Books... What are you reading? And what do you recommend?

Robert A Heinlein, Stranger in a strange land. I read this book every decade, I process it differently each time. Funny, sad, sexual, and political. A good look at the human condition!!!

Carl Sagan, Contact. The movie with Jodie Foster was one of the worst screen adaptations, ever. This is another insight into human greed, fear and politics. Reading this book will explain why intelligent life from other worlds would want nothing to do with us!

Stephen king The Dark Tower series, Carlos Castaneda The teachings of Don Juan, a Yaqui way of knowledge

I had a two hour wait at the Toyota place a couple three weeks ago. I started reading Star Island by Carl Hiaasen. I hope to find myself in another waiting room soon, because it's a good one.

In the depths of the Utah desert, long after the Flame Deluge has scoured the earth clean, a monk of the Order of Saint Leibowitz has made a miraculous discovery: holy relics from the life of the great saint himself, including the blessed blueprint, the sacred shopping list, and the hallowed shrine of the Fallout Shelter.
In a terrifying age of darkness and decay, these artifacts could be the keys to mankind's salvation. But as the mystery at the core of this groundbreaking novel unfolds, it is the search itself—for meaning, for truth, for love—that offers hope for humanity's rebirth from the ashe

Bloody Marvelous: a lot of story here for those that like the above books 9/10
I thought I was reading a history novel...then I turned the page on my kindle ...lol

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I don't understand your comedy are you saying you read kiddies books

What are you reading? And what do you recommend?

Yikes ! , Wow............." One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest " .

vostok said:

I don't understand your comedy are you saying you read kiddies books

What are you reading? And what do you recommend?

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Family Circus is a comic in American newspapers.

"Life" by Keith Richards

ganjames said:

Right now I'm reading Under The Dome by Stephen King. And let me tell you, I hate Stephen Kings writing... I think he's a mediocre writer at best that just won't quit typing up his bullshit ideas.

I really like Augusten Burroughs, he has a way of keeping my attention.

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I just knew if I waited long enough I'd find someone like you who share my thoughts on Steven King,
to me they all seem the same even stenciled out,
I've just finished fast ice by clive cussler 3/10 was a cookie cutter/ stenciled book

cheers

The Judge's list / by John Grisham.
Best in snow / David Rosenfelt.
The burning / Jonathan Kellerman and Jesse Kellerman.
Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty / Patrick Radden Keefe.
Silverview / John Le Carré.
True raiders : the untold story of the 1909 expedition to find the legendary Ark of the Covenant / Brad Ricca.
Vanderbilt : the rise and fall of an American dynasty / Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe.
Better off dead / Lee Child and Andrew Child.
Foul play / Stuart Woods.
Need to know : a novel / Karen Cleveland. (these are pretty good, author is former CIA intelligence officer)bb
Keep you close : a novel / Karen Cleveland.
Chili madness : a passionate cookbook / by Jane Butel ; illustrations by Carolyn Vibbert..
I left my homework in the Hamptons : what I learned teaching the children of the one percent / Blythe Grossberg.

vostok said:

I just knew if I waited long enough I'd find someone like you who share my thoughts on Steven King,
to me they all seem the same even stenciled out,
I've just finished fast ice by clive cussler 3/10 was a cookie cutter/ stenciled book

cheers

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In " Running With Scissors" who do you think is the most f'd up , Dr. Banks or Burroughs' mother ? Do you think the book is comedy or horror ?

C. Peebles, “The Road to Mach 10”, the X-43A program as told by a senior engineer.

C. Yeager, B. Cardenas, B. Hoover, J. Russell, J. Young, “The Quest for Mach One”, beautifully illustrated with a lot of history, including a tribute to the Happy Bottom Riding Club.

(ed.) F. Stoliker, B. Hoey, J. Armstrong, “Flight Testing at Edwards”, an anthology of flight test engineers telling beer stories.

A go to anytime , " TAO TE CHING " ......a wonderful, beautiful piece of literature ( I think) .

If you want to immerse yourself in an old school science fiction, galactic spanning series...you owe it to yourself to read the Lensman Series by E.E. Smith. Total hoot to read and it only gets better book after book.

VileCaveFurby said:

If you want to immerse yourself in an old school science fiction, galactic spanning series...you owe it to yourself to read the Lensman Series by E.E. Smith. Total hoot to read and it only gets better book after book.

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Looks interesting.

Welcome to TnT!


You're late, we have been expecting you.

VileCaveFurby said:

If you want to immerse yourself in an old school science fiction, galactic spanning series...you owe it to yourself to read the Lensman Series by E.E. Smith. Total hoot to read and it only gets better book after book.

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As a teen, I loved that and the Skylark series.

StonedGardener said:

In " Running With Scissors" who do you think is the most f'd up , Dr. Banks or Burroughs' mother ? Do you think the book is comedy or horror ?

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Burroughs' mother who forces her kid, August to live with the Finches, are maybe crazy but the mom is around the bend, I'd see it as a crapped out comedy more so over the fumbling sex, and indecisive kid.. a memoir by Augusten Burroughs not Steven King 3/10

Currently on International Salvage Law (1989) edition so cool by Oxford press, getting high on the ink smell ...don't you dare drop that roach .....lol

I gotta admit, I haven't read any of the 10 books they listed but shouldn't any questionable literature (offered in a library)
be read and discussed by both parent and child? What was the takeaway to the child? What was the author trying to convey.