OT-Read any good books lately?

[Marvin Martian]

Am reading now:

Ghosts of Tsavo: Stalking the Mystery Lions of East Africa by Philip Caputo

Experience: a Memoir by Martin Amis

Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet’s Tsangpo River by Peter Heller

Tales from the Torrid Zone: Travels in the Deep Tropics by Alexander Frater

Just finished:

The Signature Of All Things: A Novel by Elizabeth Gilbert
Loved this book. One of my new faves. Highly recommended.

Seeing Out Louder: Art Criticism 2003 – 2009 by Jerry Saltz
Hard to find but worth reading if you appreciate art.

Song of the Sky by Guy Murchie
About weather and aviation with some memoir. Excellent.

Burning the Days: Recollection by James Salter
A memoir by one of our finest writers. Read this.

Avid Reader: A Life by Robert Gottlieb
About a life reading and editing.

The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
One of the few writers of short stories I admire.

The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking by Olivia Laing

Plus I subscribe to and read The New Yorker (have a 2 inch stack of them
I need to read), The Economist (my primary source of news) and The
New York Review of Books and The London Review of Books every two
weeks.

And I listen to audio books when I am driving. Currently listening to
To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel by Harper Lee

Where is the best place to get audio books?

 

[alfresco]

Where is the best place to get audio books?

I go to the library and get them on DVD's.

I have only bought one, Cold Mountain (my favorite),
got it from Audible.com, downloaded it to my iPod.

 

[machinemind]

I'm a huge sci-fi/fantasy geek, so it's the Warhammer 40K series for me. The Horus Heresy series is outstanding, and they are generating a new novel basically once a month. I have a library of probably about 50 books.

What is the premise? Basically massive steroid/gene doped elite "Space Marines". Think like, if the Storm Troopers in Star Wars were 8 feet tall and 400 lbs at 5% bodyfat. And they fight each other, aliens, psychics, etc.

 

[machinemind]

Where is the best place to get audio books?

Are we allowed to recommend torrent sites? I could point you in the right direction, I don't want to break any rules though. Basically any audiobook you would ever want for free.

I might add, a more "legit" approach would be the Audible app or audible.com

 

[alfresco]

wow

Are we allowed to recommend torrent sites? I could point you in the right direction, I don't want to break any rules though. Basically any audiobook you would ever want for free.

As a producer of original content that I get royalties for,
earn a living from, I find your recommendation so far out
of line, I just don’t know where to begin . . . but will start
by saying that is totally disrespectful, unethical, and a
rather large heap of other things that make it just plain
morally wrong.

Shame on you if you do so

 

[machinemind]

wow



As a producer of original content that I get royalties for,
earn a living from, I find your recommendation so far out
of line, I just don’t know where to begin . . . but will start
by saying that is totally disrespectful, unethical, and a
rather large heap of other things that make it just plain
morally wrong.

Shame on you if you do so

Thanks for the response.

 

[old timer]

I saw "To Kill A Mockingbird" and forgot about that one. Very good.

Moby Dick was good too but way too much history/detail about the whaling industry, but the storyline itself is very good.

I don't think I mentioned a few Steve Martini books (protagonist is Paul Madriani). These are legal thrillers, and while Grisham is good, I prefer Martini.

 

[Marvin Martian]

I saw "To Kill A Mockingbird" and forgot about that one. Very good.

Moby Dick was good too but way too much history/detail about the whaling industry, but the storyline itself is very good.

I don't think I mentioned a few Steve Martini books (protagonist is Paul Madriani). These are legal thrillers, and while Grisham is good, I prefer Martini.

I haven't read Martini but have heard he was good. I want to start a collection from the first book and follow chronologically. I bounced around a little with the Bourne series and need to fill in the gaps.
Started Sniper Elite tonight - written by Scott McEwen who wrote American Sniper with Chris Kyle

 

[Marvin Martian]

I go to the library and get them on DVD's.

I have only bought one, Cold Mountain (my favorite),
got it from Audible.com, downloaded it to my iPod.

I have a huge library a block from my house so I will give it a shot and see what they have.

 

[old timer]

I haven't read Martini but have heard he was good. I want to start a collection from the first book and follow chronologically.

I think I'll alternate between Martini's Paul Madriani series and Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp series, and that should keep me busy until fall.

Vince Flynn's character was mentioned to be reading a Nelson DeMille novel, and google says he wrote a series on a character named John Corey who is an NYPD detective, so I'll give that a try at some point.

Another short series (4-5 books) that was really good is David Baldacci's John Puller books. John Puller is a character much like Jack Reacher: he's an investigator with the army; he's huge; and he kicks @$$ when needed. Very good. Baldacci has another series with Will Robie (CIA IIRC), but I didn't care for it as much.

 

[gungalunga]

Recently read " How Everything Became War, And The Military Became Everything : Tales From The Pentagon " By Rosa Brooks. She is a former DOD and State Department employee, and writes about the military's new role in the world besides just fighting traditional war.

Also read "A World In Disarray" by Richard Haass. A good book about current geopolitical issues, and discusses other things like a state's (country's) sovereign responsibility versus sovereign obligation.

Both very good books.....