Good Books.... Well, there are a few.

   / Good Books.... Well, there are a few. #181  
I always liked the African professional hunter books. My all time favorites were written by Peter Hathaway Capstick.
I've read all of his. Also, Pondoro Taylor and Robert Ruark. Great books!
 
   / Good Books.... Well, there are a few.
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#182  
Zombie thread, nobody has posted here in a year.

Last weekend I was in a bookstore looking for something to read and came across a book I've heard of for years; "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Talk about a bizarre book, and definitely not worth what I paid for it. I guess it appeals to a different group of people than me.
 
   / Good Books.... Well, there are a few. #183  
They were good in their day, at least for teenage me. The original BBC tv series was better than the movie by far but it’s genuinely silly like the books.

The Dirk Gently books he wrote after are a lot better in my opinion. I think I’ll have to read those again.
 
   / Good Books.... Well, there are a few. #184  
It may be a zombie thread... but looking through it has brought back a lot of memories. My parent's - Dad in particular was a big reader and we had an office/library growing up with one wall dedicated to concrete block and cherry plank bookshelves.

It was great for me because I could just go up and browse and find stuff to read, as an example a 1970's era copy of the Joy of Sex.

I do remember reading most all of Peter Capstick's African Hunter novels. There was something special about how those books were written.... from a kid's perspective they wove hunting/conversation/cultural observations together in a pretty neat way.

.... It's probably why, as cheesy as it was, Ghost in the Darkness was such an awesome movie to watch when it came out.
 
   / Good Books.... Well, there are a few. #185  
It’s a good topic so to help revive it… The Silo trilogy by Hugh Howie I found quite good. Wool, Shift and Dust. Google it for the details.

They’ve made a tv show out of it and it looks like they’ve really spent some time and money on it. The first season was good and really captured the book well. Been a while since I read it but it seems like they embellished a little.
 
   / Good Books.... Well, there are a few. #186  
I'm reading the reacher books now, started after the TV series came on. Dad was into the dirk Pitt books and Mom was into Steven King. Dad likes to read from the actual book, Mom has a kindle. I buy my books used off ebay, and donate to the library, but mostly donate to those little book drop-off spots, can't remember the name now. They are in random spots to give/take a book. The Reacher books are good and bad as I find myself staying up late reading and can't put it down, lol.
 
   / Good Books.... Well, there are a few. #187  
I’ve read all the Reacher books except the last couple. I don’t know if I’m getting tired of them but I suspect they aren’t as good now that Lincoln Child’s brother is writing them.
 
   / Good Books.... Well, there are a few. #188  
Anyone that likes hunting adventures should try the Peter Hathaway Capstick novels. Death in the Long Grass, Death in Silent Places, The Last Ivory Hunter are just a few.
 
   / Good Books.... Well, there are a few. #189  
"Ender's Game" was a great read, the movie not so much.

Also recently read "1984"...once again after 50 years. Back then the technology didn't exist. Scary, scary how accurate it is now. It should have been titled "2024".

One of the underlying themes in 1984 was the continuous work to rewrite history, by going back and "correcting" the history books and newspapers, repeatedly, depending on the current propaganda need.

This is one of the reasons I like having actual hardcopy for more controversial books...like old history books, dictionaries and the classics. Revising history and changing the traditional meanings of words is a constant pressure.

I can envision a time when e-Book content could be 'corrected' without notice or discretion by history revisionists, making it so the holocaust or even the US Civil War never really happened.
 
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   / Good Books.... Well, there are a few. #190  
I re-read 1984 recently too… The last time was around 1984, I think for English class in high school.

Many of the warnings are more likely than ever with advances in technology and indeed happening today in some measure.

I was pretty disappointed in the actual story though. It really felt thin, like philosophy for dummies.
 

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