book recommendations

[Sandstone Outcropping]

Just finished A Perfect Spy by John LaCarre. I normally like his novels but I hated this one. Would not recommend.

i am reading A Perfect Spy and it's unlike any other Le Carre. i mean there is still spy stuff, but so far a good bit of it reads like Great Expectations

yeah he kind of meandered around too much with his coming of age retrospective junk but whatever. i still liked it

I was pretty pissed that he spent 600 pages elaborately drawing a portrait of every nook, cranny and layer of Pym's life only to have him blow his brains out at the end.

[Spracne]

Anyone read Norm MacDonald's quasi-autobiography "Based on a True Story"? I'm a huge Norm head, so I was thinking of listening to the audio book, which is narrated by him.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

About 100 pages into The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles. Very good so far.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

About 100 pages into The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles. Very good so far.

Just finished Lincoln Highway. It was fantastic. One of the most interesting novels I've read in the past several years. Highly recommend.

[porky morgan]

Barbarian Days, a surfing life. William Finnegan New York Magazine writer autobiography of growing up surfing around the globe interlaced with his international journalist writing career. Really good man.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

I'm reading Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien right now. Just a fantastic novel about the Vietnam War. Probably by third favorite book that I've read about Vietnam after The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh. I also enjoyed Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy by Max Hastings and The Quiet American by Graham Greene. Do other gE'rs have Vietnam-related books to recommend?

[CHONGS]

@Kat Kid I think you'd dig The Dawn of Everything (you might have already even read it). 

[Kat Kid]

@Kat Kid I think you'd dig The Dawn of Everything (you might have already even read it).

I have been terrible about buying huge books and not reading them but that sounds great.  Ok I will definitely finish a book today.

[Cire]

Just finished “days without end” about 2 Irish immigrants that fled the potato famine joined the army and lived through terrible terrible fighting with native Americans, civil war, post civil war. Really good and fast read, there’s a quirky twist to the characters.


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[Cire]

Billy summers by Stephen king.

Not a horror story. Hit man on the last job story.


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[Stupid Fitz]

Barbarian Days, a surfing life. William Finnegan New York Magazine writer autobiography of growing up surfing around the globe interlaced with his international journalist writing career. Really good man.

added to list. Thanks Porky

[ben ji]

I'm reading Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien right now. Just a fantastic novel about the Vietnam War. Probably by third favorite book that I've read about Vietnam after The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh. I also enjoyed Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy by Max Hastings and The Quiet American by Graham Greene. Do other gE'rs have Vietnam-related books to recommend?

The things they carried is a great book. I just finished "With the old breed" by Eugene Sledge (they made the Pacific HBO miniseries around the book)and just devoured it in a couple of days...was up until 2am one night reading it

[Sandstone Outcropping]

I'm reading Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien right now. Just a fantastic novel about the Vietnam War. Probably by third favorite book that I've read about Vietnam after The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh. I also enjoyed Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy by Max Hastings and The Quiet American by Graham Greene. Do other gE'rs have Vietnam-related books to recommend?

The things they carried is a great book. I just finished "With the old breed" by Eugene Sledge (they made the Pacific HBO miniseries around the book)and just devoured it in a couple of days...was up until 2am one night reading it

With The Old Breed was very good. There are some old interviews with Eugene Sledge floating around on YouTube or Amazon Prime that are very good.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

Just finished Sparring Partners by John Grisham. Actually a collection of three short novels. The first and third ones were not great but the middle one about a young man's last hours on death row was quite poignant and I would recommend.

[ben ji]

3rd book I've read from Peter Heller (dog stars and the river) and I absolutely crushed it in 5 straight hours.

Tldr - the main character from the river gets a part time job guiding rich fishermen at a private resort in CO but some shady stuff is going on.

I love how all his books are outdoorsy with good plot/thriller turns.

[michigancat]

@Kat Kid I think you'd dig The Dawn of Everything (you might have already even read it).

I have been terrible about buying huge books and not reading them but that sounds great.  Ok I will definitely finish a book today.

I just started this and it is very interesting and funny

[chum1]

I'm very mixed on The Dawn of Everything. I liked the deconstructing stuff a lot. They lost me on what they were trying to do beyond that.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

3rd book I've read from Peter Heller (dog stars and the river) and I absolutely crushed it in 5 straight hours.

Tldr - the main character from the river gets a part time job guiding rich fishermen at a private resort in CO but some shady stuff is going on.

I love how all his books are outdoorsy with good plot/thriller turns.

this looks v. interesting

[Sandstone Outcropping]

Almost finished with The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson. History of the migration of Black people out of the American south to cities in the north and west between 1915 - 1970. She intertwines the stories of three different migrants to illustrate the larger history of the great migration. It is a gripping work of narrative history. Highly recommended.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

Just finished The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (audiobook read by Jesse L Martin). Would recommend.

[nicname]

The Machiavellians by James Burnham

[Spaces]

Just finished The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (audiobook read by Jesse L Martin). Would recommend.

Recently finished Another Country by Baldwin and he's now my favorite author.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

Just finished The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (audiobook read by Jesse L Martin). Would recommend.

Recently finished Another Country by Baldwin and he's now my favorite author.

I knew nothing about Baldwin until about 3 years ago which probably proves the truth in much of his writings.  He was a prophetic genius.

Have you seen Raoul Peck’s documentary about Baldwin “I Am Not Your Negro”? A must see for anyone with an interest in Baldwin (which should probably be any American). 

[Spaces]

I haven't, I will check that out.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

Recently read The Backstreets by Perhat Tursun. One of the first Uighur novels to be translated into English. Would recommend.

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-backstreets/9780231202916

Just finished re-reading The Complete Maus graphic novel. It is a must read.