What book are you reading?

[russc]

I got about halfway through Moby Dick but lost it in Italy somewhere. I need to get a nice copy to replace it, because it absolutely lives up to the hype. I don't know if I've read anything where the author was having as much fun just playing with language and making words up as he went...and then why not segue into a whole tongue-in-cheek chapter about why whales are fish?

[Ratzo]

Currently reading Eight Riendeer of the Apocolypce.

[BLachance75]

My commute to work is 1 hour each way so I love using Libby for audiobooks

[autococker04]

I liked Meet You in Hell better, but it might be that I’ve been to most of the places mentioned in it. Both were good.

Also, I read the book about Carnegie on Libby, reserved from a Carnegie library which was pretty cool.

[Grendel]

Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian Barbarian: The Complete Weird Tales Omnibus - by Robert E. Howard and Narrated with commentary by John Fin. (audiobook)

This is an audiobook collection of the original Kull, Solomon Kane, King Conan and Conan stories as they were published in Weird Tales. Nice to hear them read well with some minor commentary about story telling development as well as the evolution of Conan in the order they were originally published which is considerably different then the order most of the Conan book collections have them. In the books they are ordered from young Conan to old (King) Conan and in Weird Tales Howard started out with the stories of King Conan then jumped round to the other stories almost as if he [Conan] was reminiscing.

[Blackmagic71]

Just wrapped up “Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world” by Jack Weatherford.

Interesting stuff if you’re a bit of a history nerd.

[BLachance75]

I put "Meet You in Hell" on hold through Libby and borrowed "Coffeeland". Your recommendations are perfect timing because I caught up to all my back podcasts and the other books I have on hold are still a few months wait.

[autococker04]

Just finished “Meet You in Hell” about the cooperation/ rivalry between Andrew Carnegie and Henry Frick. Might be the home-town brain, but I thought it was awesome. Mostly centered around the causes and effects of the “Battle of Homestead” between Carnegies steel company and the union striking against it.

it was crazy to me the names of the people involved - JP Morgan, Thomas Mellon, Henry Phipps, and other huge names of industry all had their hands in the same pot.

Rare that I really recommend anything, but this one was really good if you even have a slight interest in the topic.

also just finished “all the light we cannot see” - it was fine, probably meant for a younger audience.

and Artemis - same guy that wrote the Martian. It was a good entertaining one.

and “coffeeland” about the coffee trade, specifically in El Salvador. Pretty brutal trade, another one about great industrialists/ businessmen

[Anodos]

Been hunting for books and series that I can read to my boys or simply have in the Library for when they are ready to start reading them on their own. Which is why I started up the "Green Ember" series by S.D. Smith. I have to say, they are really quite good! Just started the last book.

[BLachance75]

I enjoyed Empire of the Summer Moon

[autococker04]

I’m 5/6 of the way through IT by Steven King. I feel like some of the “newer” stuff he writes is really hit or miss, but all the older ones are freakin creepy.

[Miles]

Empire of the Summer Moon. A retelling of the Comanche Indians and their encounters with Western settlers. Gwynne explains how the Comanches used to be a nomadic, almost prehistoric tribe, with no written language or complex society like the other native tribes, but once they were introduced to the horse they took to it better than anyone. They were unstoppable on the plains, and for a few decades, westerners had no ability to counter them.

[BLachance75]

Skies of Thunder by Caroline Alexander, goes over the China-Burma-India campaign of WW2.

High Crimes by Michael Kodas, excellent book about the dark side of Mt Everest.

[lhamilton1807]

Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan. It’s about the food chain in the US, discussing the general industrial food supply, industrial organic, local intensive farming, and finally foraging. It’s 20yrs old and still very relevant.

[BLachance75]

Where the Falcon Flies by Adam Shoalts

I really enjoy his writing style. His transitions from his adventure to history and facts are seamless and flow really well. To me he also adds enough detail when needed to keep you interested.