What are you reading?

[Moonglow]

I am reading USMB on my monitor, which used to be called a TV....

 

[Rocko]

I just finished Origin by Dan Brown. I like all his books. This one was pretty good.

 

[Rocko]

The next book I’m going to read is The Snowman by Jo Nesbo. I’m not a big reader, but I’m trying to read more.

 

[JakeStarkey]

I just finished Origin by Dan Brown. I like all his books. This one was pretty good.

My wife like it very much.

 

[Rocko]

I just finished Origin by Dan Brown. I like all his books. This one was pretty good.

My wife like it very much.

I actually read all of Dan Brown’s books. I liked Origin, but I felt Inferno was his best work.

 

[Montrovant]

Is no one reading anything!? I am reading Hacks by Donna Brazile and its SHOCKING to say the least. The corruption,egoism,misogyny,ignorance in the Clinton campaign was shocking to say the least. A lot of stuff bordered on illegal and certainly was immoral and unethical. Brazile saw it all coming and no one listened to her. I am also reading Dark Soul of the South its about Joseph Paul Franklin a serial killer who targeted mixed couples and jews.

I'm going through Stephen King's Dark Tower series again. I just finished book 5.

 

[Kat]

I read every night. Variety of things.

Read anything worth noting lately?

Not really. I sure have read some good ones though. Am looking for something I REALLY want to read now. I don't even know the name of the one I am reading.

 

[Montrovant]

I read every night. Variety of things.

Read anything worth noting lately?

Not really. I sure have read some good ones though. Am looking for something I REALLY want to read now. I don't even know the name of the one I am reading. View attachment 166284

That happens to me all the time, particularly if I'm reading a series rather than a stand-alone novel.

 

[g5000]

The Informant

 

[Marion Morrison]

Currently, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann

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From Publishers Weekly:

In 1925, renowned British explorer Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett embarked on a much publicized search to find the city of Z, site of an ancient Amazonian civilization that may or may not have existed. Fawcett, along with his grown son Jack, never returned, but that didn't stop countless others, including actors, college professors and well-funded explorers from venturing into the jungle to find Fawcett or the city. Among the wannabe explorers is Grann, a staff writer for the New Yorker, who has bad eyes and a worse sense of direction. He became interested in Fawcett while researching another story, eventually venturing into the Amazon to satisfy his all-consuming curiosity about the explorer and his fatal mission. Largely about Fawcett, the book examines the stranglehold of passion as Grann's vigorous research mirrors Fawcett's obsession with uncovering the mysteries of the jungle. By interweaving the great story of Fawcett with his own investigative escapades in South America and Britain, Grann provides an in-depth, captivating character study that has the relentless energy of a classic adventure tale.

John Grisham's review for Amazon.com:

In April of 1925, a legendary British explorer named Percy Fawcett launched his final expedition into the depths of the Amazon in Brazil. His destination was the lost city of El Dorado, the “City of Gold,” an ancient kingdom of great sophistication, architecture, and culture that, for some reason, had vanished. The idea of El Dorado had captivated anthropologists, adventurers, and scientists for 400 years, though there was no evidence it ever existed. Hundreds of expeditions had gone looking for it. Thousands of men had perished in the jungles searching for it. Fawcett himself had barely survived several previous expeditions and was more determined than ever to find the lost city with its streets and temples of gold.

The world was watching. Fawcett, the last of the great Victorian adventurers, was financed by the Royal Geographical Society in London, the world’s foremost repository of research gathered by explorers. Fawcett, then age 57, had proclaimed for decades his belief in the City of Z, as he had nicknamed it. His writings, speeches, and exploits had captured the imagination of millions, and reports of his last expedition were front page news.

His expeditionary force consisted of three men--himself, his 21-year-old son Jack, and one of Jack’s friends. Fawcett believed that only a small group had any chance of surviving the horrors of the Amazon. He had seen large forces decimated by malaria, insects, snakes, poison darts, starvation, and insanity. He knew better. He and his two companions would travel light, carry their own supplies, eat off the land, pose no threat to the natives, and endure months of hardship in their search for the Lost City of Z.

They were never seen again. Fawcett’s daily dispatches trickled to a stop. Months passed with no word. Because he had survived several similar forays into the Amazon, his family and friends considered him to be near super-human. As before, they expected Fawcett to stumble out of the jungle, bearded and emaciated and announcing some fantastic discovery. It did not happen.

Over the years, the search for Fawcett became more alluring than the search for El Dorado itself. Rescue efforts, from the serious to the farcical, materialized in the years that followed, and hundreds of others lost their lives in the search. Rewards were posted. Psychics were brought in by the family. Articles and books were written. For decades the legend of Percy Fawcett refused to die.

The great mystery of what happened to Fawcett has never been solved, perhaps until now. In 2004, author David Grann discovered the story while researching another one. Soon, like hundreds before him, he became obsessed with the legend of the colorful adventurer and his baffling disappearance. Grann, a lifelong New Yorker with an admitted aversion to camping and mountain climbing, a lousy sense of direction, and an affinity for take-out food and air conditioning, soon found himself in the jungles of the Amazon. What he found there, some 80 years after Fawcett’s disappearance, is a startling conclusion to this absorbing narrative.

The Lost City of Z is a riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure.

I'm about halfway through it and I must say it is quite interesting and very well written.

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[Preacher]

Reading The Great Comeback by Patrick Buchanan and The protocols of the learned elders of zion now.

 

[Preacher]

Finished Might is Right by Ragnar Redbeard...its take down of christianity,equality etc is awesome,a must read for every sane person in the world.

 

[Preacher]

Reading The Trump Prophecies now....not into all the religious crap but hope it turns out to be a fascinating book either way.

 

[Preacher]

Trump Prophecies were annoying as hell. Too much religious chatter....taking it back to Library. Back to reading books I own to narrow down what I want to keep.

Coach: The life of Paul "Bear" Bryant. Loving it so far. Funny and informative.

 

[Bonzi]

Lord of the Flies

I have never read it, I'm TRYING to catch up on all the "classics" I have never read....

On a related note: I suggest anyone that has not read ROCKING HORSE WINNER by DH Lawrence to do so (it's a short story)

 

[gtopa1]

Poems by Gerard Manly Hopkins. I'm in one of those moods again.

Greg

 

[Bonzi]

Is no one reading anything!? I am reading Hacks by Donna Brazile and its SHOCKING to say the least. The corruption,egoism,misogyny,ignorance in the Clinton campaign was shocking to say the least. A lot of stuff bordered on illegal and certainly was immoral and unethical. Brazile saw it all coming and no one listened to her. I am also reading Dark Soul of the South its about Joseph Paul Franklin a serial killer who targeted mixed couples and jews.

I'm going through Stephen King's Dark Tower series again. I just finished book 5.

Did you see the movie? I did not as I heard it was horrible. I hope one day they will try again....

 

[Preacher]

Finished Coach: The life of Bear Bryant,now reading Let Trump be Trump by Corey Lewandowski!

 

[Montrovant]

Is no one reading anything!? I am reading Hacks by Donna Brazile and its SHOCKING to say the least. The corruption,egoism,misogyny,ignorance in the Clinton campaign was shocking to say the least. A lot of stuff bordered on illegal and certainly was immoral and unethical. Brazile saw it all coming and no one listened to her. I am also reading Dark Soul of the South its about Joseph Paul Franklin a serial killer who targeted mixed couples and jews.

I'm going through Stephen King's Dark Tower series again. I just finished book 5.

Did you see the movie? I did not as I heard it was horrible. I hope one day they will try again....

I did, and it was. It's hard to say for sure because I've read the books, but I think it was bad even for people who had never read the Dark Tower.

 

[williepete]

Rereading 1491 New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann. Read it years ago when it first came out. Reading it again to prep for reading his sequel, 1493 Uncovering the New World Columbus Created.