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  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    brianlux said:
    jerparker20 said:
    Agree with Under the Banner of Heaven.  Very different books, but very well written.  I also enjoyed Where Men Win Glory about the death of Pat Tillman in Afghanistan.  Has anyone read his recent book Missoula?
    I'm hoping to get around to all of Krakauer's work.  Great  writer, amazing guy.  On the DVD of the climbing move "Meru" there's a brief extra called "The Calling" where Krakauer talks about what it is we do.  It's amazing!  Well worth checking out.

    I'm taking a break from climbing books (planning of reading Ed Viesturs' No Shortcuts to the Top soon) and started reading Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita.  Pleasantly strange thus far!


    That's a favorite of mine.
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,376
    The Things they Carried by Tim O'Brien. It's a reread, but I last read it almost twenty years ago.
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 29,970
    brianlux said: Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita.  Pleasantly strange thus far!


    It's been a while since I last read it, but I remember I had the same reaction.
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  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,491
    Finishing up the Southern Reach trilogy with Acceptance. Great series!
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  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    dankind said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Glad you enjoyed it.  He's a hell of a writer.  Read his book Under the Banner of Heaven.
    That book is disturbing as hell -- and not quite the page-turner that Into Thin Air is. I don't know if it will qualify as awesome, but it definitely stays with you.
    Both very good books.  First introduced to him with Into the Wild.  Where Men Win Glory is on my to-read list.

    Lol, I was cold the whole time I was reading Into Thin Air.
    "The stars are all connected to the brain."
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Who Princess said:
    dankind said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Glad you enjoyed it.  He's a hell of a writer.  Read his book Under the Banner of Heaven.
    That book is disturbing as hell -- and not quite the page-turner that Into Thin Air is. I don't know if it will qualify as awesome, but it definitely stays with you.
    Both very good books.  First introduced to him with Into the Wild.  Where Men Win Glory is on my to-read list.

    Lol, I was cold the whole time I was reading Into Thin Air.
    Our temperatures here in the foothills were in a narrow range during the recent days when I read Into Thin Air- just hovering a few degrees above and a few below freezing.  Perfect weather for reading this book!

    I gave up on Master and Margarita.  It's great but just not my thing right now.  So I started Where Men Win Glory but quickly dropped that one for now.  I found it too disturbing based on my feelings of "why the hell were we in Afghanistan in the first place?" and what a waste of lives, including Tillmman's.

    So it looks like I'm going back into the mountains with Ed Viesturs' No Shortcuts to the Top.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    While riffling through all the book bins in the basement, looking for The Hobbit to read to my daughter (which I did not find :angry: ), I found the bin with all of my Pynchon and brought up the books to my nightstand. I almost feel whole again. 
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    dankind said:
    While riffling through all the book bins in the basement, looking for The Hobbit to read to my daughter (which I did not find :angry: ), I found the bin with all of my Pynchon and brought up the books to my nightstand. I almost feel whole again. 
    Unexpectedly coming across books you have loved is a wonderful feeling. 
    my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf
  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    oftenreading said:
    dankind said:
    While riffling through all the book bins in the basement, looking for The Hobbit to read to my daughter (which I did not find :angry: ), I found the bin with all of my Pynchon and brought up the books to my nightstand. I almost feel whole again. 
    Unexpectedly coming across books you have loved is a wonderful feeling. 
    It will be a wonderful day when all of my books currently trapped in bins in the basement are freed and readily accessible on a shelf. We've lived here for nearly three years now, and there’s just nowhere to put them. 
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • Enkidu
    Enkidu So Cal Posts: 2,996
    jerparker20 said:
    Agree with Under the Banner of Heaven.  Very different books, but very well written.  I also enjoyed Where Men Win Glory about the death of Pat Tillman in Afghanistan.  Has anyone read his recent book Missoula?
    I sort of binged on all things Jon Krakauer.  Loved Where Men Win Glory and also Missoula - although Missoula is about college rape and very disturbing.  

    I'm almost done with this, All the Truth is Out by Matt Bai.  About how the reporting of Gary Hart's affair changed journalism.  Fascinating.  



  • curmudgeoness
    curmudgeoness Brigadoon, foodie capital Posts: 4,130
    brianlux said:
    jerparker20 said:
    Agree with Under the Banner of Heaven.  Very different books, but very well written.  I also enjoyed Where Men Win Glory about the death of Pat Tillman in Afghanistan.  Has anyone read his recent book Missoula?
    I'm hoping to get around to all of Krakauer's work.  Great  writer, amazing guy.  On the DVD of the climbing move "Meru" there's a brief extra called "The Calling" where Krakauer talks about what it is we do.  It's amazing!  Well worth checking out.

    I'm taking a break from climbing books (planning of reading Ed Viesturs' No Shortcuts to the Top soon) and started reading Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita.  Pleasantly strange thus far!



    Awesome book -- I'm about halfway through re-reading it myself, need to get back to it one of these days. I've found it interesting, revisiting books that I read in college. I'm pleasantly surprised to find that they're every bit as good as I remember them being. I also get so much more out of them now that I'm older; I see and understand more than I did back in the day. And, yes, I'm a big fan of reader-response criticism.

    I'm currently in the middle of three books: David Frum's Trumpocracy; The Productivity Project ('cause I need to be more productive); and The Power, which is a nice, light, change from all of the political (non-fiction) stuff I've been reading. I'm definitely relishing the occasional break from news/ politics. Frum is a great writer, but as a number of people have noted, this might be the most distressing book ever written.
    All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 29,970
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  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,376

    Just finished this book. The writing at the beginning is a little choppy as if her notes weren't clear, but it gets better. There are extraneous descriptions of people, but it can't be denied the impact of this sex discrimination case against Newsweek. It would be a good bookclub read.
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Ms. Haiku said:

    Just finished this book. The writing at the beginning is a little choppy as if her notes weren't clear, but it gets better. There are extraneous descriptions of people, but it can't be denied the impact of this sex discrimination case against Newsweek. It would be a good bookclub read.
    Wow! An Edvard Munch table?
    Note taker- alright, me too!
    I'll take my coffee black, thank you!  :smiley:

    The book looks interesting.  I haven't seen that one but the cover photo looks very familiar somehow.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • dustinpardue
    dustinpardue Las Vegas, NV Posts: 1,829

    If anyone is so inclined, my latest book came out on Feb 9th and has been connecting with audiences on a level I never expected. The characters do end up at a Pearl Jam show or two............
    It's available on Amazon in print and digital as well as Apple iBooks. Will be available at Barnes and Noble in a month or two. The artwork was done by Rockets are Red, my favorite gig poster artist out there. If anyone like Gaslight Anthem, he did many of their older posters.

    "All I Ever Knew" available now in print and digital formats at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and iBooks.
  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165

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  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 29,970
    dustinpardue said:

    If anyone is so inclined, my latest book came out on Feb 9th and has been connecting with audiences on a level I never expected. The characters do end up at a Pearl Jam show or two............
    It's available on Amazon in print and digital as well as Apple iBooks. Will be available at Barnes and Noble in a month or two. The artwork was done by Rockets are Red, my favorite gig poster artist out there. If anyone like Gaslight Anthem, he did many of their older posters.

    Bravo Dustin! :clap:
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  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,376
    Three hundred pages into this 800 page book. Chernow is an incredible storyteller. 
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,376
    dustinpardue said:

    If anyone is so inclined, my latest book came out on Feb 9th and has been connecting with audiences on a level I never expected. The characters do end up at a Pearl Jam show or two............
    It's available on Amazon in print and digital as well as Apple iBooks. Will be available at Barnes and Noble in a month or two. The artwork was done by Rockets are Red, my favorite gig poster artist out there. If anyone like Gaslight Anthem, he did many of their older posters.

    Congratulations, dustinpardue! 
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • curmudgeoness
    curmudgeoness Brigadoon, foodie capital Posts: 4,130
    A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo

    =)

    It was cute. And very short, LOL.
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