So, watcha' reading?

[The Creeper]

was thinking about getting that book, Any Good?

Finished it last night!  Don't get a whole lotta time to read.  But I liked it.  Both stories are good, and Morality has a good point. 

[BaronLatos35]

The Battle of Kursk

David Glantz

[Elisabeth]

Just re-read the first edition of Greg Mank's HOLLYWOOD CAULDRON.  A lovely read!

"E" 

[Bogey]

Thank you gentlemen. 

As far as reading, my favorite is still the Sandburg account.  I too read the one volume edition and knew ahead of time that it may be a bit stretched at points, but like you Craig I find it still the best intro to anyone starting out.  I finally got the 4 volume set of The War Years, but need to nail down the Prairie Years 2 volume set before I re-read.  I also read Donald's, but did not come away with much after the read.  I find the Shelby Foote did a nice job with Lincoln in his three book set (still my favorite read on the CW, along with some that feature Maine connections-I was born very near to where Chamberlain was born).  I have both of the assasination books on the shelf that you mentioned Craig.  Read the Reck, but have not opened the other.  I also enjoyed Lincoln at Gettysburg by Garry Wills.  A short, but heavy read that I would recommend to those that have read a few books on Abe.  As far as the Lloyd Ostendorf book, I will pass.  If I want fact mixed with fiction, might as well do it right with Vidal's book.  Two that I still need to give time to are Goodwin's Team of Rivals (read the first few chapters and learned a lot that I did not know about some of his cabinet members, especially their early lives) and if I read another straight bio, it will be the Thomas one that seems to have stood the test of time. 

There was also a set(?) of books written by Nicolay and Hay, but they were out of print the last time I checked.  Do either of you own them?

Also, was it just me, or did his 200th pass with very little fanfare.  Even the NY Times did not have him on the front page, nor did our local paper here in Denver.

~Bill

Mike and Craig,

Finally picked up steam on the Goodwin Lincoln book.  Thought I would get another under my belt as we will be stopping in Springfield to see his museum this summer.  Have either of you been?  If so, please advise.

[avenger]

The Sign of the Four

[Elisabeth]

Now I'm doing my "summer" reading:  The old, classic Man from U.N.C.L.E paperbacks.  They were great when I was 11, and they're just as much fun now.
"E" 

[RICKH]

Islands of the Damned by R.V. Burgin, The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Edison Invented the Modern World by Randall Stross

[Gillman-Fan]

Currently slugging through "Cuckoos's Nest" by Kesey.

[typhooforme]

THE MONSTER OF FLORENCE, a true crime story by Douglas Preston.  And just finished a collection of scholarly essays, THE CULTURES OF COLLECTING, edited by Elsner and Cardinal.  Why do we collect--is it Freudian, Marxist--gosh, this was a little TOO much analysis!

[Bogey]

Considering:



Synopsis:The sole police officer to be executed in U.S. history, NYPD lieutenant Charles Becker died in the electric chair in 1915 for the murder of a lowlife gambler who pimped his own wife. Set apart from other, mostly Irish, New York policemen by his German ancestry and "markedly intelligent," Becker bribed his way in 1894 onto a force infected by Tammany Hall and worked undercover patrolling the crime-riddled midtown Manhattan district called Satan's Circus, the city's center of entertainment and vice. Acquitted in 1896 of charges of falsely arresting a woman for prostitution, a charge testified to by novelist Stephen Crane, Becker went on to commit graft, perjury and theft, but by 1911 he headed his own vice squad and by 1912 he had built up a vast extortion racket. Gambler Herman Rosenthal, one of Becker's victims, exposed him to the media and the DA, and when Rosenthal was shot to death, Becker became the notorious prime suspect although some doubted his guilt. Peopled by mobsters and crooked cops and politicians, and chronicling the early years of the NYPD as well as Becker's ruin and comeuppance, this engrossing, well-researched history by the author of Batavia's Graveyard immerses readers in the corrupt hurly-burly that was old New York.

and

[Wicked Lester]

The first one sounds cool , the second right up my alley.
I love several genres but once I get on a roll it's hard to get off.

Still reading 70's horror reprints and Frost Bite by David Wellington. A Different type werewolf novel.

You can actually read it here for free. I bought the book.

http://brokentype.com/frostbite/

[BaronLatos35]

Brother West - Living and Loving Out Loud

Cornel West

A gift from my thoughtful wife...

[Bogey]

The first one sounds cool , the second right up my alley.
I love several genres but once I get on a roll it's hard to get off.

Still reading 70's horror reprints and Frost Bite by David Wellington. A Different type werewolf novel.

You can actually read it here for free. I bought the book.

http://brokentype.com/frostbite/

I thought that you might notice the second one, Lester.

[The Creeper]

Dracula: The Undead       The sequel to Dracula.

[RICKH]

Band of Brothers and The Ten Cent Plague.  The Ten Cent Plague is about comics in the 50's and the Wertham campaign to clean them up.