Stephen King is my favorite author, I own about 20 of his books...My favorite SK book is "Desperation", with "Hearts in Atlantis" coming in a close second. My current favorite book is "The Shroud of The Thwacker" by Chris Elliot. I highly recommend it to anyone that is a fan of Chris Elliot...if "get" his sense of humor, you'll hate it...it's pretty "out there".
I just ordered "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story"
So what do you like/recommend?

Tim

 

I'm not a book reader often. Last book I read was Lee Iacocca's book years ago.
I just bought his new one, "Where Have All The Leaders Gone?" Haven't started it yet.
Amazon had a good price on it, so I figured I read some of his no nonsense thoughts.

 

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand is a great book, but massive...like 1400 pages long.

Assassin by Tim Bell is also a good book, and I'm not even really into the whole spy thing.

Elegant Universe by Brian Greene...astro-physics / cosmology written in a way that's more understandable than the way someone like Stephen Hawking would write; it's big on analogies rather than heavy mathematics.

Celestine Prophecy...I forget who wrote them, but it's a great little set of books. You can get by reading just the first one, but the next two obviously add a bit.

Hot Zone...I forget about this one, but it covers the Ebola virus and it's beginnings with a based-on-real-events set-up.

 

rich dad poor dad

 

Did you read King's Christine? That's my favorite book. I'm currently reading King's From a Buick 8.

 

I read Chicken Hawk for the second time after my recent hospital stay. It's a good story about a mede-vac helicopter pilot who thought in 1963 it would be great to join the Army and learn to fly helicopters.

I read More Guns, Less Crime in December. It's a great book by John R. Lott with lots of information to support CCW and a pro-firearms point of view, and refute the anti-firearms point of view.

 

War As I Knew It by General George S. Patton Jr.

General Patton by Stanley Hirshson

A Man and his Wings by William Wellman Jr.

The Arizona Rangers by Bill O'Neal

Pickup Trucks by Mike Mueller

Ship of Ghosts by James D. Hornfisher

Winchester Shotguns by Dennis Adler

At Dawn We Slept by Gordon W. Prang

Packard by Beverly Rae Kimes

Automobile Quarterly

 

in the last 4 months.....anna karenina, war and peace, culture warrior, the war on christmas, the fall of the house of hapsburg, putin's russia, lenin's tomb and various things out of reference books.

that and anything college related i need, which is very unexciting.

 

Do you have the ISBN for the Hapsburg book?

 

yes, the isbn is 0 14 00.6459 1
the author is edward crankshaw

to me the book assumes already previous knowledge of the hapsburgs, at least as far as character knowledge and relations, it starts in the later times of the hapsburgs and kind of starts in the mix of things.

 

I like P. J. O'Rourke's satire. Holiday's in Hell and also All the Misery in the World. I'm currently reading his Parlament of Whor<!>es.

I like Shrouds of Glory by Winston Groom.

I like Mike Davis' City of Quartz and also Ecology of fear. Social/political commentary on SoCal.

But I have read far more titles by King than any other author.

 

I read Bill Bryson's "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid" in March, at my father's suggestion.

Great book.

Unfortunately, college doesn't leave as much time for "pleasure reading" as I would like, so that was the last book I read.

 

"The Fall of Berlin" and "The Battle of Stalingrad" by Antony Beevor.

I'm getting ready to read "Flags of our Fathers" as soon as I finish "Band of Brothers".

 

OUR NATION'S ARCHIVE - A history of the United States in documents, by Erik Bruun and Jay Crosby.
THE INNOCENT MAN by John Grisham

 

Haven't read "Christine" yet...I really liked "From a Buick 8", read it twice.

Tim