Whatcha Reading Good?

[Fitty]

Originally Posted by quazz

Yeah but you can't judge a book by its movie.

True. I didn't even know it was a book until now.

[Stella Blue]

Like “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, the movie was really really good, but couldn’t hold a candle to the book.

[Desmo]

If movies tried to match books one for one they would be 12 hours and no one would go!

[Sam9]

Originally Posted by Fitty

True. I didn't even know it was a book until now.

I suggest you forget the movie, which shouldn’t be very hard, and try the book.

His first published novel was Dirty Work, a Vietnam story. That one was a hard read, such a sad story.

[ebesel]

Two things I do not do enough of: Read & Laugh. So I have started reading a little each day, but only comedy/humor. I have almost run out of the stuff I already have, so I need recommendations on what to read next.

For context, here is what makes me laugh

Books:
Catch 22 (my all-time favorite book)
The Pirates Series by Gideon DeFoe
The Red Dwarf Books by Grant Naylor

TV/Movies:
Red Dwarf
Black Adder
Monty Python
Raising Arizona
Anything by Mel Brooks


You get the idea...so based on that, what suggestions would my esteemed motorcycle colleagues make (that is you folks...)

[Longboardr]

Originally Posted by ebesel

Two things I do not do enough of: Read & Laugh. So I have started reading a little each day, but only comedy/humor. I have almost run out of the stuff I already have, so I need recommendations on what to read next.

For context, here is what makes me laugh

Books:
Catch 22 (my all-time favorite book)
The Pirates Series by Gideon DeFoe
The Red Dwarf Books by Grant Naylor

TV/Movies:
Red Dwarf
Black Adder
Monty Python
Raising Arizona
Anything by Mel Brooks


You get the idea...so based on that, what suggestions would my esteemed motorcycle colleagues make (that is you folks...)

This is what popped into my head after reading your list.

You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger by Roger Hall

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fro...acat=0&_sop=15



With a sharp eye and wry wit, Roger Hall recounts his experiences as an American Army officer assigned to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. First published in 1957 to critical and popular acclaim, his book has become a cult favorite in intelligence circles. The story follows Hall's experiences from a junior officer fleeing a tedious training assignment in Louisiana to his quirky and rigorous OSS training rituals in the United States, England, and Scotland. Quick to pick up on the skills necessary for behind-the-lines intelligence work, he became an expert instructor. But he was only reluctantly given operational duties because of his reputation as an iconoclast. In his droll story-telling style, Hall describes his first parachute jump in support of the French resistance as a comedy of errors that terminated prematurely. His last assignment in the war zone came when William Colby appointed him section head of an operations group that made its way on foot through Sweden. Called one of the funniest and most perceptive works ever written about life in the OSS, the book includes a wealth of unforgettable personalities that Hall encountered over the years.

[Stella Blue]

Just finished “Gone”, by Shelby Foote

Returning to my roots with Tom Robbins’ “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates “.

[quazz]

Originally Posted by Stella Blue

Just finished “Gone”, by Shelby Foote

Returning to my roots with Tom Robbins’ “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates “.

The great Tom Robbins! I have to go back to those books too.

[Stella Blue]

The man has a way with words, does he not? Last night I got as far as when R. Potney Smythe dies.

[ebesel]

Originally Posted by Longboardr

This is what popped into my head after reading your list.

You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger by Roger Hall

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fro...acat=0&_sop=15

Thanks. I will add it to my list.

[Dean Dinnetz]

Finishing up, "Facts and Fears", by James R. Clapper.

Intersting book, well written.

Dean

[Sam9]

“He had begun to fear for his sanity, felt that madness tracked him like a homeless dog, only needed a kind word or gesture to throw its lot with him forever” William Gay in Provinces of Night.

[Dean Dinnetz]

Just started, "Accessory to War", by Neil deGrasse Tyson and Avis Lang.

its a book about Astrophysics and the Military.

Really enjoying it. Learning a number of things about science and technology through the ages.

Dean

[Stella Blue]

As a Damn Yankee (one who comes to the South and stays), and as a history nut, I’ve been reading up on all of the local history, especially the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. I’ve been checking out books that can’t be bought at B&N.

Having said that, I’ve just started “The Trouble They Seen”. This book deals with documented experiences of black people immediately after the Civil War, during the “Reconstruction” period. It’s an eye opener.

[bplaxton]

just read Judd Apatow's 'Sick in the Head', good read

[Lickety Split]

Just got through reading "Last of the Bandit Riders" by Matt Warner.

Matt was an early friend of Butch Cassidy. The book does a good job of explaining what happened before, after and in between the holdups. These kind of details are missing from most other resources.

I am about half way through reading "Butch Cassidy, My Uncle" by Bill Betensen. It is even more detailed and attempts to separate fact from fiction. If you can get past all the BS out there about Butch, it turns out he was even more interesting than typically portrayed.