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Recommend a good book that grabs your attention from cover to cover?
Posted on 12/23/19 at 4:42 pm
Posted on 12/23/19 at 4:42 pm
I have a 3.5 hour plan ride coming up and looking for something compelling to read during my trip.
Posted on 12/24/19 at 11:48 am to Hammond Tiger Fan
Power of the Dog.
Posted on 12/24/19 at 8:57 pm to Hammond Tiger Fan
The Holocaust: The Human Tragedy by Martin Gilbert
Posted on 12/24/19 at 10:40 pm to Hammond Tiger Fan
Tick Tock by Koontz.....extremely fast paced and I read it cover to cover in one sitting.
Posted on 12/25/19 at 2:10 am to Hammond Tiger Fan
Kings of the Wyld
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A retired group of legendary mercenaries get the band back together for one last impossible mission in this award-winning debut epic fantasy. "Fantastic, funny, ferocious." - Sam Sykes Clay Cooper and his band were once the best of the best, the most feared and renowned crew of mercenaries this side of the Heartwyld. Their glory days long past, the mercs have grown apart and grown old, fat, drunk, or a combination of the three. Then an ex-bandmate turns up at Clay's door with a plea for help--the kind of mission that only the very brave or the very stupid would sign up for. It's time to get the band back together.
Posted on 1/8/20 at 1:33 pm to Hammond Tiger Fan
"Hard to Handle" by Steve Gorman (drummer of the Black Crowes). I couldn't put the book down, and I'm usually not one of those type readers who can read a book fast like that. It's that good.
Posted on 1/8/20 at 2:51 pm to bayoubengals88
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The Nix
I absolutely hated this book. It got rave reviewed from snobby literature critics but it was just drivel.
An entire chapter about a guy having a pulmonary embolism that was just one really long sentence. It was pure self indulgence by the author.
Now to be fair, the subplot with the hot but stupid college student was good social satire. Otherwise the entire book was garbage.
Posted on 1/8/20 at 4:17 pm to Scruffy
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Kings of the Wyld
Got this on Audible. It's one of my go to "I don't know what I want to listen to but I want something fun" books.
Posted on 1/9/20 at 9:33 am to Hammond Tiger Fan
Any Crichton except Airframe.
Made the mistake of reading that one on a plane. Excellent book, but not in that setting.
Tai-Pan
Shogun
Gorky Park
Any Terry Pratchett (City Watch are my favorite, followed by Unseen University)
Travis Magee novels
Elmore Leonard novels
Made the mistake of reading that one on a plane. Excellent book, but not in that setting.
Tai-Pan
Shogun
Gorky Park
Any Terry Pratchett (City Watch are my favorite, followed by Unseen University)
Travis Magee novels
Elmore Leonard novels
Posted on 1/23/20 at 8:10 am to Hammond Tiger Fan
Christopher Moore - Fool
It's a funny take on Shakespeare's King Lear. It's a hilarious book, and i need to read it again.
The other night, i was going through my library of books at home, and just thinking of books i've read, that were memorable, and that i would read again. This was one of them. Here are some that i can think of off hand.
Fool by Christopher Moore
Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett - Fiction, setting of WW2. Spies, assassins, etc... fantastic read
Camel Club by David Baldacci - Fiction, Group of eccentric people living in DC, who meet regularly, until one day, tragedy strikes one of the members. However, another one of the members was a former special forces/cia assassin and will get to the bottom of it. The entire series of books are great, but the first was the best, IMO.
Whatever you do, don't run by Peter Allison - Nonfiction, Stories from a safari guide in Africa.
Beyond Band of Brothers by Dick Winters - WW2 about easy company 501st
Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends by Bill Guarnere - another WW2 about easy company 501st
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain - Nonfiction. Bourdain's first book about "kitchen life"
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark: Blackwood’s Guide to Dangerous Fairies by Guillermo Del Toro - Fiction. This was a companion book to the movie "Don't be afraid of the dark". Never watched the movie, but the book was pretty good and creepy.
Agent ZigZap - NonFiction, WW2 spies. Very fascinating book, and it reads almost like a fiction book. Until you get to the end, which gets a little subdued and boring. But otherwise, a good book.
The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte - Fiction. The movie "The Ninth Gate" was based on this book. Book about a rare book "finder" looking for a book for a client, purported to be written by the devil himself. It's a little strange, but overall a good book.
ETA: Keep in mind, i'm not a book/literature snob. I read books for entertainment and because i love history.
It's a funny take on Shakespeare's King Lear. It's a hilarious book, and i need to read it again.
The other night, i was going through my library of books at home, and just thinking of books i've read, that were memorable, and that i would read again. This was one of them. Here are some that i can think of off hand.
Fool by Christopher Moore
Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett - Fiction, setting of WW2. Spies, assassins, etc... fantastic read
Camel Club by David Baldacci - Fiction, Group of eccentric people living in DC, who meet regularly, until one day, tragedy strikes one of the members. However, another one of the members was a former special forces/cia assassin and will get to the bottom of it. The entire series of books are great, but the first was the best, IMO.
Whatever you do, don't run by Peter Allison - Nonfiction, Stories from a safari guide in Africa.
Beyond Band of Brothers by Dick Winters - WW2 about easy company 501st
Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends by Bill Guarnere - another WW2 about easy company 501st
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain - Nonfiction. Bourdain's first book about "kitchen life"
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark: Blackwood’s Guide to Dangerous Fairies by Guillermo Del Toro - Fiction. This was a companion book to the movie "Don't be afraid of the dark". Never watched the movie, but the book was pretty good and creepy.
Agent ZigZap - NonFiction, WW2 spies. Very fascinating book, and it reads almost like a fiction book. Until you get to the end, which gets a little subdued and boring. But otherwise, a good book.
The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte - Fiction. The movie "The Ninth Gate" was based on this book. Book about a rare book "finder" looking for a book for a client, purported to be written by the devil himself. It's a little strange, but overall a good book.
ETA: Keep in mind, i'm not a book/literature snob. I read books for entertainment and because i love history.
This post was edited on 1/23/20 at 8:21 am
Posted on 1/23/20 at 10:40 am to BugAC
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BugAC
Have you read Lamb? I loved it
Posted on 1/23/20 at 11:33 am to LordSnow
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Have you read Lamb? I loved it
I did. I didn't finish it. I do own it though.
Posted on 1/26/20 at 7:08 pm to Hammond Tiger Fan
Anything by Bernard Cornwell
Posted on 1/27/20 at 9:04 am to biglego
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Anything by Bernard Cornwell
And you can finish them really quickly.
Posted on 1/28/20 at 11:48 am to pvilleguru
Paradise Alley by Kevin Baker. Takes place during the draft riots of NYC during the Civil War. Scorcese's Gangs of New York touches on the same subject but this book is infinitely better and more historically broad. One of the best books I've ever read.
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