What are you reading today?
 

This one should go for a while I think. When I was in the US Navy back before e-books we had something called paperbacks! On the bases the exchanges (Navy stores) would have a whole isle with both sides coving any type of book you could want. In the 20+ years I read most all cowboy, science fiction, detective and adventure books. There weren't the number of "war" novels except those of WW2 and Korea and there wasn't a lot. Now we have lots of books in the various conflicts and wars and other military screw-ups! I generally like an author that can write a series and those include all the "Shooter" series going both ways and all the "Jack Reacher" series.

I started a day or so ago to redo all the John D. MacDonald books of Travis McGee in order. Have in e-books is pretty handy I think.

What are is the group reading now days?

Tom Wolfe, Kingdom of Speech
Neal Stephenson, the Rise and Fall of DODO
Larry Corriea, some werewolf thing

News of the World.

Re-read John Steakley's Armor last weekend after finishing homework.

Waiting on new fanfiction to be posted for a series I'm following.

Reading a LOT of source code (java and angularjs and typescript and PHP) and text books.

profit and loss statements, W2's and Schedule Ls.

Exciting!
 

Apparently green font doesn't work in title, above.

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True-crime or other non-fiction
I use a Kindle
I have over a hundred read books on it right now...sure saves space.

Just started a re-read of Robert E. Howard's 'Conan the Barbarian' series. I have them all in paperback and have read them all a couple times before.

Sometimes a certain writer sorta sticks with you....

Pelican O.T. :(

I was reading Jack London short stories to my son last night for bedtime stories. They're getting to the grade school/junior high stages where they should start reading literature, and not just stories. Trying to inspire them a bit.

For personal entertainment, I've been reading a couple of those 000 magazines.

Cutting for Stone

The C&O railway in Thurmond, West Virginia. This was a thriving coal railroad town on the New River early last century, which is all but a ghost town today. It's a fascinating little place.

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The hotel (to the far left across the river- barely visible) in the second pic was a notorious brothel, built to pi$$ off the town's founder, General Thurmond (a religiously righteous individual who kept strict moral control of the town) and supposedly is featured in "Ripley's believe it or not" as the site of the world's longest poker game- 14 years.

The station in the foreground was rebuilt, and restored in the late 1980's and was featured in Tom Brokaw's "The fleecing of America" series as a waste of taxpayer money. It is still an unmanned stop for Amtrak. Town was also featured in 80's movie Matewan.

This summer I will try to do a mini trip out there. Although many of the structures are long gone, the town's main street still has some buildings left and is eerily silent. Also good rafting on river!

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Treasure Island

Dune.

Sounds like an interesting book. I'll look for it.
Someone wrote a book about the town my dad was born in, New Burlington, Ohio. It's at the bottom of a lake now. The farm that my grandfather farmed and where I spent many happy hours as a kid is at the bottom of another man-made lake. Maybe that's why I don't like large bodies of water.

Re-reading a new release of "Dereliction of Duty".

Ugh. For some reason I was asked to sit in for a week on "How to teach for the CISSP" course, very daunting. (Not a Cisco guy - I teach Linux admin stuff and programming and sql)

Of course, once you have the cert, you will never be unemployed, even as a consultancy gig.

I'd offer to send you the full book set I was given for it, but I gave them to one of my students a few months ago :(

Might have an ISO of some software still at work... shoot me a PM with your email and I'll let you know if/what I find.

Robert B Parker
Alan Lee
John D MacDonald

Hustler for the very informative articles

Mad Magazine for the sophisticated satire

Archie comics for the latest social conventions

The National Enquirer for the latest and most in depth news.

And for light entertainment Stalin.

This particular book highlights the historical representation of the town, used primarily by model railroaders. It has an interesting intro by a resident who grew up there. It's more of a technical history of the railroad structures. Most of what I have found out about the place was through random unrelated searches on the internet. I do find abandoned/ sunken towns fascinating.