Boxx Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 I don't think that this has been the topic of a thread on our "forum." Reading fits the "Lounge" area very well. Please feel free to share your most recent literary endeavor(s) on this thread. I have just started reading this book by Bret Baier (with Jim Mills). So far it is an excellent read. In addition to the great story, one hundred percent from the sale of this book is donated to various non-profit pediatric heart causes. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Amy Posted June 26, 2014 Moderators Share Posted June 26, 2014 Game of Thrones. Because I'm an intellectual. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxx Posted June 26, 2014 Author Share Posted June 26, 2014 (edited) Because I'm an intellectual. And also a fantastic photographer... Edited June 26, 2014 by Boxx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iRONic Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Kid's books to my 5-year old grandson. Because he's an intellectual. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarheel Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Just some entertaining fiction......Shock Wave by John Sandford. A prolific writer for sure and I like his style. Nothing to stimulate the mind.......and that's okay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eth2 Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 (edited) The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War. http://www.amazon.com/The-Brothers-Foster-Dulles-Secret/dp/0805094970 Edited June 26, 2014 by eth2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxx Posted June 26, 2014 Author Share Posted June 26, 2014 The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War. http://www.amazon.com/The-Brothers-Foster-Dulles-Secret/dp/0805094970 I just ordered it... Looks to be one that I would like. Thanks for posting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eth2 Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War. http://www.amazon.com/The-Brothers-Foster-Dulles-Secret/dp/0805094970 I just ordered it... Looks to be one that I would like. Thanks for posting. It is fascinating and confirms our worst fears of the military-industrial complex (to say nothing of nasty lawyers). You won't be able to put it down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxx Posted June 26, 2014 Author Share Posted June 26, 2014 (to say nothing of nasty lawyers) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssh Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 A Confederacy of Dunces (for the third time)-Gutbustingly funny. I had to read Lord of the Flies with a summer school class. OMG, for the sixth time. All of the O'Rielly "Killing" books since March-Excellent, all. A biography of Byron that I finished two weeks ago-Anything but boring, by the way. SSH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryC Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 (edited) I just ordered it... Me too Edited June 26, 2014 by LarryC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2point1 Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 (edited) Red Star Rogue: The Untold Story of a Soviet Submarine's Nuclear Strike Attempt on the U.S. Edited June 26, 2014 by 2point1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscarsear Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 My War ......... by Andy Rooney. Love the way the man writes. Boxx........ those books by Winston Churchill are also interesting writes. He wrote like he spoke - run on sentences, but very Victorian and descriptive. Have you read Churchill's "Frontiers and Wars? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigStewMan Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 (edited) may come as a surprise to many of you; but, The Bible (not all of it everyday; but, a little bit everyday). Actually, i read all day long; mostly articles and such and probably have read less than 10 books in my entire life (not counting textbooks while in that lernin place). i did meet a guy that was in Auschwitz and a number of other prison camps. His entire family with the exception of one sister that had already left Poland, we killed by the nazis. He showed me the tatto of numbers on his arm. How can you listen to that story and not buy his book (Because of Romek by David Faber). I read it twice. Edited June 26, 2014 by BigStewMan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxx Posted June 26, 2014 Author Share Posted June 26, 2014 Have you read Churchill's "Frontiers and Wars? No, not yet... I'll have to put it on my "to get list." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebes Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 I used to author (cough-cough) a summertime beach reading thread but it was quite sparsely attended. Lately, let's see; A biography of Simone Bolivar, Thomas Pynchon's new book about the Silicon Alley in New York City during the 80's complete with big writer ego and huge run-on sentences. Then there's Fannie Flag's latest about a gas station girl attendant who becomes a pilot during WW II, a half dozen or so Sci-fi, mostly space opera, the latest Dewey Lamdin, days-of-sail adventure featuring the redoubtable and scandalous Alan Lewrie. Oh, a Roman Empire saga, can't remember the name, some alternate history fiction, a smoking cookbook from some Memphis smoker woman, and the one I'm making up, which is a treatise on higher mathematics, and the true one on my horizon, which is a new biography on Adams. I read at least a book a week and have since before I hit puberty. Yet somehow I still find time to squire a couple of babelicious hotties to the jumpin joints in town. Renaissance Manly man, named after me, of course. Originally Thesasance but misspelled by some incompetent Italian editor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxx Posted June 27, 2014 Author Share Posted June 27, 2014 For anyone who has a dog, the commentary of the hero on his dog, Jasper, is so touching it will make you cry. I'm a dog lover and have always been one... I may cross over and read this book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 I knew you would chime in Thebes. For myself, I have been proof reading my tome "How to Get Even the Most Innocuous Threads Locked---A master's prospective." Foreword by Dave Mallette. Blurbs on the jacket include: "I could have said it better"---William Faulkner "Too many big words. I hate big words."---Ernest Hemingway "A rollicking roll in the sewer"---Tom Clancy "Even my head exploded with the logic displayed."---Robert Ludlum "An immodest treatise"--Jonathan Swift "No wonder others moved west to the coast to avoid this guy"---John Steinbeck "A real scholar of something."---Colleen McCollough "If this were a wine, it would be perfect for laying down---and avoiding."---Robert Parker I'm still looking for an afterword author. Have anyone in mind Thebes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxx Posted June 27, 2014 Author Share Posted June 27, 2014 I knew you would chime in Thebes. For myself, I have been proof reading my tome "How to Get Even the Most Innocuous Threads Locked---A master's prospective." Foreword by Dave Mallette. Blurbs on the jacket include: "I could have said it better"---William Faulkner "Too many big words. I hate big words."---Ernest Hemingway "A rollicking roll in the sewer"---Tom Clancy "Even my head exploded with the logic displayed."---Robert Ludlum "An immodest treatise"--Jonathan Swift "No wonder others moved west to the coast to avoid this guy"---John Steinbeck "A real scholar of something."---Colleen McCollough "If this were a wine, it would be perfect for laying down---and avoiding."---Robert Parker I'm still looking for an afterword author. Have anyone in mind Thebes? It is sad that Theodor Geise isn't here to help.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 (edited) Why wouldn't he be? Except for Colleen of course. Well OK Parker too. Edited June 27, 2014 by oldtimer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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