that sounds like a quite fascinating book. i do like a sea survival story.

lazy twit.

User: Hrumph. Apparently LC's google is Broken.

how about from now on i just make everyone google all the crimes too?

(05-03-2012, 07:28 PM)Disciple Wrote: The tenth and last book in David Gemmell's The Drenai Saga.

Next: The new Steven King Dark Tower: The Wind Through The Keyhole. Can't wait.

I'm not a horror fan and I don't read Steven King horror novels. But this (now) eight book series is unbelievable! The guy is a genius!

(04-08-2012, 06:43 PM)username Wrote: Hrumph. Apparently LC's google is Broken.

Unbroken: A World War II Story Of Survival, Resilience, And Redemption
by Laura Hillenbrand

On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War.

The lieutenant’s name was Louis Zamperini. In boyhood, he’d been a cunning and incorrigible delinquent, breaking into houses, brawling, and fleeing his home to ride the rails. As a teenager, he had channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics and within sight of the four-minute mile. But when war had come, the athlete had become an airman, embarking on a journey that led to his doomed flight, a tiny raft, and a drift into the unknown.

Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, a foundering raft, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutality with rebellion. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will.

(05-03-2012, 08:10 PM)Ma Huang Sor Wrote:

(05-03-2012, 07:28 PM)Disciple Wrote: The tenth and last book in David Gemmell's The Drenai Saga.

Next: The new Steven King Dark Tower: The Wind Through The Keyhole. Can't wait.

I'm not a horror fan and I don't read Steven King horror novels. But this (now) eight book series is unbelievable! The guy is a genius!

Wait til you read 1963. It's all coming back to him it would seem, finally.

(05-03-2012, 08:12 PM)Disciple Wrote: Given the characters on Mock, I'm surprised that nobody has yet mentioned "The Pessimist's Guide to History" by Flexner and Flexner.

Pretty much self explanatory.

You'llll bust a gut laughing, even at the tragedies.

(03-21-2011, 05:20 PM)username Wrote: After years and years of murder mysteries, I've switched over to what's often referred to as "urban fantasy". I prefer series (because I never want my books to end). I enjoyed the Jim Butcher Dresden File series (for example). The book I'm reading now isn't worth mentioning. It's just okay but I'm beginning to scrape the bottom of the barrel in urban fantasy books. I need to find a new genre.

(04-07-2012, 02:39 PM)Teacher Wrote: BTW, I am almost through reading the three-book series by Stieg Larsson. (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl who Played with Fire, and The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest) So far I like the second one the best.

(05-03-2012, 08:28 PM)Lady Cop Wrote:

(05-03-2012, 08:12 PM)Disciple Wrote: Given the characters on Mock, I'm surprised that nobody has yet mentioned "The Pessimist's Guide to History" by Flexner and Flexner.

Pretty much self explanatory.

You'llll bust a gut laughing, even at the tragedies.

that's going on my reading list.

CNN
Maurice Sendak, author of the classic children's book "Where the Wild Things Are," died from complications after a stroke on Tuesday, said Erin Crum, a spokeswoman for HarperCollins Publishers.

Sendak illustrated nearly 100 books during a 60-year career, winning dozens of accolades as he endeared himself to generations of children reared on his fanciful stories. One critic called him "the Picasso of children's literature." Former President Bill Clinton called him the "king of dreams."

Born in Brooklyn the son of Polish immigrants, Sendak grew up to take a few night classes but largely taught himself as an artist.

He is best known for his book, "Where the Wild Things Are." It tells the story of a boy named Max, who dresses in a white wolf costume and escapes his life at home by sailing to a remote land, where he discovers wild things who roar their terrible roars and gnash their terrible teeth.