Current / Recent Books

[argentus]

I just finished Robert B. Parker's Cole and Hitch trilogy of Appaloose, Resolution, and Brimston.  Again.  Always an engaging read.  Puts my mind at ease when I'm jacked up about the world.   Appaloosa is also really good western starring Ed Harris, Viggo Morrison, Renée Zellweger and Lance Henrickson.   True to the book, and classic.

[Sirius]

Hyperion Cantos - Dan Simmons

[sahgwa]

Hi all,

I recently finished:

Walter Moers - Rumo  (another one of those crazy German (but translated to English this time) fantasy horror comedy novels.
A wolperting is a sentient dog that stands on 2 legs.  It also has little horns.  Other than that it has all the dog traits of super smell and love of hunting/combat.  That's Rumo!
He gets into Adventures, most notably to Netherworld, which includes Hell.  Crazy scary hijinks ensue.

https://www.amazon.com/Rumo-Miraculous-A...1_1?sr=8-1



I also recently finished Dali's Hidden Faces.  It is a very good novel.
The psychological insight is very on point, as is the characterization and  I learnt some things about World War 2 era France, both pre war and post war. 
I recommend it.

https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-faces-Salv...1_4?sr=8-4



A recent Nonfiction book I finished was Obelisks; Towers of Power by David Hatcher Childress.
This was a bit of a let down to be honest.
I feel like he used a good half of the book just regurgitating facts on obelisks around the world and only the last third or so in speculation or new ideas about Obelisks as power sources.
It could have used a lot more polishing.  If you can find it cheap it is interesting though.
Main thesis is obelisks show signs of being largely maneuvered into place by levitation and not by dragging.  Also their composition also speaks towards Tesla style designs of power generation and propagation, like antennae........


https://www.amazon.com/Obelisks-Towers-P...1_1?sr=8-1



I am currently reading

Crusade Against the Grail by Otto Rahn

The historical event of the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathars is told and a very sad tale it is.
Also very fascinating to learn about the minnesingers / troubadours , and their customs of Divine Feminine worship and Love/Amor, which is a holy Love and non sexual, but a kind of spiritual yearning for God through the feminine.  Then you learn about the duplicitous Papal crusade, the feud between Northern and Southern France, and the origin of that famous maxim 'kill them all; men women and children! God will know His own!'  Nasty. 





The Montauk Book of the Living by Peter Moon

A very interesting and unique book about synchronicity, and how in his life it tied together (also!) Templar research, the olive (tree and symoblism), Blue People , Tuareg in the Algerian Desert, jinn/genies, magick, Crowley, and more.  Highly reccomended. 

https://skybooksusa.com/product12.html

[Oldcarpy2]

Hyperion Cantos - Dan Simmons

Oh, yes!

Absolutely mind blowing.

Loved the ending of the first one - "You do realise the fucking Shrike is behind you"?

[David64]

Polity Universe -  Neil Asher.

[Oldcarpy2]

Anything by Ian M Banks or Peter F Hamilton.  Or Charles Stross.

[GENERAL EYES]

I'm currently about to re-read Watership Down and Dress Your Family in Courduroy and Denim for the first time.

[chivo]

2 books I recently finished:

Itzhak Bentov - Stalking the Wild Pendulum
Isabel Fonseca - Bury me standing

[Karl12]

Extremely good medieval horror right here (read by the author).






Would genuinely like to see a non Hollywood film version of this book.


Same with 'The book of lost things' by John Connolly - truly fantastic read.


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[fwki]

Mother American Night: My life in crazy times
John Perry Barlow autobiography
Short book of amazing stories...would have to be a miniseries to do it justice