Thanks Rockman, that sounds reasonable to me!
Some of it involves political maneuvering and rules, but it should be pretty simple. It’s mostly personalities and decisions that anyone can understand.
Yep. Just finished reading Game Change and I would agree that it’s well worth reading.
Cider House Rules is in sale for $1.99 today only. John Irving is a God among men.
Damn, missed this post yesterday. But perhaps it’s for the best. I’m still deep into Game Change and don’t have time for other books right now. Plus I didn’t really like the Cider House Rules movie that much, though that might not be a fair way to judge the book.
Martha Wells’ brilliant novel The Death of the Necromancer is finally available as an ebook and has been priced at $3, which is a steal. Her novel Wheel of the Infinite is also available for the same price. Both are excellent fantasy.
Looks like she got back the ebook rights and is self-pubbing these titles. That’s cool. Now she’s getting a lot more per sale than she would if she was going through a publisher.
Between work, family, gaming and books, I really don’t know how you guys have so much time!!!
Just neglect at least one of work or family.
Its usually a tossup between gaming and books for me.
Me too… And gaming almost always lost.
Ever since finishing Game Change, I’ve been yearning for another book to read that’s so easy to get into, with non-fiction characters that I already know from real life.
Is there something else out there right now that’s hopefully not too expensive, easy to read at night on my Kindle reader app? I’m officially addicted. The best part is that I don’t need a lamp light with which to read. I can just read on my phone and fall asleep.
Bob Woodward wrote a series of books about the Bush administration and the Iraq/Afghanistan wars. That was pretty damned interesting for me.
Thanks for mentioning this - picked it up on a whim after reading your post and am really enjoying it.
Dan Brown’s The DaVinci Code is FREE! Both iBookstore and Kindle.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000FA675C/ref=mp_s_a_1?qid=1363603196&sr=8-5&pi=SL75
Well, it’s free if you feel the time you spend reading it has no value…
Ugh.
It’s a nice book.
And Deception Point, also by Dan Brown, is $4.74. I don’t think I have read that one.
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson is one of the Kindle Daily deals today. Only $1.99. I highly recommend the book, for anyone who’s managed to avoid it so far.
Is it as hard to get into as “The Diamond Age”? That’s the only Hugo award winner I own that I could never get past the third chapter or so. And even that took forever to reach. It was one of the only cyberpunk books I’ve tried to read too, so maybe that had something to do with it. On the surface, the genre just doesn’t appeal to me at all. Snow Crash was relatively easy to get through, but I didn’t really enjoy it all that much.
I haven’t read The Diamond Age, so I couldn’t tell you specifically. Cryptonomicon isn’t near future cyberpunk, though, it’s more about the rise of computing and jumps between characters in WWII and modern day. Lots of stuff about Enigma machines and data havens and missing treasure.