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"What book are ye reading ritemeow?"
Danny Birchman wrote: It says a lot about the German and Japanese leadership at that time that Stalin and the British Empire are widely considered the *good* guys. I recently read “Stalingrad” by Anthony Beevor, and it was everybody as depressing and thorough as I expected. I am working on Children of Dune right now, and it is waaay more of a slog than Dune and Dune Messiah ever were. |
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Death's End (3rd book in the Three Body Problem series) |
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Jake Jones wrote: I'll drink to that, good sir. Civic discourse at its finest. |
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I just finished Lonesome Dove, which I highly recommend. It's basically a Western soap opera. Although it is an easy read, it is a mammoth. Now I am rewarding myself with a climbing-focused book, so I just started Freitheit by Thomas Huber. |
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Master and Margarita by Bulgakov is fun if you like Russian literature, and is much easier going than Tolstoy or Dostoevsky. |
 Got to the library today |
philip bone wrote: I tried Children of Time, could not get into it, and got halfway through. This is up my alley but something didn't. I still think about the spider stories. LMK if I stopped short. |
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I think you stopped short, and the sequel is even better. I’ve bounced off some of his other books, but i love this series. |
Andrew Gram wrote: I'll circle back then. Need to finish the Three Body Problem series and The Boys. |
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Spiders? Nobody told me there would be spiders! I hate spi-fi. Why's it always gotta be spiders? Thanks a lot Gumby. |
philip bone wrote: They might be genetically modified spiders that act like humans... maybe that helps? |
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Just finished Heretics of Dune. It was my 2nd favorite of the series, after Dune. Chapterhouse is ordered, and Children of Time is on the shelf waiting for me after that. |
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Treasure Island.....again. Just a fun read |
Kevin Mokracek wrote: Yes! We're compiling a library of books to read to Minigote and it's been really fun revisiting children's classics like that. I have a hardback copy of it that my dad read in school in the 1950's. Plus, first editions of the Hardy Boys series. |
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Abaddon's Gate by James S.A. Corey. Strongly recommend The Expanse series for some compelling sci-fi, the first two books were excellent. |
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"Royal Robbins The American Climber" by David Smart. An excellent biography of the transcendental climber of the Golden Age here in America. I knew Royal, but not well, and was delighted to read of his early years through his phenomenal contributions to the sport, and his career as a businessman along with his lovely wife, Liz. I discovered Royal and I had both had the beginnings of a criminal career around the age of 14 (he was two years older than me). Royal was caught but I wasn't when I broke into an old antebellum mansion on the Gulf coast and later stole a gun from a mafioso. It's a weird age for boys. Fortunately we both grew out of it quickly. My wife and I had a chuckle, however, when I read of the Great Debate of the AAC in 1986 and the author cites me making a ridiculously crude remark about an "emaciated" young climber in "tights". I wasn't even there. The participants were, I think, John Bachar, John Long, Lynn Hill, Jim Bridwell, Henry Barbour, and maybe others. I'm not sure Royal was there. I can't seem to find any information on the internet about that debate. |
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^ Probably Alan Watts. Book I'm enjoying: The Polish Officer, Alan Furst. Historical Fiction WWII. |
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Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber - Mark Twight |
seda s wrote: This really fired me up in my twenties. I like his writing style. |
