I “read” was All the Light We Cannot See — fiction, but very good company on a 20-hour round-trip drive. Columbus: The Four Voyages, nonfiction by Bergreen, is also excellent.
Both are great reads. If you've seen the movies the books add more context. The movie "Unbroken" ends without the ultimate resolution that the book details.
by Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman. The book catalogs the actions of the Israeli secret services (the Mossad and others) and their actions since 1948. The book reveals many of the operations that were denied or not attributed to Israel's secret services. The reason for them speaking now... many of the old guard who founded Israel and their secret services are dying off. They wanted their story to be told with clarity and honestly. There are a number of very interesting revelations about operations against former Nazi's and the methods used in their multiple layers of their intelligence services. The book chronicles success and failure and does a great job of providing the Israeli perspective on the inginuity and bravery of Israel's Operators. The book remains true to the intelligence services and doesn't veer into political justifications for actions. The book is a great summer read.
is another good one. About a writer who goes up Mt. Everest when disaster strikes and kills a bunch of people. Also touches on the commercialization of the mountain. Amazon Link - ( New Window )
by Jon Krakauer, but it is an awesome, spine tingling drama, and as Simple Man suggests very informative about the mountain and extreme high altitude climbing, the politics and economics of the outfits that compete for the business of would be climbers, some serious and fit, some who should never even think about base camp let alone summiting Everest.
Many follow-up books to Into Thin Air that attempt to spin some of the heated controversies spawned by Krakauer's book.
One friend of mine read it cover to cover, twice, without any break in between, he found it so compelling.
Endurance - Alfred Lansing
Undaunted Courage - Stephen Ambrose
Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand (hopefully you can read/listen to this amazing book before seeing the lousy movie adapt)
Both are great reads. If you've seen the movies the books add more context. The movie "Unbroken" ends without the ultimate resolution that the book details.
I recently picked up Seabiscuit at the used book store. I may have to move it up in the rotation.
I just finished a fantastic read ... but it’s fiction.
I assume you guys have heard of author Mickey Spillane and his Mike Hammer series starting in the 1940s and which was the genesis of multiple TV series and movie. What I never knew is that only 13 books were published before he died ... and that he asked his friend and great mystery writer in his own right, Max Collins, to finish 6 partly written Hammer manuscripts, plus the first Mike Hammer manuscript which had never been completed (it was written in 1945).
I just read that first Mike Hammer story ... written by Mickey Spillane and finished by Max Collins in 2018. Killing Town. And it was just a wonderful read, especially knowing it was mostly written in 1945. I’ve never read any Spillane before, but I’m hooked @nd now plan to read every last one.
Again, sorry about going off topic, but this book truly is special.
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I just finished a fantastic read ... but it’s fiction.
I assume you guys have heard of author Mickey Spillane and his Mike Hammer series starting in the 1940s and which was the genesis of multiple TV series and movie. What I never knew is that only 13 books were published before he died ... and that he asked his friend and great mystery writer in his own right, Max Collins, to finish 6 partly written Hammer manuscripts, plus the first Mike Hammer manuscript which had never been completed (it was written in 1945).
I just read that first Mike Hammer story ... written by Mickey Spillane and finished by Max Collins in 2018. Killing Town. And it was just a wonderful read, especially knowing it was mostly written in 1945. I’ve never read any Spillane before, but I’m hooked @nd now plan to read every last one.
Again, sorry about going off topic, but this book truly is special.
Fiction???!!! We don't take kindly to your type here! This thread here is for us non-fiction folks only.
The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years n
Freakonomics and Superfreakonomics
Thinking Fast and Slow
and in honor of Independence Day, my favorite Revolutionary War book:
Both are great reads. If you've seen the movies the books add more context. The movie "Unbroken" ends without the ultimate resolution that the book details.
Terrific read and a very interesting story.
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Kon Tiki is a story about a crew on a raft being at sea for 101 days in 1947.
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is a story of a guy who gets lost at sea for 76 days. Awesome read. Amazon Link - ( New Window )
Kon Tiki is a story about a crew on a raft being at sea for 101 days in 1947.
I will definitely check that out, thanks.
Many follow-up books to Into Thin Air that attempt to spin some of the heated controversies spawned by Krakauer's book.
One friend of mine read it cover to cover, twice, without any break in between, he found it so compelling.
Undaunted Courage - Stephen Ambrose
Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand (hopefully you can read/listen to this amazing book before seeing the lousy movie adapt)
Both are great reads. If you've seen the movies the books add more context. The movie "Unbroken" ends without the ultimate resolution that the book details.
I recently picked up Seabiscuit at the used book store. I may have to move it up in the rotation.
I assume you guys have heard of author Mickey Spillane and his Mike Hammer series starting in the 1940s and which was the genesis of multiple TV series and movie. What I never knew is that only 13 books were published before he died ... and that he asked his friend and great mystery writer in his own right, Max Collins, to finish 6 partly written Hammer manuscripts, plus the first Mike Hammer manuscript which had never been completed (it was written in 1945).
I just read that first Mike Hammer story ... written by Mickey Spillane and finished by Max Collins in 2018. Killing Town. And it was just a wonderful read, especially knowing it was mostly written in 1945. I’ve never read any Spillane before, but I’m hooked @nd now plan to read every last one.
Again, sorry about going off topic, but this book truly is special.
I assume you guys have heard of author Mickey Spillane and his Mike Hammer series starting in the 1940s and which was the genesis of multiple TV series and movie. What I never knew is that only 13 books were published before he died ... and that he asked his friend and great mystery writer in his own right, Max Collins, to finish 6 partly written Hammer manuscripts, plus the first Mike Hammer manuscript which had never been completed (it was written in 1945).
I just read that first Mike Hammer story ... written by Mickey Spillane and finished by Max Collins in 2018. Killing Town. And it was just a wonderful read, especially knowing it was mostly written in 1945. I’ve never read any Spillane before, but I’m hooked @nd now plan to read every last one.
Again, sorry about going off topic, but this book truly is special.
Fiction???!!! We don't take kindly to your type here! This thread here is for us non-fiction folks only.