Books: What have you been reading?

[The Darknight Detective]

New Kindle read: The Master and Margarita (1967) by Mikhail Bulgakov.

[John Ossie]

Jim Ross -Slobberknocker Autobiography. Interesting book if you're a fan of wrestling.

[Vegan Daddy]

Goodbye to Berlin (1939) by Christopher Isherwood

[DebkoX]

Jim Ross -Slobberknocker Autobiography. Interesting book if you're a fan of wrestling.

If you have time, read the Andre the Giant graphic novel by Box Brown. I read the entire thing in a bookstore and immediately purchased it.

[John Ossie]

If you have time, read the Andre the Giant graphic novel by Box Brown. I read the entire thing in a bookstore and immediately purchased it.

I'll keep an eye out for it.

[Dante Milton]

The Shadowglass by Rin Chupeco, the final book in The Bone Witch trilogy. A good conclusion to the fantasy series with some interesting twists.

[MajorHoy]

Started reading

The Big Knockover
Selected Stories and Short Novels
by Dashiell Hammett
(published by Vintage Books - July 1989)

[TriggerWarning]

Just finished listening to Dark Site by Patrick Lee. I can't recommend this author enough. His books are all thrillers with a bit of sci fi mixed in. Very fast paced and Lee is excellent at keeping you interested enough in the central mystery of whats happening to make you want to keep reading or listening.

His six books are two sets of trilogies. The first three books starting with The Breach are about a mysterious portal to another world through which objects appear and the team of operatives and scientists collecting them and trying to control them. Most of the objects are inert but once in a while they actually do something or give people the abilities to do things - for instance one object renders a person invisible and when its stolen and falls in the hand of the bad guys the wearer becomes an near unstoppable assassin. There is an underlying mystery to it all that you will not see coming but is highly satisfying. These books you do have to read in order.

The second set of books is technically a trilogy as they all feature the same main character but each book is utterly stand alone and can be read without knowledge of the others. The Dark Site book I just finished is in this. The main character is a former special ops guy named Sam Dryden who keeps getting sucked into adventures. First book called Runner is about a young girl he stumbles onto being chased by mysterious guys - turns out due to experimentation she has mind reading powers and she just escaped those experimenting on her and the rest of the book is Sam trying to protect her. Second book called Signal is about scientists who find a way to tune into radio broadcasts 11 hrs into the future which they then figure out how to manipulate - they code secret messages into the radio signal about the stock market or specific events so that their past selves can take action and change the future - this device then falls into bad hands and Sam gets sucked into it. Last book that I just finished is about when people try to kill Sam and another woman he's never met and they discover that they apparently did know one another as kids but had their memories wiped for some reason and the rest of the book is them trying to figure out why people are trying to kill them and why their memories were wiped.

[Deathstroke]

I finished reading the James Swallow thriller Nomad today.

[DebkoX]

Where the dead sit talking, Brandon Hobson.

[The Darknight Detective]

I'm... now reading... TekLords... (1991)... by William Shatner!



It's... the second novel... in the TekWar... series!

[MajorHoy]

I'm... now reading... Teklord... (1991)... by William Shatner!



It's... the second novel... in the series!

If I may . . . suggest . . . some appropriate . . . music . . . to be played in the . . . background . . .



Tracks included on . . . the album . . . are:

1. "King Henry the Fifth/Elegy for the Brave" (Don Ralke · Frank Davenport) 6:16
2. "Theme from Cyrano/Mr. Tambourine Man" (Music by Don Ralke/Translation by Frank Davenport · Bob Dylan) 6:49
3. "Hamlet/It Was a Very Good Year" (Don Ralke · Ervin Drake) 7:45
4. "Romeo and Juliet/How Insensitive (Insensatez)" (Ralke · Antônio Carlos Jobim/Vinícius de Moraes/English Lyrics by Norman Gimbel) 6:46
5. "Spleen/Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (Music by Don Ralke/Words and Translation by Frank Davenport · John Lennon/Paul McCartney) 5:54
6. "The Transformed Man" (Frank Davenport/Don Ralke) 3:38

[The Darknight Detective]

If I may . . . suggest . . . some appropriate . . . music . . . to be played in the . . . background . . .



Tracks included on . . . the album . . . are:

1. "King Henry the Fifth/Elegy for the Brave" (Don Ralke · Frank Davenport) 6:16
2. "Theme from Cyrano/Mr. Tambourine Man" (Music by Don Ralke/Translation by Frank Davenport · Bob Dylan) 6:49
3. "Hamlet/It Was a Very Good Year" (Don Ralke · Ervin Drake) 7:45
4. "Romeo and Juliet/How Insensitive (Insensatez)" (Ralke · Antônio Carlos Jobim/Vinícius de Moraes/English Lyrics by Norman Gimbel) 6:46
5. "Spleen/Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (Music by Don Ralke/Words and Translation by Frank Davenport · John Lennon/Paul McCartney) 5:54
6. "The Transformed Man" (Frank Davenport/Don Ralke) 3:38

Heh. I first heard a few of the songs 30-something years ago thanks to the Golden Throats albums. They're great in a Plan 9 From Outer Space type way.

[Chubistian]

I’m currently reading The brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

[FluffySheep]

Well it took me 3 weeks but I've finally finished A Game of Thrones. Can't decide whether to start A Clash of Kings or try something else to break it up.