I just finished The Silent Patient… really enjoyed it. Wanting to research Wayne Williams (before my time) now that we just finished Mindhunter Season 2. Anything good?
Anyone read any really good books lately?
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If you are a King fan, I'm in the middle of Dr. Sleep and really enjoying it. Worth reading the Shining again for a refresher first if it has been a while.
I just finished The Outsider a few months back. It's been awhile since I've read any of his books. I may check out Dr. Sleep. Thanks for the suggestion!
The Lost Man by Jane Harper and News of the World by Paulette Jiles. Both fantastic books.
If looking for SciFi...I have been reading this series and really enjoying them:
The Lost Fleet Series by Jack Campbell.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/41101-the-lost-fleet
The Lost Fleet Series by Jack Campbell.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/41101-the-lost-fleet
Was it you that suggested I read Old Man's War a few years back? If so, that was an excellent suggestion and was a perfect vacation book for the beach. I call them vacation books because unfortunately I spend too much time on Warchant and while on vacation is when I get the majority of my reading done lol.
Actually, I will do sci-fi books. I still love Dune.
"Sapiens" - Yuval Noah Harari. NYT Bestseller in 2016
From the inception of sapiens in Africa (150,000 years ago), the book lays out the evolution, global expansion and societal changes of mankind in a very understandable way.
I'm almost certain I am slightly smarter having read this book
From the inception of sapiens in Africa (150,000 years ago), the book lays out the evolution, global expansion and societal changes of mankind in a very understandable way.
I'm almost certain I am slightly smarter having read this book
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Not my cup of tea, but my husband loves military history. Thank you.
any particular book? It seems like these guys have delegated to assistants and ghostwriters. They are like the puppy mill of the literary world. Maybe not this writer, but a lot of the popular ones.
Finished this few weeks ago. Reading homo duex right now. It’s the next stage of humans by sane guy
Those look intriguing, I’ll give it a shot. Been looking for something new. Just finished all of the Robicheaux series.
Absolute Power, which was made into a Clint Eastwood movie, Memory Man (first in the Amos Decker series), the Forgotten (first in the John Puller series), and Split Second (first in the King and Maxwell series) are some to check out.
I loved Dune.
I never got around to reading the the other ones...would you recommend them?
Did you read the Dark Tower series?
I got so mad waiting on the third or fourth book… never finished them. I love the Dune books. I'm weird though…
I read so many of the Robicheaux series but stopped in the middle of the one set in Montana about the serial killer-just too violent.
Florida Roadkill was awesome, read Triggerfish Twist which I guess was officially the first book in the series, just started the third. Love them...
Sweet. I'm glad you're enjoying them. Serge is a nut. Being a Floridian, I enjoy the odd local history intertwined. I turned my whole family on to Dorsey. I keep telling myself that I'm going to go on one of his cruises he puts on from time to time.
just saw that they’re remaking Dune. The cast is amazing!
from Wikipedia
”Dune is an upcoming 2020 American epicscience fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve with a screenplay by Eric Roth, Jon Spaihts and Villeneuve. It is the first of a planned two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel of the same name by Frank Herbert, and will cover roughly the first half of the book. The film stars an ensemble cast including Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Zendaya, David Dastmalchian, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Charlotte Rampling, Jason Momoa and Javier Bardem.”
2 part movie for the first half of the book? Nice!
If you like noir or heist novels I can't recommend Richard Stark enough. It's a pen name for Donald Westlake. His Parker novels are just a master playing with the noir style as a kind of experiment. His books under his own name are much lighter and comedic but the Stark novels are spare, tight, and brutal. You'll read each of them in a day or two. They get better as they go on. They've also been made into a few uneven movies the best of which is probably Payback starring Mel Gibson. The old Dashiell Hammett novels like The Maltese Falcon and Red Harvest hold up to the passing of time pretty well too.
If you like Westerns the Lonesome Dove books by Larry McMurtry are great. Cormac McCarthy is probably a better pure writer than McCarthy but you don't feel like you slogged through 250 pages of beautifully written descriptions of the worst of human nature after a McMurtry book. Better character development and story arc too in my opinion.
"Unbroken". Story of Louis Zamperini. Olympic athlete to WW2 POW. More than a war story. More about the will to survive. Gave new insight what POWs went through.
Cant hurt me - david goggins
Much better audiobook then read. Every chapter the narrator reads and then they both discuss the book throughout each chapter and at the end. Best audiobook I have listened too.
I also liked living 31 days with a seal by spanx owners husband. Written about same seal, david goggins, but a light book and pretty funny.
Much better audiobook then read. Every chapter the narrator reads and then they both discuss the book throughout each chapter and at the end. Best audiobook I have listened too.
I also liked living 31 days with a seal by spanx owners husband. Written about same seal, david goggins, but a light book and pretty funny.
The Red Rising series by Pierce Brown is great SciFi!! Each book is very long and there are 5 in the series so far. The best way I can describe it is Game of Thrones in the future.
