BOOKS THREAD

[SJ Staff]

Back to my occasional hobby of re-reading Stephen King novels. Amid the recent Hantavirus and eBola outbreaks, I've checked out "The Stand: Complete and Uncut Edition" ... the beefed up, 1990 release with more than 1,100 pages and an updated time frame (it's set in 1990, with various cultural references thrown in). Still a good read, the pages fly by.

I believe this novel was the first appearance of King bad guy Randall Flagg.

I have the Dark Tower but I've only read the first book.

 

[garrow]

Lost Kingdom by Julia Flynn Siler about the haole overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893.

Fascinating topic and this 2012 book might me the only one easily available.

Short (less than 300 pages) but spends more than half of its pages getting to the main subject, an unfortunately common occurrence I find.

Just okay of a read.

 

[britwrit]

Lost Kingdom by Julia Flynn Siler about the haole overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893.

Fascinating topic and this 2012 book might me the only one easily available.

Short (less than 300 pages) but spends more than half of its pages getting to the main subject, an unfortunately common occurrence I find.

Just okay of a read.

That's a shame. I've always wanted to know more about the topic. Five decades as a recognized independent nation and you almost never hear about it.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

On vacation I read the first book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.

Page turner. Highly recommend.

 

[garrow]

The Monopolists by Mary Pilon, a short and delightful book about the convoluted origins of Monopoly.

 

[I Should Coco]

The Monopolists by Mary Pilon, a short and delightful book about the convoluted origins of Monopoly.

I would read that just to learn about how and why the game tokens were chosen.

(Pro tip: Take the dog so you can pee on other tokens as you move around the board)

 

[terrier]

Read it a few years ago. Great book. If only you could find The Landlord's Game at an estate sale.

 

[PaperDoll]

Shoutout to @ShabbosReads on Twitter:

Shulem Deen's autobiography of his escape? from an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community: All Who Go Do Not Return

 

[Huggy]

I can't think of many recording studios worthy of a full book-length history but Abbey Road would top that list (Sun Studios is about the only other one I can think of) and that's exactly what it gets in Abbey Road: The Inside Story of the World's Most Famous Recording Studio by David Hepworth.

It covers everything from the earliest days (basically the dawn of recorded music) through artists huge and small like the Beatles, Floyd, Hollies and John Williams, who recorded the Star Wars soundtrack there. It also looks at today's environment as a tourist attraction (well the outside and crosswalk, I guess) as much as anything when artists make music on laptops and have little use for expensive studios.

An offbeat and very readable addition to the music book genre.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Just got done with this. Paul Domowitch leveraged his institutional knowledge well, and came out with this.

Better that this came out 20 years too late than never. A new release and a worthy read.