Just finished this one. It's a little different than other books I've read about the horrors of the concentration camps, as it includes a love story between two prisoners, and their resilience to stay alive and marry one day.
Wrapped this up today. Took me over three months to read but I didn’t have any all-day reading sessions, just a bit every day. Great series, very creative. Highly recommended to any fantasy fan.
First of a series, next is The Last of the Mohicans, then The Pathfinder, The Pioneers, and The Prarie (if I ever get around to those last 3)
I quite liked it. Thus endeth my review. eta: I get your thoughts on the first part. Reminded me a bit of reading Don Quixote: "we get it, Sancho is dumb but smart and vice/versa with the protagonist. Let's go on another adventure that's the same as the last 5" Great writing and translation, though.
Got timed-out on my edit: the Edith Grossman translation of Don Quixote is a very worthwhile read. Maybe not quite all of it though.
Just finished these two books. The best part of the Indianapolis was the middle portion of the book, which was the gripping survival story leading up to the rescue of the survivors. It was a horrifying tale to say the least, and one of the best I've ever read. The first section is all about the logistics of the war and the last section is all about the blame game, deceit, mistakes made, finger pointing, and politics. Out of the two books I liked the survival story part best in the Indianapolis book, but the rest was a slow read for me. The first hand account of 8 months in the Malaysian jungle was a great story, full of really interesting stories about the natives and others that helped them survive, and aided them on their journey. It's the perfect mix of danger, heroism, history, culture, humor, jungle life, pain and suffering, willpower, and friendship among strangers. It kept my interest the whole time.
Rereading some of the SF novels of Jack McDevitt. Started with Ancient Shores and am now in the middle of the sequel, Thunderbird. Considering reading Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness again, which won both the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel in 1970 (which was when I last read it). Highly recommended. I have a habit of keeping novels and histories I really enjoyed, thinking I might like to read them again sometime, and I sometimes do. The Left Hand of Darkness has been sitting on a bookshelf for 55 years, making the trip from Houston to Austin in 1980. It's worth the wait.
Great recommendation. Initially it felt like Avatar The Last Airbender (not a bad thing at all) but the world building really jumps up a notch after the 3 or 4th book along with an endless array of Paths. I'm on book 8 and really enjoy it. The books aren't very long and the pacing is pretty quick. When you are ready for another RPG like series, then I can't say enough good things about this series. It's a wild ride. Book 1 ends somewhat abruptly but book 2 picks right up and introduces new characters and world building.
I didn't read Alive, but I decided to try this personal account written by one of the survivors of the crash in the Andes, Nando Parrado. For me the book started out a bit slow and boring. It was about his family background and childhood, his rugby experiences, and his teammates. I understand the point of it all, to give you a better understanding of how they all came together, but I still found it a bit boring. Bear with it, because once you get past the first 45 pages or so it starts getting good. That's when you get into the flight and the crash. He really puts you right there, feeling every type of emotion going through his head through it all, in a rollercoaster of emotions. He describes situations of unimaginable pain, heartbreak, and fear throughout each day. The hopes and constant disappointments never ended, but you feel so much love, willpower, brotherhood, and strength in their will to survive. The final rescue mission to seek help was not only terrorizing, but one of the most unimaginable feats I've ever read about. I was feeling every treacherous step they took along the way.
Went to Mexico a few weeks ago and my favorite thing to do while I am chilling at the beach is to read so I got the new George Carlin book, A modern Man and I was so disappointed, its basically written after he died and was really just a bunch of his acts written out........didnt really learn anything new about Carlin, I had to quit it about 3/4 in
I listened to an audiobook series called Dungeon Crawler Carl. Pretty sure i am dumber as a result, the story was totally ridiculous but it was extremely (simple) fun, is kind of funny and is the audio book equivelent of a page-turner - especially if you've ever played RPGs. Each audiobook is also like 10-20 hours long and there are 7 books, so great time killer for long drives.
You know it. Have you read it? The old testament was always hard for me to read but someone told me to start with the new testament first and now I'm hooked.
You have no idea. "Earth was created 6000 years ago" Gotta skip the NT around "Revelations", or even before. **** gets weird.
