Whatcha Reading?

[Batman1209]

Whatcha reading now? Or list your favorite authors, series, genre etc.....

I am currently re-reading "Travels With Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck. I just finished "Pete Rose: An American Dilemma" by Kostaya Kennedy.

Favorite writers are John Steinbeck, William Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas, and Robert Whitlow, among others.

 

[thoseTruckingElectronics!]

Given today's awful news regarding Alex Trebek, I thought I'd jump in with a few thoughts.

First of all, take a moment to think about just how much progress society has made in the fight against cancer. How did this happen? You guessed it - science.

Science isn't always perfect. Sometimes it's wrong. Sometimes it's really confusing. And sometimes, it's inconvenient as hell. It led to regulations that triggered the rise of DPFs and DEF and what-have-you. Yet, at the same time, it made air that was once so toxic it could kill you (and often did) and turned it into air so clean you might think you were in a clean room. It led to well water losing its color (the bad color, that is), and it gave and then eliminated many of the toxins that we (fortunately) only see in history books with barely any losses in efficiency.

So even when science and its findings are inconvenient as hell (no Mr. Gore, that's not copyright infringement), just remember that in many ways it's the best thing we have. And for people like Mr. Trebek, it very well may save his life.

I sincerely hope Mr. Trebek is able to beat the odds. God speed to him, his family, his colleagues, his friends, and his fans.

And I end with a Jeopardy question:

The clue: in 2019, this man overcame incredible odds to beat cancer and give hope to those battling the disease.
The answer: who is Alex Trebek.

 

[Gdjjr]

I'm reading "Presumed Innocent" by Scott Turow. Not impressed so far. It was his first novel released and accepted with critical acclaim-

 

[Uncle Birchy]

Truth is I quit "reading" along time ago..

Reading seemed to enrage me so much so I cancelled the Newspaper a decade ago..

Despite I find myself today at the gas station paying a buck n half for "Daily" and Three Bucks a Sunday just to get the Sports Page "spread" before I call my "bookie"

 

[Rigjockey]

Given today's awful news regarding Alex Trebek, I thought I'd jump in with a few thoughts.

First of all, take a moment to think about just how much progress society has made in the fight against cancer. How did this happen? You guessed it - science.

Science isn't always perfect. Sometimes it's wrong. Sometimes it's really confusing. And sometimes, it's inconvenient as hell. It led to regulations that triggered the rise of DPFs and DEF and what-have-you. Yet, at the same time, it made air that was once so toxic it could kill you (and often did) and turned it into air so clean you might think you were in a clean room. It led to well water losing its color (the bad color, that is), and it gave and then eliminated many of the toxins that we (fortunately) only see in history books with barely any losses in efficiency.

So even when science and its findings are inconvenient as hell (no Mr. Gore, that's not copyright infringement), just remember that in many ways it's the best thing we have. And for people like Mr. Trebek, it very well may save his life.

I sincerely hope Mr. Trebek is able to beat the odds. God speed to him, his family, his colleagues, his friends, and his fans.

And I end with a Jeopardy question:

The clue: in 2019, this man overcame incredible odds to beat cancer and give hope to those battling the disease.
The answer: who is Alex Trebek.

I thought it was very funny and brave of Alex Trebek to say he could not die because he had 3 years left on his contract with Jeopardy.

Good Canadian boy right there!

 

[ironpony]

Given today's awful news regarding Alex Trebek, I thought I'd jump in with a few thoughts.

First of all, take a moment to think about just how much progress society has made in the fight against cancer. How did this happen? You guessed it - science.

Science isn't always perfect. Sometimes it's wrong. Sometimes it's really confusing. And sometimes, it's inconvenient as hell. It led to regulations that triggered the rise of DPFs and DEF and what-have-you. Yet, at the same time, it made air that was once so toxic it could kill you (and often did) and turned it into air so clean you might think you were in a clean room. It led to well water losing its color (the bad color, that is), and it gave and then eliminated many of the toxins that we (fortunately) only see in history books with barely any losses in efficiency.

So even when science and its findings are inconvenient as hell (no Mr. Gore, that's not copyright infringement), just remember that in many ways it's the best thing we have. And for people like Mr. Trebek, it very well may save his life.

I sincerely hope Mr. Trebek is able to beat the odds. God speed to him, his family, his colleagues, his friends, and his fans.

And I end with a Jeopardy question:

The clue: in 2019, this man overcame incredible odds to beat cancer and give hope to those battling the disease.
The answer: who is Alex Trebek.

I thought it was very funny and brave of Alex Trebek to say he could not die because he had 3 years left on his contract with Jeopardy.

Good Canadian boy right there!

Which book was this in??

 

[thoseTruckingElectronics!]

Which book was this in??

No book, just a comment on TV since this is within the "Movies and Television" category.

 

[ironpony]

No book, just a comment on TV since this is within the "Movies and Television" category.

Pardon me... I don't read TV.

 

[thoseTruckingElectronics!]

Pardon me... I don't read TV.

I like your sense of humor and I fully understand.

 

[ironpony]

Codebreakers’ Victory How the Allied Cryptographers Won World War II

By Hervie Haufler

Ummm... just a bit overstated perhaps?

2015 was the 70th anniversary of the ending of WWII. Its also the expiration of the 70-year cloak of secrecy on much of what happened out of sight of the public.

Under the code names of Ultra and Magic, we were reading much of the most secret messages sent by our enemy. How much this helped the allied war effort, how many lives were saved, and how much the war was shortened is only now becoming apparent. The memoirs of the great leaders and generals of that time were written without being able to acknowledge the guiding hand of our signals intelligence, and the massive scale the code breaking.

This book gives a look at the world-wide import of our successes and our failures to heed intellegence gained from Ultra and Magic. It certainly gives a new perspective on the performance of our leaders in that war.

 

[Sinister]

The Martian.

It’s pretty good.

The down to earth approach of main character is pretty entertaining.

 

[Thunder Road]

 

[Thunder Road]

Haber defended gas warfare against accusations that it was inhumane, saying that death was death, by whatever means it was inflicted.

 

[Ontario Outlaw]

Black Klansmen

I enjoyed reading it

 

[Gdjjr]

Cemetery Road, Greg Iles and Blood Standard, Laird Barron.

 

[AK7]

 

[Mr Wonderful]

PUNK. I had met the author 40 years ago when he came into boxing club to learn “the sweet science”
Picked up the book where author was selling/signing his book at Farmers Market. All proceeds go to a charity

 

[ironpony]

Landing Eagle by Michael Engle

With the fiftieth anniversary of the first moon landing coming up this year, there will be lots of stuff coming out to commemorate the event.

NASA released the cockpit recording of the Lunar Module Eagle almost 20 years ago. Michael Engle, a NASA insider, has released this account of those 12 intense minutes from the initiation of powered descent at 50,000 feet above the lunar surface, until Armstrong announced, "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed!"

The chapters are divided by the minute into the descent, includes a transcription of the astronauts comments, what was happening in Mission Control, and a breakdown of what those events meant in real time. If you weren't a witness to the landing broadcast, this is a good one to get into how the entire world stood transfixed for those interminable 12 minutes, and why Armstrong got the assignment.

 

[Gdjjr]

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Sally Field kissing a girl would be hot!

 

[Gdjjr]

The Plains of Passage- it's a story about the Ice Age in Europe.

The Plains of Passage - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

"The Plains of Passage" spent weeks on the New York Times best sellers list from 1990-1991.[2] The novel currently holds a 3.7/5 on Goodreads [3] and a 4.5/5 on the Barnes and Noble website.[4] Many readers found this book to have tedious details and meticulous information, but was enjoyable overall