Books - what are you reading? (Official Book Thread)

[nyknick]

Going to add this my already long list of books I'll probably never get to

I love A Fistful of Dollars and you can never go wrong with a good crime noir

 

[Amo Husserl]

Going to add this my already long list of books I'll probably never get to

I love A Fistful of Dollars and you can never go wrong with a good crime noir

This is my proper introduction. I got some Chester Himes in my collection. Read Ishmael Reed's Reckless Eyeballing and thought that was pretty good. I wanted to study tight dialogue and good setup, I had to go to Hammett.

 

[nyknick]

This is my proper introduction. I got some Chester Himes in my collection. Read Ishmael Reed's Reckless Eyeballing and thought that was pretty good. I wanted to study tight dialogue and good setup, I had to go to Hammett.

If you like crime/mystery try out Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther series. First three novels are usually grouped together as Berlin Noir.

It's about ex-cop turned private detective in 1930s Germany. He starts getting missing Jewish persons cases which of course entangles him with the Nazi party.

 

[IronFist]

 

[RageKage]

Lorgar, The Bearer of the Word

He did nothing wrong, He knew emperor was a god

 

[voltronblack]

Lorgar, The Bearer of the Word

He did nothing wrong, He knew emperor was a god

That more Magnus the Red

 

[RageKage]

@voltronblack That still is one of my favorite HH books, always been a fan of Magnus (who also did nothing wrong)

 

[voltronblack]

@voltronblack That still is one of my favorite HH books, always been a fan of Magnus (who also did nothing wrong)

Yeah what I like about Magnus and Lorgar is that they were both proving to be right in their own ways in the end for example the Grey Knights became what Magnus always want the 1000 suns to be and to a lesser extent for the imperium to see how great a role psykers can play in Imperium of man. and Lorgar was right on how the belief of the Emperor of Mankind being the one true god would only strengthen the Imperium of man.

 

[MenacingMonk]

Reading a book about an operation in WW2 that involved pigeons carrying intel to fight the nazis.

 

[re'up]

I maxed out this year with like 55 books, I mentioned in another book thread, I'll post them up sometime.

 

[O.Red]

Reading a book about an operation in WW2 that involved pigeons carrying intel to fight the nazis.

Are you gonna share the name of the book????

 

[MenacingMonk]

Are you gonna share the name of the book????

No because I forgot the name of it.

 

[re'up]

Lost in The Valley of Death (2022)
Non fiction, about a wanderlust/tech guy/nature dude who disappeared, died in remote India

Devil House (Fiction 2022)
Brown Girls (Fiction) one or the best I read
Forverland (Nonfiction) 2022: memoir of a marriage
Vladimir (2022, fiction)
The Nineties (non fiction, 2022)
Love In The Time of Contagion (essays 2022)
Deep Water (Patricia Highsmith novel, from the 50's)
Rethinking Sex: A Provocation (non fiction, 2022)
Smacked (nonfiction 2022, about a heroin addict lawyer, written by his widow)
Cheatingland (non fiction 2022) analysis of cheating in relationships, oddly it's never mentioned, but many of the authors sources and himself are black, via the way they talk
I Like To Watch (non fiction, 2019, essays on television)
Night Crawling (fiction, 2022, Oakland PD scandal about underage sex worker)
True Story (non fiction 2022, analysis of reality tv and effect on society)
Love Marriage (fiction 2022)
Dark Rooms (2015 fiction) by Lili Anolik, Vanity Fair columnist
California Soul (memoir of a gangster, turned chef from Watts, 2022) actually met dude at a book siging and talked to him for 2 minutes
Show Them Your Good (2022, non fiction)
The Tragedy Of Heterosexuality (2022, essays on hetereosexuality, pretty fascinating read, not what you think)
Cult Classic (fiction, 2022, top 5, about a woman running into all her exes in Manhattan, ironically, this happened to me as I read the book, one a month for this whole year, but also book involves a cult, a tech guru, it's hilarious)
Heat 2 (2022, fiction)
Girls They Write Songs About (my favorite book of the year) 2022
The Colony (non fiction, 2022, analysis of massacre of Mormon colony in Chiahuaua 2019)
Hollywood Ending (non fiction 2022, Weinstein book, actually bought in West Hollywood on Sunset)
NSFW (fiction, 2022)
Bad City (non fiction, 2022, about USC scandal involing doctor and drugs)
Roll Red Roll (non fiction 2022, in depth analysis of rapes in Steubenville Ohio in 2012)
The Pink Hotel (fiction, 2022, satire about The Beverly Hills hotel)
This May Be Too Personal (essays, 2022)
The Dishwasher (fiction, 2022, about gambling, drugs, working in a kitchen, great book)
Catalina (fiction 2022)
Exalted (fiction 2022) LA satire about astrology, hilarious
Hawk Mountain (fiction, 2022)
Bad Sex (memoir, Teen Vogue editor 2022)
Ballad of the Bullet (non fiction 2022, analysis of drill culture)
Scenes From My Life (Michael K Williams memoir)
Acceptance )memoir, 2022)
Holding The Line (Geoff Berman memoir, 2022)
The Chaos Machine (analysis of social media, 2022)
Complcit (fiction, 2022)
Black Skinhead (essays on Kanye West, white supremacy, black culture and Kanye, 2022)
A Man in Full (Tom Wolf nivel about Atlanta, 700 pages)
Down And Out In Paradise (non fiction 2022, Bourdain's life and death)
The Great Man Theory (fiction 2022, acidic liberal satire)
Sugar Street (fiction 2022)
The Shame Machine (non fiction 2022)
Friends Loves and The Big Terrible Thing (Matthew Perry memoir)
Rap Capital (exploration of Atlanta rap scene)
A Death on W Street (analysis of Seth Rich murder)
Tracers in the Dark (tracking down dark web drug lords)
Rich And Pretty (fiction 2016)

 

[Monsanto]

Reading 2 books for this week:
The Body Keeps The Score
The Book of 5 Rings

Going for 100 this year again

 

[sjankis630]

Battlecry of Freedom by James McPherson.
It is supposed to be one of the better Civil War books.