What books is everybody reading right now?

jasondsanders99

Just wandering what everyone reading right now

motie2

The Great Shark Hunt by Dr. Hunter Stockton Thompson.

mfresa

Trout Streams of Northern Georgia and North Carolina by Carter

buflosab

Snow in Vietnam by Amy M. Le.

buflosab

@motie2, Have read it also, fan of HST. Guess I became a fan of HST when he was writing articles for Rolling Stone. Have  about 4 or 5 books written by him and a few written about him.

motie2

@buflosab A couple of decades ago, Jann needed money and offered lifetime subscriptions to RS for one hundred bucks. The mailing label on my issues says my subscription expires in 2055.

RS is where I first encountered the Good Doctor. I have all his books. Reading Shark Hunt for the nth time (I’m 73). 

buflosab

@motie2, used to buy RS were ever they were sold. A few yrs back I decided to get a subscription to RS and it was great, a yearlong subscription, unfortunately RS kept renewing my subscription without my being notified. So that was the end of that. HST would have a field day today if you catch my drift. Nice chatting with you as always.

paulwansing

Just starting "Revival" by Stephen king.  I fell away from his books for a few years but as usual I ended up back with a King novel in my hands. 

motie2

Yeah, well, wait until you're old: the seemingly inevitable cataracts make reading difficult.

OlePops

Went through Watertown, TN and stopped at a local diner for pie and coffee. There was an antique store behind it. I went in there and picked up a copy of a neat little book that caught my eye simply because of it's pristine condition. It was about a cigar store Indian. Written in 1958 by Elizabeth Honness, hard bound, with a plastic dust cover and full artwork, the title "Mystery Of The Wooden Indian". The old man wanted a dollar for it. $1. I gladly obliged him as it was about a tobacco store Indian. Now, when I got home the 188 pages that ensued told a story on the level of a middle schooler, but the story it brought to me and the 2 1/2 hours of pleasure it gave me was well worth the dollar I spent. What made it even more awesome was I looked it up on Amazon. You can't find a book like it, in this condition for less than $130.00. I think I'll send it to my grandsons in Virginia.

ghostsofpompeii

With Halloween fast approaching I pulled out my "Haunted Indiana" book, seeking locations near me in Indiana that might be worth a visit.

Ron191

Varney the Vampire or the feast of blood 

This penny dreadful has been mentioned in so many histories of Horror fiction that I google it to see if anyone had a free PDF. Project Gutenberg had a free download. It owns the name. It is lurid fiction for the masses. It is probably only worth reading to put the horror fiction that came after I'm done perspective. 

Ron191

@motie2;I share you pain and unfortunately your cataracts. I've been using the zoom function on my tablet and it helps some. 

buflosab

Reading The Last Detail by Darryl Ponicsan. Maybe some of you have seen the movie with Jack Nicholson. Three sailors, one of which is going to the Brig, the other two are escorting him. They all get into all kinds of situations. Recommend reading and viewing.

flyfished

The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings - intertwines 4 biographies into a single (BIG) book - Lewis and Tolkien, Owen Barfield and Charles Williams. Strong pipe presence!

motie2

The Pipe-Smoking Preferences of Famous Authors

Hemingway, Emerson, Twain, Tolkien, and plenty more: all great writers who loved a great smoke.
https://www.bespokepost.com/the-post/the-pipe-smoking-preferences-of-famous-authors

motie2

The Story Teller's Pipe

https://www.thestorytellerspipe.com/blog

buflosab

Dads Maybe Book, by author Tim O’ Brien famous for his award winning The Things They Carried and If I Die In A Combat Zone.

ChaplainCorey

Re-reading Lord of The Rings (of course) with my sweet bride. 

Im also doing audio books. Currently Multipliers by Liz Wiseman and Emotional Inteligence 2.0. 

thebadgerpiper

I have a couple that I'm flipping through on my kindle, but I'm working on "The Ultimate Pipe Book" by Hacker, as I've had it for a few years, and I want to finish it.

ghostsofpompeii

I was about to make some smart-ass remark about reading the phone book ... then realized I haven't had a phone book delivered to my home in more than five years. Might even be longer. I guess the phone book has gone the way of the phone booth. I haven't seen a public pay phone in years.

ghostsofpompeii

Creeping up on my time of the year to read "A Christmas Carol" and the anthology "Christmas Ghosts", which contains seventeen short stories about ... well you guessed it ... Christmas Ghost Stories.

Oddjob27

Currently going through Sherlock Holmes stories, Becoming a Barbarian by Jack Donovan.

flyfished

I just finished The Fellowship - The Literary Lives of the Inklings. Focuses on Tolkien, Lewis, Barfield, and Williams, and does a great job of weaving their biographies and works together. It is monstrous (644 pages with notes, bibliography, index). A few times it seems to duplicate stories and overlap, but was great reading how they influenced each other. And of course, there were pipes involved.

Jeff20

Uneven Lies by Pete McDaniel...must read, if you enjoy golf literature.

motie2

The Book of Daniel

AnantaAndroscoggin

After changing over to a new computer after the old one became so frail that it would just up and die on me any day it got a little warm, I am now engaged in downloading my Kindle library to the new one. I can't believe that I have over 16,800 books in there from Amazon's free kindle book offerings (mostly, there were maybe two-or-three dozen I've bought) that I thought I might enjoy reading. Annnnnnd I have read a two or three hundred of them at least.

Maybe a couple hundred that seemed to be worthwhile references to have on hand. Photo books to use as visual Swipe Files for my crappy attempts at drawing.Travel guides from all over the world intended to be used for local color and "landmarks" in some of my crappy stories.

Otherwise, it's Science Fiction, Science, Fantasy, Adventure (including Edgar Rice Burroughs [did he smoke a pipe?] non-Tarzan stuff), History, Philosophy, Religions, Folklore, Biographies, Theology, and translated Greek & Roman & Japanese (& others as I came across them for free) Classics.

Never much for horror, since reading some of Ambrose Bierce and H.P. Lovecraft while in high school (I didn't sleep the night I saw Hitchcock's The Birds) LOL.

motie2

I'm going to interpret this as "What are you reading?"
I spend hours cruising the web, looking for pipe related information, and especially plowing through blogs, looking for pearls.
Research, in other words, and what I was trained to do in seminary.
Here's what I derived from the Smokingpipes blog, dating back almost a decade....

https://www.smokingpipes.com/smokingpipesblog/single.cfm/post/how-tobacco-ages
https://www.smokingpipes.com/smokingpipesblog/single.cfm/post/an-alternative-to-matches-and-lighters
https://www.smokingpipes.com/smokingpipesblog/single.cfm/post/top-resources-for-pipe-smokers
https://www.smokingpipes.com/smokingpipesblog/single.cfm/post/lighter-vs-pipe-lighter-whats-the-difference
https://www.smokingpipes.com/smokingpipesblog/single.cfm/post/words-every-pipe-smoker-should-know
https://www.smokingpipes.com/smokingpipesblog/single.cfm/post/the-history-the-zippo-lighter
https://www.smokingpipes.com/smokingpipesblog/single.cfm/post/estate-buying-guide
https://www.smokingpipes.com/smokingpipesblog/single.cfm/post/know-your-pipe-tobacco-blending-components

https://www.smokingpipes.com/smokingpipesblog/single.cfm/post/lighters-need-cleaning-too

Also, there's a nice tobacco review section at https://www.smokingpipes.com/smokingpipesblog/category.cfm/tag/Reviews/cat/showall

SirHammer

I am reading Liberty the god that failed by one Chris Ferrara. It is a kind of a mix between history, politics, religion, and philosophy. 

Ron191

The Hogfather by Terry Pratchett. Actually I'm re-reading it. It is a good antidote to all the over commercialized holiday fare while exploring the nature of belief and what it is to be human. Pratchett has a wild sense of humor. 

motie2

Reading and Smoking
https://www.smokingpipes.com/smokingpipesblog/single.cfm/post/reading-and-smoking