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re: SECrOTB Book Club: I need a good book to read
Posted on 4/15/15 at 9:04 am to BluegrassBelle
Posted on 4/15/15 at 9:04 am to BluegrassBelle
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I've read bits and pieces but it's a very tactile reading experience that just doesn't translate to eBooks.
i have a friend about to move to the UAE i need to snag it from before he leaves.
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Posted on 4/15/15 at 2:47 pm to 3nOut
I bought House Of Leaves late last summer, but had to put it down due to a litany of factors. I think I'm about to pick it back up.
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief was fascinating. The HBO documentary of the same name didn't do the book proper justice to just how messed up Hubbard really was. He hated Jews, was paranoid, etc.
If you liked the Killing... series that has O'Reilly's name on it, check out some of the other stuff that his co-author (and the guy who probably did all the work) Martin Dugard has written. Into Africa is about the search for Livingstone in the 1870s, and is awesome. He absolutely did his homework on that one.
I greatly enjoyed King Leopold's Ghost, about the Belgian colony of Congo. I've always been fascinated by colonial Africa, and this is, by far, the most readable book about the subject that I've found.
As far as simple novels are concerned, I really enjoyed the two most recent Crichton novels I read. Next and State of Fear aren't coherent novels so much as they are well-researched theses about genetic engineering and climate change, respectively.
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief was fascinating. The HBO documentary of the same name didn't do the book proper justice to just how messed up Hubbard really was. He hated Jews, was paranoid, etc.
If you liked the Killing... series that has O'Reilly's name on it, check out some of the other stuff that his co-author (and the guy who probably did all the work) Martin Dugard has written. Into Africa is about the search for Livingstone in the 1870s, and is awesome. He absolutely did his homework on that one.
I greatly enjoyed King Leopold's Ghost, about the Belgian colony of Congo. I've always been fascinated by colonial Africa, and this is, by far, the most readable book about the subject that I've found.
As far as simple novels are concerned, I really enjoyed the two most recent Crichton novels I read. Next and State of Fear aren't coherent novels so much as they are well-researched theses about genetic engineering and climate change, respectively.
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