What are you currently reading?

[blueridge]

Finished Terminal List. Meh. Enjoyed the tv series much more. Will skip the rest in the series.
Found the latest Pickett novel and started it. Good old Joe.
Have All The Pretty Horses on hold request.

 

[BackofBeyond]

Re-reading after many years...
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Ha. Funny seeing the recommendation from Graham Greene - I grabbed my copy of The Comedians last week and started rereading.

 

[2rocky]

Two Years Before the Mast is a memoir by the American author Richard Henry Dana Jr., published in 1840, having been written after a two-year sea voyage from Boston to California on a merchant ship starting in 1834.

I attended a meeting in Dana Point and we will be returning for a 4 day Convention. The San Juan Capistrano mission is near there.

 

[LopeHunter]

Headed to Africa next April for my birthday. My nightstand has...Cries of the Savannah, Death in the Long Grass, Thunder without Rain, Perfect Shot, Wildlife of Southern Africa. Listened to about 20 podcast episodes on visiting Africa. 10 months until head over. Feel free to PM if any advice on how to make this adventure the most memorable or successful.

 

[woods89]

I just finished these 2. They are a fantastic resource for anyone who wants a really functional career.

 

[blueridge]

Just finished All the Pretty Horses. Damn. Great book, but damn. I think I need to switch to something lighter before starting the next book in the series. I don't know if my mental health can take it.
Are they all like this? Reminded me a little of Jim Harrison’s short story “Revenge”.

 

[noharleyyet]

Cormac jars the senses.

Are they all like this?

 

[elkduds]

Rereading House of Rain by Craig Childs. Library in Canon City is limited selective. Still a great book about anasazi ancestral Puebloan history and culture, especially if you have visited or lived on the Colorado Plateau.

 

[KingOfTagSoup]

Currently reading Col. John Patterson's book, The Man-eaters of Tsavo. Fantastic account one of the most incredible hunts of all time. Also the basis of the great movie The Ghost and the Darkness.

 

[stk]

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, by John le Carre

 

[kansasdad]

Currently reading Col. John Patterson's book, The Man-eaters of Tsavo. Fantastic account one of the most incredible hunts of all time. Also the basis of the great movie The Ghost and the Darkness.

No matter how he tries to describe the heat at the bridge site, he can’t even come close! Passenger trains run at night from the coast upcountry for this reason.

 

[Don Fischer]

Hunt talk on my computer!

 

[Hunting Wife]

Just finished Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Good, but it took me some weeks. Quite interesting social commentary, particularly given how long ago she wrote it.

Next up another Capstick book for some lighter fare.

 

[Elky Welky]

Just finished Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Good, but it took me some weeks. Quite interesting social commentary, particularly given how long ago she wrote it.

Next up another Capstick book for some lighter fare.

You brave, brave soul. I tried reading Atlas Shrugged 10 years ago. By the time I got to the radio speech I just had to flip it over, as I felt I'd been hearing (or having it beat into me) the same message over and over, and over, and over, again already. I vehemently disagree with her whole philosophy, but think it is certainly worth knowing about it. Incredibly influential even today. I will say, she is very good at writing about smoking cigarettes.

Like others here, I feel I am spending more time reading through Hunt Talk forums/news articles than trying to pick up a book anymore. After drafting and writing all day for work, it's tough to want to read a novel.

I have heard of "Death in the Long Grass" for a long time and think maybe I should give it a shot.

 

[noharleyyet]

 

[Hunting Wife]

You brave, brave soul. I tried reading Atlas Shrugged 10 years ago. By the time I got to the radio speech I just had to flip it over, as I felt I'd been hearing (or having it beat into me) the same message over and over, and over, and over, again already. I vehemently disagree with her whole philosophy, but think it is certainly worth knowing about it. Incredibly influential even today. I will say, she is very good at writing about smoking cigarettes.

Like others here, I feel I am spending more time reading through Hunt Talk forums/news articles than trying to pick up a book anymore. After drafting and writing all day for work, it's tough to want to read a novel.

I have heard of "Death in the Long Grass" for a long time and think maybe I should give it a shot.

I hear you…I had to skim some of the long-winded portions of diatribe. But I have to admit I found some uncanny parallels between the book and some aspects of our current social state.

But Death in the Long Grass was a much more enjoyable read. If you like hunting stories, adventure, and dangerous game it’s a great book

 

[Harrier]

You brave, brave soul. I tried reading Atlas Shrugged 10 years ago. By the time I got to the radio speech I just had to flip it over, as I felt I'd been hearing (or having it beat into me) the same message over and over, and over, and over, again already. I vehemently disagree with her whole philosophy, but think it is certainly worth knowing about it. Incredibly influential even today. I will say, she is very good at writing about smoking cigarettes.

“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

 

[Irrelevant]

I hear you…I had to skim some of the long-winded portions of diatribe. But I have to admit I found some uncanny parallels between the book and some aspects of our current social state.

was it worth reading?

 

[longbow51]

There is an excellent article of Ayn Rand's predictions on X (formerly Twitter) that are a bit uncanny. I don't agree with her on many things, as I am a Christian, and she an atheist,
but her analysis is spot on.

Five reasons Ayn Rand loved the United States of America: 'The right to live by one's own judgment'

Ayn Rand advocated individual rights and limited government; born in totalitarian Russia she loved the United States and believed in American exceptionalism.

t.co

 

[Hunting Wife]

was it worth reading?

I thought so, but I just like to read different kinds of stuff and find ideas interesting. Worth the read if you have a curious mind, I guess? But I’m no literary critic.

Full disclosure…The writing itself isn’t exceptional or elegant by any stretch IMO. It is looong. I gather some people really find the ideas too controversial.

Pro tip: you can totally skim the over-written parts and still get the gist.