NUance Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 "Wolves Eat Dogs" by Martin Cruz Smith. Quote Link to comment
Cina Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 Read "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood last week, now re-reading "The Hiding Place" By Corrie Ten Boom. An interesting juxtaposition. Edit: Here's a picture of a book for continuity's sake. Quote Link to comment
GM_Tood Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 The Companions The Sundering, Book I R.A. Salvatore Quote Link to comment
StPaulHusker Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Tim Green is a former 1st round NFL draft pick by the Atlanta Falcons. He is now a Lawyer, NY Times Best Selling Author, Television Host, HS football coach. This is the first book of his I am reading. Quote Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 The kids got it for me for Christmas. It is an amazing story of survival and rescue during WWII. Quote Link to comment
Hooked on Huskers Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 In progress, almost done (myself, slow reading). 700 pages! I like non-fiction history books. Don't like fiction books. The book will absorb you ... You won't want to put it down once you've started reading it. --The New York Daily News "David McCullough's history of this extraordinary construction job between the Atlantic and Pacific is everything history ought to be. It is dramatic, accurate...and altogether gripping." --The Washington Star "Solid, entertainingly written and fair-minded ... McCullough unravels the complicated and sometimes deliberately obscured story that lies behind the Panama Canal."—The Washington Post Book World "A chunk of history full of giant-sized characters and rich in political skullduggery."—Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times "In the hands of McCullough, the digging of the great ditch becomes a kind of peacetime epic ... The book will absorb you ... You won't want to put it down once you've started reading it." --The New York Daily News "McCullough is a storyteller with the capacity to steer readers through political, financial, and engineering intricacies without fatigue or muddle. This is grand-scale, expert work." --Newsweek Amazing and mind-boggling work. Even today. The Great Pyramid of Giza was a piece of cake compared to Panama canal project. Fighting with diseases i.e. malaria and yellow fever, difficult engineering, hot and monsoon climate, mountains and jungles digging, landslides, thousands of deaths, political corruption including bribery, kickbacks and embezzlement (common today), labor, etc. I will plan the second Panama canal trip. Quote Link to comment
NUance Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis (author of The Blind Side, Moneyball and Liar's Poker) Quote Link to comment
Hooked on Huskers Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 The kids got it for me for Christmas. It is an amazing story of survival and rescue during WWII. Fiction or real ? Quote Link to comment
Landlord Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Started reading 'S' by J.J. Abrams a few nights ago. It's slow moving but instantly engaging. Quote Link to comment
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