What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post Reply
User avatar
JimC
The sentimental bloke
Posts: 73014
Joined: Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:58 am
About me: To be serious about gin requires years of dedicated research.
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Contact:

Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by JimC » Tue Mar 23, 2021 1:28 am

macdoc wrote:
Mon Mar 22, 2021 11:21 pm
Two of my fav genres rolled into one series ...

Image

Hornblower meets space opera
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seafort_Saga
I also like that style of SF. David Weber is a good example...
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
And my gin!

User avatar
Svartalf
Offensive Grail Keeper
Posts: 40340
Joined: Wed Feb 24, 2010 12:42 pm
Location: Paris France
Contact:

Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by Svartalf » Tue Mar 23, 2021 12:55 pm

After and preparatory to reading a lot of Lovcraftian inspired stories, I just had to go through some of the base material again.
I've finished the Dreams in the Witch House, have begun the Haunter of the Dark, and will then go on with the Dunwich Horror. After that, I think I'll go back to derivative works, for some time.
Embrace the Darkness, it needs a hug

PC stands for "Patronizing Cocksucker" Randy Ping

User avatar
Svartalf
Offensive Grail Keeper
Posts: 40340
Joined: Wed Feb 24, 2010 12:42 pm
Location: Paris France
Contact:

Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by Svartalf » Tue Mar 23, 2021 3:23 pm

Iz strange. I was trying to read Lovecraft, couldn't stay on it, kept yawning and being sleepy, but unable to get a real nap when I put the book down. Ended uup switching to so Ramsey Campbell stuff I never read before, and it worked, sleepy spell vanished.
Embrace the Darkness, it needs a hug

PC stands for "Patronizing Cocksucker" Randy Ping

User avatar
macdoc
Twitcher
Posts: 6936
Joined: Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:20 pm
Location: Planet Earth on slow boil
Contact:

Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by macdoc » Sun Apr 18, 2021 9:46 pm

Image

Same guy that wrote the superb book about the 1918 influenza pandemic is the author here ....and wow what wild tales.....but true.
An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known -- the Mississippi flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of nearly one million people, helped elect Huey Long governor and made Herbert Hoover president, drove hundreds of thousands of blacks north, and transformed American society and politics forever.
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award.
I learned a lot and as with his previous work enjoying it thoroughly :tup:
The scale of the Mississipi was not something I was fully aware of.....sure am now. :smoke:

Worth reading his bio on the left side - quite the powerhouse and influential.

just a snippet of the bio
Both the Bush and Obama administrations sought his advice on influenza preparedness and response, and he was a member of the original team which developed plans for non-pharmaceutical interventions to mitigate a pandemic. The National Academies of Science asked him to give the keynote speech at its first international scientific meeting on pandemic influenza, and he was the only non-scientist on a federal government Infectious Disease Board of Experts.

In the area of water resources, he has been equally active. In 2006 he became the only non-scientist ever to give the National Academies annual Abel Wolman Distinguished Lecture, a lecture which focuses on some aspect of water.
https://www.amazon.com/John-M-Barry/e/B ... p_ebooks_1

He is a VERY engaging writer. :coffee:
Resident in Cairns Australia Australia> CB300F • Travel photos https://500px.com/p/macdoc?view=galleries

User avatar
macdoc
Twitcher
Posts: 6936
Joined: Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:20 pm
Location: Planet Earth on slow boil
Contact:

Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by macdoc » Mon Apr 19, 2021 7:35 pm

Looks good...I vividly remember being scared and glued to the TV as this unfolded. Figuring where the fuck I could hide ...settled on a small tunnel under a railway line with a small running stream ...5 minute run and water to drink if they hit Buffalo NY

:shock: :?

Image
Resident in Cairns Australia Australia> CB300F • Travel photos https://500px.com/p/macdoc?view=galleries

User avatar
Tero
Just saying
Posts: 47190
Joined: Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:50 pm
About me: 15-32-25
Location: USA
Contact:

Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by Tero » Mon Apr 19, 2021 8:08 pm

I have some 3 nuclear bomb books, one half read. The 3rd one will be more for reference, near 900 pages.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/14516776 ... prod_image
https://esapolitics.blogspot.com
http://esabirdsne.blogspot.com/
Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late

Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...

User avatar
Svartalf
Offensive Grail Keeper
Posts: 40340
Joined: Wed Feb 24, 2010 12:42 pm
Location: Paris France
Contact:

Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by Svartalf » Mon Apr 19, 2021 10:01 pm

macdoc wrote:
Mon Apr 19, 2021 7:35 pm
Looks good...I vividly remember being scared and glued to the TV as this unfolded. Figuring where the fuck I could hide ...settled on a small tunnel under a railway line with a small running stream ...5 minute run and water to drink if they hit Buffalo NY

:shock: :?

Image
Do you know the author? his name looks weird, Ukrainiian maybe?
Embrace the Darkness, it needs a hug

PC stands for "Patronizing Cocksucker" Randy Ping

User avatar
macdoc
Twitcher
Posts: 6936
Joined: Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:20 pm
Location: Planet Earth on slow boil
Contact:

Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by macdoc » Tue Apr 20, 2021 1:02 am

Interesting time to be reading Rising Tide about the 1927 Mississippi flood. We're over 16" in 72 hrs and no end in sight. Damn thing is sitting and spinning right over us.

Image

•••

Serhii Plokhy is nuke book author.
Resident in Cairns Australia Australia> CB300F • Travel photos https://500px.com/p/macdoc?view=galleries

User avatar
Hermit
Posts: 25806
Joined: Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:44 am
About me: Cantankerous grump
Location: Ignore lithpt
Contact:

Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by Hermit » Tue Apr 20, 2021 8:34 am

macdoc wrote:
Tue Apr 20, 2021 1:02 am
Image
Must must be logged-in to see.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould

User avatar
macdoc
Twitcher
Posts: 6936
Joined: Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:20 pm
Location: Planet Earth on slow boil
Contact:

Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by macdoc » Tue Apr 20, 2021 4:16 pm

Image
Feeling picked on now.

Gonna clear up next week just in time to head to Vic. :banghead:
Resident in Cairns Australia Australia> CB300F • Travel photos https://500px.com/p/macdoc?view=galleries

User avatar
JimC
The sentimental bloke
Posts: 73014
Joined: Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:58 am
About me: To be serious about gin requires years of dedicated research.
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Contact:

Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by JimC » Tue Apr 20, 2021 9:15 pm

Are you coming down to the civilised part of Oz, mac?

:hehe:
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
And my gin!

User avatar
macdoc
Twitcher
Posts: 6936
Joined: Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:20 pm
Location: Planet Earth on slow boil
Contact:

Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by macdoc » Fri Apr 23, 2021 6:03 pm

Maybe not after that crack ...you sounding like the crazy dutchman who doesn't know enough to stay home from the tropics in February.

Yes - Gippsland for 11 days ..bird watch, Snowy River project etc ...just keep the fucking borders open eh.
Resident in Cairns Australia Australia> CB300F • Travel photos https://500px.com/p/macdoc?view=galleries

User avatar
macdoc
Twitcher
Posts: 6936
Joined: Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:20 pm
Location: Planet Earth on slow boil
Contact:

Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by macdoc » Fri Apr 23, 2021 6:08 pm

Half way through the Great Deluge. Katrina was a monster and FEMA and the mayor fucked up big time.

Image

Good segue from the Mississipi flood book.
Resident in Cairns Australia Australia> CB300F • Travel photos https://500px.com/p/macdoc?view=galleries

User avatar
JimC
The sentimental bloke
Posts: 73014
Joined: Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:58 am
About me: To be serious about gin requires years of dedicated research.
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Contact:

Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by JimC » Fri Apr 23, 2021 9:47 pm

Lots to see in Gippsland, coast or mountains. Try to get to the town of Mallacoota on the coast...
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
And my gin!

User avatar
Sean Hayden
Microagressor
Posts: 17879
Joined: Wed Mar 03, 2010 3:55 pm
About me: recovering humanist
Contact:

Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by Sean Hayden » Tue Apr 27, 2021 6:20 pm

Image

Post Reply

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 4 guests