Thread: What are You Reading?

I remember watching the Centennial mini-series on TV when I was a kid. Good story telling.

Started off on Clive Cusslers' series with 'Dirk Pitt' as the main character. I read 'Pacific Vortex' quite quickly, and started on the next one, 'The Mediterranean Caper' yesterday. Thoroughly enjoying them so far. Hard to put down.


Mick

Originally Posted by MickR

Started off on Clive Cusslers' series with 'Dirk Pitt' as the main character. I read 'Pacific Vortex' quite quickly, and started on the next one, 'The Mediterranean Caper' yesterday. Thoroughly enjoying them so far. Hard to put down.


Mick

Somewhat formulaic though.

Originally Posted by edhewitt

Somewhat formulaic though.

Yes they are, and I noticed that right off, but I'm in the mood for something of this style at the moment. I've got quite a few other books to go on with when I need a break.


Mick

I dont mind the cut and paste novels either, i just like to break them up bit

Originally Posted by MickR

Started off on Clive Cusslers' series with 'Dirk Pitt' as the main character. I read 'Pacific Vortex' quite quickly, and started on the next one, 'The Mediterranean Caper' yesterday. Thoroughly enjoying them so far. Hard to put down.


Mick

I'm a big Cussler fan myself, a patient of mine at work brought in "Flood Tide", a Dirk Pitt novel a few years back and I've been hooked ever since..."Raise The Titanic" was probably one of his best....and at the moment I'm reading "Dragon"

i can definitely see how his format can be a bit predictable, with every novel starting out with a ship and a terrible disaster sometime in the distant past, fast forward to present day and Dirk Pitt who is innocently trying to catch up on some R&R after another one of his adventures here's pulled into yet another worldwide conspiracy simply by luck haha

still, no matter how many of them I read, I can never put them down once I start them

I also like Michener's books'. I read "Hawaii" and was then stationed there in the USN. His long books are great for getting an internal awareness of the subject and the social and political nuances of the time.
~Richard

I just finished a book first read, 50 some years ago, while on a Navy base, awaiting transfer to my new duties aboard ship.
Death in the South Atlantic
by Michael Powell
A fictionalized but accurate tale of the end of the German pocket battleship "Graf Spee. Well written and an easy book to keep reading till 'O' Dark Thirty!
~Richard
Further Information about the history of the ship:
German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Just got Shaping the Journey of Emerging Adults: Life-Giving Rhythms for Spiritual Transformation by Dunn & Sundene. Looking forward to reading this one actually. Again falls into the "required reading" for college but positive nonetheless

Another cussler fan here!