What Are You Reading?

[Anonymous]

Just received and started reading The Health Benefits of Tobacco:A Smokers Paradox by Dr. William Douglas. An excellent in depth study of medical reports and reporting that are controlled by the drug and insurance industry and their loathing of smoking and smokers; and the lies and discrimination being fed to the public by them and their controlled media outlets. Dr. Douglas' remedy for most everything: "smoke three stogies a day, but don't inhale". He believes and uses medical evidence to argue that Tobacco used in moderation actually has many health benefits. He does push cigars as that's his preference, but mentions pipes and cigarettes as well. Highly recommended reading for those who must defend their hobby before family & friends. I got mine through Amazon for $27 last week but notice now they have shot up to $65, I guess the puppet masters are trying to keep it from the masses :twisted: .

 

[Al in Canada]

I just finished "The Trigger" by Arthur C. Clarke & Michael Kube-McDowell. SF novel about the problems and reactions to the invention of a device that incapacitates Guns and any other Nitrate based explosive weapon. Explores how it affects the politicians, the military, the police, criminals, NRA, and everyone else. Well thought out exploration of the "what if" of an invention that some people would think of as a "dream come true" and others a "nightmare".

Just starting Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan's "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for who We Are".

With all the references to Holmes I have decided to root out my copies of the "Solar Pons" stories of August Derleth. For those of you who hunger for "more" Holmes stories, Derleth wrote a good pastiche starring Solar Pons. Derleth is better known today as the publisher of H. P. Lovecraft, than for his own writing, which was prolific. http://www.derleth.org/autobiog.htm

With the recent death of a friend who introduced me to Louis L'amour's novels i will be working my way through them again this summer, probably starting with Sackett novels.

Al (in Canada)

 

[kilted1]

Recently finished 'A Rumor of War' by Philip Caputo, currently reading 'The Confessions of Nat Turner' By William Styron. Man I hope there are books in 'the next place' so many to read, so little time ...

 

[Winslow]

War Without Garlands by Kershaw.War on the Eastern Front 1941-42.
Interesting read if you like Military History,soldier's viewpoint of the war.

Winslow :sunny:

 

[Tennessee Dave]

Just finished a reread of the Hobbitt and the LOTR trilogy. Now reading Icewind Dale Trilogy. On a real fantasy kick lately. Any recommendations for "got to read" fantasy would be appreciated.

 

[flytyer]

Just finished Public Enemies-Americas Greatest Crime Wave and The
Birth of The F.B.I. 1933-34
Was a decent read and well researched, but for some reason i dont think the movie is going to capture what the book did.

 

[SmokeyTweed]

Just finished a reread of the Hobbitt and the LOTR trilogy. Now reading Icewind Dale Trilogy. On a real fantasy kick lately. Any recommendations for "got to read" fantasy would be appreciated.

You'll love the icewind dale trilogy but you should really read "Homeland", "Exile" and Sojourn first by R.A.Salvatore they are the trilogy that came before the icewind dale trilogy.

I really recommend the War of the Spider Queen series, its a six-part series that is all about the drow. but read those other two trilogies first.

 

[Winslow]

Just got two first person accounts of war on the Eastern Front from Amazon.
"History of the Waffen SS on the Eastern Front" and memoir of an SS soldier.

Winslow :sunny:

 

[Anonymous]

A friend at work let me borrow Stuff White People Like, which is a satirical view of Politically Correct white people. Very entertaining so far.

 

[LV9]

"The savage detectives" by Roberto bolano. interesting read about the exploits o0f a group poets that called themselves the visceral realists.

 

[Anonymous]

Started Steinbecks Cannery Row, such a great story from a great author.

 

[babysinister]

Stalin: In the Court of the Red Tsar, by Simon Sebag Montefiore. Astonishing recent research from the liberated Soviet archives, as well as a myriad interviews with surviving witnesses, confirming and expanding the charges against Stalinism and his successors. A detailed, perceptive and well-analyzed account of the Stalin court seen from the perspective of Stalin's turbulent and intermingled political and personal relationships, expanding into the "democidal" policies in the thirties and then the Kremlin's collusion with Hitler and Ribbentrop, followed by the vast war with Nazi Germany in the forties. One of the few books in the last few years that I have been absolutely unable to put down, despite its considerable but necessary length.

 

[Winslow]

Thanks for the information about the Stalin book.I have read many WW2 books
over the years,recently reading much about the Eastern Front including
"Ivans War",a book gleaned from interviews with former soldiers and Party members
which would have been impossible in Stalins time.
There is a Polish movie called "Katyn",recently released,that is a powerful look
at Stalin's brutal methods of terror.See it if you can.

Winslow :sunny:

 

[Dillon]

Finished reading Heinrich Böll's The Clown last week. Very good, even better if you dislike Catholics and have an interest in comedy itself. It's written as a memoir of a down-and-out 28-year-old clown in 1963 West Germany who is watching his personal relationships and his communities change as Catholicism and socialism duke it out in postwar Europe. He does an excellent job of pointing out how a lust for power lies at the very bottom of both groups in society and neither are really that moral at all (especially the Catholics, he really hates Catholics), and as a clown how he is utterly lost and confused as to how to make fun of them. Böll is a very personal writer, and a lot of the book is the clown figuring out for himself what kind of people he's around. Might be hard to find, but I think a lot of readers can easily connect.

Don't know what to read next. I feel more like reading philosophy than fiction. Maybe Dostoevsky, or I could finally read Faust.

 

[Eulenburg]

Le Roman de Saint-Pétersbourg by Vladimir Fédorovski.

A "Saint Petersburgh confidential" about the great city commanded to be built by Tsar Peter the Great in the Eightenth Century.

 

[Anonymous]

Finished Cannery Row & started Of Mice & Men. :study: ipe:

 

[hunter1127]

For all Sherlock fans, just finished Laurie King's " The Language of Bees", latest in series of Mary Russell mysteries. All are higly recommended. Half way thru Caleb Carr's " The Italian Secretary"another take on Holmes Mystique.

 

[Puff Daddy]

Finished Cannery Row & started Of Mice & Men. :study: ipe:

I love Steinbeck, my favorite American author. Ya gotta read The Winter of our Discontent and Travels with Charley, wonderful stuff!

 

[RonA3597]

The Buffalo Soldiers, A Narrative of the ***** Cavalry in the West. This is about the 9th and 10th Cavalry in the Indian Wars on the Southern plains. Fought with tenacity, vigor, and honor, all while getting the short end of the stick in supplies and respect. A good read.

 

[docwatson]

Stone Cold, by David Baldacci. I really enjoy the tomes written by this author being mostly connected with CIA, FBI and other notorious organizations. Haven't been disappointed with any of his books, quick reads, good story lines, and thoroughly entertaining.
Doc