Read any good books lately?

[Dub]

Books that you'd recomend?


I discovered Vince Flynn and Brad Thor a few years ago. I just finished the last Brad Thor release in paperback and am starting on Extreme Measures by Vince Flynn now.

I've got the new release of Flynn's loaded in my iPhone for some reading while on the go...first book I've tried like this.

Thor and Flynn sort of take up where Tom Clancy leaves off....they really get into the tip of the spear action of our modern day war on terror. It's fiction but it mirrors real world events in many ways. It's entertainment, though, not some deep reading for you to ponder....just simple entertainment.

I was in Books-a-Million last week and picked up the new Stephen King release, Under the Dome. Thing is over 1,000 pages in hardback.....gonna take a while to get through that monster.

The last golf related stuff I read were the Utley books. Great stuff. I gained more from the putting book.

[Bastid]

  Dub said:

Books that you'd recomend?

I could recommend stuff a little more ethereal. Are you interesting in books that will make you ponder or the dime a dozen action books? Want a good solid read? Pick up Hunter Thompson's "Hells Angels"...that was a fun book. You'll finish it in a couple of days.

[JetFan1983]

These are not in your genre of choice, but here are three books I just finished reading that were great:

Hunter S. Thompson's The Rum Diary
Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States
John Feinstein's Tales from Q-School

[DavidFehertysBike]

This book is over a year old, but i finished The Yiddish Policemens Union by Michael Chabron about a week ago. Its like Casablanca, Sherlock Holmes, and The Godfather all rolled up in one book, lol.

[Golf_Gal]

The Twilight saga LOL

[Dub]

  Golf_Gal said:

The Twilight saga LOL

I visited with my sister this past weekend. She has finished the first two and liked them.

She was in the process of renting the first movie and then going to see the second one. I think at the last minute she changed her mind and went to see Blind Side. She's raved about it since...saying it was one of the best movies she's ever seen.

[DavidFehertysBike]

Not really down with the twight stuff i must say.. If i want to watch two hours of poorly acted teen emo crap ill just sit in the food court at a mall or something..

[Golf_Gal]

  Dub said:

I visited with my sister this past weekend. She has finished the first two and liked them.

I have to say that the acting in both movies (I've already seen New Moon) is probably THE WORST acting ever... Isn't Blind Side a book as well?

[Dub]

  Golf_Gal said:

I have to say that the acting in both movies (I've already seen New Moon) is probably THE WORST acting ever... Isn't Blind Side a book as well?

Fairly sure it was a book first......she told me that is was a true story.

We both have an intrest in Sandra Bullock as she attended the same college we did.

[ECT]

Last weekend I finished reading The Game Before The Game. Just started on Every Shot Must Have A Purpose.

ECT

[wubskis]

  DavidFehertysBike said:

Not really down with the twight stuff i must say.. If i want to watch two hours of poorly acted teen emo crap ill just sit in the food court at a mall or something..

Hahahaha, +1.

If you haven't read American Psycho, do so. Bret Easton Ellis kills the book, and Christian Bale suits the role more than you'd ever know without reading it. I don't read a lot of fiction, I generally read books on the light side of science. "13 Things That Don't Make Sense" was a great all-round book, from the depths of astronomy and physics to virology, it covered everything in a "just past layman knowledge" kinda way. "Junk Medicine" is a great read, if a little pretentious, pertaining to the heroin addiction 'farce' it argues that heroin addiction is no worse than smoking addiction. Pretty interesting read to get probably the only "other side" of the argument that's been published. "Bad Science" by Ben Goldacre is great, it's a collection of columns from the British newspaper The Guardian (probably the only good thing to come out of this paper..) exploring the ludicrous side of science, the claims made by companies, the skewed data leading to certain discoveries, that kind of thing. Something you can read in quick bursts without much time devotion. Anyway, if you're not interested in science much, this post can be summarised as: "Read American Psycho."

[wedstuntpuller]

dub if you like Brad Thor you will probably love Clive Cussler and anything Robert Ludlum writes.

[jamo]

I really liked the Henry Thompson series by Charlie Huston
Caught Stealing
Six Bad Things
A Dangerous Man

[bogeyhitter25]

Unless Golf Digest counts, I haven't read anything. When I don't have English class, I will probably never read.

[NormH3]

Never been much of a reader. Could never get my mind settled enough to concentrate. Usually read the first page 6 times and still don't know what I read.

[danieldrieberg]

Four come to mind

I'm currently reading "Boom" by Tom Browkaw. An overview of the generation whose lives' were affected by the 1960's. He also authored "the Greatest Generation" ---Lives affected by WW2.

Then two graphic novels by Alan Moore

The Watchmen
V for Vendetta

Another recent read was "The Mighty and The Almighty" bu Madeline Albright

[ks8829]

  Dub said:

I visited with my sister this past weekend. She has finished the first two and liked them.

I saw all the movie clips about Blind side on You Tube and first read the story in Reader's Digest book section a couple month ago. I like to get the book.

I also want to read Warren Buffets new book, Snowball.

[-BAMA-]

most recent book was "the lost symbol" by dan brown.

ive read all of his books i can get my hands on and this one was the best of them all.

i havent read any of the twilight books but i saw both movies. they were not that bad.