What are you reading now?
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https://images4.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780385544764Couldn’t rely get into the new Larsen book so I ditched and went to what is for me always a good staple, maritime stories. This just released about cooks third and final voyage, I thoroughly enjoyed a previous book on HMS endeavor which was cooks vessel for his first voyage. So this looks to me just what I need now.
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@George-K said in What are you reading now?:
Finished it.
wipes brow
Actually a bit of a disappointment. So much extraneous stuff that added little to the story, and was shoehorned into a "Chekhov's pistol" type of setting.
This was good, hard sci-fi that devolved into speculative stuff about multiple, alternate universes. Unexplained FTL travel, and no real resolution.
Such great premises that could have been fleshed out a lot better.
It'll probably continue to be a good TV series, until it gets weird (as the third book did).
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I have way too many of this sort of book discussing how to improve your jazz, most of which remain unread. This one is actually quite good.
Probably a fairly limited audience for it here at least...
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rereading the karla trilogy by le carre
(TTSS, honorable school boy, smileys people)
ive been though them before but i simply cannot get enough of le carre as a spy writer. IMHO, no one comes close to his mastery in the genre. simply superb and a pleasure to read.
the soviet-west cold war, seems to be so very much alive, 60 years down the road, even though 60 years is about 2-3 generations afterwards.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@George-K said in What are you reading now?:
Never read any of his stuff...let's see how it goes.
My dad loves 'em because they take place in DC.
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It’s always something.
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@jon-nyc said in What are you reading now?:
Have not read that book, but strangly, I was just reading a article about that book. I guess that there is some controversy in that the arthur edited his "diary" after the fact. Some of his original diary entries were very favorable to Adolf Hitler, etc.
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It’s excellent. Living the reich in ‘real time’ through his diary, but also getting a glimpse of what the life of a foreign correspondent in the 30s and 49s was like. Remember he was one of the original ‘Morrow’s boys”.
I re-read Rise and Fall about every ten years. It’s excellent.
Last year I read his The Collapse of the Third Repubic. I loved it but you kind of have to be into French history not just the war.
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@taiwan_girl said in What are you reading now?:
@jon-nyc said in What are you reading now?:
Have not read that book, but strangly, I was just reading an article about that book. I guess that there is some controversy in that the arthur edited his "diary" after the fact. Some of his original diary entries were very favorable to Adolf Hitler, etc.
I was aware of that. But it doesn’t take away from the experience. He’s mostly reporting on events, it isn’t so much about him.
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‘People’ is a strong word, but yeah.
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Finally.
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So did I, and I bought it. Started this morning.
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Part "travelogue", part spiritual quest for the meaning of life, part mystery, it is the story of a US guy who disappears while hiking in northern India. Quite interesting, and is actually quite a good read. It is a beautiful, yet somewhat isolated area.
In August 2016, an experienced American trekker named Justin Alexander Shetler ascended to a high Himalayan lake on a pilgrimage in the Parvati Valley of northern India, never to be heard from again. He carried a walking stick that he’d partially fashioned into a flute, a woolen wrap and not much else, having shed most of his earthly possessions.
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@jon-nyc said in What are you reading now?:
I re-read Rise and Fall about every ten years. It’s excellent.
Jon, I just started The Third Reich Trilogy
According to Ian Kershaw, it is "the most comprehensive history in any language of the disastrous epoch of the Third Reich".[5] It has been hailed as a "masterpiece of historical scholarship".[6]
There are three volumes:
The Coming of the Third Reich
The Third Reich in Power
The Third Reich at WarI just started the first volume. A bit difficult for me, not really knowing much about European history (talking about Bismarck, etc. and how that set the basis for Nazi's), but I will continue with it for the time being. Mr. Evans, in his "preface" says that he tried to write it not too academic, but not too simplistic.
