Good Books.... Well, there are a few.

[Wasmeneh]

I like the Gabriel Alon books and I also like the Bosch series both Book and TV. I love Jack Reacher but Tom Cruise is no Jack Teacher.

 

[caver]

The author Bill Beer was in an ultralight forum back in the 90's. He died in an ultralight accident....I think he had a heart attack after takeoff. Someone mentioned he wrote a book about something he did years earlier. We Swam the Grand Canyon: The True Story of a Cheap Vacation that Got a Little Out of Hand: Bill Beer, Beer, Bill, Bill Beer, Phtos by Bill Beer and John Daggett: 9785593: Amazon.com: Books

years later I took a commercial trip down the canyon...repeated that two more times.
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Next is a Scottish guy who ships his trike to the US and flies coast to coast.

On a Wing and a Prayer: MacKinnon, Colin M.: 978962247521: Amazon.com: Books

 

[bunyip]

I didn't bother to watch the Reacher movie because I just couldn't picture Cruise in that role. It would be about like me playing the part in a John Wayne biography... not going to work.

Yes, casting a 3'9" actor into a 6'7" role is just wrong.

 

[mrmikey]

FWIW...there is a new Michael Connelly novel 'The Law of Innocence' which is a Mickey Haller story

Thank you....next on the list for me as that was another good series, Mickey Haller. The Lincoln Lawyer was a good movie and book, Matthew Mcconaughey played it well......Mike

 

[Frankenkubota]

There are many...most of the best movies (and TV shows which should be another similar thread) are derived from written works of both fiction and nonfiction...

One work of historical non fiction is 'Escape from Davao'...it was the story that actually let the rest of the world know about the atrocities by the Japanese against captured Philippine, American and Allied soldiers...including the Bataan Death March...

It is much less widely known that some of the atrocities carried out by the Japanese make what the Nazis did look like a garden party...!!!

Escape from Davao - Wikipedia

So true. Certain cultures/nations seem to get a free pass while others are condemned. The Polish in WW2 have an interesting history, let's just say they looked the other way.

Truth.......on one of my first sales calls to Western Electric, remember them, i met an old engineer working on the first base stations for cellular. They Didn't use the G name then but I guess it would be called 1 G. Really called AMPS. American Mobile Phone Service. All analog, 6 watts, you could reheat your turkey with those transmitters. Ha ha.

He was married to a younger Philippine gal and asked if she could join us for lunch. In my business, the more the better, regardless.

Turns out he was a survivor from the Bataan death march, one of I guess 10%. Sweetest old guy you want to meet.

Seems to me, whoever has the big stick at the moment is gonna use it and in too many cases, take pleasure from it.

 

[Frankenkubota]

Best book I've read in years is called Sapiens. Also a history book called White Trash, that was amazing.

Worst book i've read is, no joke, the history of the Spanish Flu and other contagious disease. The really odd coincidence is, I read the book 3 months before the virus hit, that's the truth! The Spanish get a bad rap. The Spanish flu, the Spanish inquisition? If anything it should be called the catholic inquisition, just ask Galileo.

BTW, they have been studying this virus in bats for years

 

[Citydude]

A book has to keep me interested or I give up on them. As mentioned, the Reacher books I stuck with.

I’ve only read one book twice. Once in the 80’s and again in the 90’s. Chesapeake, by James Michener was a novel I couldn’t put down once I opened it.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

My memory has faded after all these years, but I recall reading a book...or short story as the case may be...by Isaac Asimov entitled "I, Robot". Years later, I saw the movie and wondered if it was the same story. I thought the movie sucked. I's been probably 50 years or so ago, but I do remember reading a sci-fi book entitled "Death World" that I thought was good, and another entitled "A Canticle for Lebowitz."

 

[fiddlearound]

Just finished re-reading Orwell's "Animal Farm" and "1984". Considering the current events, they were even more disturbing than when I read them over 50 years ago. Accurate, though.

 

[Frankenkubota]

Just finished re-reading Orwell's "Animal Farm" and "1984". Considering the current events, they were even more disturbing than when I read them over 50 years ago. Accurate, though.

Wow!

Another good one is Watership Down.

I just reread Huckleberry Finn after 50 years. I didn稚 realize it痴 considered by many to be the first true American literature.

I wouldn稚 know.