[Nakedgun]

Just completed: "At The Mountains Of Madness" Volume I & II by Lovecraft / Baranger, original short story 1936, this illustrated version 2020 / 2021, pages unnumbered.

I read little fiction, but have recently been exploring illustrated stories, and this was the latest. My first by Lovecraft, I was quite taken by his style with this, and the Francois Baranger artwork had me hooked. I would not have picked it up, otherwise, and do not anticipate reading more Lovecraft, but, we'll see.






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[aslyfox]

as one might surmise from my posts in this thread

I am a lover of history and good historical fiction

years ago I saw a movie on a early tv cable channel: Zulu

The British are fighting the Zulus and one of their columns has just been wiped out at Isandlwana. The Zulus next fix their sights on the small British outpost at Rorke's Drift. At the outpost are one hundred fifty British troops under the command of Lieutenants Bromhead and Chard. In the next few days, these one hundred fifty troops will fight about four thousand Zulus in one of the most courageous battles in history.

Zulu (1964) - IMDb

I enjoyed it very much

I have now discovered:

The Anglo-Zulu War (5 book series)

by James Mace (Author) , Ian Knight (Foreword)

The Anglo-Zulu War (5 book series) Kindle Edition

and have just finished Brutal Valour: The Tragedy of Isandlwana

I would recommend both the film and the series

[timb64]

The Overstory by Richard Powers,a very interesting novel about nine characters whose lives interconnect through their interaction with trees and attempts to save forests.That sounds a bit tree-huggy but it gives great info about the science behind how trees themselves interreact.

[lesmore49]

I'm reading a book entitled, 'The Battle of Midway, by Craig Symonds, who is a Professor of American Naval History at the U.S. Naval Academy. It is a well written, lucid history that examines both sides in this, what I would call 'epic' battle...that was fought many decades ago in the Pacific.

It is not a good side-bad side type of popular history, but is a fair look at why, who and when. And where.

[paulh]

"Telegraph Days", by Larry McMurtry - a wry and humorous little tale (so far)...

[timb64]

Nearly finished Warriors of the Storm part 9 of Bernard Cornwell’s Uthred series,a joy as always!

[robgski]

I'm reading Richard Brookhiser's biography of US President James Madison. Wonderfully interesting so far.

[lesmore49]

I'm reading another Craig Symond book.

This book is 'World War Two at Sea: A Global History' .

I so enjoyed ' The Battle of Midway', a book I picked up from the local library, that I bought World War Two at Sea.

I would highly recommend his books, if you are interested in reading detailed, well written books on naval history.

[Waffles]

The Hoax of the Twentieth Century by Arthur Butz

[Nakedgun]

Just completed: "Heirs Of The Founders, The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun, and Daniel Webster, The Second Generation Of American Giants" by H.W. Brands, 2018, 413 pages.

Another of Brands' historical works now added to my library, and of a period I would not otherwise have investigated, in all likelihood.


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[Nakedgun]

Just completed: "Killing The Killers, The Secret War Against Terrorists" by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard, 2022, 275 pages.

I gravitate toward history, particularly military history, but these stories are so recent, it feels more like "news" instead.


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[aslyfox]

just downloaded Jules Verne's The Collection from Amazon's Kindle:

Here you will find the largest collection of Verne’s "Extraordinary Voyages" available in English (47 novels).
The novels are in the chronological order of their original publication.

- Five Weeks in a Balloon
- The Adventures of Captain Hatteras
- Journey to the Center of the Earth
- From the Earth to the Moon
- In Search of the Castaways
- Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
- Around The Moon
- A Floating City
- The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa
- The Fur Country
- Around the World in Eighty Days
- The Mysterious Island
- The Survivors of the Chancellor
- Michael Strogoff
- Hector Servadac
- The Underground City
- Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen
- The Five Hundred Millions of the Begum
- Tribulations of a Chinaman in China
- The Steam House
- Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
- Godfrey Morgan
- The Green Ray
- Kéraban the Inflexible
- The Star of the South
- The Archipelago on Fire
- Mathias Sandorf
- The Lottery Ticket
- Robur the Conqueror
- North Against South
- The Flight to France
- Two Years' Vacation
- Family Without a Name
- The Purchase of the North Pole
- Caesar Cascabel
- Mistress Branican
- The Castle of the Carpathians
- Claudius Bombarnac
- Foundling Mick
- Captain Antifer
- Floating Island
- Facing the Flag
- Clovis Dardentor
- An Antarctic Mystery
- The Will of an Eccentric
- The Master of the World
- The Chase of the Golden Meteor

Jules Verne: The Collection (20.000 Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Interior of the Earth, Around the World in 80 Days, The Mysterious Island...) Kindle Edition

all but the ones underlined are totally unknown to me

[timb64]

Started to read Agency by William Gibson but struggled to get into until I realised it’s the sequel to The Peripheral, so will order that from my library and try that first.

[Waffles]

The Civil War by Shelby Foote. Not as full an account of the war as other histories but it just reads so well.

[RobA_Oz]

Started to read Agency by William Gibson but struggled to get into until I realised it’s the sequel to The Peripheral, so will order that from my library and try that first.

I’ve enjoyed Gibson’s writing for some years, but I’ve always had to struggle a bit to get into each book. I find it’s worth the struggle, but I have to admit to dipping in and out of Agency for a while, now that I’ve worked out the scenario(s) and the characters. Maybe I should have read The Peripheral first, and I would have, but I missed it.