BOOKS THREAD

Just finished re-reading "Bless Me Father" by Mark Kriegel. What a good book. Although I liked Namath, I wish that Kriegel had given fiction another shot.

 

And he damn near killed my friend!

 

I've had the book on my shelf for 10 years but haven't had the opportunity to read it. It needs a good commitment.

I have read Shelby Foote's Civil War Trilogy, at over 3,000 pages, it was a commitment but one I'm glad I undertook. It may have been my favorite reading experience, ever. I started it on a vacation to Caneel Bay in St John. It's was a good way to get into to it, reading a few hundred pages in a week.

 

I've read parts of it, but I may not read the whole thing until I retire.

 

I am not a fan of The Simpsons, but I bought my sister this for her birthday and it's been a big hit.

 

not sure if this has been tossed out here yet, but I just finished reading Bleachers by John Grisham and really liked it. Also, Last Day's of Summer by Steve Kluger is really really good too. It's about a kid living in the Brooklyn during during the 40's. Here's the blurb from Amazon.com:

The place is Brooklyn, the time is the early '40s, and young baseball fanatic Joey needs a hero badly in his life. How that hero becomes Charlie--and ultimately Joey himself--forms the dimensions of the novel's field, but it's the way the game is played that's so remarkable. The story's told not through conventional narrative but by way of Joey's abstract scrapbook: letters, postcards, news clippings, box scores, report cards, matchbook covers, dispatches from FDR, telegrams, even an invitation to Joey's own Bar Mitzvah and the gift list from the affair.

 

just finishing 'killing pablo' by mark bowden of 'black hawk down' fame (also that eagles book whose name escapes me).

excellent read. superbly written and reported.

 

I loved both of those books. As someone pretty fascinated with the whole cocaine thing, I thought Killing Pablo was tremendous.

 

You should read Thunder Run then by Dave Zucchino -reads like Black Hawk Down - in fact Bowden writes intro.

 

Due out next week, a first-chapter excerpt available on Amazon.com:



http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743281659/ref=pd_ts_b_2/002-5914753-1185638?v=glance&s=books&n=26

 

New Halberstam book on Bill Belichick due Nov. 1:

 

That ought to be incredible.