What Book Are You Currently Reading ?

[El Kabong]

So the premise of this thread is for there to be a wide variety of literature discussed much like films are discussed in the 'Last movie you watched' thread.

I have read quite a few books, fiction and non-fiction and have enjoyed both immensely. I will attempt to recall previous books and list them, their pros and cons here on this thread. Likewise I will address authors which I have read and either enjoyed or disliked and I encourage my fellow forum members to do the same.

The book which I am currently reading has led me to start this thread (of course after searching for a previously made thread about books, reading, etc and seeing none I made this). The book is 'Scouting on Two Continents' by Major Frederick Russell Burnham. Burnham was a contemporary of Robert Baden-Powell who started the Boy Scouts Association which has contributed dare I say to the childhood and young adulthood of many a man and perhaps many a forum member. Burnham was born in 1861 to a family of settlers in Minnesota and his life was never dull, so far I have read of Indian attacks, stolen horses from famous banditos, partnering up with a smuggler, learning the art of being a true "scout", the Tonto Basin feud in Arizona, and various exploits in mining and hunting for miners all of which have been fascinating and I am only 4 chapters in. The reading has been smooth and just as exciting as fiction.....speaking of which Major Burnham was the inspiration of H. Rider Haggard's hero Allan Quartermain due to his exploits in the American West and in the Boer Wars. Major Burnham also was quite friendly with Teddy Roosevelt who quite admired his stories which really is something considering Teddy once rode the back of a bull moose across a river for fun.


Anyway, what stories have you read, what authors do you like, which books do you think we would enjoy?

[brocktonblockbust]

My favorite author id an Argentinian Jew named JORGE LUIS BORGES. his stories are short and mind blowing. Read him extensively at university, still do.

Try reading The Garden of Forking Paths, a mere 7 pages long, and staggering.

[Batman]

I was thinking about starting a thread for books just the other day.

I've read a fair few books over the last few weeks, I'll get on goodreads.com to refresh myself and then report back with my ratings

[SlimTrae]

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J. Truant.

Very short book, I read it twice a year for motivation.

Still reading African Origin of Civilization by Sheikh Anta Diop.

[brocktonblockbust]

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is also a mind blower.

[Beanz]

http://www.saddoboxing.com/boxingfor...hlight=reading

[El Kabong]

http://www.saddoboxing.com/boxingfor...hlight=reading

My apologies, I'll let a mod know and merge the threads

[brocktonblockbust]

http://www.saddoboxing.com/boxingfor...hlight=reading

My apologies, I'll let a mod know and merge the threads

Holy shit!!! It happened.to both of us!!!

[El Kabong]

http://www.saddoboxing.com/boxingfor...hlight=reading

My apologies, I'll let a mod know and merge the threads

Holy shit!!! It happened.to both of us!!!

I certainly didn't mean for it to...I vaguely remembered a book/author thread but couldn't fucking find it....anywho, here's hoping that we'll get the threads merged and everyone will give their input and keep that thread at the top of this part of the forum.

[El Kabong]

Much appreciated my Mod friends!

[Batman]

BirdBox by Josh Mallerman

Strange book, creatures that turn you insane and cause you to kill yourself and others if you so much as see them, causes the whole population to live in a self imposed blindness, bog standard horror book, finished it in 1 day but it was enjoyable



The Case Against Satan by Ray Russell

The Exorcist before The exorcist, released about 10 years before, decent book, the whole 'possession' thing was far too easily believed by the priests but it was a nice simple read, extremely tame when compared with the all time classic that came after



Knock-Em-Stiff by Donald Ray Pollock

collection of 18 short stories all based in an extremely town, don't go expecting any happy endings, it is child abuse, alcoholism, rape and general depression, I loved it, my kind of book



City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin

the last of the passage trilogy, an uptodate vampire story (not your gay Twilight shite here) fucking awesome trilogy, this book started off slow but the second half of it was unputdownable, brilliant



The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum

the most frightening thing about this is that its based on a true story, a girl gets kidnapped and brutally and systamatically tortured by 1 deranged mother and every kid in the local area, fucking terrible book, again my kind of thing, loved it but I'd be careful who I recommended it to.



The Trial by Kafka

an old classic, some dude gets put on trial and has no idea why, will he every manage to find out what is going on? good book well worth a read, the long paragraphs and narrative can bog you down but its only 200 pages

those are some the books that I've read over the last month two anyway

[brocktonblockbust]

Knock em stiff would be my kind of book about rape! And Kafka a distant second!!!

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