Books: Book(s) you are Currently Reading

[Lshap]

I'm a Wright Bros fan, read a couple bios over the years..
You mention obstacles of Nature.. at that time, there was no bridge connecting mainland North Carolina to the Outer Banks. Wrights were at the mercies of erratic local fisherman to ferry them across. Usually in small fishing boats, in dangerous waters.
The fishermen we're ultimately important cogs in their success. I've been to Outer Banks many times, the sand blowing around there is no joke either.

Yeah, the stories of how they got to Kitty-Hawk, and how the local folk helped out is a very cool and totally unknown part of the tale. One of the residents, William Tate, was the one who took the brothers in, helped them set up camp and even helped move the plane back and forth. I'd love to hear the story told from his and his sons' perspectives.

Very cool that you've been there! Definitely on my must-do list!

The other thing I started reading up on are the various cries of coverups by other countries, who claim their native inventors succeeded before Wilbur & Orv. All those counter claims have been discredited, but it's amazing how fervently nationalist interests trump evidence.

Helluva' time in the US. So many iconic inventions coming out within a 25-year period from 1880 to early 1900s.

 

[Babe Ruth]

Very cool that you've been there! Definitely on my must-do list

When I was a kid, & we'd visit Kitty Hawk & Nags Head.. we'd tear up cardboard boxes and convert em into makeshift sleds. Then ride em down the dunes. With the barren sand & wind, it felt like being on Tatooine. It put the flight conditions in to perspective for me. But I think the wind is why the Wrights chose the Outer Banks.. /peace

 

[Babe Ruth]

The early military careers of Grant, Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and other famous Civil War generals.. formed by the Mexican War.
Detailed accounts of meaningful, individual battles.. quoted experiences of Grant (et al) in Texas..

 

[Thucydides]

 

[GB]

 

[Spring in Fialta]

 

[GB]

That's the third time today I've come across the name Gogol. I guess I should put him on my reading list.

 

[Spring in Fialta]

That's the third time today I've come across the name Gogol. I guess I should put him on my reading list.

I'd go with The Nose. An excellent and humorous short-story in an absurd way.

 

[kihei]

I'm just starting the 2016 Pulitizer Prize winner, The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen, which is about a North Vietnamese double agent living among Vietnamese immigrants in California. 20 pages in and thoroughly hooked.

 

[Thucydides]

I'm just starting the 2016 Pulitizer Prize winner, The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen, which is about a North Vietnamese double agent living among Vietnamese immigrants in California. 20 pages in and thoroughly hooked.

One of my favourite books from the last couple of years . I rated it very highly here, I think. Can’t wait to hear your thoughts. Definitely one of the best fiction books to come out about the Vietnam war .

 

[GB]

 

[Babe Ruth]

Saw this Volume 3, browsing at the library.. Very cool artwork. Only a few pages in, but apparently She-Ra became a brain-washed villain. (who knew)

 

[GB]

One of the advantages of living in a very small town with a brilliant library for its size is finding books there that are on long waiting lists in the other, city based, library I go to. Wandered into the library today and picked this up:

 

[Spring in Fialta]

 

[GB]

Before I get back to The Lesser Bohemians

 

[Thucydides]

Finished 1Q84 tonight. Broke it up into 3 books. It was good, the third book was more out there, but with Murakami, I knew it was coming , haha

 

[Thucydides]

Interested to know how the shipman book turns out

 

[Powerslave]

Back to Arrakis for this guy.

Last few days I've been reading Dune: House Atreides.

Idk what it is but I always keep coming back to Dune and LOTR

 

[Qurpiz]

Not too far along.

 

[Thucydides]

 

[Thucydides]

 

[Lost Horizons]

 

[timbermen]

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I'm on the first saga,the saga of Egil Skallagrimsson.This is by far the best book i've ever read,it makes the Steven Kings sound like a bunch of over imaginative 10 year olds.That Vikings show stole a whole bunch of events from this saga and wrongly applied them to other characters.This saga also makes the writers of that show look like a joke.Athlestan was the king of England not a slave,it's like they put all the names into hat and went from there.Ragnar was from Denmark and Ivor and the rest of his sons did exact revenge for their father.Bjorn Ironside was a Swedish king with no relation to Ragnar.The authors of the sagas are anyonomous.This saga spans fom 850-1000.

 

[GB]

Interested to know how the shipman book turns out

I liked I quite a lot; it'll probably end up being rated 4*.

It is purely about the politics around the Brexit campaigns and the fall out afterwards. There is very little in the book that happens outside of Westminster. A few mentions of the English regions, a couple of mentions of the SNP and of Ruth Davidson and that's really it. Plenty of political coverage feels like that so it was hardly unexpected.

It seems obvious that Shipman has far more Tory sources than Labour sources which makes the book even more heavily weighted than I'd expected on the Tories. Although Labour's MPs were busy trying to rebel against the leader they mostly didn't want who was himself trying to stay away from the referendum so it's hard to blame Shipman for this.

Back to The Lesser Bohemians for me.

 

[Thucydides]

Have any of you read any Don Winslow? The crime fiction writer of Savages, The Cartel, The force, etc? I picked up the Force today. Might give it a shot soon.