What are you reading?

[yiostheoy]

nazi policy, jewish workers, german killers......by christopher r. browning.....

i go for uplifting.....

There is a new Nazi book out but it is hard to find anywhere.

I don't like buying from Amazon.

Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power: Andrew Nagorski: 0971486892819: Amazon.com: Books

 

[yiostheoy]

I just started One Second After by William Forstchen. I believe I heard of it from someone on this site.

Yes, that is an awesome book. I think I read it in one day. It does stop you dead in your tracks and makes you think about what if.

Forstchen's novel "One Second After" is very instructive of what a SHTF post apocalypse scenario would be like.

I read it in one evening. Could not put it down.

50% of the population dies off within 6 months.

90% dies within a year.

 

[yiostheoy]

I just started One Second After by William Forstchen. I believe I heard of it from someone on this site.

Yes, that is an awesome book. I think I read it in one day. It does stop you dead in your tracks and makes you think about what if.

There is a sequel to it out now.

I have not picked this one up yet.

Looks good though:

One Year After

"Months before publication, William R. Forstchen’s One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read. Hundreds of thousands of people have read the tale. One Year After is the thrilling follow-up to that smash hit.

The story picks up a year after One Second After ends, two years since the detonation of nuclear weapons above the United States brought America to its knees. After suffering starvation, war, and countless deaths, the survivors of Black Mountain, North Carolina, are beginning to piece back together the technologies they had once taken for granted: electricity, radio communications, and medications. They cling to the hope that a new national government is finally emerging.

Then comes word that most of the young men and women of the community are to be drafted into an “Army of National Recovery” and sent to trouble spots hundreds of miles away.

When town administrator John Matherson protests the draft, he’s offered a deal: leave Black Mountain and enter national service, and the draft will be reduced. But the brutal suppression of a neighboring community under its new federal administrator and the troops accompanying him suggests that all is not as it should be with this burgeoning government."

 

[2aguy]

too pretty to live..the catfish murders of east tn...by m. brooks....

I went through a phase where I was eating up everything about serial killers, mostly books written by the FBI, back when we had a local serial killer stalking the hills here in California.

Bottom line: never got anywhere without a pistol.

David Carpenter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You read John Douglas.......he has some good non fiction on profiling...

 

[2aguy]

Washington at Trenton.......battle that saved a near dead effort

That is an epic true story......it is amazing that it isn't taught to every child in the country.......

 

[Granny]

Got through Radical Son by David Horowitz this past Saturday morning. A most compelling read ...beautifully done. It's aptly "subtitled" as 'A Generational Odyssey.' Born to Jews of Russian descent, Horowitz grew up in a communist home in an essentially communist inhabited neighborhood in Queens, NY. His parents were deeply involved, in fact their entire life revolved around, "the Party" as it was in the early 1900s ... perhaps something passed along from his grandparents. Horowitz, an exceptionally bright child, seemed always to be seeking the approval of his father but his (typically Jewish) mother was something of a buffer/comforter. With the "Krushchev Report" denunciation of Stalin's atrocities his parents' entire world collapsed beneath them - something from which they never recovered.

Ultimately, Horowitz moved on to San Fran, was a founder of the "New Left" of the '60s radicals and an editor of the leftist "Ramparts" newspaper. He knew all the players personally ... Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Tom Hayden, Bill Ayres, Bernadette Dohrn and all the rest. Post Vietnam events became the beginning of his questioning of himself and his beliefs. Horowitz had a most painful journey to where he is today and has authored and/or co-authored many articles and books on the fallacies of socialism and communism.

I highly recommend that anyone who wants a real insight into the history, psyche, corrupt, entangled world of the leftists and their agenda for America and the world become acquainted with Horowitz. He has a very informative website as a starting point.

I read that book...did you read his book, "Destructive Generation," that book led me to becoming a conservative and helped me leave the democrat party.....I read Destructive Generation for a college class...and that asshole, bill ayers even gave a lecture to our class.........you know, the domestic terrorist bomber and good friend to obama......and michelle.

I have read Destructive Generation. It was my first Horowitz read. Given the decades, now, to look back on the '60s and see what has happened over the passage of time ... the book is perfectly titled.

 

[Preacher]

I just started One Second After by William Forstchen. I believe I heard of it from someone on this site.

Yes, that is an awesome book. I think I read it in one day. It does stop you dead in your tracks and makes you think about what if.

There is a sequel to it out now.

I have not picked this one up yet.

Looks good though:

One Year After

"Months before publication, William R. Forstchen’s One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read. Hundreds of thousands of people have read the tale. One Year After is the thrilling follow-up to that smash hit.

The story picks up a year after One Second After ends, two years since the detonation of nuclear weapons above the United States brought America to its knees. After suffering starvation, war, and countless deaths, the survivors of Black Mountain, North Carolina, are beginning to piece back together the technologies they had once taken for granted: electricity, radio communications, and medications. They cling to the hope that a new national government is finally emerging.

Then comes word that most of the young men and women of the community are to be drafted into an “Army of National Recovery” and sent to trouble spots hundreds of miles away.

When town administrator John Matherson protests the draft, he’s offered a deal: leave Black Mountain and enter national service, and the draft will be reduced. But the brutal suppression of a neighboring community under its new federal administrator and the troops accompanying him suggests that all is not as it should be with this burgeoning government."

Yeah can't wait to read it. I have so many books to read right now its ridiculous lol.

 

[PredFan]

The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler.

 

[Zoom-boing]

"Furiously Happy", by Jenny Lawson.

She has some mental issues and is facing them with humor (along with meds). Hysterically funny, I can't get through two pages without laugh tears rolling down my cheeks.

 

[midcan5]

The book below should be required reading for a number of reasons. The lone male and the whys of a mass murderer. Well written, not for the faint of heart. Norway is in many ways like America.

'One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway' By Asne Seierstad. Translated by Sarah Death.

 

[Preacher]

The book below should be required reading for a number of reasons. The lone male and the whys of a mass murderer. Well written, not for the faint of heart. Norway is in many ways like America.

'One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway' By Asne Seierstad. Translated by Sarah Death.

Anders is a hero!

 

[Montrovant]

The book below should be required reading for a number of reasons. The lone male and the whys of a mass murderer. Well written, not for the faint of heart. Norway is in many ways like America.

'One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway' By Asne Seierstad. Translated by Sarah Death.

Translated by Sarah Death? Sarah Death?! Best. Name. Ever.

 

[phoenyx]

Currently reading "A Fistful of Charms", Book 4 in Kim Harrison's Hollows series. I fell in love with her writing ever since I picked up the first book I read of hers, "Ever After", which is actually near the end of the long Hollows series, but I liked it so much that I started reading all of the Hollows books from the beginning . I love the way she writes- she's always putting in funny little things everywhere, which lets you smile even when things aren't going so well . I've also gotten the very distinct impression that different characters are in fact different aspects of her own personality, and I find that makes it funnier when different aspects of her personality are arguing with each other . I've already read The Drafter, the first book in her new Peri Reed Chronicles as well. It's more sci fi then magical, which suits me just fine, I generally like sci fi more than magic anyway .

 

[Preacher]

The Town by Chuck Hogan. The book is MUCH better than the movie!

 

[Stasha_Sz]

I regret to report that I am currently ATTEMPTING to read Shadow of Victory, David Weber's newest release in the "shadow series" side story in the Honor Harrington space opera omnibus.
Holy Crap, what a pile of dung this book is.
For those unfamiliar with the series, which has (de)volved into 3 separate, but concurrent story lines, that causes one to have to buy books in all 3 series to keep up with the arc, you are faced with an 800 page barrage of spear totters with at best tenuous links to the main story line, typos that will never be corrected no matter how many editions are printed, whole chapters lifted from as many as 3 or 4 books back and rehashed verbatim, and only advances the story line in the final couple of chapters, (predictably and not really surprisingly), with a cliff-hanger ending that is thoroughly unsatisfying.

And, oh yes, you are out $30USD for this dreck.

If you are reading the series, none of what I said above should surprise you. Weber's work has gotten poorer with the passage of time as you well know. Too many series, (above and beyond the Harringtons), have taken its toll on what was once a fun & exciting read.

If you have not bought this book yet, DON'T!!! Let one of your fan-boy friends buy it and borrow it from him in a couple of weeks when he gives up on it. You will thank yourself for it once you get a few chapters in.

 

[koshergrl]

Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.

 

[Montrovant]

I regret to report that I am currently ATTEMPTING to read Shadow of Victory, David Weber's newest release in the "shadow series" side story in the Honor Harrington space opera omnibus.
Holy Crap, what a pile of dung this book is.
For those unfamiliar with the series, which has (de)volved into 3 separate, but concurrent story lines, that causes one to have to buy books in all 3 series to keep up with the arc, you are faced with an 800 page barrage of spear totters with at best tenuous links to the main story line, typos that will never be corrected no matter how many editions are printed, whole chapters lifted from as many as 3 or 4 books back and rehashed verbatim, and only advances the story line in the final couple of chapters, (predictably and not really surprisingly), with a cliff-hanger ending that is thoroughly unsatisfying.

And, oh yes, you are out $30USD for this dreck.

If you are reading the series, none of what I said above should surprise you. Weber's work has gotten poorer with the passage of time as you well know. Too many series, (above and beyond the Harringtons), have taken its toll on what was once a fun & exciting read.

If you have not bought this book yet, DON'T!!! Let one of your fan-boy friends buy it and borrow it from him in a couple of weeks when he gives up on it. You will thank yourself for it once you get a few chapters in.

I'm actually reading the Honor Harrington books now. I'm currently on In Enemy Hands. I haven't read Shadow of Victory yet.

Sure, the series is better in the beginning, but I still enjoy Weber's writing. It's not as though things have changed drastically as the series has progressed. I can see getting bored of it, but I wouldn't think any particular book would be that much worse than another.

 

[Stasha_Sz]

I'm actually reading the Honor Harrington books now. I'm currently on In Enemy Hands. I haven't read Shadow of Victory yet.

Sure, the series is better in the beginning, but I still enjoy Weber's writing. It's not as though things have changed drastically as the series has progressed. I can see getting bored of it, but I wouldn't think any particular book would be that much worse than another.

In Enemy Hands is probably the last of the "Honor IS the direct action taker" of the series. What I mean by that is the plot directly involves Honor as the protagonist. The future volumes, become talk fests that may involve Harrington, but are no means driven by her actions. I think this is where Weber has most let down his readers.
I have waited more than a year in anticipation of Shadow of Victory, and despite having read mostly negative reviews of the book, bought it anyway. It has been a big disappointment so far, more so than the collaborations with Flint, (the Torch series).
I believe that Weber has just too many irons in the fire right now and the Honor series is suffering the most from it.
By all means, continue the read, there are still lots of good stories in the omnibus, there are chapters to come for you that are just brilliant Weber space opera, but be prepared for lots of disappointments along the way. Please take my warning to heart when you get to Shadow of Victory, if you cannot get it on paperback, borrow a copy, it is not worth what they charge for a hardcopy.

 

[Mindful]

Just started a second reading of Lord of the Rings.

 

[JakeStarkey]

the NT and OT, which I have done three times a year for many years. This will be the 162th time. The books still amaze at the impact they have on western civilizaiton.