Brad got me hooked on Pendergast with Dance of Death and Cemetery Dance. Preston and Child will be going on my Christmas list, for sure!
A couple of books I'm jumping between... 'The Servant Leader' by Ken Blanchard; a staff-wide read... 'The Day of Battle" by Rick Atkinson; Part II of a tremendous WWII trilogy. A re-read.
I bought 2 books to read in the next days / weeks... Charles Bukowski - Hollywood Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker´s Guide to the Galaxy Charles Bukowski is awesome...i love how he writes.A great guy.
Hitchiker's Guide is really great. Loved the whole series. Definitely Monty Python-esque type humor as Tdmsu said.
This is most likely old news, but for anyone who enjoyed The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I cannot recommend Terry Pratchett's Discworld series enough. Really sharp and funny in an inimically British humor sort of way, while often managing to be poignant and deep upon further review.
I just recently finished this book. I loved the story but didn't care for the end. Overall the Odd Thomas series is a great series.
Outliers (Malcolm Gladwell) Rework (Malcolm Gladwell) Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard (The Heath Brothers) Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else (Geoffrey Colvin) Steal Like An Artist (Austin Kleon) Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing (Harry Beckwith) Damn Good Advice : How To Unleash Your Creative Potential (George Lois) I tend to read a lot of creative marketing, social interactive and artistic self-motivation literature. All of these are really good reads and a few can be referenced regularly for unique ideas and perspectives on the creative arts and those who have succeeded in them. Added bonus, a few of these reads can be started at any point in the book.
I miss reading for fun and relaxation. Having just finished Administrating windows server 2012 and just started on Mastering Windows Server 2012 R2, - a 1700 page tome filled with pageturning drowsiness, it will be a while before I can read a book for entertainment. But when I do it will most likely be a Discworld novel or a true story from a galaxy far far away
Some of my coworkers and I just started a little book club last week. We have started reading our first book, which is 1984 by George Orwell.
After having recently been introduced to him via "Prophets of Science Fiction" (or something like that) on SyFy, I'm on a Philip K. Dick kick. Currently reading: The Man in the High Tower.
Today I finished The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Again. Every once in a while I read it again. To Marvins obvious regret.
I wonder what would happen if we replaced the diodes down his left side. The ones that cause him this terrible pain. And while we're at it, perhaps some reprogramming in the emotional cirquits. Though he wouldn't be the same Marvin we all love.
