Thread: What are You Reading?

Originally Posted by Hirlau

You just had a book,,,, you read a lot ?
I wish I took the time,,,,,

With a good book time is immaterial.

I just learned something today,,,,,,thank you ,,,,,,,,,,

Reading the Ragamuffin Gospel , Brennan Manning. A must read!!

Originally Posted by WW243

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, just finished it.....the guy was writing in his 3rd language!
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I finished this yesterday and whilst it only took two sittings the house was rowdy and I had feared I was missing something which has prompted me to buy a cheap audio book from iTunes to listen to in the van to see if having it read to me changes my mind (Marlow's instant just add water relationship with Kurtz was causing me difficulty) . As a bonus it has a reading of "Youth" which is a great yarn and I am now inspired to read that and pretty much everything else he has written. So thanks WW243 for your post as he wasn't on my radar as a must read and who knows when I would have got around to him if ever.

i'm reading "Murdered on Orient Express" of Agatha Christie....i'm a fan of yellow/noir/thriller genre. ( The same kind also as regards the film..especially of 70/80 )

You talkin' to me? If so....truthfully, I am always reading a book, mostly at night in bed.....my sleeping pill.

Originally Posted by Hirlau

You just had a book,,,, you read a lot ?
I wish I took the time,,,,,

Can't recall if I posted this yet but I kind of stopped and started again: Blindness by Jose Saramago (Winner for the Nobel Prize for Literature).

I read 4 hrs a day at least,5 books per week.never fiction.

Just started a Johnny Cash autobiography, enjoying it a lot.

12 O'Clock High
by Beirne Lay, Jr.; Bartlett, Sy ~1949
A book about the heroes we deride today.
""In 1949, American attorney and former U.S. Army Air Forces officer Harvey Stovall is vacationing in Great Britain when he spots a familiar Toby Jug in an antique shop window. He asks the proprietor where he bought the jug and he is told that it came from Archbury, which is the location of the former Royal Air Force Station Archbury and USAAF station where Stovall served with the 918th Bomb Group during World War II.""
Flashbacks from there onward. a good read about when people actually were behind the ridding of the world's trash! The book underscores the price that was paid in men and minds.
~Richard
I lucked into a box of 100 nearly new WWII books and have been devouring them as they were /are the basis for my beliefs today from my original reading of them back then!