SJ782
Victim
Suffering from Cranial Rectosis
Posts: 963
|
Post by SJ782 on Feb 4, 2011 14:47:24 GMT -5
City of Demons. By Scott A. Johnson. This was the second reading for me. It was even better this time through. My old landlady asked me one time why I would read a book more than once. And to think she was a teacher. A phys ed teacher. I suppose that in itself explains things.
|
|
SJ782
Victim
Suffering from Cranial Rectosis
Posts: 963
|
Post by SJ782 on Mar 28, 2011 13:38:47 GMT -5
Von Richthofen And Brown by Joe Lavinia. I'm not sure how accurate this was, but it was entertaining. It was the story of how Boelcke, the leading fighter ace from the western front went looking for pilots and found Von Richthofen on the eastern front, trained him and flew with him. Among the pilots in Boelcke's squadron........ Hermann Goering and Ernst Udet.
On the British end, Roy Brown, who didn't fit in and a Canadian farmer. For a long time he was considered to be the man who shot down the Red Baron. Later it was proven that ground fire had brought down the Baron. I guess there is a movie made from this story, made in 1971, with John Phillip Law and Don Stroud. Somehow, I never saw it. I was going through a box with paperbacks I never read and came across this. Now was as good a time as any. Excellent book ( and short too.)
|
|
SJ782
Victim
Suffering from Cranial Rectosis
Posts: 963
|
Post by SJ782 on Jul 18, 2011 14:58:05 GMT -5
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson. This was interesting and nothing at all like Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas. This time he ran with the Hell's Angels. They had full knowledge that he was writing a book, which also lead to him getting a beat down at the end. Apparently, Sonny Barger had a change of heart. Well worth a read. This was my third time through and it was still great !
|
|
Joe
Victim
I don't wanna work, I just wanna bang on the drum all day.
Posts: 540
|
Post by Joe on Jul 23, 2011 12:12:48 GMT -5
That's a coincidence...I just finished Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72. What can I say....about 40 years too late. I'd recommend it to anybody who wanted to know everything about the 1972 Presidential campaign but didn't like politics. The Gonzo Journalism is unorthodox but in the end you learn just as much as you would from a more conventional work.
|
|
SJ782
Victim
Suffering from Cranial Rectosis
Posts: 963
|
Post by SJ782 on Dec 1, 2011 15:33:31 GMT -5
King Of Torts by John Grisham. This was a really easy read. A truly excellent book about class action lawsuits. I wasn't sure upon finding this one sitting on the bookshelf. I gave it a try and was happily surprised.
I'm currently dealing with 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Far too much scientific BS for me.
|
|
SJ782
Victim
Suffering from Cranial Rectosis
Posts: 963
|
Post by SJ782 on Apr 6, 2012 8:58:59 GMT -5
Blood of the Fold. The third book from the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. I keep going back and rereading these. The only reasons I can figure is that they're so good and they're so long that you know you'll be busy for more than a day or so. All ya gotta do is buy the first book, Wizard's First Rule. If ya like it, then go for the rest. Better than Lord of the Rings.
|
|
SJ782
Victim
Suffering from Cranial Rectosis
Posts: 963
|
Post by SJ782 on Oct 8, 2012 16:42:29 GMT -5
Stranger In a Strange Land. By Robert A. Heinlein. I originally read this back in 1974. A lot has changed since that time. because of morals at the time of the originally published work, there were 70,000 words removed from the original text. The newer copies have added these 70,000 words and made it more interesting. This is an excellent book for any Sci Fi fan.
|
|
SJ782
Victim
Suffering from Cranial Rectosis
Posts: 963
|
Post by SJ782 on Feb 25, 2013 10:55:46 GMT -5
The Black Order by James Rollins. This was about a weapon that the Nazi's were working on towards the end of the war. The weapon was called Die Glocke ( The Bell.) It was built at the bottom of a mine outside a Polish town. The Nazi's only set it off once. It killed everyone in the town and all the livestock. At the end of the war the Nazi's killed every scientist who worked on the project and carted up the experiment. The book takes place in modern times with the Bell rebuilt in the Himalayas, and also recreated in South Africa. Two different organizations with the same goal and an American spy organization trying to stop them. I had trouble putting the book down. It also gave me nightmares for a week. The book was fiction, but the Bell was real and did disappear at the end of WWII.
|
|