Reading Suggestions??

gerhard1 · Apr 9, 2020

ratski said:
The movie was campy, but that's kinda what 50s SciFi was.
But now I'm going to have to go back and reread them.
After I get done with this other long book I"m reading.

Dave

Just curious, but what edition do you have? The first time I read WWC it was the first half and had been printed in the 1950's. This one was from my jr. high library, if memory serves. The second time I read it, it was from the '50's as well but this one had the sequel. It was from the public library. Both of these were hard-cover, BTW.

Fast-forward to the 2000's, and I ordered the Bison edition from the U of Nebraska Press. It had both WWC and AWC. The only thing it lacked were the maps of Bronson Beta. A few years later, I went online to look for examples printed in the 1930's and found a few. They had the maps.

In November, I'll be 70 and yet I still enjoy this story as much as I did when I first read it in the early 1960's. I'll let you in on a little secret: this story was what gave me the idea for my novel The Pale Horse. Thank you Balmer and Wylie.

gerhard1 · Apr 9, 2020

Aries said:
I read Zebra and thought it was really good.

Now reading The Zebra Murders: A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights, supposedly the only other book written about the Zebra killings.

Except it's not really ABOUTthe Zebra killings, it's more about race relations in the SFPD in the '70's. The Zebra killings are just sort of a backdrop. It does kind of give a different perspective of the case from two characters who you also see in the first book.

It might interest you to know that in the story I'm working on now, one of the bad guys was a Death Angel, but it is only mentioned as background. Some don't believe this group existed, but I do.

ratski · Apr 9, 2020

gerhard1 said:
Just curious, but what edition do you have? The first time I read WWC it was the first half and had been printed in the 1950's. This one was from my jr. high library, if memory serves. The second time I read it, it was from the '50's as well but this one had the sequel. It was from the public library. Both of these were hard-cover, BTW.

I THOUGHT that I had electronic copies of both books, but I don't see them in my Calibre library.
Can't figure that one out.

Anyway, the books that I had were paperbacks.
I remember reading WWC for the first time when I was in Iran.
Lending library at the Army Team House.

I remember purchasing the paperbacks in Gainesville when I was at U of F in the mid 70s.

Hoping that they were among the "favorites" that I may have put up in the attic
And the attic is where I have spent the last two days and probably two or three more!!

Dave

SoonerP226 · Apr 10, 2020

I finally got around to starting Apollo 11 Command Module Pilot Michael Collins's Carrying the Fire. It is reputed to be one of the best astronaut autobiographies out there; I'm not very far into it, but it's pretty good so far.

druryj · Apr 10, 2020

John Sandford's "Prey" series - I can't tell you how many there are, but there's a bunch and they are all good reads. Anything else by him as well.
George R.R. Martins Five-Book Series "A Song of Ice and Fire" which was the basis for "The Game of Thrones".
Tom Clancy Novels...
James Patterson Novels...

Engineman1960 · Apr 10, 2020

So I had to break out these manuals from when I was in the U.S. Army.

I don’t have an M16A1 or M60 (I wish I did)!

Engineman1960 · Apr 10, 2020

To be honest, I was never issued these manuals, but they were always around -- have to admit, I have used the M60 manual to help me take down, clean and reassemble.

SoonerP226 · Apr 10, 2020

Engineman1960 said:
So I had to break out these manuals from when I was in the U.S. Army.

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I don’t have an M16A1 or M60 (I wish I did)!

When I was in the Webelos (the step between Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts, for those who don't know or have forgotten), our meetings were in the OKNG Armory. I remember seeing those comic book training manuals on the tables along with the stale cigars. Some of those manuals were a bit racy, as I recall...

gerhard1 · Apr 24, 2020

A few years back, Teresa, my then-future wife and I went to Seattle for my niece's wedding, which was held at the same place used to film the exterior shots of the Stephen King movie Rose Red. King had a small cameo in that film as a pizza delivery man, and I had made the remark that it would be funny if King showed up.

A little while after this, I saw a man and did a double-take as he bore a striking resemblance to King and I was wondering briefly if it actually was King. It wasn't of course; it was the groom's father. I told him later about what I had thought earlier, and we both laughed and I had a bit of a surprise when I found out that he had met King twice. He was in the entertainment business and King had spoken with him concerning a couple of projects that they were working on.

Gunbuffer · Apr 24, 2020

Currently reading The Journal of Nicholas Croswell 1774-1777
About a dude who comes from England to America.

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