The Book Thread

[Bobcat]

Fiction
Just started "Pirate Latitudes" by Michael Crichton (soon to be a movie by Ron Howard)

Non -Fiction
and "Blackwater" The Rise of The World's Most Powerful mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill. b

both start out well, will let you know If they are good.

[hotjava66]

I havent heard of the Crichton one, is it new?

[Bobcat]

Yes, published posthumously . they found the complete Manuscript after his death two years ago.

[MarylandMark]

Who's reading them to you and can they talk louder than the bar room chatter?

[03darkshadow]

just finished pirate latitudes. pretty good read. want me to tell you how it ends

[Bobcat]

just finished pirate latitudes. pretty good read. want me to tell you how it ends

NO!

[Bobcat]

Pirate Latitudes
It was alright, but nowhere near his other books, it will make a good screenplay.

The Blackwater book is starting out as a wimpy liberal rant......I'll keep going.

[Trim'd Up]

Who's reading them to you and can they talk louder than the bar room chatter?

I was going to ask the same question.

[03darkshadow]

Pirate Latitudes
It was alright, but nowhere near his other books, it will make a good screenplay.

The Blackwater book is starting out as a wimpy liberal rant......I'll keep going.

the pirate latitudes seemed just like pirates of the Caribbean to me. the end was kind of corny too.

[Bobcat]

the whole thing was kind of corny, must have been a rough draft that he never finished.

[Scarab KV]

the whole thing was kind of corny, must have been a rough draft that he never finished.

So is it worth looking for on CD.
I picked up Shadow Divers a month ago and still haven't had a chance to start it.

[Bobcat]

that is an awesome book, it turned those guys into the History Channels "Deep Sea Detectives"

[Scarab KV]

Cool. Look'n forward to the read.

[baddogz28]

Reading 'Liberalism is a Mental Disorder' by Michael Savage.

[Bobcat]

Finally read "On The Road" by Kerouac , Capote was right.....that's not writing.....that's typing.

[redhotsommer]

Favorite book of the last year..."The Rum Diary" by Hunter S. Thompson.

Talk about corny...read a Jimmy Buffett book a month ago...my god man...stick to singin!

[Bobcat]

The only good Buffet book is "A Pirate Looks at 50(or 40) " the rest are unreadable.

[redhotsommer]

The only good Buffet book is "A Pirate Looks at 50(or 40) " the rest are unreadable.

I read "A Salty Piece of Land." More like "A Stinky Piece of Sh%t." I agree, "A Pirate Looks at 50" was a good book...his own life is actually WAY WAY better than anything he makes up.

Those of you who consider themselves "Parrotheads" should really read how he depicts offshore boats in "Salty Piece." I laughed my head off reading it...one of the characters literally shoots "the obscenely loud, tank-top and bikini crowded" boat with a machine gun.

[Bobcat]

Jon Ronson's THEM Adventures with Extremists

Good book that gives an insiders look at extremists in all countries, gives you good info on the idiots behind the "daily ko's" and their "soup kitchen" politics.

(He also wrote "Men who stare at Goats")

[old377guy]

I may have to move to the tropics if for no other reason just to elevate my literary sensibilities.