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lostinomiya
08-15-2010, 11:58 AM
wanted to ask what the most interesting book you have read recently is?
fiction..non-fiction anything...
thanks
"Footnotes in Gaza", Joe Sacco
Chief
08-15-2010, 02:25 PM
I've been on a roll the past few months ... lots of good ones, including several about the Pacific Theater in WWII.
A good football book I read recently is called "The Real All-Americans," about the American Indians who played football around the turn of the century (Jim Thorpe, etc).
Right now, I'm reading a biography -- "Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich." Very, very good.
I prefer non-fiction, but I bought Charles Portis' "True Grit" and will read it next.
kmp77
08-15-2010, 06:57 PM
wanted to ask what the most interesting book you have read recently is?
fiction..non-fiction anything...
thanks
Last book I read was "The Road" by McCarthy. Awesome book.
Rynie
08-15-2010, 07:08 PM
I mainly read memoirs. Some good ones are:
The Glass Castle by jeannette walls
Angela's Ashes by frank mccourt
I just started "playing to win, jerry jones and the dallas cowboys" by david magee. It's pretty good so far
shutter island is a good fiction book.
in the middle of "in cold blood" by truman capote. It's about the real life murder of a family in rural kansas in the early 60's. Good read. I like the way Capote writes.
and my favorite fiction books are the Flowers in the Attic series by v.c. Andrews. It's a messed up tale of a woman that locks her kids in the attic.
those are my suggestions.
hairic
08-15-2010, 07:18 PM
They Thought They Were Free
Hostile
08-15-2010, 07:34 PM
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
SA_Gunslinger
08-15-2010, 08:36 PM
I just finished "Lunar Park" by one of the most favorite authors, Bret Easton Ellis. His stuff is usually pretty dark. This one is by far the novel that is the most unlike his usual style, but it was a pretty neat story. Very Stephen King-like. I dug it.
Bob Sacamano
08-15-2010, 08:37 PM
In Harm's Way The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors by Doug Stanton.
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
+1
Just started this, it's great so far.
Chief
08-16-2010, 09:28 AM
In Harm's Way The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors by Doug Stanton.
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Sam I Am
08-16-2010, 09:34 AM
In Harm's Way The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors by Doug Stanton.
I haven't read this book, but I bet its really good. I've seen the documentary about it and it's really good.
We have a thread called Rate the last book you read or something like that. You should check out that thread for good reading.
Bob Sacamano
08-16-2010, 06:31 PM
I haven't read this book, but I bet its really good. I've seen the documentary about it and it's really good.
We have a thread called Rate the last book you read or something like that. You should check out that thread for good reading.
This book has it all. The best part was Private McCoy. Dude is hilarious.
Hostile
08-16-2010, 07:18 PM
+1
Just started this, it's great so far.I enjoyed the heck out of it. It was my 2nd time reading it. He is such a fantastic writer. I highly recommend Blood Meridian by him.
DallasCowpoke
08-16-2010, 07:52 PM
In Harm's Way The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors by Doug Stanton.
After you finish that book,, check out this article (http://ecommons.txstate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1018&context=physfacp) authored by 2 Southwest Texas State University Physics Dept professors and a grad student.
rkell87
08-16-2010, 08:42 PM
my Gf raves about the hunger games
lostinomiya
08-17-2010, 07:10 AM
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
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