Right now I'm reading

[johno]

The Good Son by Michael Gruber. This is a story about a US soldier/spook whose Mother was kidnapped by Jihadis. The spook shit sort of draws you in, but this book is really an exploration of the mentality of Muslims & Jihadis. The author is a very intelligent man, weaving a "thriller" into a work of anthropology.

[Fat Cat]

Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes by Robert Louis Stevenson

[DrDonkeyLove]

Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Sounds like very pleasant reading.



[I wrote the above as a joke since FC insulted my brain in another post. But, my interest was piqued so I looked it up on Amazon where I was able to pick up his entire works for the massive investment of $2.51. There are tons of great classics on there for free or almost free.]

[Fat Cat]

All your bullshit and stupid posts aside, Robert Louis Stevenson is a great author. If you have never read it, Treasure Island is fantastic reading.

[Wild Bill]

Treasure Island is fantastic reading.

true.
And "Black arrow".

[Turdacious]

And 'Kidnapped.'

[Kirk]

I've got a bunch of Robert Louis Stevenson on my phone waiting for me to read. You can get free electronic versions legit... I just started on Edgar Allan Poe stuff. Just about read the whole Fall_of_the_House_of_Usher at lunch today. I'll mostly likely go through Poe's catalog now. Maybe I'll go through the Robert Louis Stevenson stuff next.

[seeahill]

The Good Son by Michael Gruber. This is a story about a US soldier/spook whose Mother was kidnapped by Jihadis. The spook shit sort of draws you in, but this book is really an exploration of the mentality of Muslims & Jihadis. The author is a very intelligent man, weaving a "thriller" into a work of anthropology.

Thanks. Sounds interesting. My next read.

[Fat Cat]

The Good Son by Michael Gruber. This is a story about a US soldier/spook whose Mother was kidnapped by Jihadis. The spook shit sort of draws you in, but this book is really an exploration of the mentality of Muslims & Jihadis. The author is a very intelligent man, weaving a "thriller" into a work of anthropology.

Thanks. Sounds interesting. My next read.

Even cahill can't stand his own books. Interesting.

[Turdacious]

I've got a bunch of Robert Louis Stevenson on my phone waiting for me to read. You can get free electronic versions legit... I just started on Edgar Allan Poe stuff. Just about read the whole Fall_of_the_House_of_Usher at lunch today. I'll mostly likely go through Poe's catalog now. Maybe I'll go through the Robert Louis Stevenson stuff next.

Very cool, there's a lot of great free stuff out there. That's how I (re)read Burroughs and Jack London. Some stuff you never outgrow.

[Fat Cat]

Treasure Island is fantastic reading.

true.
And "Black arrow".

I haven't read that, I'll have to add it to the list. Thanks!

[vern]

I've got a bunch of Robert Louis Stevenson on my phone waiting for me to read. You can get free electronic versions legit... I just started on Edgar Allan Poe stuff. Just about read the whole Fall_of_the_House_of_Usher at lunch today. I'll mostly likely go through Poe's catalog now. Maybe I'll go through the Robert Louis Stevenson stuff next.

Very cool, there's a lot of great free stuff out there. That's how I (re)read Burroughs and Jack London. Some stuff you never outgrow.

Hell yeah! I just finished Jack London's The Road about his days riding the rails across the US in the 1890's. It's free too and was the inspiration for that Lee Marvin Ernest Borgnine flick Emperor of the North.

[Wild Bill]

Treasure Island is fantastic reading.

true.
And "Black arrow".

I haven't read that, I'll have to add it to the list. Thanks!

I loved both this novels in the childhood (they were in one book).
Such a beginning...

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“Ay! when the pinch comes, ye remember the old shoe,” returned Nick. “There is not a man of you can back a horse or hold a bill; and as for archery — St. Michael! if old Harry the Fift were back again, he would stand and let ye shoot at him for a farthen a shoot!”
“Nay, Nick, there’s some can draw a good bow yet,” said Bennet.
“Draw a good bow!” cried Appleyard. “Yes! But who’ll shoot me a good shoot? It’s there the eye comes in, and the head between your shoulders. Now, what might you call a long shoot, Bennet Hatch?”
“Well,” said Bennet, looking about him, “it would be a long shoot from here into the forest.”
“Ay, it would be a longish shoot,” said the old fellow, turning to look over his shoulder; and then he put up his hand over his eyes, and stood staring.
“Why, what are you looking at?” asked Bennet, with a chuckle. “Do, you see Harry the Fift?”
The veteran continued looking up the hill in silence. The sun shone broadly over the shelving meadows; a few white sheep wandered browsing; all was still but the distant jangle of the bell.
“What is it, Appleyard?” asked Dick.
“Why, the birds,” said Appleyard.
And, sure enough, over the top of the forest, where it ran down in a tongue among the meadows, and ended in a pair of goodly green elms, about a bowshot from the field where they were standing, a flight of birds was skimming to and fro, in evident disorder.
“What of the birds?” said Bennet.
“Ay!” returned Appleyard, “y’ are a wise man to go to war, Master Bennet. Birds are a good sentry; in forest places they be the first line of battle. Look you, now, if we lay here in camp, there might be archers skulking down to get the wind of us; and here would you be, none the wiser!”
“Why, old shrew,” said Hatch, “there be no men nearer us than Sir Daniel’s, at Kettley; y’ are as safe as in London Tower; and ye raise scares upon a man for a few chaffinches and sparrows!”
“Hear him!” grinned Appleyard. “How many a rogue would give his two crop ears to have a shoot at either of us? Saint Michael, man! they hate us like two polecats!”
“Well, sooth it is, they hate Sir Daniel,” answered Hatch, a little sobered.
“Ay, they hate Sir Daniel, and they hate every man that serves with him,” said Appleyard; “and in the first order of hating, they hate Bennet Hatch and old Nicholas the bowman. See ye here: if there was a stout fellow yonder in the wood-edge, and you and I stood fair for him — as, by Saint George, we stand! — which, think ye, would he choose?”
“You, for a good wager,” answered Hatch.
“My surcoat to a leather belt, it would be you!” cried the old archer. “Ye burned Grimstone, Bennet — they’ll ne’er forgive you that, my master. And as for me, I’ll soon be in a good place, God grant, and out of bow-shoot — ay, and cannon-shoot — of all their malices. I am an old man, and draw fast to homeward, where the bed is ready. But for you, Bennet, y’ are to remain behind here at your own peril, and if ye come to my years unhanged, the old true-blue English spirit will be dead.”
“Y’ are the shrewishest old dolt in Tunstall Forest,” returned Hatch, visibly ruffled by these threats. “Get ye to your arms before Sir Oliver come, and leave prating for one good while. An ye had talked so much with Harry the Fift, his ears would ha’ been richer than his pocket.”
An arrow sang in the air, like a huge hornet; it struck old Appleyard between the shoulder-blades, and pierced him clean through, and he fell forward on his face among the cabbages. Hatch, with a broken cry, leapt into the air; then, stooping double, he ran for the cover of the house. And in the meanwhile Dick Shelton had dropped behind a lilac, and had his crossbow bent and shouldered, covering the point of the forest.
Not a leaf stirred. The sheep were patiently browsing; the birds had settled. But there lay the old man, with a cloth-yard arrow standing in his back; and there were Hatch holding to the gable, and Dick crouching and ready behind the lilac bush.

[Kirk]

And 'Kidnapped.'

Started this at lunch today. I also learned some new lingo in the preface, "he would make black cocks of them", which means he would shoot them. Now I've got to figure out how to work that into casual conversation...

Side note: Muppet Treasure Island is a musical. In spite of Tim Curry being in it I can't recommend it...

[seeahill]

The Good Son by Michael Gruber. This is a story about a US soldier/spook whose Mother was kidnapped by Jihadis. The spook shit sort of draws you in, but this book is really an exploration of the mentality of Muslims & Jihadis. The author is a very intelligent man, weaving a "thriller" into a work of anthropology.

Thanks. Sounds interesting. My next read.

Even cahill can't stand his own books. Interesting.

Been taking inanity lessons from Andy have you?

[Fat Cat]

The Good Son by Michael Gruber. This is a story about a US soldier/spook whose Mother was kidnapped by Jihadis. The spook shit sort of draws you in, but this book is really an exploration of the mentality of Muslims & Jihadis. The author is a very intelligent man, weaving a "thriller" into a work of anthropology.

Thanks. Sounds interesting. My next read.

Even cahill can't stand his own books. Interesting.

Been taking inanity lessons from Andy have you?

You will not make a black cock of me, sir!

[seeahill]

The Good Son by Michael Gruber. This is a story about a US soldier/spook whose Mother was kidnapped by Jihadis. The spook shit sort of draws you in, but this book is really an exploration of the mentality of Muslims & Jihadis. The author is a very intelligent man, weaving a "thriller" into a work of anthropology.

Thanks. Sounds interesting. My next read.

Even cahill can't stand his own books. Interesting.

Been taking inanity lessons from Andy have you?

You will not make a black cock of me, sir!

You're a good student.

[Bob Wildes]

"Meditations On Violence" by Rory Miller.

[Turdacious]

Isaac Babel's Red Cavalry

[Wild Bill]

I started classic SciFi

firtst three books were good, but forth i could not read to the end.

[Wild Bill]

Started this

[DrDonkeyLove]

The Good Son by Michael Gruber. This is a story about a US soldier/spook whose Mother was kidnapped by Jihadis. The spook shit sort of draws you in, but this book is really an exploration of the mentality of Muslims & Jihadis. The author is a very intelligent man, weaving a "thriller" into a work of anthropology.

3/4 through and really enjoying it for the exact reasons you mention.

[theoverman]

Just done this one



I was a big fan of dune but didnt like foundation series as much. I never read wheel of time series but I heard it was good.

[Wild Bill]

Started this

not that i expected. historical dedectives in the Aztec empire settings with some magic.
stopped.

[odin]

Bukowski, Ham on Rye. I like the seediness of his writing. Good shit.