What are you reading right now?

[jafo2010]

Currently reading Bret Baier's book To Rescue the Republic.  It is a biography about Ulysses S. Grant, and is an excellent read.  I am almost halfway through, and enjoying it very much.

Where are the U.S. Grant's in today's military?  They just don't exist as far as I am concerned.  The POSs in the Obama/Biden military are destroying it with utter nonsense, DEI bullsh*t, CRT crap, transgender insanity, and on and on.  Every time I see that maggot transgender in an admiral's uniform that Wrecking Ball Joe made an Asst Sec of HHS, I want to toss my cookies.  Disgraces the uniform and the corps of people that work hard to have a career.  That idiot was handed three stars without earning a damn thing.  That is why Biden has no business being POTUS.  He is utterly clueless and the single greatest threat to this nation!

[jafo2010]

On my 4th book in the Brotherhood of War series by W.E.B. Griffin.  I have read everything he has written except this series which has nine books in the series.  What can I say, enjoying the heck out of these books.  Read the first three in little over a week. 

I now have my hands on all nine books, so I will go through them quickly.  The list includes:

The Lieutenants
The Captains
The Majors
The Colonels
The Berets
The Generals
The New Breed
The Aviators
Special Ops

[Fishrrman]

Last book:
"Typhoid Mary", by Anthony Bourdain.
Don't waste your time with this one. You can find more about Mary by going to the wikipedia page on her. The author is a cook, and after reading this book, I would never eat anything HE prepared.

Current book:
"The Fifth Horseman", by Billy Roper.
Good story so far, about people in Arkansas after a national collapse/war.
(you WON'T find this one on amazon, try a search on "the colchester collection")

[mountaineer]

"Typhoid Mary", by Anthony Bourdain.
Don't waste your time with this one.

I never could jump on the Bourdain train. I found him insufferably arrogant and annoying, and had more than a few doubts about his self-proclaimed culinary chops.

[libertybele]

Starting to read the "7 Secrets of the Eucharist" by Vinny Flynn.  It was recommended by the priest last Sunday.

[Sighlass]

Picked up my first book of 2024...

Camp of the Saints (English version)... of which it seems leftist Wiki folks (and white hate farm SPLC) didn't seem to like it much...

[Fishrrman]

"The Camp of the Saints" is a so-so book insofar as readability goes.
Its significance is in the prescience of the story, written 50+ years ago.
Jean Raspail was as prophetic as was Orwell before him.

Last book read here:
"Hasten the Day" by Billy Roper (first of a trilogy of post-American-breakup novels).

Currently reading:
"Waiting for the Sun", the second book of Roper's trilogy.

And after that:
"Wasting the Dawn", the third.

You WON'T find these on amazon.
They ARE on z-lib.org (which can only be accessed using the Tor browser at:
zlibrary24tuxziyiyfr7zd46ytefdqbqd2axkmxm4o5374ptpc52fad.onion )

[Sighlass]

You WON'T find these on amazon.
They ARE on z-lib.org (which can only be accessed using the Tor browser at:
zlibrary24tuxziyiyfr7zd46ytefdqbqd2axkmxm4o5374ptpc52fad.onion )

Wanted me to make an account and give my email to use the Zlibrary.... don't give emails out willy nilly now days. I don't remember them requiring any personal info in the past.

[Fishrrman]

sighlass wrote:
"Wanted me to make an account and give my email to use the Zlibrary.... don't give emails out willy nilly now days. I don't remember them requiring any personal info in the past."

Then create a "throwaway" email account to use.

I suggest protonmail.com
... as a good place to start.

This is a Swiss-based outfit, you can create a free account, it's encrypted both ways.
Give your account a name and use a password that has nothing to "connect" with you in real life.

Then use that for z-lib.
NOTE: You must use a browser to connect to proton's free accounts. Can't connect with a "standalone" email app.

You ain't gettin' anything without taking this step.

Actually, you might try going to "bugmenot.com" and seeing if there are any logins for z-lib that are usable, BUT -- if you find one, it's almost certainly going to be over "the daily download limit" that z-lib imposes.

[Gefn]

My book club. picked up "The Women" by Kristen Hannah

It is about a couple of women who were nurses in during the Vietnam War (fiction)

[Kamaji]

Slant, by Greg Bear.

[Kamaji]

Slant, by Greg Bear.

I have to say that Greg Bear was both an amazingly perceptive, prescient author, and partly for that reason both disturbing and depressing.  Back in the 1980s and 1990s he was coming up with things - both gadgets and social movements and mores - that are just now showing up IRL. 

[verga]

Act of Defiance by Andrews and Williams. The yare one of the ones that took over the Clancy Ryan books.

[Gefn]

I have heard good buzz about this book but I don't know if it my cuppa tea.

How ‘Eruption,’ the new Michael Crichton novel completed with James Patterson’s help, was created

When “Jurassic Park” author Michael Crichton died from cancer in 2008, he left behind numerous unfinished projects, including a manuscript he began 20 years ago about the imminent eruption of Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano.

Crichton’s widow Sherri, who is CEO of CrichtonSun, tapped another millions-selling author — James Patterson— to complete the story. “Eruption” is now in stores.

Patterson is very familiar with co-authoring. In recent years he’s published a novel with Bill Clinton and Dolly Parton, and often shares writing responsibilities on his other novels.

For “Eruption,” Crichton says she gave Patterson all of her husband’s research and he came back with an outline. Some of the story needed to be brought forward to present day. “We talked probably every few weeks,” Sherri Crichton says. “It was so much fun to read. It would be hard to tell what was Crichton and what’s Patterson’s.”

https://apnews.com/article/michael-crichton-eruption-james-patterson-sherri-c3310ea1ca3ce8c39b7c584de14430fe

[jafo2010]

On my 9th book in the Brotherhood of War series by W.E.B. Griffin.  I have read everything he has written except this series which has nine books in the series.  What can I say, enjoying the heck out of these books.  Read the first three in little over a week.

The list includes:

The Lieutenants
The Captains
The Majors
The Colonels
The Berets
The Generals
The New Breed
The Aviators
Special Ops

What can I say.  I have now read everything W.E.B. Griffin has published.  Truly enjoy his books, his characters.

Just picked up the latest Clancy book.  Amazing he is still publishing 11 years after his death. 

[mountaineer]

Haven't read it yet, but plan to purchase: The Adversaries: A Story of Boston and Bunker Hill

I'm sorry to say I didn't get around to reading that one yet, but Ned is about to release another book:

Ned Ryun
@nedryun
Quick update: due to some slight delays on printing and shipping, it’s coming out now on September 17th, Constitution Day. American Leviathan: The Birth of the Administrative State and Progressive Authoritarianism.
10:57 AM · Aug 10, 2024

Amazon

[deb]

Just started “Ask Not - The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed” by Maureen Callahan.
Not a very flattering expose of the Kennedy men, including John Jr and RFK Jr.

[Bigun]

[Cyber Liberty]

I'll be reading that next (Netflix is closed to me).  I just finished Kurt Schlichter's The Attack.  A good read if you like his fiction.  He has other books like it, too.  The Kelly Trumbull series is good.

[Bigun]

I'll be reading that next (Netflix is closed to me).  I just finished Kurt Schlichter's The Attack.  A good read if you like his fiction.  He has other books like it, too.  The Kelly Trumbull series is good.

Netflix is closed to me as well and my reading list is long already but thanks for the tip. @Cyber Liberty

[mountaineer]

As a person with deep roots in Appalachia, I found Vance's book very moving and true to life when I read it shortly after its release. I have to laugh at those who claim it was insulting to Appalachians. It wasn't. It was fair and honest.

[Bigun]

As a person with deep roots in Appalachia, I found Vance's book very moving and true to life when I read it shortly after its release. I have to laugh at those who claim it was insulting to Appalachians. It wasn't. It was fair and honest.

I'm finding it somewhat difficult to read because it has dredged up many memories from my own childhood. (Many ancestors from NE Tennessee.)

[mountaineer]

Yes, it's a bit painful. What he describes is - sad to say - very common around here and in the part of the state from which many of my ancestors came and where my parents were born.

[verga]

The Movie was excellent. Right now I have about 15 books in the reading Que

[corbe]

   Though I don't regret it, the saddest part of my Life is perhaps that 69% of what I read originates here, through you Briefers.  The other 31% originates from whores', pimps and preachers on Utube. 
   I am truly Blessed.