and the Civil War. Grant was a better writer and a more intelligent and complex man than I expected.
Last 3 books I have read are all non fiction. Sandakan by Lynette Ramsay Silver. If you are looking for bleak and heartbreaking this is your book. Also "As far as my legs will carry me" by Josef W Bauer. A higher call by Adam Wakos
I'm typically working through 2-3 books at a time, and reread old faves very often. Currently working on The User Illusion, Eastern Body Western Mind, and The Soul of the Matter. Recently finished Infernal Parade, Dark Matter, and Dragon Teeth.
"TUSCL - The Early Years" by P.L. Founder
"The System" by Rick "the dugan" Dugan
The current fiction book I’m reading is “A Dog’s Purpose” - I’ve no interest in seeing the movie.
Non-fiction is “Being a Dog. Following a Dog into a World of Smell” by Alexandra Horowitz.
I’m currently interested in dogs...
Cormac McCarthy is an excellent author. After reading The Road I was quite depressed - as the book isn’t a positive story - but it was a very well told story.
I hated the movie The Road, and have since written off Cormac McCarthy. Finding satisfaction and happiness in real life is difficult enough, I've no need for depressing escapism as well.
"Phishing for Phools" The book's somewhere in between economics and psychology. It's about how consumers are manipulated into buying things they don't need.
"Attention Merchants" was the last book I read but I read about five a week and mostly non-fiction.
Back in 1968 I read Jeppesen Aviation Weather Textbook by Jeppesen . Other than that I just wait for the movie. I got burned out on reading during my 2 years in Japan with out any TV.
I’m currently reading Mr. Adam by Pat Frank. It’s a Cold War era science fiction book in which all men in the world are rendered sterile due to a nuclear accident, except for one man named Mr. Adam. (Frank wrote several books on the consequences of nuclear disasters.) This one is somewhat tongue-in-cheek and very light reading. Another Frank book is Alas, Babylon, which is totally serious and somewhat unsettling.
The last book I finished reading was In Search of Schrodinger’s Cat, about quantum physics. Somewhat heavier reading than Mr. Adam, kind of like an M-1 tank is to a matchbox car. I like variety in my reading and my clubbing. Tuscl
ESP Wars: East and West--about the government ESP programs both within the United States and Russia. The first 130 pages were kind of a slog but I enjoyed it after that.
I never read fiction--except on TUSCL.
I recently bought and will soon read Moby Dick for the first time. Seriously. Prior to this I read a collection of short horror stories (for Halloween). I get all my non-fiction from think-tank pieces and articles on the internet rather than books.
Nudge by Thaler (recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics) and Sunstein The God Delusion by Dawkins. Hillbilly Elegy by Vance
Like Wildbourbon, I seldom read fiction with the exception of TUSCL.
"The PL Paradox" - by Juice
@BHF.. Hah. Obviously, one of my favorite books.
Thanks guy. I'm picking up some good titles here.
Fiction: Stuart Woods, author. Hothouse Orchid. He writes great fiction and I've read his autobiography. He's a sailor, has done one of the Trans-Atlantic races. Look him up his fiction is often a hilarious look at governmental folly. Non-fiction: Mein Kamph, Hitler's autobiography, pertinent today in many respects.
Don't recall the name right off hand and lent in to a friend, but it was a book written by my brother-in-law.
Eloquent Javascript. It was a real page turner.
I read a book for school a few months ago. I don’t remember what it’s called lol.
Just zipped through these two classics, both of which are really easy reads but both of which somehow I managed to avoid reading until now:
R. Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 S. Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
I don't like non-fiction, bores me usually, I should probably work on that.
book guy
if you had to estimate, how many books have you read in your life?
The only book I read is non-fiction. 30 minutes of scripture reading before turning out the lights. King James Version.
I didn't know any of us tusclers could read.
Just finished “All the Light You Cannot See”. Loved it.
Burlington Ho - If you give up on reading Moby Dick, come to the Whaling Museum in New Bedford, MA in early January. They have local people read the entire book in the Seaman’s Bethal. Quite an event over 24 or 25 hours.
Fiction; Merrick by Anne Rice, one of my all time favorite authors.
Can't remember the last time I've read nonfiction, unless the Japanese-English / English-Japanese dictionary counts.
One of my hobbies includes going to the thrift store where I can take advantage of the 10 for $3 soft cover deal and load my book shelves with new stuff.
I can't remember the last fiction I read (I think it was Catcher in the rye), but the last nonfiction book was a book about the transportation history of Iowa that I got cheap at the library. I have always found that type of thing interesting.
Books? People still read books?
I hear Amazon used to be a book company...
@gawker... The New Bedford Whaling Museum is fantastic!
Book recommendations for,
@JohnSmith : "Midlife Crisis: Storm before the calm" amazon.com
@Dugan: "What do do when your family can't afford health insurance" amazon.com
@Dougster: "Bitcoin for DUmmies" amazon.com
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