What are you Reading now ..... other than comics ? 7 7

[jimjum12]

On the recommendation of a few friends, I decided to try Sean Howe's book, "Marvel The Untold Story"...... and here I thought I knew everything..... I'm not even at the halfway point and it's already a real page turner. Definitely woth the time. GOD BLESS...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

 

..... and while you're at it.... if you like books about comic history.... "The Art of Glamour" is fantastic.

[skypinkblu]

I just finished Orphan X and Nowhere Man by Gregg Hurwitz.  If you like Baldacci and Vince Flynn, you'll like these, although I enjoyed the first book more than the 2nd, but they were both books you could hardly put down. 

Hurwitz also happens to be a comic book writer, I think he mostly writes Batman, but there are other series he worked on as well.

[jimjum12]

Been on a Clive Cussler and Steve Berry binge lately ....... I don't know about the rest of you, but reading a couple of chapters before I turn in seems to keep the stress levels down.... and I've had a lot of that lately. GOD BLESS...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[fast eddie]

Hello there Jimjim....I am also reading Sean Howe's book at the moment. I am exactly half-way and have thoroughly enjoyed it! I think it would be a great book to pass on to another comic-head,,especially with the proliferation of comic-book movies and media nowadays. Stan was way ahead of his time in his desire to court Hollywood,,,I wonder how he feels about it now?

[skypinkblu]

3 hours ago, jimjum12 said:

Been on a Clive Cussler and Steve Berry binge lately ....... I don't know about the rest of you, but reading a couple of chapters before I turn in seems to keep the stress levels down.... and I've had a lot of that lately. GOD BLESS...

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

GMTA, I just reserved the latest Steve Berry, and I've been thinking about returning to Cussler, I have not read his stuff in years. You'll have to let me know which new characters you like. The last time I read anything by him might have been about raising the Titanic;)
I'm ready Murder House by Patterson, because it was the only thing available the other night when I looked at my library online at 12 am;) It's not bad.

I find being able to upload books from the library to my kindle a lifesaver. I love real books, but at night that light in the kindle does wonders. I don't have to worry about waking my husband if I want to read in bed.

[jimjum12]

1 minute ago, skypinkblu said:

GMTA, I just reserved the latest Steve Berry, and I've been thinking about returning to Cussler, I have not read his stuff in years. You'll have to let me know which new characters you like. The last time I read anything by him might have been about raising the Titanic;)
I'm ready Murder House by Patterson, because it was the only thing available the other night when I looked at my library online at 12 am;) It's not bad.

I find being able to upload books from the library to my kindle a lifesaver. I love real books, but at night that light in the kindle does wonders. I don't have to worry about waking my husband if I want to read in bed.

I'm new to Cussler and have been sticking to Dirk Pitt for now..... Aztec Gold was my first and I'm on Atlantis Found at the moment. GOD BLESS....

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

....as for rereading old favorites..... a couple years ago I returned to Lovecraft after 30+ years and RE Howard after 40+ years and it was almost like I had never read them at all. 

[OrangeCrush]

I always jump back and forth between a couple of books at any given time. Its just always been the way I approach reading books. As for what I am currently reading, I started reading The Universe in a Nutshell again as kind of a tribute to Hawking passing away. I am also reading Universal: A Guide to the Cosmos, one of the best astronomy related books I have read in some time. I Highly recommend it for people that have an interest in such subject matter.

 

Speaking of which, if your not a member of the Science Fiction Book Club, I HIGHLY recommend joining. They have a lot of great books, including many comic related books. Here are just a few examples of the comic books I have purchased from the SFBC over the years:

The Art Of Red Sonja Volume Two

The Warlord Of Mars Omnibus Vol.1

Warlord Of Mars: Dejah Thoris TPB Vol.1

Marvel Year By Year A Visual History

Marvel's The Avengers Encyclopedia

Star Wars Visual Encyclopedia

DC Comics Justice League The Ultimate Guide

DC Comics Encyclopedia All-New Edition

The DC Comics Encyclopedia, Updated and Expanded Edition

Red Sonja: Queen Of Plagues

Marvel Encyclopedia

Wonder Woman: Ambassador Of Truth

Big John Buscema: Comics & Drawings

Marvel Comics: 75 Years Of Covers

Batman: A Visual History

Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell: Dreamland

Spider-Man: Inside the World of Your Friendly Neighborhood Hero, Updated Edition

Red Sonja: Travels Volume 2

The Art of Star Wars: The Force

Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The Newspaper Strips Vol.1 

And the best part about the SFBC is there are no obligations to purchase a number of titles like book clubs of years past used to have. You can literally cancel your membership right after placing your initial orders of 2 books for $9.99. How it works is you basically buy credits at the beginning of the month for $14.99 each (you can buy as many as you like or none at all and there are no time limits on when the credits can be used.). You can then purchase any book they have on the site by using a credit and no book requires more than one credit so basically you can buy any book on thier site for $14.99, even if the book has a MSRP for $50+. I usually buy most of my books at Amazon, but not even Amazon can compete with the pricing of most of the books on the SFBC. I have purchased at least 10-15 books for $14.99 that had prices on Amazon for at leas $35-$50+. To date I have probably saved at least $750+ on books purchased from the SFBC.  My latest purchase was the Art of Red Sonja Vol.1 and Wonder Woman: Ambassador of Truth. Amazon currently has the Art of Red Sonja Vol.2 priced at $24.99 and Wonder Woman Ambassador of Truth is priced at $25. You could literally buy both of those books for $9.99 each if you used them as your enrollment books. And they have free shipping on any orders for 2 books of more so as long as you wait unil there are 2 boks you wany, you will get free shipping.

And their latest upcoming comic related book is "Marvel Avengers: The Ultimate Guide, Updated And Expanded"

Amazon's current pre order price is $25.00. You can get it for $9.99 or $14.99 depending on wether you use it as an enrollment title or use a credit to buy it. And the SFBC has a lot of other great books, many of which are exclusive hardcover editions (99.9% of all the books sold on the SFBC are hard cover books). Anyways, the SFBC has been one of my go to places for buying books and I have saved a LOT of money from them over the years. Just figured I would pass along that info incase anyone is interested. 

Edited March 26, 2018 by OrangeCrush

[Mr. Zipper]

Sleeping Beauties by Owen and Stephen KIng.

It's ok, but not exactly a page turner you can't put down. May need to extend with the library to get all the way through this one.

[Pirate]

Currently reading on my kindle.

The Lord of the Rings

The Crystal Shard

Red Sparrow

 

[Cat]

I'm trying to read Ready Player One, but I just can't get into it. It's not clicking for me, for some reason. 

[OrangeCrush]

23 hours ago, Pirate said:

Currently reading on my kindle.

The Lord of the Rings

The Crystal Shard

Red Sparrow

 

Have read the series every couple years since i first read it when I was li 10-11. It =s about that time again!

[skypinkblu]

Murder House by Patterson (and who ever else he was writing with that day). 

If you are looking for a good book you can read on a plane or at the beach, this is it. I love mysteries, but I can usually guess the end. This one had me double thinking my guess about 5 times.

[Black_Adam]

Homework for when I hike the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in a month! It's a 4-day trek, crossing my fingers the porters don't end up having to carry me...

[topofthetotem]

THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel 

So far 150 or so pages into it and it’s very good.  

[Foley]

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie.

I don't tend to read much fiction, but I'd like to get into mysteries and figured it would be a good place to start. 

 

[delekkerste]

Just finished the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy by Kevin Kwan (soon to be a major motion picture!) after finishing books #2 (China Rich Girlfriend) and #3 (Rich People Problems).  Loved it - the most fun I've had reading fiction since Ready Player One six years ago!  Heck, I might have even enjoyed the trilogy more than RPO, and am certainly looking more forward to the movie than RPO, which I haven't seen yet, but, which looks from the trailers to be every bit of the soulless CGI-fest that the one-star review I read on the plane ride back from the UK yesterday said (was either in the FT or the Daily Telegraph)

I also just finished Murder Games by James Patterson with Howard Roughan (re:  written by Roughan with Patterson sticking his name on it to sell more copies).  Some OK/mindless entertainment, but nothing I would recommend. 

I'm currently reading Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman.  It's terrible so far - I'm happy to have a discussion about Universal Basic Income (UBI), but, the author clearly does not understand the first thing about economics (his university major is not listed anywhere in his credentials, which should be your first tip-off).  I don't know if something got lost in the translation from the original Dutch, but, there are some glaring errors (like his extolling the great communal success of a particular Indian casino in the U.S., where he incorrectly identifies the nearly $400 million in revenue as "profit", which makes a huge difference to the argument).  He also twists statistics to make the U.S. look bad, by lumping income inequality stats in with bad measures which may have nothing to do with the former.  My favorite line so far is how he just casually suggests, as if it's obvious, that the U.S. should just raise taxes to make up any shortfall in his hare-brained schemes.  Well, that and his claim that it's almost impossible to get ahead in America if you're not born into the upper class (I'm not even going to dignify that stupidity with a response).  The number of problems with his arguments are so long (including relying on small sample anecdotes and extrapolating them to be universal evidence) that, suffice to say, this book is a complete waste of time.  Please don't read it, but, if you must, please don't believe this garbage.  

Edited April 3, 2018 by delekkerste

[Get Marwood & I]

On 29/03/2018 at 7:06 AM, Foley said:

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie.

I don't tend to read much fiction, but I'd like to get into mysteries and figured it would be a good place to start. 

 

How many are left at the end Ryan?

[Foley]

5 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

How many are left at the end Ryan?

Not finished yet, but I'll guess 3?

[Get Marwood & I]

2 minutes ago, Foley said:

Not finished yet, but I'll guess 3?

[Tony D]

Just finished reading, Storm Of The Century by Stephen King. It was in screenplay form. Now reading, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. D! ck. This is the story which inspired Blade Runner.