re: What are you reading?

Started the bad boy last night

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City of Thieves

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On my list. My next is a JFK bio. Everyone who enjoys the human mind has to read The Undoing Project. Fascinating story about two incredible men.

ETA: Dubosed is the best user name ever, especially for a Bama fan...

Was Dubose a Paul B, Jr pick?

Looking forward to the read.

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I have not read Brad Thor. I'm probably not going to stop the Rapp kick until I read the whole series. The shite that went down in Consent to Kill, it changed things like crazy

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I'm reading this one, again, right now. Almost done. I only have three of his, and I just finished those. American Assassain and Term Limits I believe is the other.

Here is my list for 2018:

The Hot Zone
Economics in One Lesson
The Demon-Haunted World
Undaunted Courage
The Name of the Wind
Washington's Crossing
Lawrence in Arabia
Napoleon (Roberts)

ETA: Finished Protect and Defend tonight and while it was slow the first 200 pages, the shite went down and too good to put down for the rest of the 203 pages.

Onto Extreme Measures.

This is another shout out to this board and my renewed interest into reading. It helps me so much to deal with other things going on in my life that I'll refrain from talking about.

On another note... I've noticed misspellings in every Flynn book I've read. I am reading the hard copies from my local library and I'm shocked. In the most recent it was a 'were' in the content surely called for a 'where'

Another was a name of a girlfriend of Rapp named Anna was in the book as 'Ana'. There are more but I can't recall them

I know this is small and petty shite but as one following the series, I'm a bit shocked at the editors sign off for the publication.

Hey Glassman!
Two of my favorites, right there, although Higgins seemed to get lazy after a while.

Always liked Forsyth, and his first two were written so well that the movies made from them are almost perfectly true without much alteration.

Just started:
Food of a Younger Land : A Portrait of American Food--Before the National Highway System, Before Chain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food, When the Nation's Food Was Seasonal by Mark Kurlansky.

Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the lies that led to Vietnam
By (Then Major, now Lt General and National Security Advisor) H. R. McMaster

I thought I knew quite a bit about the Vietnam War, but this book is eye opening. It does a great job of detailing the friction between JFK and the JCS and the measures Kennedy took to circumvent them. Also goes into LBJ's insecurities after assuming office. I'm only about 125 pages in, but it's good so far and I expect it to get better.