What are you reading? Not necessarily coin or ancient related.

That was a much larger image than I was expecting...

 

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I love his books. Thunderstruck is a very good book by Larson.
My favorite has got to be Devil In The White City though, he tells the stories of a sadistic killer and a prominent architect, alternating the narrative every other chapter.
It all takes place in late 19th century Chicago, culminating with the 1893 Worlds Fair. If you haven't read it yet, that's a book I highly suggest.

 

"Tears We Cannot Stop" by Michael Eric Dyson.

 

Haha, I do the same with the other 4 guys in my Metal detecting club. The more I learn the more I love it.. Oh and THANK YOU for my 7000th like here on CoinTalk!

 

I'll check out those authors you mentioned.
Larson, and Dick Lehr are the two whose work I always check out.
Lehr is the coauthor of Black Mass, the one about Whitey Bulger that they fairly recently made a movie about. But it's his lesser known work (The Underboss, The Fence) that I think is his best. True crime fans will enjoy his books.

 

Just finished reading:


Such an incredible book.

 

Enjoy the read. Read that also. I felt he was a boring man.

 

Hardly! The amount of letters he wrote is mind boggling. Without him there wouldn't be a U.S.A today. He's an underappreciated president.

 

A fascinating read if you are interested in the topic.

 

NO disagreement about the Man and his contribution. But, he just bored me. Remember, I grew up enjoying blowing stuff up!

 

I forgot to put a "" in my reply... I will let you go with your opinion as I also enjoy blowing up stuff. LOL

 

90% done with this book as preparation for an upcoming trip. Vacations are always more enjoyable when you know the history of the places you visit in my opinion!

 

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Pretty good read and I got through the whole book in about 4 hours.

 

I usually did that for any overseas trips for business. I always felt it was a matter of respect to know people's culture, a little of the language (which I always massacred), enjoy the food, and their history. It was (IS) always fun to step off a plane, say hello and a few pleasantries, shake hands via their custom (many countries handle it a little differently); then - "Hey, let's go get a beer" all in their language!

Welsh and Finnish were a bit tricky (oh, yeah - "dodgy"), however, surprisingly, Chinese was relatively easy as they seem to use single-syllable words strung together that I was able to massacre, but was relatively understood.

 

Excuse me. I've just begun to watch this thread. I wanted to know what happened in the year 1177 B.C. ( the year when civilization collapsed ). It's a book by Eric Cline. I'm so curious. It happened that the twelfth century B.C. coincided with the invention of the Phoenician Alphabet.

 

I loved that book! Illustrated high bronze age civilizations becoming very codependent upon each other, then collapse of certain institutions caused the whole system to collapse. Good read. Easy.

 

Currently, 2d book in the series

 

I'm reading this forum.