Thread: What are You Reading?

Water for Elephants

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Originally Posted by sinnfein

Just started Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing. About Ernest Shackleton's voyage to be the first party to cross Antarctica on foot. Pretty exciting so far.

I enjoyed this book and others about Shackleton. My take on him is different than any I have read.

If he wasn't such a pompous idiot he would have never got himself and others in a position to become a hero to many.

Originally Posted by 32t

I enjoyed this book and others about Shackleton. My take on him is different than any I have read.

If he wasn't such a pompous idiot he would have never got himself and others in a position to become a hero to many.

read it last week, a great read BTW

A good source of used and publishers' end of run books is Alibris:
Alibris.com

Originally Posted by nun2sharp

I did plenty of reading in the last few weeks, My Travels with Charlie by Steinbeck as well as Grapes of Wrath. Then there was Catherine the Great, pure history and a good read and then there was something my daughter gave me called Game of Thrones which was far better than I had anticipated.

You have a good taste with books, Sir! Steinbeck is one of my all time favorites.

I've read all the 5 parts from Game of Thrones written this far. They were pretty interesting, better than i did expect from any so called fantasy books. Although even the TV serie was pretty loyal to books, i never got hooked into it. Seen only few episodes from the 1st season.

During my vacation i've been on the light line with books, mostly. Did at least Dying Detective (GW Persson), Colors of War (Babtsenko, not so light after all), Elephant keepers' children (Høeg, one of the funniest books ever) and Other kingdoms (Matheson)

Anyone ever read "CENTENNIAL" by James A. Michener.

Absolutely great American adventure. Rather long read but hard to put down.

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P.S. The first book I ever read cover to cover was Melville's "MOBY DICK".
That was 9th grade 1958. Been a reader ever since.

James A. Michener, a great novelist. One of my favourites, Earl Thompson, Tattoo. Gritty and raw.

Originally Posted by Jimbo

I'm not reading anything remotely educational at the moment as I'm on holiday.

I read a book called Silverthorn by Raymond Fiest last week - a fantasy novel, second in the "Riftwar" series. I remember reading the first, Magician, as a kid. It's a pretty good yarn, though being the second in a trilogy means the ending is nebulous and I'm seriously contemplating buying the last one to find out what happens - or maybe I'll just Google it (but there's no fun in that!).

This week I am reading a truly terrible book called "The Bones of Zora". Well, I keep falling asleep so I am only 3 chapters in - maybe it gets better... Some kind of sci-fi I think.

James.

why don't you read something else then?

Originally Posted by crouton976

I'm actually trying to figure out what to read next. I just finished Stephen King's "11-22-63" the other night, and don't know if I want to move on to another of his books or switch gears a bit.

Good thread, Lynn!

i generally find reading two books by the same author consecutively problematic, unless the books are quite different, whereas watching a tv series on dvd is good because you notice all of the little bits and bobs that the producers and directors hide in the various episodes, i usually end up with series that get sropped after 2 seasons, except lost which was completely dissapointing at the end, i wish i had been left in suspense.