Great book! I need to re-read it myself. Currently reading about the most transformative shipping container in history....an homage to my bourbon-trail roots.
50 pages in, i'm up to 13,000 bc it is very interesting, but a lot of facts and data that go over my head. i like the premise though
Going Zero Anthony McCarten From goodreads. In the name of national security, the CIA in partnership with Silicon Valley wunderkind Cy Baxter have created the ultimate surveillance program known as FUSION. Ahead of its roll out, ten Americans have been carefully selected to Beta test the groundbreaking system. At the appointed hour, each of the ten will have two hours to “Go Zero”—to turn their cellphones off, cut ties with friends and family, and use any means possible to disappear. They will then have 30 days to evade detection and elude the highly sophisticated Capture Teams tasked to find them using the most cutting-edge technology. The goal is to see if it is possible to successfully go “off the grid” and escape detection.
I went straight on to another Neal Stephenson whale: Fall, or Dodge in Hell The last one I mentioned had some neat stuff in it but ultimately wasn't that satisfying. This one is already quite good, but it's a heavyweight, lots of pulp to lift.
^ Oh, that's a good one. If you watch the movie after it'll make you ill, doesn't come anywhere close to doing it justice. A Man in Full is good too, same author. I jjust finished (the translated version of) The Employees, by Olga Ravn. Very unusual novelette, set on an interstellar craft, a collection of testimonials by human and humanoid employees. Bleak but interesting.
I was disappointed in the ending of bonfire. It was great up until he decided to leave it hanging. Not a fan of that kind of ending. And he could have edited 700 pages down to four or five hundred, but that’s just me.
The Ferryman Justin Cronin From the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage comes a riveting standalone novel about a group of survivors on a hidden island utopia--where the truth isn't what it seems. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show...n?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=Pp6GEqgDOv&rank=1
It arrived a day early: Only up to Chapter 3, "Life with Father." It is an easy read and has already corrected, as expected, some false claims about his father. As for Elon's childhood and formative years, it explains a lot. I'm already at page 68 (10%) and curiously how well I understand what he went through. Bob Wilson
Just checked it out. I don't 'love' baseball, especially it's fanatics and what 'America's Pastime' has become - but I AM a history dork, and I'm 127th in line for Isaacson's book (21 copies) in my library. Also waiting for:
Same here. I used to like it, but like every thing else, too much money, too many commercials. Like watching paint dry. Expensive paint
Blacktop Wasteland S.A. Cosby From Goodreads Beauregard "Bug" Montage: husband, father, honest car mechanic. But he was once known - from North Carolina to the beaches of Florida - as the best getaway driver on the East Coast. Just like his father, who disappeared many years ago. After a series of financial calamities (worsened by the racial prejudices of the small town he lives in) Bug reluctantly takes part in a daring diamond heist to solve his money troubles - and to go straight once and for all. However, when it goes horrifically wrong, he's sucked into a grimy underworld which threatens everything, and everyone, he holds dear . . .
hmm... i may have to try that one. i've been on a dry spell lately. the books are so bad i can't even post them here
!00 places to visit after you die by Ken Jennings. Many dozens of short descriptions of how the afterlife has been viewed by religion, movie, writings etc. Each from 3 to maybe 6 pages.
I have started a couple of books then decided I wasn't going to complete them. We all run into crap every once in a while.
yep, tried a wally lamb book on someones recommendation, had to quit after 150 pages, i kept hoping it would get better, but it just got weirder
