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Post by blacksun on Dec 23, 2019 21:44:53 GMT -5
I read everything by Lee Child, Mark Greaney and Nick Petrie. Just finished blue moon for Child
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Post by trailboss on Dec 23, 2019 22:40:53 GMT -5
Readers are leaders.
I wish that I had more time to read, I have a library that is neglected.
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Post by sperrytops on Dec 23, 2019 23:25:11 GMT -5
Like Charlie, stacks of books waiting to be read. Need time to read them. I keep picking them up at the bookstore and so the pile continually gets higher.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2019 9:34:46 GMT -5
Just finished Billion Dollar Spy. True story about cold war CIA Moscow station. Highly recommended and a fascinating book.
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Post by Kerley0319 on Dec 24, 2019 10:03:19 GMT -5
I read less often than I used to but still quite a bit. Reading The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Tis one of the Sherlock Holmes
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Post by papipeguy on Dec 24, 2019 11:15:36 GMT -5
I find myself reading mostly mysteries these days. Especially British mysteries though I also enjoy the whacky books by Carl Hiaassen. Off-beat characters and zany plot lines always offer great entertainment.
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Post by toshtego on Dec 24, 2019 11:23:21 GMT -5
PLenty of time for plenty of reading living in a cold spot.
I, too, enjoy English mysteries and historical fiction. Re-reading C.J. Sansome's "Matthew Shardlake" series, the hunchback lawyer detective in London working for Thomas Cromwell then Bishop Cranmer in King Henry VIII's Court. These are long books 600 to 900 pages each with much detail. I read the seven book series last winter and summer and began again. It can take me a couple of reads to appreciate a good book. Ask me how many times I have read Moby Dick or The Cruel Sea or The Sand Pebbles.
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Post by Penzaholic on Dec 24, 2019 11:28:54 GMT -5
life is way too short to spend time reading fiction. I have to read about actual things on this planet that are reality based. the last five years spending lots and lots of time in bed, I have read and read and read books as the library was right down the sidewalk from my apartment.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Dec 24, 2019 11:33:32 GMT -5
 Read all the time, rotate, fiction, then Bios, then counter intelligence spy crap. Also current news, gotta eep up!
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Post by trailboss on Dec 24, 2019 13:34:04 GMT -5
I would highly recommend anyone raising kids to set the example by reading in the evening and cutting the cord. I have taken it upon myself to read when the the gran-daughter stays over...I started reading the Ralph Moody's first book Little Britches to my and she enjoys it.
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Post by pepesdad1 on Dec 24, 2019 13:46:03 GMT -5
I read everything by Lee Child, Mark Greaney and Nick Petrie. Just finished blue moon for Child Like you, I have read everything he has written...he and Vince Flynn (Mitch Rapp fame)...one of the good aspects of old age is that with fading memory...I can read one of his books and within a year or two...having forgotten much of it, reread it again with the same enthusiasm as the first time. Right now I am reading Max Lerner's " America as a Civilization" (Vol. 1&2) written back in 1965, I used it to teach my high school classes back when I was a teacher of Psychology, Sociology and History. |
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Post by toshtego on Dec 24, 2019 14:55:16 GMT -5
life is way too short to spend time reading fiction. I have to read about actual things on this planet that are reality based. the last five years spending lots and lots of time in bed, I have read and read and read books as the library was right down the sidewalk from my apartment. I respectfully disagree about reading fiction but that is clearly your privilege. If I were to stay with a fact based diet I should be most depressed given the state of the world. Most fiction is grounded in some reality, at least what I read. |
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Post by qmechanics on Dec 25, 2019 19:48:47 GMT -5
While not necessarily favorites, I am reading R. Feist Flight of the Nighthawks, a book on Mass Spectrometry and one of NT Wright's tomes...
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Post by monbla256 on Dec 25, 2019 21:54:06 GMT -5
My fave are detective stories and my favorite detective is Maigret. I'm starting to read the stories in French to get the full flavor so to speak of the stories 
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Post by bigwoolie on Dec 26, 2019 17:49:58 GMT -5
I would highly recommend anyone raising kids to set the example by reading in the evening and cutting the cord. I have taken it upon myself to read when the the gran-daughter stays over...I started reading the Ralph Moody's first book Little Britches to my and she enjoys it. Ralph Moody is an excellent choice. All my kids loved those books. I'm currently not reading near as much as I used to. I need to get back to it. However, in the plus column, I don't watch TV or movies either. So there must be some sort of backwards balance in that.  |
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Post by Baboo on Dec 26, 2019 18:37:48 GMT -5
John Le Carre
Zane Grey
Louis L'Amour
Joe Weber
Jane Roberts (Seth)
Sci-fi
Dr. Oliver Sacks
Et al...
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Post by instymp on Dec 27, 2019 17:55:46 GMT -5
Read 1-2 books a week, most are fact/history based fiction.
I read for entertainment purposes only.
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Post by Goldbrick on Mar 5, 2020 21:43:44 GMT -5
I enjoy Fiction ,and I'm working my way through a collection of Clive Cussler "best sellers" about the adventures of detective Isaac Bell...a few weeks ago I finished The Race, and I just started The Thief...Next is a Kurt Austin adventure story,called The Storm... Nice lite reading for the porch swing and a pipe.
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 5, 2020 22:39:07 GMT -5
I used to read nothing but SF and fantasy but I started with a novel called The Snake by John Godey, then Cathedral by Nelson DeMille. Then everything I could find by DeMille. Then the Jack Ryan and John Clark books by Tom Clancy. Been reading everything from history, biography, historical fiction, and more but with plenty of SF and fantasy mixed in. Just finished Lincoln Child's Deep Storm, Larry Correa's Number One in Customer Service, and Zane Grey's Rainbow Canyon. I got into Westerns last year. And pretty anything else that I got my hands on.
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Post by Stearmandriver on Mar 6, 2020 3:47:25 GMT -5
I also respectfully disagree about fiction being any kind of waste of time. Certainly everyone should read what interests them, and I like science, history, biographies, philosophy and the rest too, but... I feel like the best fiction (what the critics and profs would probably call "literature") illuminates aspects of the human condition that are tough to get at in other ways. They don't just give you the facts surrounding a situation, they let you experience it for yourself, even if only in a minor way. In other words, sometimes fiction can be more "real" than non-fiction.
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Post by Legend Lover on Mar 6, 2020 9:34:48 GMT -5
I also respectfully disagree about fiction being any kind of waste of time. Certainly everyone should read what interests them, and I like science, history, biographies, philosophy and the rest too, but... I feel like the best fiction (what the critics and profs would probably call "literature") illuminates aspects of the human condition that are tough to get at in other ways. They don't just give you the facts surrounding a situation, they let you experience it for yourself, even if only in a minor way. In other words, sometimes fiction can be more "real" than non-fiction. I like escaping the real world for a while. Fiction helps me do that. It opens my imagination... That helps me in my work. |
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Post by toshtego on Mar 6, 2020 10:07:15 GMT -5
My fave are detective stories and my favorite detective is Maigret. I'm starting to read the stories in French to get the full flavor so to speak of the stories "Sink me! How you all speak that unspeakable language. Why it takes all my brains just to tie my Cravat!" -Sir Percival Blakeney, Baronet. The Scarlett Pimpernel |
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 6, 2020 11:36:47 GMT -5
My fave are detective stories and my favorite detective is Maigret. I'm starting to read the stories in French to get the full flavor so to speak of the stories "Sink me! How you all speak that unspeakable language. Why it takes all my brains just to tie my Cravat!" -Sir Percival Blakeney, Baronet. The Scarlett PimpernelIf I read a story in French, all I get out of it is a bunch of ugly sounding syllables. When I was a kid I didn't have any problems with the French words in Poe's stories, but they were limited and my brain has petrified since then. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 6, 2020 11:41:44 GMT -5
I also respectfully disagree about fiction being any kind of waste of time. Certainly everyone should read what interests them, and I like science, history, biographies, philosophy and the rest too, but... I feel like the best fiction (what the critics and profs would probably call "literature") illuminates aspects of the human condition that are tough to get at in other ways. They don't just give you the facts surrounding a situation, they let you experience it for yourself, even if only in a minor way. In other words, sometimes fiction can be more "real" than non-fiction. What non-fiction book can give you the experience of "A Tail of Two Cities", "Trinity" or "The Count of Monte Christo"? No sailing books can give you the feel of sailing like "Four Years Before the Mast" or the Master and Commander series. People who don't read fiction have a missing part of their character, the human part. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 6, 2020 11:43:59 GMT -5
I just started "A Republic, If You Can Keep It". Should be required reading for American citizenship.
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Post by toshtego on Mar 6, 2020 12:03:56 GMT -5
I prefer German words in English novels. Those, I can pronounce and figure out. Wish I had taken up German as a child. As an adult, I took lessons at the Göethe Institute in San Francisco. Wish I had stuck with it. Amazing language.
French, I enjoy but find it more of a challenge.
Reading a novel with lots of German since it is about the Enigma codebreakers at Bletchley Park during WWII following Alan Turning's contributions to the science. Appropriately titled Enigma, by Robert Harris, 1995.
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Post by toshtego on Mar 6, 2020 12:13:01 GMT -5
I just started "A Republic, If You Can Keep It". Should be required reading for American citizenship. Curious ot read your thoughts after completion. I read Robert Bork's book about his experience. I liked him during his brief Solicitor General days. He was quite the pipe smoker. Also, Rhenquist's autobiography. Not as flashy as Bork but an interesting guy in his own way. |
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Post by oldcajun123 on Mar 6, 2020 12:50:04 GMT -5
Reading Norwood, peckerwood trash said in jest, makes me laugh at some scenes and sayings.
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Post by mrlunting on Dec 14, 2020 17:38:56 GMT -5
I would highly recommend anyone raising kids to set the example by reading in the evening and cutting the cord. I have taken it upon myself to read when the the gran-daughter stays over...I started reading the Ralph Moody's first book Little Britches to my and she enjoys it. My mother read Wind in the Willows to me and I read to my little one. |
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Post by mrlunting on Dec 14, 2020 17:41:34 GMT -5
I enjoy George Orwell books.
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Read all the time, rotate, fiction, then Bios, then counter intelligence spy crap. Also current news, gotta eep up!
