What Are You Reading

[Harp]

Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy

 

[vintageTink]

I also am reading "Monty Python's Flying Circus Complete And Annotated All the Bits".

 

[jamespowers]

Quite the pun there.....

 

[Touchofevil]

At fist glance I thought you said try reading everything by Ronald McDonald.

That is what I meant.

 

[Touchofevil]

He has done that already too.

The Iron Gate by Margaret Millar. Written during WWII. Self described as a Psychological Horror. Copyright 1945. Geez, WWII era paper in this book is lousy. Rationing you know.....

Written by Ross MacDonald's wife. His real name: Kenneth Millar.

 

[vintageTink]

That is what I meant.

One of the only things you should ever read while in the driver's seat.

 

[Touchofevil]

One of the only things you should ever read while in the driver's seat.

But you should never eat from his restaurant, it is extremely dangerous to your well-being.

 

[Jack Savage]

Everything John Sandford, Lee Child, Harlen Cobin, Michael Connelly.

 

[Gregg Axley]

After that, try reading everything by Ross MacDonald and Raymond Chandler, you will again be very pleased.

I'll look into that.
Thanks

 

[jamespowers]

Written by Ross MacDonald's wife. His real name: Kenneth Millar.

Yes, there are far too many coincidences there. Oh and his first name was John. Ross was his middle name.

 

[Widebrim]

Farewell, My Lovely (again) and Pride and Prejudice (also again). Two of my favorite works.

 

[jamespowers]

Farewell, My Lovely (again) and Pride and Prejudice (also again). Two of my favorite works.

Pride and Prejudice?! I hoep you aren't carrying around that phonebook. That story is Loooonnnnggggg.

 

[Touchofevil]

Yes, there are far too many coincidences there. Oh and his first name was John. Ross was his middle name.

Yes, he was John Ross for a while but he then dropped "John" so as to not be confused with John D. MacDonald of Travis McGee fame. For my money, Ross was the much better of the MacDonalds.

 

[BladeOfAnduril]

Human Action by Ludwig von Mises is my current book. I'm not far into it but so far it is excellent, though not for the faint of heart.

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[Widebrim]

Pride and Prejudice?! I hoep you aren't carrying around that phonebook. That story is Loooonnnnggggg.

Phone book?

 

[John Boyer]

Mother: The Great Revolutionary Novel by Maxim Gorky

 

[Otis]

Human Action by Ludwig von Mises...

Wow, a big 'respect' to you for that! It's quite a work!

I read his 1912 work Socialism, and even that was tough going. There's something about academic German-to-English translations -- above average concentration required.

 

[Otis]

Pride and Prejudice...

This, A Tale of Two Cities being the other, has one of the best opening lines in all of fiction history.

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a great fortune,
must be in want of a wife."

That pretty much sums up a major area of man/woman relations, does it not?

 

[Stewart Field]

I just finished I, The Jury by Mickey Spillane. This is the first book I've read by this author and I love him. Within the first few chapters, I had to do one thing that I never, ever do...flip to the back page. The reading is very tough, gritty, private detective stuff but a high recommendation for those who enjoy such type of fiction.

 

[Two Types]

Currently reading a colection of short memoirs about the british experience of WW2. The stories were collected by a newspaper in 1946 and put into book form. Unsurprisingly, it has been out of print for many, many years.
I was very pleasantly surprised to discover that one of the contributors was someone I got to know a few years back. His story related to his comical efforts to feed Russian PoWs whilst in a prison camp in Poland.