For the book readers on STR, what are you reading?
- Thread starter gooseaholic
- Start date
MojoCP
New Member
Steve C
Team Sausages 2012
I went on a bit of a Song of Ice and Fire bender... I listened to the first four books in less than a month. Then the fifth in six days. I feel lucky that I listened to all of the books together.
Books four and five really set up a lot. Not a ton of closure, but, that's to be expected in a seven part series I guess.
Hopefully we get book six sooner than six years!
I've just recently started Stephen Kings Gunslinger. I'll let you know how the Dark Tower series goes!!
quazi
New Member
The Upside of the Downturn: Ten Management Strategies to Prevail in the Recession and Thrive in the Aftermath by Geoff Colvin. I am about a third of the way through it and have already found value in it.
A D NOH
Custom Newbie Title
I am now reading this
What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World
http://www.amazon.com/What-Wish-Knew-When-Was/dp/0061735191
By Tina Seelig, executive director of the entrepreneurship center at Stanford's School of Engineering
What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World
http://www.amazon.com/What-Wish-Knew-When-Was/dp/0061735191
By Tina Seelig, executive director of the entrepreneurship center at Stanford's School of Engineering
MojoCP
New Member
I am now wishing I had the audio. I've been burning through pages when I'm not at work. I started reading about 4 weeks ago. Eyes bleeding.
sasquatch9billion
Active Member
"Our band could be your life." If you're a fan of b. flag, missoin of burma, sonic youth,screaming trees; basically any band that layed the foundation for modern punk or "indie," music it's worth your time.
I had no idea greg ginn (black flag/sst,) was raymond pettibon's ( artist,) brother. Just cool stuff like that.
I had no idea greg ginn (black flag/sst,) was raymond pettibon's ( artist,) brother. Just cool stuff like that.
El Rolo
its just ahead
- Joined
- Dec 4, 2007
- Messages
- 426
- Reaction score
- 0
Confessions of an economic hit man by John Perkins. True story from an insider who will provide a interesting perspective of modern US imperialism from saudi Arabia, panama, Iraq and just about every other country where US business have been working in developing countries.
Just finished this Audiobook. A very inspiring true story!
Until Tuesday by Luis Carlos Montalvan
We aren't just service dog and master; Tuesday and I are also best friends. Kindred souls. Brothers. Whatever you want to call it. We weren't made for each other, but we turned out to be exactly what the other needed."
A highly decorated captain in the U.S. Army, Luis Montalvan never backed down from a challenge during his two tours of duty in Iraq. After returning home from combat, however, the pressures of his physical wounds, traumatic brain injury, and crippling post-traumatic stress disorder began to take their toll. Haunted by the war and in constant physical pain, he soon found himself unable to climb a simple flight of stairs or face a bus ride to the VA hospital. He drank; he argued; ultimately, he cut himself off from those he loved. Alienated and alone, unable to sleep or bend over without pain, he began to wonder if he would ever recover.
Then Luis met Tuesday, a beautiful and sensitive golden retriever trained to assist the disabled. Tuesday had lived amongst prisoners and at a home for troubled boys, blessing many lives; he could turn on lights, open doors, and sense the onset of anxiety and flashbacks. But because of a unique training situation and sensitive nature, he found it difficult to trust in or connect with a human being until Luis.
Until Tuesday is the story of how two wounded warriors, who had given so much and suffered the consequences, found salvation in each other. It is a story about war and peace, injury and recovery, psychological wounds and spiritual restoration. But more than that, it is a story about the love between a man and dog, and how together they healed each other's souls.
©2011 Luis Carlos Montalvan (P)2011 Audible, Inc.
Until Tuesday by Luis Carlos Montalvan
We aren't just service dog and master; Tuesday and I are also best friends. Kindred souls. Brothers. Whatever you want to call it. We weren't made for each other, but we turned out to be exactly what the other needed."
A highly decorated captain in the U.S. Army, Luis Montalvan never backed down from a challenge during his two tours of duty in Iraq. After returning home from combat, however, the pressures of his physical wounds, traumatic brain injury, and crippling post-traumatic stress disorder began to take their toll. Haunted by the war and in constant physical pain, he soon found himself unable to climb a simple flight of stairs or face a bus ride to the VA hospital. He drank; he argued; ultimately, he cut himself off from those he loved. Alienated and alone, unable to sleep or bend over without pain, he began to wonder if he would ever recover.
Then Luis met Tuesday, a beautiful and sensitive golden retriever trained to assist the disabled. Tuesday had lived amongst prisoners and at a home for troubled boys, blessing many lives; he could turn on lights, open doors, and sense the onset of anxiety and flashbacks. But because of a unique training situation and sensitive nature, he found it difficult to trust in or connect with a human being until Luis.
Until Tuesday is the story of how two wounded warriors, who had given so much and suffered the consequences, found salvation in each other. It is a story about war and peace, injury and recovery, psychological wounds and spiritual restoration. But more than that, it is a story about the love between a man and dog, and how together they healed each other's souls.
©2011 Luis Carlos Montalvan (P)2011 Audible, Inc.
rjcsocal
Member
Finished up "Slaying the Badger" a while back. In hard bound, I'm currently reading "Lost in Shangri-La" -- a completely different non-fiction book of survival, adventure and rescue during World War II (not a battle story). On the iPad, I'm reading Krakauer's "Where Men Win Glory" about Pat Tillman; "The Greatest Trade Ever" about John Paulson's hedge fund/positioning in the run up to the financial crisis (which may prove to be a one-hit wonder since he has been slaughtered this summer).
Just finished Bossy Pants on Audiobook.
My list right now (big change of pace):
Heat Transfer, Introductory Nuclear Physics, Introduction to the Thermodynamics of Materials, Nuclear Power Engineering
](*,)
My list right now (big change of pace):
Heat Transfer, Introductory Nuclear Physics, Introduction to the Thermodynamics of Materials, Nuclear Power Engineering
](*,)
TranceRider
No, I don't Ride a GIANT
I'm reading "10 Minute Toughness" by Jason Selk - it has been a great help to increase my MTB riding confidence on the trail
shudder
no big deal
I recently finished off the entire Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire; and, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest). A couple of other folks here -- denmo and bvader, just to name two -- look to have either read it or listened to it, at least to the first book. Really a damned shame that Mr. Larsson died so unexpectedly (and before his books were even published -- bummer!!). He had many more books in the works (he was already at work on fourth and fifth books in the series, and wanted to do ten of them altogether!). I'm now in the process of reading the slim volume On Stieg Larsson that accompanied with my hardbacks -- loads of info and email threads in there. Very cool stuff on who he was.
Apparently he would have been horrified at the final names chosen for the books (all indicated above). He unwaveringly stuck to his original title up until his death -- it was to be: Men Who Hate Women. The second book (Fire) was going to have a similar name. Now, there's a couple of stocking stuffers for you...
I saw the first movie (with subtitles) a few months ago (after finishing the first book). It's very dark, and very good, but like any movie out there, they had to go point to point really quickly in order to move the story along in a way that works for motion pictures (not much time spent in people's heads as the book does). As a for instance of something skipped (hopefully not a spoiler for you), there is absolutely NO REFERENCE in the movie at all to the relationship between two of the main characters in the book, and it's kind of an important one! Something about that relationship, and how it affects other characters' perception, sets up the second book. I've not yet seen the second or third movies, but it will be interesting to see how they develop the beginning of the second without having the jumping off point of how the first book ends.
I'm also very interested to see how Hollywood remakes the trio of movies in the coming years with Daniel Craig at the helm. Should be good (I hope...).
- shud
Apparently he would have been horrified at the final names chosen for the books (all indicated above). He unwaveringly stuck to his original title up until his death -- it was to be: Men Who Hate Women. The second book (Fire) was going to have a similar name. Now, there's a couple of stocking stuffers for you...
I saw the first movie (with subtitles) a few months ago (after finishing the first book). It's very dark, and very good, but like any movie out there, they had to go point to point really quickly in order to move the story along in a way that works for motion pictures (not much time spent in people's heads as the book does). As a for instance of something skipped (hopefully not a spoiler for you), there is absolutely NO REFERENCE in the movie at all to the relationship between two of the main characters in the book, and it's kind of an important one! Something about that relationship, and how it affects other characters' perception, sets up the second book. I've not yet seen the second or third movies, but it will be interesting to see how they develop the beginning of the second without having the jumping off point of how the first book ends.
I'm also very interested to see how Hollywood remakes the trio of movies in the coming years with Daniel Craig at the helm. Should be good (I hope...).
- shud
MojoCP
New Member
Audio booking: Ready Player One.
I like it. There are a few parts of the book with 80's references that make me roll me eyes, but the storytelling is solid and the sense of suspense/pace of the book has me hooked (about 40% of the way in). Kind of a dystopian techno future book. I would recommend it as a fun read. I big shift from a Song of Ice and Fire: Book 5 - A Dance with Dragons.
I like it. There are a few parts of the book with 80's references that make me roll me eyes, but the storytelling is solid and the sense of suspense/pace of the book has me hooked (about 40% of the way in). Kind of a dystopian techno future book. I would recommend it as a fun read. I big shift from a Song of Ice and Fire: Book 5 - A Dance with Dragons.
andy aka rut
Active Member
First book I read in years. The Soul Collectors by Chris Mooney. It's a detective/FBI serial killer suspense book. I liked it a lot. In fact I couldn't put it down.
joytron
New Member
Just finished the Hunger Games series and the Poisonwood Bible, both quite enjoyable in their own way.
Started John Adams and the Boiler Plate Rhinoceros this week and am having a hard time putting them down.
Started John Adams and the Boiler Plate Rhinoceros this week and am having a hard time putting them down.