TigerBill is too slow with book two.

What are you guys reading?

I'm reading "foundation and earth," a collection of chekhov stories, and "the crying of lot 49."

Also picked up the complete works of dashiell Hammett at a used book store

The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls. My 10th grade daughter read it for LA class last semester.
She gave it to me and said I needed to read it.

if you aren't easily offended, pick up some charles bukowski.

(03-19-2017 08:30 PM)Claw Wrote:  TigerBill is too slow with book two.

What are you guys reading?

Did you read book 1.5?

Hillbilly Elegy was good.

(03-20-2017 12:28 PM)TigerBill Wrote:  

(03-19-2017 08:30 PM)Claw Wrote:  TigerBill is too slow with book two.

What are you guys reading?

Did you read book 1.5?

No. I didn't.

(03-20-2017 02:26 PM)Claw Wrote:  

(03-20-2017 12:28 PM)TigerBill Wrote:  

(03-19-2017 08:30 PM)Claw Wrote:  TigerBill is too slow with book two.

What are you guys reading?

Did you read book 1.5?

No. I didn't.

It's short, but it's important. And book 2 is already out in hardback. PB & ebook are next month.

(03-20-2017 05:22 PM)TigerBill Wrote:  

(03-20-2017 02:26 PM)Claw Wrote:  

(03-20-2017 12:28 PM)TigerBill Wrote:  

(03-19-2017 08:30 PM)Claw Wrote:  TigerBill is too slow with book two.

What are you guys reading?

Did you read book 1.5?

No. I didn't.

It's short, but it's important. And book 2 is already out in hardback. PB & ebook are next month.

Thanks. I got a fix.

The Devil in the White City

(03-21-2017 07:32 AM)MemTigerFan Wrote:  The Devil in the White City

I read this - it was pretty good. It jumped and meandered sometimes but was worth the read, especially for the historical parts.

(03-20-2017 01:58 PM)aTxTIGER Wrote:  Hillbilly Elegy was good.

Hillbilly Elegy Discussion Thread

The guy's made a name for himself the past six months, for certain.

(03-21-2017 12:19 PM)RandyMc Wrote:  

(03-20-2017 01:58 PM)aTxTIGER Wrote:  Hillbilly Elegy was good.

Hillbilly Elegy Discussion Thread

The guy's made a name for himself the past six months, for certain.

Books touching on these themes have been written numerous times over the last 20 years(What's the Matter With Kansas, etc). However, by making such a personal story he takes the bias of politics out of it and shows these people...his people....as the human beings they are and not as the stereotype they are too often protrayed as.

I enjoyed it.....and it resonated with me. Remind me of Humboldt where my mom grew up and where I used to visit my granddad as a child.

(03-21-2017 03:01 PM)aTxTIGER Wrote:  Remind me of Humboldt where my mom grew up and where I used to visit my granddad as a child.

I thought the same thing reading it. The changes from the late seventies to the early nineties were uncanny and I recognized people I knew in the descriptions of the people he described.

(03-21-2017 11:01 PM)RandyMc Wrote:  

(03-21-2017 03:01 PM)aTxTIGER Wrote:  Remind me of Humboldt where my mom grew up and where I used to visit my granddad as a child.

I thought the same thing reading it. The changes from the late seventies to the early nineties were uncanny and I recognized people I knew in the descriptions of the people he described.

Yup. The Wilson factory in Humboldt was kinda like the factory in Middletown, OH he described.

Gunmetal Gray by Mark Greaney (if you like the Jason Bourne type novels). Nice that Mark is a Memphian, born and raised.

(03-22-2017 02:25 PM)airric2255 Wrote:  Gunmetal Gray by Mark Greaney (if you like the Jason Bourne type novels). Nice that Mark is a Memphian, born and raised.

I'll second this. The Grey Man series is excellent.

(03-19-2017 08:46 PM)tiger2000 Wrote:  I'm reading "foundation and earth," a collection of chekhov stories, and "the crying of lot 49."

Also picked up the complete works of dashiell Hammett at a used book store

I can't seem to locate "foundation and earth". Could it be a different title? I keep pulling up Isaac Asimov.

A good read if your into Russia is "Peter the Great, His Life and World" by Robert Massie. Especially fascinating considering whats going on right now in the Ukraine/Crimea.

(03-22-2017 03:53 PM)JerryJeff Wrote:  

(03-19-2017 08:46 PM)tiger2000 Wrote:  I'm reading "foundation and earth," a collection of chekhov stories, and "the crying of lot 49."

Also picked up the complete works of dashiell Hammett at a used book store

I can't seem to locate "foundation and earth". Could it be a different title? I keep pulling up Isaac Asimov.

A good read if your into Russia is "Peter the Great, His Life and World" by Robert Massie. Especially fascinating considering whats going on right now in the Ukraine/Crimea.

Massie never disappoints.