muppy Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 some of you may not have seen this. I posted a thread regarding a book being sold on amazon by a twobillsdrive memner @Tuco If any book belongs on a Bills mafia book club list it is an author who is a member 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PastaJoe Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 I favor alternate history. Currently it’s Bombs Away! by Harry Turtledove, the first of a trilogy set during the Korean War. The US uses nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula, and the Soviets retaliate in Europe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 (edited) 19 minutes ago, PastaJoe said: I favor alternate history. Currently it’s Bombs Away! by Harry Turtledove, the first of a trilogy set during the Korean War. The US uses nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula, and the Soviets retaliate in Europe. I am very thankful that IS alternate history. I actually like time and history stuff. “this separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, if a stubborn one.” - Albert Einstein Edited January 29 by Augie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toomstone.Part.Duex Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 Another great book.. David Goggins: "Can't Hurt Me" https://www.amazon.com/Cant-Hurt-Me-Master-Your/dp/1544512287 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheyCallMeAndy Posted January 30 Author Share Posted January 30 Started reading “Assistant to the Villain.” Knew absolutely nothing going in, just chatter about it when it came out. It’s pretty goofy and has made me laugh a few times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ned Flanders Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 (edited) Read Boys in the Boat over the summer, best book I've read since Unbroken. I'm putting off seeing the movie because I was very disappointed in the Unbroken movie...the uneven reviews for BITB lead me to believe the same for that movie. UPDATE: Saw Boys in the Boat last weekend. Very good movie, not great, and I believe it captured the essence of the book. Edited February 13 by Ned Flanders 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrW Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 Another fan of science fiction, especially the classics (Philip Dick, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke - "The Star" is my favorite short story). Not very well known in the West, but very much worth a try: Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Soviet-Russian brothers who always wrote together. My favorite Strugatsky novel: "Roadside Picnic". Also excellent: "Hard To Be A God". I also like authors with humor, such as Vonnegut or Carl Hiaasen. The two books I have read most frequently both fall in the "hilarious" category. I loved both already before I had kids, and then had to read them numerous times to the kids when they were between 6 and 10 or so. "The Last Man Alive" by A.S. Neill (the German translation has very funny cartoon illustrations), and "Memoiren eines mittelmaessigen Schuelers" by A. Spoerl ("Memoirs Of A Mediocre Student"; however, to my knowledge, no English translation has ever been published). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Augie Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 5 hours ago, Fr. Jerk said: Well, I came here to see what the erudite among us were reading. I didn’t expect to see this. Is it a signed first edition? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fr. Jerk Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 21 hours ago, Augie said: Is it a signed first edition? Yeah brah, and its a total page-turner, ya dig? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Jack Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 I just started this yesterday. It's no secret, I feel because of TV and the internet, my ability to just sit and read for hours has disappeared. This book definitely has kept my attention and time flies while reading it. Girl Walks into a Bar . . .: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle - by Rachel Dratch 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuco Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 On 1/29/2024 at 9:40 AM, muppy said: some of you may not have seen this. I posted a thread regarding a book being sold on amazon by a twobillsdrive memner @Tuco If any book belongs on a Bills mafia book club list it is an author who is a member 🙂 Hey thanks for the plug Mupster! Having a book out there for all the world to see has been a lot of fun so far. https://www.amazon.com/DEADLY-POSSESSION-M-K-Danielson/dp/B0BW2RSL8L 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 On 1/25/2024 at 12:54 PM, Simon said: Total book nerd here. Just finished Rick Atkinson's The Guns at Last Light, the third in a three book series that starts in N Africa, continues through Italy and finishes in Western Europe. I read some of that series. Very good, very dense and detailed in every way. In that Guns at last light the way he talked about the use of paratroopers late in the war by high command was sad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheyCallMeAndy Posted February 13 Author Share Posted February 13 Anyone read Fairytale by Stephen King? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhoTom Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 Earlier in the thread, I mentioned that I was halfway through The Earthburst Saga by Craig A. Falconer. I'm near the end now, and, wow what a thrill ride! Interesting characters, cool futuristic tech (maybe 10-20 years away for some of it), plot twists, and, like driving thru the Rocky Mountains, there are ups, downs, and something spectacular around every corner. I highly recommend it, and Amazon sells the Kindle version for $0.99 - for the whole series. I'll be reading more of his work. https://www.goodreads.com/series/360931-the-earthburst-saga Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheyCallMeAndy Posted February 13 Author Share Posted February 13 1 hour ago, WhoTom said: Earlier in the thread, I mentioned that I was halfway through The Earthburst Saga by Craig A. Falconer. I'm near the end now, and, wow what a thrill ride! Interesting characters, cool futuristic tech (maybe 10-20 years away for some of it), plot twists, and, like driving thru the Rocky Mountains, there are ups, downs, and something spectacular around every corner. I highly recommend it, and Amazon sells the Kindle version for $0.99 - for the whole series. I'll be reading more of his work. https://www.goodreads.com/series/360931-the-earthburst-saga Just added it to my “Want to Read” list! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhoTom Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 In addition to Tuco's book, which was really good, I also recommend Niagara Falls into Darkness, by our very own ChevyVanMiller. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 19 minutes ago, WhoTom said: In addition to Tuco's book, which was really good, I also recommend Niagara Falls into Darkness, by our very own ChevyVanMiller. Funny, I bought that one and started reading it right around the time we moved. It’s been about 2 years and it hasn’t popped up again. I know it’s here somewhere! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goin Breakdown Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 My favorite books are RA Salvatore's Drizzt novels Margaret Wise and Tracey Hickman's dragonlamce novels. Reality sucks so I've always like fantasy novels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bills4everNY Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 I just started reading "Anger Is An Energy: My Life Uncensored" by John Lydon. I've only read the first 2 chapters but so far its a great read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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