Books - What Are You Reading / What Do You Recommend?

[Circuits]

I literally cannot figure out why it didn't win the Hugo. It is very good.

SJWs have hijacked the voting, and for the past few years, it's been impossible for anything written by a white non-gay male to win.

[SideShow Bob]

Am currently working on book 4 of Freehold series.

Blacklabel, prophecy came true, sucked in by freebie and had to buy the rest. All worth reading again.

Read "Freehold", "Weapon", "Better to Ask Forgiveness" and just finished "Contact with Chaos" in this order, I don't know if this was the intended chronological order. I got hooked the same way...... "Rogue" is next for me.

[Great-Kazoo]

For those getting them from kindle on their Free list. Could you post it here. Thanks

OR..................... maybe start a new thread?

[cstone]

For those who have read Brad Thor, you may be interested to know he is scheduled to be at the Tattered Cover on Colfax on June 28, 2016, at 7:00 PM.

http://www.tatteredcover.com/new-eve...w-event=114125
http://bradthor.com/brad-thor/appearances/#.V0kMMbpidPM

I found this out while at a reading and signing by Nathanial Philbrick, author of The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
http://www.amazon.com/Last-Stand-Cus.../dp/0143119605


Also, Justin Cronin, author of The Passage is scheduled to be at the Tattered Cover on June 8, 2016, at 7:00 PM, for a reading and signing for book three in The Passage trillogy, City of Mirrors.

[Mazin]

Just finished The First Hostage yesterday - enjoyable reading for sure!

Just st finished it tonight, I agree very entertaining read!

[sellersm]

"One Year After" has been released, the sequel to "One Second After", started reading it the other day... Here's a blurb from Amazon:

New York Times bestselling author William R. Forstchen brings a sequel to his hit novel One Second After. Months before publication, One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read, a book discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a truly realistic look at the dangers of EMPs. An EMP is a weapon with the power to destroy the entire United States in a single act of terrorism, in a single second; indeed, it is a weapon that the Wall Street Journal warns could shatter America. One Second After was a dire warning of what might be our future...and our end. Now, One Year After returns to the small town of Black Mountain, and the man who struggled so hard to rebuild it in the wake of devastation-John Matherson. It is a thrilling follow-up and should delight fans in every way.

[cstone]

https://www.amazon.com/Herbert-Hoove.../dp/1451648677

Herbert Hoover in the White House: The Ordeal of the Presidency

by Charles Rappleye

and

https://www.amazon.com/Alexander-Ham.../dp/0143034758
Alexander Hamilton

by Ron Chernow

Interesting to read about people who faced the troubles and opportunities of their time and what came from their decisions.

[SideShow Bob]

"One Year After" has been released, the sequel to "One Second After", started reading it the other day... Here's a blurb from Amazon:

Read that over a month ago.

[Zundfolge]

For those of you interested in a little non Fiction, I just finished an interesting book called The Forgotten Dead by Ken Small

Here's the synopsis from Amazon:

On April 28, 1944, a rehearsal for the D-Day landings off England's Devon coast went terribly wrong. A series of blunders allowed German E-boats to intercept the convoy of landing ships, and 946 Americans—many of them young and untrained—lost their lives. Yet until the publication of The Forgotten Dead, the true scale of this tragedy had never before come to light. This is the story of one man and his obsession to honor the memory of the 946 American soldiers who died needlessly that night. In the early 1970s, Ken Small, a hotelier, began beachcombing along Slapton Sands, near his hotel. He soon discovered unexpended bullets, U.S. dollars, and the personal possessions of U.S. servicemen. Gradually, he pieced together the events of that night and began the struggle to erect a memorial to honor the dead soldiers. This is the story of how he fought governments on both sides of the Atlantic to uncover the truth.

[Circuits]

"One Year After" has been released, the sequel to "One Second After", started reading it the other day... Here's a blurb from Amazon:

Yeah, I read it when it came out last year - ties up a lot of story threads, but to me not as compelling as the storyline of "One Second After". Worth a read if you read the first, though.

I recently finished three of the four "science of discworld" compendiums and the Tiffany Aching discworld novels from Terry Pratchett, been reading or re-reading some classics - "Treasure Island", "Typee", "Omoo". Halfway through the "World of Ice and Fire" companion to the "Song of Ice and Fire" series to feed my GoT lust.