What book are you reading?

[Chuck E Ducky]

World war Z was a page turner for sure. I enjoyed that one I’m a big Zombie nut!

[BLachance75]

Thunderstruck by Erik Larson

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

I know that I was supposed to read Where the Red Fern Grows as a kid in school but I never did. Figured I should finally read it as an adult, better late than never I suppose. I might go back and read some of the other books that I was supposed to read for school.

[Chuck E Ducky]

“Evidently, evildoing also has a threshold magnitude. Yes, a human being hesitates and bobs back and forth between good and evil all his life. He slips, falls back, clambers up, repents, things begin to darken again. But just so long as the threshold of evildoing is not crossed, the possibility of returning remains, and he himself is still within reach of our hope. But when, through the density of evil actions, the result either of their own extreme danger or of the absoluteness of his power, he suddenly crosses that threshold, he has left humanity behind, and without, perhaps, the possibility of return.“

I can’t imagine what theses people went through. Imagine making it through a tour of Europe fighting nazis only to be thrown in the Gulag, so European culture didn’t expose the atrocities under Stalin. Nobody was safe from the Gulag.

[autococker04]

I read the first one, and keep saying I’ll do the other two but oh man was that an undertaking. Very memorable though, and when you’re done you can knock out Ivan denisovich in a day.

[Falcon16]

at home: The Hunt for Red October
at work: World War Z: An oral history of the zombie war

[Chuck E Ducky]

Currently reading

The Gulag Archipelago

its a three-volume non-fiction series written between 1958 and 1968 by Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a Soviet dissident. It explores a vision of life in what is often known as the Gulag, the Soviet labour camp system.

I read a book that references and sites this book several times and decided to dive more deeply into how society’s evolve into horrific points in history.

[autococker04]

I’m just finishing up The Count of Monte Cristo and it’s exceeding expectations.

I’ve been reading a lot of classics just because they’re classics, so they must be good enough to stick around, and this one really earned it.

Edit: Worth the read

[k_obeastly]

The road to jonestown. I started reading all sorts of cult books after a few visits to “the yellow deli” and getting tricked into attending a rather cultish denomination’s church service last summer.

[Number six]

A couple on how to build self confidence.

[BLachance75]

Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Excellent book if you haven't read it. I like how he went back and forth between the Holmes and the worlds fair stories.

[Nish]

So, if you get a chance and are into this kind of thing...

There i was... When nothing happened

A collection of life stories and avoiding and minimizing violence, from professionals that deal with violence all the time.

[Ratzo]

Currently reading "V" based on the tv mini series from the 80's.
Been thinking of watching the show, then happened upon the book at the thrift shop.

[BLachance75]

I've gone through a few David Grann books lately. The Wager, The Lost City of Z, The Devil and Sherlock Holmes, Killers of the Flower Moon and The White Darkness.

The White Darkness was my favorite but it is very short.

[Grendel]

Dark Waters the story of the NR-1 the US Navy`s nuclear powered deep submergence research and spy sub. I actually tried to get transferred to her when leaving a stint teaching. Sadly I did not pass muster.

[Axel]

I started reading Anna Karenina as a joke (my wife had to read it in college and hated it). Turns out I really enjoy Tolstoy. The Mrs might have as well, if she hadn't been obliged to consume the whole thing in a few weeks.