Do yall read (Books)

RobertN · Mar 9, 2011

Ah, yes, how to see if your PC gets an Energy Star compliance logo

jimmyj said:
Ok the dragon thing sounds interesting, but this bit, not so sure!!!:laughing:

Dozernut · Mar 9, 2011

I enjoy a good book, nothing like losing yourself in a story with your imagination building the characters appearances and the settings. I have been reading a series by Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files. The main character is a wizard/detective, set in modern day Chicago. A good read that holds your attention.

Patricia Briggs is another good author with The Mercy Thompson series, A half-Blackfoot, Walker (a shape shifter that can transform into a coyote) who is a VW mechanic and lives next door to a Were Wolf Alpha. She likes to annoy the Alpha by parking junk cars in her field in the back lot. He has to look at them every time he looks out his kitchen window.

I read almost any type of genre in literature, the above two authors above are the latest that I have read.

om21braz · Mar 9, 2011

If you enjoy hunting stories, etc., try most any book by Peter Capstick. Death in the Long Grass for example - stirs most any hunter into wanting to take a trip to Africa.

RobertN · Mar 9, 2011

A few months back I read "Devil in the White City". It was about the development, building and putting on of the 1892-93 World Exposition(Columbian Exposition), and how America's first serial killer preyed on folks during that time. It was interesting how the fair developed in Chicago. Very interesting, is how many new products that we still were released at that fair. And, it was the first large scale example of AC power and lighting.

I even found a dollar coin from the exposition at a market a couple months ago.

dmccarty · Mar 9, 2011

jimmyj said:
Ok the dragon thing sounds interesting, but this bit, not so sure!!!:laughing:

Agreed!

Later,
Dan

Chuck52 · Mar 9, 2011

The problem I have with series books, like the Dresden Files mentioned by Dozernut, is that I'm cheap and get them from the library. For some reason, the library never has the whole series. Sometimes that's not important, but for some series if you don't read them in sequence you don't understand some of the lines. The other problem is that if the series is fairly new, I read faster than the author and end up waiting so long between books that I forget story lines and such. The big one for me like that was the Wheel of Time series. By the time I got some of those new books I couldn't remember who half the characters were and what they had done. Then, of course, most series end, and if they were good I then have to change gears and find something else to take their place.

I read all the books in the Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell, at least all in the library. They were entertaining, though they got a bit repetitive after a while.

Chuck

forgeblast · Mar 10, 2011

+1 on the dresden files excellent books, his others the furies of calderan was excellent also.
the devil in the white city was also well written. I just finished a walk in the woods funny and informative about hiking the AT.

looknlearn · Mar 10, 2011

forgeblast said:
+1 on the dresden files excellent books, his others the furies of calderan was excellent also.
the devil in the white city was also well written. I just finished a walk in the woods funny and informative about hiking the AT.

Read that one as a family recently ( with some minor editing for the young'uns) He sure has a sense of humor. I hear he has written quite a few books.

jimmyj · Mar 10, 2011

It's a bit out there but years ago I read a book called "the shaman's apprentice" which was a true story of a guy who went to the Amazon jungle to learn from the natives. They came up against challenges such as corrupt government, etc. It was a very interesting book.