What is the last good book you read or are reading

[beej]

I just finished Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. I would recommend this book to all if you have not yet read it.... I will admit to skipping a couple of the pages while Mr. Zamperin was a "guest" i Japan. Very intense...

Thank goodness for my Kindle.. it was easy to read this book for hours.... an amazing page turner

[skypigeon]

Had you told me just after the iPad came out that Kindle would still exist, much less massively multiply its sales, I'd have wondered what pollyanna little bunny foo-foo world you lived in. It's looking like for serious readers Kindle is THE future. THE thing that finally makes traditional books obsolete.

Wish I could give you a good book I've read lately but I've been too busy working on the one I'm currently writing.

(Jamski--once I'm finished with Revision One I'll take a break and read that one of yours as promised. Sorry it's taking so long.)

[Cant_hit_apex]

Just finished "Travels With My Aunt" by Graham Greene. Currently, I have a couple of stacks of unread books on my bedside table--maybe twenty new books that I'm working through. Ebay is the greatest source of books that the reader has ever had.

And, I'd never replace my personal library with a Kindle. Never gonna happen.

[ZOOOM]

Just finished "Shattered Sword" the terrific new in depth work by Tully and Parshal on the battle of Midway.
Great new insights.
Before that it was "The Last Stand of the Tin can Sailors" The largest fleet action ever, off Layte in the Phillipeans in WWII.

(By the way, our old friend Dick Ralsten was the 18 year old throttle man on the USS McDermutt in that battle)

ZOOOM

[Doyouloveit?]

I just finished Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. I would recommend this book to all if you have not yet read it.... I will admit to skipping a couple of the pages while Mr. Zamperin was a "guest" i Japan. Very intense...

Thank goodness for my Kindle.. it was easy to read this book for hours.... an amazing page turner

I just finished that book as well. Excellent book. Also, I too read it on my kindle. If you're interested, search his name on youtube and there is a 4 part series about Louis Zamperini for the Olympics in 1992 I believe, you actually get to the see The Bird....very chilling.

[PDC]

And, I'd never replace my personal library with a Kindle. Never gonna happen.

I feel the same way. I love the feel and smell of a real book. I will only go to Kindle if there is nothing else.

Right now, I am reading 'Walt Disney's Nine Old Men' and 'Leadership and Crisis' by Bobby Jindal.

[R22]

just finished: tom clancy's "dead or alive" 2, john grisham's "confession" 2

almost finished with Charles West's "long kiss" kind of an "autobiography" of his trek each year to the Indy 500 and his personal issues while dealing with the human predictament.. starts with his first trip in 2000.. interesting read in that i can relate to similar indy experiences from my 44 years of indy..

fixin to start james patterson's "cross fire"

what's a kindle??

[Cant_hit_apex]

I feel the same way. I love the feel and smell of a real book.

I'm the son of a librarian. I've been surrounded by books my entire life. It's not a bad way to live, but is something totally lost on my kids.

[beej]

Just finished "Shattered Sword" the terrific new in depth work by Tully and Parshal on the battle of Midway.
Great new insights.
Before that it was "The Last Stand of the Tin can Sailors" The largest fleet action ever, off Layte in the Phillipeans in WWII.

(By the way, our old friend Dick Ralsten was the 18 year old throttle man on the USS McDermutt in that battle)
ZOOOM

I have Dick's copy..... which I cherish

I can understand the love of a traditional book, but for those who aren't or who have trouble reading traditional print... the Kindle ( as well as other e-readers I am sure) is really amazing.

When I was reading Unbroken, I had a football game on.. which I paid no attention to, Next thing I knew it was 1:45 am and I was still reading.... No way I could do that with a paper printed book... anyone with any kind of a vision problem.... try out an e-reader.. amazing!

Other books on my reader... G Bush Decision points, not getting very far on that one yet.

Pearl Harbor the Ghosts... very good book

Operation MIncemeat... still pending my read....

Ms Marple books

[PDC]

Beej, if we find out you're reading that Kindle during an F1 race, we might have to put you on probation at the F1 forum.

[sightlines]

American On Purpose by Craig Ferguson. Highly recommend. How this guy is still alive is amazing.

[rrrr]

I just finished Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. I would recommend this book to all if you have not yet read it.... I will admit to skipping a couple of the pages while Mr. Zamperin was a "guest" i Japan. Very intense...

Thank goodness for my Kindle.. it was easy to read this book for hours.... an amazing page turner

I'm reading it now. I am an avid WWII history reader, usually looking for books in the five hundred page plus range, so Unbroken is wholly different than what I normally read. It's a little tough for me to slog through her writing style. It's too choppy, written like a novel, and seems to be an unbroken string of anecdotes without a strong theme.

But that aside, it still has some interesting facts. Not many people know around 40,000 men were killed in operational (non-combat) accidents in WWII. Around 15,000 of those were training accidents on US soil. The war was dangerous for fliers, and the danger started the moment a student strapped into a Piper Cub for his first lesson.

The book I just finished was The Brother, about Los Alamos spy David Greenglass and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Ethel Rosenberg was his sister. It is the only book about Greenglass written with his participation, and was quite fascinating.

[mstove]

Last Call by Daniel Okrent. Great book about the entire arc of prohibition.

[Doyouloveit?]

Beej....let me know about "Operation Mincemeat" that is on my wishlist @ Amazon.

A couple of books I've recently finished that I thought were excellent:

WAR - Sebastian Junger. Book that is told my Junger who stayed with a group of soliders in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan for 1 year. Excellent book....another hard one to put down. Also, the documentary Restrepo is based off the book.

The Big Short - Michael Lewis. Book about the housing market collapse and the financial meltdown in 2008, the players, the winners and losers. While it may seem boring, Michael Lewis yet again does an excellent job of telling the story. If you read and like Liar's Poker, then you will definitely like this.

[Doyouloveit?]

Last Call by Daniel Okrent. Great book about the entire arc of prohibition.

Another book on my list.