What are you reading, Chapter 2

[CBRStingray]

How did this turn out? His account of becoming one of the youngest to summit Mt. Everest was one of the best I've come across. He did a great job of conveying the passion and frustrations faced. So many of the accounts of summitting are entirely technical in nature, so The Kid Who Climbed Everest was quite refreshing.

It's pretty interesting overall. He doesn't go into great detail about too many things, which I found a little disappointing, but I imagine that if he did the book would be 3 times as long (he's packed a LOT into his life!). He spends the most time talking about the SAS and the Everest climb, which are fascinating.

I'd recommend the book to anyone wanting some light but interesting reading.

 

[Bongolation]

This, widely regarded as the greatest war memoir of all time:

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[ryco]

been reading a lot of classic fiction, so decided to read some non-fiction (which I like way better).

Reading Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Eartquake & Tsunami that Could Devastate North America - Jerry Thompson

Seeing as I live on the southern Oregon coast at Cape Blanco where three tectonic plates meet; Pacific Plate, N American Plate & Juan De Fuca Plate; this book should hold some fascinating dread. I live on a lake held back by the dunes about a mile from the ocean, so I'm right in the tsunami zone. Have it where I can grab the dogs, girl, documents, a couple of basses and be up on the headlands in 7 minutes tops. If the streets liquidate it'd take about 15. It's worth the risk to live in a beautiful area.

 

[Bongolation]

On its way:

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[NOT]

Pet Sematary....again.

 

[SJLee]

First published in 1997 but just as relevant if not more so today.

 

[Bongolation]

Finished this a couple of days ago:

Very good, like most Soho titles. Excellent publisher!

 

[MAJOR METAL]

Just finished " Not dead & not for sale" by Scott Weiland

 

[Bongolation]

On its way:

 

[Funky Ghost]

 

[Jawbone]

Stieg Larsson - Millennium Series - love that tough little muse.

 

[BioDriver]

 

[Bongolation]

Stieg Larsson - Millennium Series - love that tough little muse.

I wasn't really a fan of those books, but that's neither here nor there...I do, purely as a much-needed public service, want to warn readers that there is an absolute torrent of terrible and terribly-translated Scandinavian crime novels pouring out purely to cash in on a fad for them on the Millennium Trilogy's coattails.

I mean some downright wincingly, unreadably bad stuff that never would have been picked up under any other circumstances.

Check the reviews before you waste your time/money.

 

[SBsoundguy]

I just finished

If you like the show you'll like the book. It's an easy read.

 

[cdef]

Getting into John Franklin Bardin via the Penguin Omnibus. It contains the three gripping "noir" novels he wrote between 1946 and 1948: The Deadly Percheron, The Last of Philip Banter and Devil Take the Blue-tail Fly.

 

[Bongolation]

This:

 

[MakiSupaStar]

I discovered a bunch of free classics on my iPad. I'm currently reading Braam Stokes (I don't think I spelled that right) Dracula.

 

[SJLee]

I discovered a bunch of free classics on my iPad. I'm currently reading Braam Stokes (I don't think I spelled that right) Dracula.

Bram Strokes - Dracula

 

[Bongolation]

Bagged this today:

 

[fmoore200]

Bram Strokes - Dracula

I picked this up in Spanish the other day..