What are you reading?

[TrickyDickie]

Seven Days in May

Here is a quote from a page that I just finished:

"The President trusts Russia. The American people do not."

 

[Kraig]

Seven Days in May

Here is a quote from a page that I just finished:

"The President trusts Russia. The American people do not."

I love watching the movie. I have it on DVD. One of Rod Serling's great screenplays. I really need to get a copy of the novel.

 

[Trek fan_2662]

Just finished Michael Mann's Heat 2. Not a bad read if you though Chris Shiherlis's character was interesting from the movie. Lots of action.

Now I am full ahead on finishing the: A Time to... series. Three left, Heal, War and Peace. Pretty darn good so far as far as Star Trek books go.

Haven't figured out what after that. Mom's been trying to get me to read the Pendergast books, or Murderbot.

 

[Kraig]

Finished Mick Herron's first Slough House Novel, Slow Horses which included a short story The Last Dead Letter.
Starting on his next book in the series, Dead Lions

 

[Athena28]

I’m finishing Star Trek- - Crucible: McCoy by David R. George III. I’m crying through the last parts of it.

Can’t wait to read the other two.

 

[May 20]

I just finished We Have Lost the President. It was entertaining enough, set in the near future with a Great Britain that has a president, not a prime minister or king. I won't read the sequels, though.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I am currently reading ‘Saevus Corax Captures the Castle’ which is the second book in the Corax trilogy by KJ Parker (who is Tom Holt using a pseudonym). In these books Saevus runs a battlefield scavenger company. He has to keep a lookout for assassins because members of his family have put a hit on him.
This story is set in a secondary medieval world (ie not Earth). There is no magic in this world.

This has lead to a discussion among myself and a couple of friends about fantasy books without magic and we really had trouble coming up with books.

I thought of ‘ Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ which I have read and don’t remember any magic in it. One friend suggested ‘Lies of Locke Lamora’ and the other suggested some of Guy Gavriel Kay’s books. Are we correct? Can any one suggest other such books?

 

[Fantasy Lover]

Sunshine on the reaping

 

[Ubiquitousclate]

The Tariff Question in the Gilded Age: The Great Debate of 1888--Joanne R. Reitano.

Aside from seeing the words "classical political economy" on almost every single page--even more instances than "a door opening and closing" from TOS That Which Survives (!), a compact (141 pages) and informative read.

I had intended to read it for quite some time, but the "relevance" of the issue more recently lead me to it.