What books are you reading right now?

HMS UNSEEN by Patrick Robinson. So far it’s kinda slow reading but promise’s to get better.

 

I picked up the final compendium of the Invincible series of graphic novels.
Robert Kirkman (the guy who writes The Living Dead) does a really good take on the super hero genre and he wrote a series with a full character arc.
It's been interesting to follow the story of a kid who has to deal with his dad who is basically Superman, if Superman was the forward scout for an enemy takeover of our planet who killed all the major superheroes, dealing with his own powers and fighting off his father in the process.
His growing up, getting married and becoming a father himself has been really interesting to watch.

 

Finished The Stranger Beside Me, now working on two books. Grimm's Fairy Tales, so I can cleanse my palate of any sugary, sweet, Disney bullshit, and, Nights Of The Living Dead, An Anthology, by Jonathan Maberry and George A. Romero. Yep, back to the living dead for me.

 

Only posting for the cover art.

This thread is a bit....slow.

 

Just downloaded earlier this evening



West Like Lightning
The Brief, Legendary Ride of the Pony Express

2019 Spur Awards Finalist, Best Western Historical Nonfiction

"On the eve of the Civil War, three American businessmen launched an audacious plan to create a financial empire by transforming communications across the hostile territory between the nation’s two coasts. In the process, they created one of the most enduring icons of the American West: the Pony Express. Daring young men with colorful names like “Bronco Charlie” and “Sawed-Off Jim” galloped at speed over a vast and unforgiving landscape, etching an irresistible tale that passed into myth almost instantly. Equally an improbable success and a business disaster, the Pony Express came and went in just eighteen months, but not before uniting and captivating a nation on the brink of being torn apart. Jim DeFelice’s brilliantly entertaining West Like Lightning is the first major history of the Pony Express to put its birth, life, and legacy into the full context of the American story..."

 

I'm reading: "The Republic" from Plato. The dutch version. I also have: What we owe to each other". That one is next in line

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Hungry Ghosts by Anthony Bourdain.
The main plot line revolves around a Russian oligarch who is hosting a party at his beach house on Long Island.
As the night grows darker and stormier, he and his rich cronies get bored, so he invites the chefs working in his kitchen to play a version of 100 candles, an old game in which brave samurai would try to one-up each other with terrifying tales of ghosts, demons, and unspeakable beings.
Each story uses a different artist to tell a food story based on Japanese myths and demons.
There are also some very good recipes.

 

This struck me as funny (it helps to be something of a PoliSci nerd).

 

Heavy reading.

 

Wow, Feist was my favorite author when I was in middle/high school, but I haven't read anything from him since I don't think. Do you think the books hold up as an adult, or is it more of a trip down Nostalgia lane for you?

 

AS the list stands now:
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(for the first time in my life, and One of the eldest books in the world) Biblos, starting with specific studies in Leviticus, Isaiah, Hebrews, Philemon
A Perfumed Scorpion (Sufi Mysticism)
Sybil Leek - Diary of a Witch (Witchcraft)
Conrad Z. Lorenz - King Solomon's Ring "The classic account of animal behavior hat sheds new light on man."
Robert A. Heinlein - Time Enough for Love (reread)
L. Ron Hubbard - Dianetics
Jordan B. Peterson - 12 Rules for Life, an Antidote to Chaos
Piers Anthony - Shame of Man
Anne McCaffrey - THE Chrome Borne


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That's ^ quite a list!

 

Just finished "time is the simplest thing" by C Simak.

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I feel that C Simak is the Cliff Notes version of Clifford D. Simak.

ba da dum!

 

Picked this up last night for $1.99 (K indle)



Modern humans have come a long way in the seventy thousand years they’ve walked the earth. Art, science, culture, trade—on the evolutionary food chain, we’re true winners. But it hasn’t always been smooth sailing, and sometimes—just occasionally—we’ve managed to truly f*ck things up.

Weaving together history, science, politics and pop culture, Humans offers a panoramic exploration of humankind in all its glory, or lack thereof. From Lucy, our first ancestor, who fell out of a tree and died, to General Zhou Shou of China, who stored gunpowder in his palace before a lantern festival, to the Austrian army attacking itself one drunken night, to the most spectacular fails of the present day, Humans reveals how even the most mundane mistakes can shift the course of civilization as we know it. Lively, wry and brimming with brilliant insight, this unique compendium offers a fresh take on world history and is one of the most entertaining reads of the year.