What are you reading?

Re:What are you reading? (Sundancer7)

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:46:15 GMT

porkbeaks

Nice pick! Does it still have a dust cover?

http://www.amazon.com/Tra...8791958&sr=1-1-catcorr

It has a dust cover and the pages are beginning to yellow but still very readable. Great adventure story. No wonder it won a pulitzer prize

Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

Re:What are you reading? (chewingthefat)

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:29:03 GMT

Thanks to Mayor Al, I just bought the latest Tom Clancy novel, at good old Costco, can't even remember the Title, also got Kill Shot, Vince Flynn's latest, Mitch Rapp, oh yeah!
Fishtaco, you on these?

Re:What are you reading? (BackRhodes)

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:27:05 GMT

How To Repair Food...by Marina & John Bear...10 Speed Press...ISBN 0-89815-555-X

Re:What are you reading? (kland01s)

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:11:37 GMT

chewingthefat

kland01s

Not sure the title of what I'm reading something like the Kindness of Strangers about a guy who travels across the US without any money or transportation in search of the meaning of life. Best part...... I'm reading it on my new Kindle!!! A freebie.

Is it a Lee Child book, Jack Reacher carachter?

No, the book is non fiction

http://www.goodreads.com/.../4619640.Mike_McIntyre

Re:What are you reading? (porkbeaks)

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:58:03 GMT

Nice pick! Does it still have a dust cover?

http://www.amazon.com/Tra...8791958&sr=1-1-catcorr

Re:What are you reading? (Sundancer7)

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:33:09 GMT

I read quite a lot and I buy most of my books used at McKays in Knoxville. Outside they have a bin that has free books that nobody wants. I saw one that caught my eye. "The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters". It looked interesting to me so I picked it up and thought no more about it. I googled it and it turns out that it is out of print and the author "Robert lewis Taylor" won a pulitzer prize for this novel about a 14 year old boy traveling across the USA from Louisville in the 1850's. It is Huckleberry Finn on Steroids. Hard copies of it that are in good shape was listed for sale at $100.00 on Amazon. This paperback sold for .95 42 years ago. Double outstanding.

Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

Re:What are you reading? (jaylhorner)

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:24:30 GMT

Sixth Man - David Baldacci. Tough one to put down!

Re:What are you reading? (mayor al)

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:54:03 GMT

I just finished Tom Clancy's "Locked On", the latest of the Jack Ryan series. It is a bit jumpy and pretty unrealistic, but one of the hero's gets chased thru Tom Caudills neighborhood in Maryland, AND I like the Ryan (Senior) character, so I stuck with it thruout...

Re:What are you reading? (dimmie2)

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:10:47 GMT

Twilight Eyes by Dean Koontz

Re:What are you reading? (leethebard)

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:32:52 GMT

Quick Fixes by F. Paul Wilson....short stories about Repairman Jack!!!

Re:What are you reading? (FriedTater)

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:00:10 GMT

"17 Day Diet" which will take more than that to accomphish!

Re:What are you reading? (Treetop Tom)

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:13:27 GMT

I think it would be OK for a 12-year old and he would probably enjoy the dinosaur hunting parts of the story, but there is a love-interest and murder mystery storyline mixed in that he might not find appealing. I think it may have one instance of the "F" word, too.

Re:What are you reading? (Salustra)

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:17:57 GMT

Question for Treetop Tom -
Is "The Dinosaur Hunter" appropriate (content and reading-level wise) for a 12 year old boy? My friends' son has said since he was 4 that he's going to be a paleontologist. Come to think of it, reading level is probably not an issue - he's above average in that area, so only the content question remains. Thanks.

Re:What are you reading? (Treetop Tom)

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:12:30 GMT

Just finished Homer Hickam's latest novel, "The Dinosaur Hunter" about amateur paleontologists in Montana. Not as spectacular as his Coalwood Trilogy (October Sky, The Coalwood Way, and Sky of Stone) which were memoirs of his growing up in coal country. His first novel of the three was made into the movie "Rocket Boys", which is an anagram of the book's title, October Sky.

Re:What are you reading? (Davydd)

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:08:34 GMT

Larry Millet is a Twin Cities architectural historian and former St. Paul Pioneer Press reporter.

http://www.larrymillett.com/

Re:What are you reading? (cavandre)

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:14:50 GMT

Sherlock Holmes & the Red Demon...by John H. Watson, M.D.; edited by Larry Millett

Supposed "lost" Watson manuscript of a Holmes case set in Minn. Millett does a good job of capturing Doyle's style & spirit.

Re:What are you reading? (MetroplexJim)

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:07:50 GMT

jman

Ameritopia by "The Great One".

Ditto.

Great stuff!

Re:What are you reading? (carlton pierre)

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:33:52 GMT

A fascinating book titled " Grant's Final Victory" about the last year of his life. Really amazing.
And another, "Beaten, Sauced, and Seared" by Jonathan Dixon a recent graduate of the Culinary Institute of America ( CIA).

Re:What are you reading? (jman)

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:34:04 GMT

Ameritopia by "The Great One".

Re:What are you reading? (Davydd)

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:07:14 GMT

Now I am reading "Guide to the Alaska Highway" by Ron Dalby in prep for our summer drive to Alaska.

Re:What are you reading? (leethebard)

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:55:02 GMT

Reading my absolute favorite current author, F. Paul Wilson's just re-released REPRISAL...one hell of a read!!!!

Re:What are you reading? (jaylhorner)

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:41:01 GMT

The Affair - Lee Child. Can't put it down!

Re:What are you reading? (Davydd)

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:59:54 GMT

I just finished a Kindle book, Race Against the Machine How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee.

Re:What are you reading? (improviser)

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:21:26 GMT

Been reading quiet a bit lately. Finished two books from the Hard Case Crime imprint, which publishes a mixture of original and vintage crime novels. I got HCC books from Lawrence Block, The Girl With The Long Green Heart and A Diet of Treacle. Enjoyed them both quite a bit. The Girl With The Long Green Heart is about a couple of grifters pulling one over on what they think is the perfect mark. A Diet of Treacle is set on the outskirts of the "Beat" world of 1950s NYC. It's pretty dark.

Also read Michael Connelly's The Brass Verdict which brings together his Harry Bosch and Mickey Halley series into one book and his A Darkness More Than Night, which also features Bosch. I really like Michael Connelly.

Re:What are you reading? (carlton pierre)

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:19:41 GMT

I just finished an excellent little book called "Preachin' The Blues" about the blues singer Son House. Well written and a quick read, I spent most of Saturday reading it and really enjoyed it.

Re:What are you reading? (chewingthefat)

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 12:15:41 GMT

Reading Stuart Wood's latest, DC Dead! Stone Barrington, my man!

Re:What are you reading? (chewingthefat)

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 12:15:07 GMT

Readind Stuart Wood's latest, DC Dead! Stone Barrington, my man!

Re:What are you reading? (chewingthefat)

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 12:13:09 GMT

kland01s

Not sure the title of what I'm reading something like the Kindness of Strangers about a guy who travels across the US without any money or transportation in search of the meaning of life. Best part...... I'm reading it on my new Kindle!!! A freebie.

Is it a Lee Child book, Jack Reacher carachter?

Re:What are you reading? (kland01s)

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 09:15:19 GMT

Not sure the title of what I'm reading something like the Kindness of Strangers about a guy who travels across the US without any money or transportation in search of the meaning of life. Best part...... I'm reading it on my new Kindle!!! A freebie.

Re:What are you reading? (leethebard)

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 08:09:56 GMT

In the last two weeks, finished Steven King's # 1 best seller...and it deserves to be (11/23/63) is the type you read, you can't put down. Highly recommended. Finished Rin Tin Tin : The life and the legend.....the story of how that movie and TV legend came to be. Very interesting. As I am a Shakespeare nut, started reading a 1976 book(slightley dated facts, but interesting)London Theatre: From the Globe to the National.