Author Topic: What are you reading right now? (Read 84593 times)

jafo2010 · « **Reply #300 on:** August 04, 2021, 05:50:03 am »

Just finished Daniel Silva's first book, The Unlikely Spy. First 75 pages jump back and forth in time, which I thought could have been edited better. But I thought it was a good spy flick. Well worth reading.

Gefn · « **Reply #301 on:** August 04, 2021, 10:11:13 am »

“Becoming Trader Joe”, by Joe Coulombe

The man who started the grocery store chain Trader Joe’s describes how he did it. I’m liking it because I enjoy shopping at TJ’s, but I’d recommend it for anyone who is in business school as well.

Cyber Liberty · « **Reply #302 on:** August 04, 2021, 01:22:54 pm »

Quote from: Gefn on August 04, 2021, 10:11:13 am

“Becoming Trader Joe”, by Joe Coulombe

The man who started the grocery store chain Trader Joe’s describes how he did it. I’m liking it because I enjoy shopping at TJ’s, but I’d recommend it for anyone who is in business school as well.

Nearest one to me is a 4-hour drive.

sneakypete · « **Reply #303 on:** August 04, 2021, 03:50:23 pm »

W.E.B Griffin,"The Enemy of My Enemy".

BIG W.E.B Griffin fan.

thackney · « **Reply #304 on:** August 04, 2021, 05:18:08 pm »

Quote from: sneakypete on August 04, 2021, 03:50:23 pm

BIG W.E.B Griffin fan.

+1

Restored · « **Reply #305 on:** August 04, 2021, 06:19:00 pm »

Since I am growing weed this summer
Pot Farm by Matthew Frank It's about a guy who worked on a farm growing medical marijuana.

Smokin Joe · « **Reply #306 on:** August 05, 2021, 06:11:44 am »

Quote from: Cyber Liberty on August 04, 2021, 01:22:54 pm

Nearest one to me is a 4-hour drive.

That's close. My nearest is over 600 miles away. I think the ice cream might melt on the way home...

Gefn · « **Reply #307 on:** August 05, 2021, 10:19:42 am »

Quote from: Smokin Joe on August 05, 2021, 06:11:44 am

That's close. My nearest is over 600 miles away. I think the ice cream might melt on the way home...

Their ice cream is the bomb. Up until a few years ago, I’d have to go to another state to shop at TJ’s.

roamer_1 · « **Reply #308 on:** August 05, 2021, 11:28:04 am »

Quote from: Smokin Joe on August 05, 2021, 06:11:44 am

That's close. My nearest is over 600 miles away. I think the ice cream might melt on the way home...

Well there's one over in Spokane... Maybe something to check out next time I go over for the hot rod show...

verga · « **Reply #309 on:** August 05, 2021, 03:39:22 pm »

Working on book #3 of the Isaac Bell series by Clive Cussler. Fast moving and interesting historical fiction.

sneakypete · « **Reply #310 on:** August 05, 2021, 04:47:30 pm »

Quote from: verga on August 05, 2021, 03:39:22 pm

Working on book #3 of the Isaac Bell series by Clive Cussler. Fast moving and interesting historical fiction.

@verga

You can count me in as one of the many,many,Clive Cussler fans.

Smokin Joe · « **Reply #311 on:** August 05, 2021, 06:03:06 pm »

Quote from: Gefn on August 05, 2021, 10:19:42 am

Their ice cream is the bomb. Up until a few years ago, I’d have to go to another state to shop at TJ’s.

Well, the closest is only one state over--in Minnesota. That's still over 600 miles from here.

Cyber Liberty · « **Reply #312 on:** August 05, 2021, 06:14:46 pm »

I think there's one in Sedona, and we're going there on business at the late August...

jafo2010 · « **Reply #313 on:** August 06, 2021, 06:58:55 am »

TJ's is about 8 miles away for me. We shop there.

And W.E.B. Griffin, he is a definite favorite. When his books come out, I am reading them the same day. Problem is, he hasn't published in two years. I really enjoyed his characters. Killer McCoy was a great character, along with the father of his good friend, who owned the shipping line. I felt cheated when he jumped from 1942 to the Korean War. He could have wrote several books about the balance of WWII.

verga · « **Reply #314 on:** August 06, 2021, 01:56:27 pm »

Quote from: sneakypete on August 05, 2021, 04:47:30 pm

@verga

You can count me in as one of the many,many,Clive Cussler fans.

@sneakypete His son Dirk haws taken over the reins and is releasing a new on November 2nd.
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0593419642/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Bigun · « **Reply #315 on:** August 06, 2021, 02:01:15 pm »

W. E. B. Griffin and Clive Cussler are good, but Tom Clancey was the absolute master of this genre IMHO.

verga · « **Reply #316 on:** August 06, 2021, 03:23:00 pm »

Quote from: Bigun on August 06, 2021, 02:01:15 pm

W. E. B. Griffin and Clive Cussler are good, but Tom Clancey was the absolute master of this genre IMHO.

I view Clancy as Technofiction, and Cussler's Isaac Bell as Historical fiction.
Loved Clancy, some of the people that picked up his characters are better than others.

mountaineer · « **Reply #317 on:** August 06, 2021, 04:00:02 pm »

I've recently discovered Julia Keller, a WV native whose novels are set in a fictional southern WV town beset with poverty (resulting from the death of the coal industry), drugs and hopelessness. Very, very true to life. Her character development is excellent. The protagonist of her books is a female county prosecutor. Thus far, I've read 4 of what I believe are 8 books. Doesn't look like my library has 2 of them, so I may have to proceed a little out of order.

J.D. Vance's description of Appalachia was very accurate in his book "Appalachian Elegy." Keller's is at least as well done.

sneakypete · « **Reply #318 on:** August 06, 2021, 04:08:25 pm »

Quote from: Bigun on August 06, 2021, 02:01:15 pm

W. E. B. Griffin and Clive Cussler are good, but Tom Clancey was the absolute master of this genre IMHO.

@Bigun

You obviously haven't read W.E.B Griffins early books,like The Corps,and The Brotherhood of War. Both start immediately prior to WW-2. Right up there with Louis L'Amour as the best stuff I ever read.

Bigun · « **Reply #319 on:** August 06, 2021, 04:33:26 pm »

Quote from: sneakypete on August 06, 2021, 04:08:25 pm

@Bigun

You obviously haven't read W.E.B Griffins early books,like The Corps,and The Brotherhood of War. Both start immediately prior to WW-2. Right up there with Louis L'Amour as the best stuff I ever read.

I have read both of those and many other of his works as well and agree that he was one of the best but still stand by my original statement.

jafo2010 · « **Reply #320 on:** August 09, 2021, 05:21:05 pm »

Can't go wrong with Clancy or W.E.B. Griffin. Both are favorite writers for me. When a new book comes out, I gobble it up right away.

libertybele · « **Reply #321 on:** August 10, 2021, 12:50:26 am »

"The Founders' Second Amendment Origins of the Right to Bear Arms" - Stephen Halbrook

Gefn · « **Reply #322 on:** August 28, 2021, 05:41:44 pm »

I’m reading a very good book about the Theranos company, called “Bad Blood”, by John Carryou.

Bigun · « **Reply #323 on:** August 28, 2021, 07:47:53 pm »

I'm not reading anything right now. Instead, I'm sitting her mourning the needless loss of 13 American lives who were sacrificed by the idiot in the WH and the rainbow people surrounding him.

Fishrrman · « **Reply #324 on:** August 28, 2021, 10:05:25 pm »

Currently reading "Afterlight", the sequel to "Last Light", by Alex Scarrow.
These deal with the collapse of humanity in Britain after a catastrosphic end to the "oil economy".
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Light-Alex-Scarrow/dp/0752893270
https://www.amazon.com/Afterlight-Alex-Scarrow/dp/1409103064