Just finished " The Invisible Man " by H G Wells. Getting started in " The Space Trilogy " by CS Lewis. Always listening to a book at work as well that one is " Stone of Tears " by Terry Goodkind currently.
What are You Reading Now?
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Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried, after watching him interviewed on TV yesterday.
I just finished reading "Two Years Before the Mast" by Richard Henry Dana. I'd long heard of this book, but figured it was a novel. Not long ago, I learned that it was all factual, telling of Dana's two year voyage working as a common seaman on a trip from Boston, down around the Horn of South America, and his trip back in the 1830's, along with his stops in California, which was then pretty much a backwater of Mexico. All very accurate, and fascinating.
I couldn't afford an 1840 copy, but managed an 1858 edition which still gave me the satisfaction of reading off of old pages, printed back when sailing was still done that way.
HIGHLY recommended!
I couldn't afford an 1840 copy, but managed an 1858 edition which still gave me the satisfaction of reading off of old pages, printed back when sailing was still done that way.
HIGHLY recommended!
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Blandings Castle by P.G. Wodehouse.
Some Wodehouse, some St. Bruno & suddenly the world's a better & happier place!
Some Wodehouse, some St. Bruno & suddenly the world's a better & happier place!
I read this one years back, doing a re-read. I was telling my wife about this book and I realized I had forgotten much of what I read...
Fort does what he does best. He shines a light on the trouble our educational and science institutions have when they are faced with new facts, and the lengths the'll go to in order to make these problems go away.
The book was published in 1919, and it still rings true today.
Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
A few chapters into this, better than I had anticipated. His parents were holocaust survivors from Poland. My mother was a WWII refuge from Hungary, so some parallels (and in their patterns later in life).
Chaos :
By: Tom O’Neil
A journalist's 20-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history.
Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly no motive, the Manson Family followed their leader's every order - their crimes lit a flame of paranoia across the nation, spelling the end of the 60s. Manson became one of history's most infamous criminals, his name forever attached to an era when charlatans mixed with prodigies, free love was as possible as brainwashing, and utopia - or dystopia - was just an acid trip away.
Twenty years ago, when journalist Tom O'Neill was reporting a magazine piece about the murders, he worried there was nothing new to say. Then he unearthed shocking evidence of a cover-up behind the "official" story, including police carelessness, legal misconduct, and potential surveillance by intelligence agents. When a tense interview with Vincent Bugliosi - prosecutor of the Manson Family, and author of Helter Skelter - turned a friendly source into a nemesis, O'Neill knew he was onto something. But every discovery brought more questions:
By: Tom O’Neil
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A journalist's 20-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history.
Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly no motive, the Manson Family followed their leader's every order - their crimes lit a flame of paranoia across the nation, spelling the end of the 60s. Manson became one of history's most infamous criminals, his name forever attached to an era when charlatans mixed with prodigies, free love was as possible as brainwashing, and utopia - or dystopia - was just an acid trip away.
Twenty years ago, when journalist Tom O'Neill was reporting a magazine piece about the murders, he worried there was nothing new to say. Then he unearthed shocking evidence of a cover-up behind the "official" story, including police carelessness, legal misconduct, and potential surveillance by intelligence agents. When a tense interview with Vincent Bugliosi - prosecutor of the Manson Family, and author of Helter Skelter - turned a friendly source into a nemesis, O'Neill knew he was onto something. But every discovery brought more questions:
- Who were Manson's real friends in Hollywood, and how far would they go to hide their ties?
- Why didn't law enforcement, including Manson's own parole officer, act on their many chances to stop him?
- And how did Manson-an illiterate ex-con-turn a group of peaceful hippies into remorseless killers?
I read this book when I was about 10 years old. I bought most of the series.
I picked it up this week and since I have read everything in the house, I started reading this again. I'm about 5 chapters in.
Has anyone else read this series?
I picked it up this week and since I have read everything in the house, I started reading this again. I'm about 5 chapters in.
Has anyone else read this series?
I read it and I think it’s really fun. My wife is super into the series and read a load of them.
I finally tracked down a copy of this for a reasonable price. It’s a shame his books aren’t in print anymore.
I'm currently reading my way through the C. J. Sansom Shardlake series, basically Tudor England detective stories, featuring events like the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the Progress to the North. Great reads. I'm currently on number 4:
Great book...and if you liked it, I'd highly recommend this one also:
The Ultimate Evil: The Search for the Sons of Sam
