I'll not make the switch. Can't read a kindle during takeoff and landing. Even the books I read are often limited to ones that can fit in my back pocket. Plus my bookshelf is an ever growing source of knowledge/cause for concern.
If I was going through a book a week I'd probably consider it though.
Lang may yer lum reek...
Only domestic Thai flights (I've noticed recently) are still insisting ALL electronics (w/ airplane mode) be switched off.
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If you like history, beautifully written, look no further than "Blood And Thunder" by Hampton Sides. An absolutely fascinating history of the American Indian tribes, trappers, explorers and mountain men opening up the West. History presented at its finest.
Sides also has written a number of other books that look to be equally interesting. 10/10.
My Kindle touchscreen stopped working so my carry-on luggage is now heavier. Currently reading "Storm Damage" by Ed Kovacs. Hard-boiled crime fiction set in New Orleans post-hurricane. Will probably read the trilogy based on Book One. https://www.amazon.com/Ed-Kovacs/e/B005DONBDQ
Camino Island by John Grisham; starts off well but became a bit of a slog in the middle before ending okay. Apparently not one of his best books and I'd give it a miss if you are one of his fans.
Closed Casket: Sophie Hannah bringing back Hercules Poirot from the grave. I was curious about how someone could take over from Agatha Christie, it's the second of a new generation from Sophie Hannah and it's not that bad. It's not written in the same early/mid 20th Century language of A.C. but still has the nice easy flow and pick-up/put down commuter book about it. I read almost half the book in the first sitting, which puts it in the 'hard to put down' category...
Anna Karenina- books are in limited supply here, so figured I should pick something long and time consuming
Never read any of these 'from the grave' books.
Aren't there enough Poirot novels by AC to go round?
Got the entire collection on PDF, and all the TV series to go with it, so there is something to do when the toxic winter cloud really comes to town.
Anyone read War and Peace? There's another winter activity right there
W+P is mostly a great read, but peters out badly over the last 100 pages or so.
AK is terrific...you made the right choice.
Try Crime and Punishment if you haven't already.
Just started my second Hampton Sides book, "Hellhound On His Trail". The murder of Martin Luther King and the search for his assassin. A century later than "Blood and Thunder", it covers a period of American history in which I am fairly well-versed, although my primary memory of King's assassination is looking out the plane window at smoke rising from a burning Washington D.C. as I flew out to the Vietnam War. Only a few chapters in, but the writing style is as superb as in the first of his books I read.
"To Kill a Mockingbird", Harper Lee
I want to get the feel of race relations in the 1930's...particularly the "old South".
Great movie though I never actually read the book.
Not sure if I like Oblonsky, but he is bloody funny.
Woken Furies by Richard K Morgan, writer that they based the Altered Carbon series on - just good escapism. I get too much factual noise from FaRT in his TD threads to warrant any intellectual narrative.
Independent today:
Detective fiction: Why do we care whodunnit?
Crime fiction has been said to weave its mystery using a ‘sleight-of-hand trick’ – but, says Erica Wickerson, there are often much more complex techniques at play
From Sherlock Holmes to Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple to Columbo, Sarah Lund to Saga Noren, we have long been gripped by detective fiction. An opium addiction, elaborate moustaches, a knitting habit, a shabby overcoat, lovely Nordic jumpers, and a green Porsche: the only thing these idiosyncratic and frequently frustrating sleuths seem to have in common is their ability to solve crimes.
Read more
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/l...-a8546791.html
I am also a fan of John Grisham. Not only he can invent (invent?) a thrilling plot and write it down in thrilling readable chapters, he tackles many critical problems of American life.
Appreciating that the plots are not following one established structure just placed in different milieu as some others practising (e.g. Dan Brown).
Currently reading The Rooster Bar, astonished to learn how the law students run in huge debts quite impossible to be paid back...
Just started this one...
I'm into real books, not the electronic versions
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...^I notice you're contributing online and not mailing in your posts...
...of course not: snail mail is near extinction...along with paperbacks and acutely sloping foreheads...
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