Read any good books lately?

[chronoblip]

Hey all, I am fairly certain most of you can read, right?

Last year, I read the "space trilogy" from C.S. Lewis, and "The Brothers Karamazov" from Dostoyevsky. This year, I am trying to get through Kazantzaki's "The Last Temptation of Christ", and next in line after that is "A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter Miller Jr. I am also reading the entire Chronicles of Narnia series to my kids, and just recently finished "The Horse and His Boy" and will be moving on to "Prince Caspian" next.

So, if ya'll are into books, what kinds? New or old? Fiction or non-fiction? Dwarves and elves or machines and aliens?

 

[ONE-TEN]

I read ALL the time! Well, it’s LIKE reading. So, there are these people. And they “pretend” to do things in different situations. And the people are given things like books with words they memorize and then say those words out loud. And it’s all video recorded. Then I WATCH it and LISTEN to all the words they memorized from the special books.

So yeah. I’m basically “reading” all the time.

Oh! And the BEST part is, it saves so much time!! It’s like, I read entire books in under 2 hours usually.

 

[american_fusilier]

I love books and reading, though it goes in spurts for me.

 

[Alan]

I'm a mix of old and new. Mostly sci-fi and fantasy.

Some books from JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, Philip Pullman, Robert Jordan, Stephen King, Tad Williams, Robin Hobb, Ursula LeGuinn and more.

Some from younger best selling fantasy authors too like Steven Erikson, Joe Abercrombie, Brandon Sanderson, Ken Liu, NK Jemisin and many more.

But the last book that stuck with me is The First law by Joe Abercrombie. Really good character development. The Stormlight Archive of Brandon Sanderson's got good worldbuilding.

 

[mattri]

By the one and only CH!

 

[MountainRider]

JRR Tolkien of course as it should be required reading just to be a kid. Beyond that, the writings of James A Michner, Isaac Asimov, Tom Clancy, and the Divergent series by Veronica Roth. Michner definitely tops the list though. I like history and his novels are all based on the history of an area of our world. His novels start out slow but lay out the basic information you need to understand the rest of the story. If you can get through the first three or four chapters, you're hooked. The Source, Caravans, Bridges of Toko-Ri, Poland, Texas, and Chesapeake are among my favorites.

 

[Shopdog]

Put the credit card down(Was spending $100 a month on non fiction).
Recovering book addict here... there I "said" it,bwahaha.

Two books sharing my attention "together" lately are;

"Clausewitz on Strategy"... Ghyczy,Oetinger,and Bassford 2001

Whilst also consuming,

"Bold Dragoon", the life of J.E.B. Stuart...Emory Thomas 1986

 

[mattri]

If you like historical fiction check out Bernard Cornwell.
His Saxon Stories are about the Vikings invasions of Britain and how England became a country.
The Sharpe series is about the Napoleonic wars. His characters are based on real people the places, events, battles etc are all historically accurate.

 

[Alan]

JRR Tolkien of course as it should be required reading just to be a kid. Beyond that, the writings of James A Michner, Isaac Asimov, Tom Clancy, and the Divergent series by Veronica Roth. Michner definitely tops the list though. I like history and his novels are all based on the history of an area of our world. His novels start out slow but lay out the basic information you need to understand the rest of the story. If you can get through the first three or four chapters, you're hooked. The Source, Caravans, Bridges of Toko-Ri, Poland, Texas, and Chesapeake are among my favorites.

I like Apple TV's Foundation. Divergent movie was not much but it was at the peak of YA distopian book to screen, so I still watched them.

 

[Alan]

By the one and only CH!

Thanks for the recoendation. I'll check tis out.

 

[Alan]

Put the credit card down(Was spending $100 a month on non fiction).
Recovering book addict here... there I "said" it,bwahaha.

Two books sharing my attention "together" lately are;

"Clausewitz on Strategy"... Ghyczy,Oetinger,and Bassford 2001

Whilst also consuming,

"Bold Dragoon", the life of J.E.B. Stuart...Emory Thomas 1986

Yeah, non-fiction can be expensive. Been a few months since I last read a non-fiction. I mostly read sales and marketing books.

 

[mattri]

For.nonfiction might check out Erik Larson.

The Splendid and the Vile, In the Garden of Beasts, Devil in the White City are all excellent.

 

[Shopdog]

Yeah, non-fiction can be expensive. Been a few months since I last read a non-fiction. I mostly read sales and marketing books.

Being as this forum is "mostly" non-fiction(bwahaha).... I'm now bronze.

 

[Alan]

For.nonfiction might check out Erik Larson.

The Splendid and the Vile, In the Garden of Beasts, Devil in the White City are all excellent.

Ah I remember The Devil in the White City was recommended to me. Haven't gotten to it. Will add him to my authors to check.

 

[Alan]

Being as this forum is "mostly" non-fiction(bwahaha).... I'm now bronze.

Awesome! Thanks for supporting.

Aaaaah, yeah, forgot this is mostly non-fiction, I didn't consider that. It's like a normal thing to read daily for me. Hah!

 

[Shopdog]

Robert Sternberg's "Teaching for Successful Intelligence" incoming.

Yes,this has Savage shooting application,or any shooting really. Hopefully,if you believe the reviews... it's a way of diagnosing an issue or problem... ex; why are my groups inconsistent...

This diagnostic approach isn't the way "normal" (classroom) teaching is being done? $17 off amazonia,added a pr of hunting pants to get that free shipping,bwahaha.

 

[Alan]

I'll check out Sternberg's

 

[Frontiersman]

Anyone from east of the Mississippi should take time to read “The Frontiersman”. You will learn a lot about the early days when we started to settle west of the original colonies. Ohio was considered West as was Indiana. Thats why we later became the midwest. Pre Lewis and Clark. The story follows a man named Simon Kenton, one of many frontiersman of the era as was Daniel Boone.

If you like Tolkein and CS lewis, you should read any of David Eddings books. Particularly the Belgariad series. Fantasy I suppose.

Any outdoorsman should be familiar with Jack London, Call of the Wild, To Build a Fire, Sea Wolf, White Fang

 

[mattri]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Second_After

 

[Odin Road]

I am not from east of the Mississippi, but totally agree with Frontiersman recommending Allan Eckerts' Frontiersman, assuming that is what he is referring to. An Eckert narrative is like the first potato chip from the bag, though. Stopping at one is beyond most of us. The entire Winning of America Series is worth your time.
For lighter reading Peter Bowens' Gabriel Du Pre series is fun. It centers around a decsendant of the Metis who fled into Montana following the failure of the Red River resistance in Canada. Du Pre is a brand inspector who gets sucked into various police investigations in his fictional Montana town. There are fifteen novels in the series, some of which can be difficult to find.