What are you reading?

• TBone14

  

  iclfan2;1865997 wrote:If you like Flynn, check out Brad Thor and Lee Child.
  
  
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  I do like Flynn (RIP). I've read many Brad Thor books. Never gotten into anything by Lee Child. He writes Jack Reacher, among others, correct?
• iclfan2

  

  Yea, the jack reacher novels were what I was getting at.
  
  
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• justincredible

  

  I started The Boy on the Bridge yesterday, and it's good so far. It's the prequel to The Girl With All the Gifts, which I just finished a few weeks ago and really liked. This book actually has better reviews than the original.
• justincredible

  

  I finished The Boy on the Bridge on Tuesday. I cannot recommend The Girl With All the Gifts and The Boy on the Bridge enough. If you like post-apocalyptic fiction, read them, and in that order. You will not be disappointed.
• iclfan2

  

  I'm starting The Shining. Already read "The Stand" and "It" so this is next on my Stephen King tour. They're just all so long...
  
  
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• justincredible

  

  I started reading Smarter Faster Better by Charles Duhigg. Someone recommended another book of his (The Power of Habit) but there was a waitlist at the library, so I went with this one instead.
• wkfan

  Just started Hillbilly Elergy.......
  
  The wife loved it.
• superman

  wkfan;1867501 wrote:Just started Hillbilly Elergy.......
  
  The wife loved it.

  Great book.
• ptown_trojans_1

  

  wkfan;1867501 wrote:Just started Hillbilly Elergy.......
  
  The wife loved it.

  Yeah, I read that and it hit a little too close to home in spots. I felt like I was reading stories from my own upbringing or friends I knew growing up that are no longer here.
  
  
  I'm still slogging through Jon Meacham's American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House. I have about a 100 pages left. It is good and I can easily see some of the similarities between the time of Jackson and the country today.
  I'm also reading Phil Steele's College Football preview issue. I'm about halfway through that in prepping for the college football year.
• MontyBrunswick

  

  superfudge
• justincredible

  

  wkfan;1867501 wrote:Just started Hillbilly Elergy.......
  
  The wife loved it.

  This is on my list.
• justincredible

  

  Anyone ever read any of James Michener's stuff? I'd like to read Alaska and Hawaii eventually, but they are massive novels (50+ hours on each audio book).
• BRF

  

  I read Centennial and Texas years ago.
  
  I enjoyed the TV movie made about Centennial.
• Belly35

  

  Instruction to grammer checker.
• isadore

  In the somewhat distant past, I read Michener's Centennial and Chesapeake, easy reads to learn a little history.
  Right now I am reading James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights by James Labunski. It is not a fun read but you learn a lot about the early fights over the structure of the government. Federalist v Anti-Federalist.
• Dr Winston O'Boogie

  

  Currently readin Einstein by Walter Isaacson. Great biography thus far. Isaacson does a great job describing this physics in layman' terms. I new Einstein's discoveries were massive and majorly influential, but I couldn't really understand them well. This book has given me a much better understanding.
• justincredible

  

  Finished Better Smarter Faster this morning. Going to get back into Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by John Meacham this afternoon.
• justincredible

  

  Also, for those that have a library card and listen to audiobooks, Overdrive has developed a new mobile app called Libby that is much better than the original Overdrive app.
• justincredible

  

  I've done a lot of reading up since the last update.
  
  I finished the following:
  
  Ringworld, by Larry Niven
  The Achievement Habit, by Bernard Roth
  All Our Wrong Todays, by Elan Mastai
  
  I am almost done with American War, by Omar El Akkad.
  
  I have started but haven't read much of The Power of Habit, by Charles Duhigg.
• iclfan2

  

  Reading one of the free Amazon books of the month called Beneath a Scarlet Sky, which is loosely based on some Italian guys journey taking Jews from Italy into Switzerland in WWII. It is decent, not long, and an interesting "based on a true" story.
• justincredible

  

  Just finished American War. That was a gut-wrenching read, but I really enjoyed it.
• ptown_trojans_1

  

  About 2/3rds of the way through the Martian by Andy Weir. I liked the movie and love the book so far.
• justincredible

  

  The Martian was a great book.
• justincredible

  

  I finished The Impossible Fortress this weekend. It was an okay read. It was set in 1987 so there was a ton of nostalgia in it, otherwise I might have been more disappointed.
• ptown_trojans_1

  

  justincredible;1870447 wrote:The Martian was a great book.

  Yeah, I loved it.
  
  I started a book on nuclear weapons policy (I'm that big a nerd), but after that moving on to read The Road by Cormac McCarthy.