I need some good books

[PonoBill]

Yeah, once you get past all the begats it gets almost interesting.

[NoSaltSuper]

Have you read any of the O'Reilly books like Killing Lincoln?
Really good read, very well done.

[pdxmike]

The Stranger Beside Me, about Ted Bundy.  Stoneaxe mentioning he'd pulled the seat out of his VW Bug reminded me that I'd enjoyed reading it (well, listening to it).

[PonoBill]

You're scaring me a little there PDX, but OK.

I wonder why all the kindle versions of the books you guys are suggesting cost as much or more than the paperback. Is Amazon doing some kind of high-velocity arbitrage, knowing that I only buy e-books and jacking the price as soon as you guys recommend it?  I'll probably dupe a bunch of these in Audible for the trip down to the PPG, though given the apparent length of "An Army At Dawn" I might be good for both down and back.

I'm setting up to do an Audible version of "Riding Sophia". I have kind of a mini soundstage set up, which looks a lot like a good microphone in front of a big cardboard box full of foam. now if I can just keep from falling asleep as I read it. It would help if I jumped back into fleshing out the sequel (Riding Anouk), but it feels like fluffing, and I'm not that happy doing it. I need to get a good editor to tell me what to do. It feels too skeletal and quick now, but I wrote it in the style of Elmore Leonard. He said "I leave out the parts people don't read" which is what I tried to do. But now it seems a little too sparse and the character development is missing.

If I make the book-on-cloud version, I'm going to talk Boyum into reading his book. I'm not sure that many hours of a cross between Warren Miller and Bruce Brown will work, but it will be fun seeing if it does.

[TDoc]

A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin
The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks by Donald Harington
Obviously if you want to have to slow down you can go for Thomas Pynchon's stuff or James Joyce's Ulysses...I need a primer when I read them

Doc

[Weasels wake]

"Home Before Daylight" by Steve Parish, maybe the best book about the Grateful Dead's early days on tour.  A great view from the inside, for you Deadheads out there, and general rockers as well.

[pdxmike]

You're scaring me a little there PDX, but OK.

It's OK, it's not a how-to book.


It was written by Ann Rule, who got a contract to write about the unsolved "Ted" murders in the NW, only to come to the realization after years working on the book, putting clues together, that the "Ted" who was responsible was a good friend of hers who'd been sitting all that time next to her, volunteering at a crisis hotline.  She told the police her suspicions long before he was caught.  At the time, they had another 2,000 or so suspects.


"Waiting to be Heard" by Amanda Knox is downright scary to read--view of the legal bureaucracy by an almost-lifetime victim of it. 

[PonoBill]

A Soldier of the Great War looks great. I added the whispersync since it was only three bucks.

The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks is on Kindle unlimited, so I grabbed it for free. Cool.

Home Before Daylight looks like great fun. Eight bucks for Kindle, hardback used for 8.34 or $48 new, and paperback $18.50.  What on earth is the economic engine behind this like. Obviously a glopeta glopeta machine.

Tracy, I've read "Into thin Air" (and saw Everest a few nights ago. any potential for trying an ascent is now dead, dead, dead. Not that there was much interest before. I'd like to read the art book though. Has to be a very weird world.

And lest you think I'm not taking your recommendations seriously:

[Tom]

For fun reads, I've  been  reading  Don Winslow andClive  Custer .  The  history  stuff . ..
Nathan  Philbrick   The last stand ,  Custer ,  sitting  buull, and the battle  of  little  big  horn 

P Leane   The Given  Day 

Ken Follett    Fall  of  Giants ,  Winter  of  the  World 

Over  the  Edge ,  the story  of  Magellan 

[PonoBill]

Tom we have similar tastes in more than just paddles. I've read those. I like Clive Cussler's writing, though his plots wander to odd places. Ken Follett is wonderful for both nuanced spy stuff and his cathedral building books. He gets painfully myopic when he's recounting recent history.

Over the edge--haven't read that. Looks good. I think I read all the Nathan Philbrick books, but I'll look again.

If Patrick O'brian hadn't died and Bernard Cornwall and George R. R. Martin would be a bit more prolific I wouldn't be so hungry.

[supgobes]

A couple of books related to the sea that I like are
A Speck on the Sea
and
Two Years Before the Mast

[nalu-sup]

1. 'Boys in the Boat'. Has it all; many different viewpoints of history pre WWII, intense competitive paddling with history and passion, and an incredible life story.
2. 'Unbroken', but sure you have already read that one.

Interesting coincidence that both of these books pass through the 1938 Olympics in Germany.

[covesurfer]

'Boys in the Boat' is next for me when I finish 'Barbarian Days'

[Tom]

So,PB, we need  some  of  your  recommendations .

[Belltownbikes]

The boys in the boat - 1936 Olympic rowing team
The Climb - a differing account of the 1996 Everest disaster
Rowing to latitude

And, if you like "end of days" stories I've read these 4 this past summer - kind of a morbid reading phase I guess. 
One second after
One year after
Station Eleven
On the Beach - written in the 50's, interesting perspective