What are You Reading Now?

[crawdad]

Camping and Woodcraft - Horace Kephart. I read this every year prior to spring.

 

[KafkaStoleMyBike]

“Swan Song” by Robert McCammon. Nuclear winter and warheads scatter survivors to the wind, with some supernatural elements that make this an enjoyable read. A washed-up professional wrestler, a little girl, a junkie, a shoe salesman, a young boy, and a retired soldier all have intertwined stories as they grapple with a hostile remnants of our world.

It reads a lot like King’s ”The Stand”, with similar slower pace and flawed-yet-likeable characters. It definitely tickles my post-apocalyptic itch.

 

[Chasing Embers]

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“Swan Song” by Robert McCammon. Nuclear winter and warheads scatter survivors to the wind, with some supernatural elements that make this an enjoyable read. A washed-up professional wrestler, a little girl, a junkie, a shoe salesman, a young boy, and a retired soldier all have intertwined stories as they grapple with a hostile remnants of our world.

It reads a lot like King’s ”The Stand”, with similar slower pace and flawed-yet-likeable characters. It definitely tickles my post-apocalyptic itch.

Read that one back in the '80s. The Job's Mask transformations always fascinated me, and the description of Sue Wanda's appearance after her mask came off was very dream like.

You might also enjoy Paula Volsky's "Illusion".

 

[ukbob]

Chastise ( The Dambusters Story 1943 ) by Max Hastings.

 

[ssjones]

"Lucifer's Hammer" by Jerry Pournell and Larry Niven

I enjoyed that when it came out.

 

[ssjones]

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“Swan Song” by Robert McCammon. Nuclear winter and warheads scatter survivors to the wind, with some supernatural elements that make this an enjoyable read. A washed-up professional wrestler, a little girl, a junkie, a shoe salesman, a young boy, and a retired soldier all have intertwined stories as they grapple with a hostile remnants of our world.

It reads a lot like King’s ”The Stand”, with similar slower pace and flawed-yet-likeable characters. It definitely tickles my post-apocalyptic itch.

I really enjoyed that one. I recommend in that vein:
Station Eleven
The Dog Stars - Peter Heller
The Road - Cormac McCarthy

And the best, one of my favorite books of all time:
George R. Stewart, Earth Abides (1949)
It reads like it was written yesterday.

 

[ssjones]

Reading The Company now, its very good. One part of the story line deals with a Hungarian revolutionist fleeing the country after the revolution failed, detailing her harrowing escape. My mother fled Hungary twice, and has a similar story, so hit close to home.

 

[RonB]

Chastise ( The Dambusters Story 1943 ) by Max Hastings.

This looks interesting. Thanks for the tip!

Ron

 

[KafkaStoleMyBike]

I really enjoyed that one. I recommend in that vein:
Station Eleven
The Dog Stars - Peter Heller
The Road - Cormac McCarthy

And the best, one of my favorite books of all time:
George R. Stewart, Earth Abides (1949)
It reads like it was written yesterday.

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You’re quoting some of my favorites! I have Earth Abides in my “to read” shelf and will add the next!

 

[alaskanpiper]

James Michener's The Covenant

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Lee Child's latest Jack Reacher novel.

 

[Gus]

I have finished, "Kidnapped" by Robert Louis Stevenson"



Now start to reading, "Knockemstiff" by Donald Ray Pollock

 

[Merton]

I have Been reading "Ship pf Dreams: The sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era" by Gareth Russell. Great read. I have read a lot of books about the Titanic over the past 40 years or so, and this is one of the very best. Lots of facts and imagery and very interesting commentary regarding the Edwardian period itself. While an interest in the Titanic is helpful, there are lots of fascinating things in this volume. You also do not need to be well versed in Titanic lore or for that matter even know very much at all about the subject.

 

[olkofri]

My credit card statement... oh shit!

 

[carlomarx]

"Exile's Return" Malcolm Cowley

 

[Servant King]

Bechamp or Pasteur? A Lost Chapter in the History of Biology, by Ethel D. Hume (1942 orig. publication). Eerily relevant, considering the state of things for the last year. So far, 5/5.

 

[brian64]

My credit card statement... oh shit!

I tried to talk you out of buying those 100 tins of Latakia Rolls.

 

[olkofri]

I tried to talk you out of buying those 100 tins of Latakia Rolls.

Hmm, maybe you did have a point: don't hit SPC when drunk... ?

 

[kcghost]

I reading Raymond Chandler's "The Big Sleep" with Philip Marlowe.

 

[olkofri]

Just re-started this:

I bought that one about 15 years ago; started reading it about 10 years ago, but then stopped and lost track of where I had been.