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Re: What Book Are You Currently Reading? Part VI
Ace300 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2024 10:24 amI actually loved this. Have most likely learn 40-50 of King’s books, would put this within the high 10 personally, possibly even knocking on high 5.
Two books I just lately fnished:
The Wager – by David Grann
Non-Fiction, a Story of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Homicide
I feel this has been cited someplace earlier on this lengthy thread, however a improbable learn and actually makes you mirror on what these explorers went by within the 18th century.Inferno: The World at Battle, 1939-1945 – by Max Hastings
Covers your entire span of WW2 from begin to end, protecting all main theaters, battles, and dives into the tales with many first-hand accounts. Very lengthy learn, however price it and put a brand new perspective on the battle from my view as an American.
I appear to recollect studying that second one and that it was fairly good.
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Appears like one.
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Re: What Book Are You Currently Reading? Part VI
protagonist wrote: ↑Tue Sep 10, 2024 1:29 pmnisiprius wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2024 3:09 pm
Jules Verne (“we had been astonished by the brightly-colored panoply of lithodomes, ophiucans, echinodermata, lepidoptera, golfingia, elasmobranchs, [fifty more list items], phragmites, and strongylocentrotidae disporting themselves for our edification within the vibrant mild offered so abundantly by the Ruhmkorff equipment” sort of factor).Was {that a} Jules Verne or a Cormac McCarthy quote? I think about Jules Verne however cannot low cost McCarthy…
I used to be making an attempt to evoke Jules Verne as a result of I used to be too lazy to search for an precise passage. I threw in a bunch of organic phrases I occur to half-know, a few of that are legit sea-creatures, a few of which are not. I feel they’re all actual phrases if I did not mis-spell them. The “Ruhmkorff equipment” is out of Jules Verne, he mentions it quite a lot of occasions; it was some sort of moveable electrical mild, and, I simply realized from Wikipedia, he should have gotten blended up as a result of it was truly invented by another person, and the true “Ruhmkorff equipment” was a sort of spark coil.
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Re: What Book Are You Currently Reading? Part VI
I think about Block certainly one of thriller writers greats, type of jogs my memory of John McDonald.
Coward’s Kiss was written within the early 60’s and incorporates a personal investigator who is named by his brother in regulation to scrub up a large number in an residence he stashes his mistress in. The PI, Jack London, ditches the mess (the killed mistress) after which he should cope with who killed her and why…involving jewellery stolen by Nazis from Jews in Germany. That is solely 180 pages and runs rapidly.
Picked up on the public library, it may not be in print. It was probably Block’s second novel….edit, it was his eighth.
Wonderful.
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Re: What Book Are You Currently Reading? Part VI
protagonist wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2024 5:55 pmBarkingsparrow wrote: ↑Tue Sep 10, 2024 8:52 pmNorth: FInding My Manner Whereas Working the Appalachian Path – Scott Jurek. Jurek is a well-known ultra-marathoner. This e book is an account of his try to set the FKT (quickest recognized time) for working the AT. Whereas attention-grabbing at occasions, detailing the bodily, emotional, and psychological deterioration he underwent whereas averaging over 40+ miles per day in some actually nasty terrain; it may be repetitive. I discovered myself simply beginning to skim by the final elements. There’s one other e book out which sort of stars Jurek, “Born to Run” which I assumed was significantly better.
Too dangerous, bc it sounds prefer it could possibly be attention-grabbing within the arms of author. What was his time?
A very long time in the past I recall studying “Street Fever” by Tim Cahill, about breaking the time file driving from Tierra del Fuego to Prudhoe Bay, AK (the southernmost tip of S. America to the northernmost of N. America). I favored it. I recall him speaking about “Coke” cities vs. “Pepsi” cities. Additionally, I bear in mind when he arrived at Prudhoe Bay after driving for a bit over three weeks, and bragging about it to the couple of fishermen who had been the one ones who occurred to be there when he arrived, they replied one thing on the order of “What took you so lengthy?”
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Jurek did it in simply over 46 days. That file was ultimately damaged by another person. He made an try to take again the FKT however succumbed to damage early on. I am going to monitor down that Tim Cahill e book. Driving, mountaineering, crusing, working – you title it – I get pleasure from studying about loopy adventures.
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MP173 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2024 8:02 pm
Fast learn .- Lawrence Block’s “Coward’s Kiss”.I think about Block certainly one of thriller writers greats, type of jogs my memory of John McDonald.
Coward’s Kiss was written within the early 60’s and incorporates a personal investigator who is named by his brother in regulation to scrub up a large number in an residence he stashes his mistress in. The PI, Jack London, ditches the mess (the killed mistress) after which he should cope with who killed her and why…involving jewellery stolen by Nazis from Jews in Germany. That is solely 180 pages and runs rapidly.
Picked up on the public library, it may not be in print. It was probably Block’s second novel….edit, it was his eighth.
Wonderful.
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I’ve learn or listened to a number of books by David McCullough. He is an exquisite, award-winning creator, and I extremely advocate his books.
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Re: What Book Are You Currently Reading? Part VI
Jazztonight wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2024 11:02 pm
I am about half-way by Truman by David McCullough.I’ve learn or listened to a number of books by David McCullough. He is an exquisite, award-winning creator, and I extremely advocate his books.
Agree that he’s a wonderful creator.
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In my view the perfect e book on the topic is Miracle at Halfway by Gordon W. Prange, Donald M. Goldstein, and Katerine V. Dillon.
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Re: What Book Are You Currently Reading? Part VI
Ace300 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2024 10:24 amI actually loved this. Have most likely learn 40-50 of King’s books, would put this within the high 10 personally, possibly even knocking on high 5.
Two books I just lately fnished:
The Wager – by David Grann
Non-Fiction, a Story of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Homicide
I feel this has been cited someplace earlier on this lengthy thread, however a improbable learn and actually makes you mirror on what these explorers went by within the 18th century.Inferno: The World at Battle, 1939-1945 – by Max Hastings
Covers your entire span of WW2 from begin to end, protecting all main theaters, battles, and dives into the tales with many first-hand accounts. Very lengthy learn, however price it and put a brand new perspective on the battle from my view as an American.
I learn the Wager just lately and actually loved it. After that, I favored the time interval and the story so I learn “the Extensive Extensive Sea” by Hampton Sides, and actually loved that one as properly.
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Re: What Book Are You Currently Reading? Part VI
Barkingsparrow wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2024 8:22 pmprotagonist wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2024 5:55 pmBarkingsparrow wrote: ↑Tue Sep 10, 2024 8:52 pmNorth: FInding My Manner Whereas Working the Appalachian Path – Scott Jurek. Jurek is a well-known ultra-marathoner. This e book is an account of his try to set the FKT (quickest recognized time) for working the AT. Whereas attention-grabbing at occasions, detailing the bodily, emotional, and psychological deterioration he underwent whereas averaging over 40+ miles per day in some actually nasty terrain; it may be repetitive. I discovered myself simply beginning to skim by the final elements. There’s one other e book out which sort of stars Jurek, “Born to Run” which I assumed was significantly better.
Too dangerous, bc it sounds prefer it could possibly be attention-grabbing within the arms of author. What was his time?
A very long time in the past I recall studying “Street Fever” by Tim Cahill, about breaking the time file driving from Tierra del Fuego to Prudhoe Bay, AK (the southernmost tip of S. America to the northernmost of N. America). I favored it. I recall him speaking about “Coke” cities vs. “Pepsi” cities. Additionally, I bear in mind when he arrived at Prudhoe Bay after driving for a bit over three weeks, and bragging about it to the couple of fishermen who had been the one ones who occurred to be there when he arrived, they replied one thing on the order of “What took you so lengthy?”
https://www.eastcoasttester.com/pan-ame … ma-desert/Jurek did it in simply over 46 days. That file was ultimately damaged by another person. He made an try to take again the FKT however succumbed to damage early on. I am going to monitor down that Tim Cahill e book. Driving, mountaineering, crusing, working – you title it – I get pleasure from studying about loopy adventures.
One I favored greater than the Tim Cahill e book was “Working the Amazon” by Joe Cane . It is a couple of first expedition to kayak your entire Amazon from its supply excessive within the Peruvian Andes, by a crew that actually was lower than the duty.
Test it out.
Re: What Book Are You Currently Reading? Part VI
ruralavalon wrote: ↑Thu Sep 12, 2024 8:56 amIn my view the perfect e book on the topic is Miracle at Halfway by Gordon W. Prange, Donald M. Goldstein, and Katerine V. Dillon.
I did just lately learn that one. Additionally, learn different Prange books together with the epic one the place he contended that Japan had spent 10 years planning Pearl Harbor.
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Re: What Book Are You Currently Reading? Part VI
FootballFan5548 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 12, 2024 9:08 amAce300 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2024 10:24 amI actually loved this. Have most likely learn 40-50 of King’s books, would put this within the high 10 personally, possibly even knocking on high 5.
Two books I just lately fnished:
The Wager – by David Grann
Non-Fiction, a Story of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Homicide
I feel this has been cited someplace earlier on this lengthy thread, however a improbable learn and actually makes you mirror on what these explorers went by within the 18th century.Inferno: The World at Battle, 1939-1945 – by Max Hastings
Covers your entire span of WW2 from begin to end, protecting all main theaters, battles, and dives into the tales with many first-hand accounts. Very lengthy learn, however price it and put a brand new perspective on the battle from my view as an American.I learn the Wager just lately and actually loved it. After that, I favored the time interval and the story so I learn “the Extensive Extensive Sea” by Hampton Sides, and actually loved that one as properly.
Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll put it on the listing. I’ve learn “Within the Kingdom of Ice” in addition to “Blood and Thunder” by Hampton Sides, each had been glorious tales and narrations of historic occasions.
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Re: What Book Are You Currently Reading? Part VI
Ace300 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2024 10:24 am
Inferno: The World at Battle, 1939-1945 – by Max Hastings
Covers your entire span of WW2 from begin to end, protecting all main theaters, battles, and dives into the tales with many first-hand accounts. Very lengthy learn, however price it and put a brand new perspective on the battle from my view as an American.
Fascinating remark.
How did it have an effect on your perspective out of your “view as an American”?
