What are you currently reading?

[Buffs35]

CJ Box series about a game warden.

About half way thru.

Just read his latest last week. Very good as always.

 

[Buffs35]

Currently rereading Animal Farm.

 

[44hunter45]

Currently rereading Animal Farm.

I did that last year. It's always an eye opener.

 

[bobbydean]

Moved on to Nevada Barr's Anna Pigeon novels and Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire novels.

I have had a nice string of great novels.

 

[Schaaf]

 

[RobertD]

During my sabbatical:
Legends of the Fall, Jim Harrison
Brown Dog, Jim Harrison
In search of Small Gods, Jim Harrison
Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, Wallace Stegner
Where the Red Fern Grows (to my kids)

Brown Dog is good. Legends of the Fall is very good. But note that LOF is a compilation of three short stories, the last of which is actually LOF. The others are very good as well, but he saves the best for last.

Just started Mink River by Brian Doyle

I read LOF a few years ago and Brown Dog earlier this year. I really, really like Harrison's writing. Maybe In Search of Small Gods will be next

 

[Irrelevant]

I read LOF a few years ago and Brown Dog earlier this year. I really, really like Harrison's writing. Maybe In Search of Small Gods will be next

Don't bother, it was Harrison's last book of poetry and death was on his mind, and there's a reason he's better know for his fiction than his poetry.

 

[Harrier]

Just started reading this. I’ve enjoyed all of Michael Lewis’ books, and this one seems like another that will go really deep on some threads of a topic that we mostly understand only on a more superficial level.

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I finished this a few days ago, and I recommend it highly. All of Lewis’ stuff is good, but this book was very timely and especially well done.

Now I’m reading something that’s hunting-related for once: Great Hunting Rifles-Victorian to the Present by Terry Wieland, the shooting editor for Gray’s. Also recommended.

 

[FeartheTurtle]

Just finished 'Grant' by Ron Chernow. Book in one hand, dictionary in the other. Great read but extremely looong and detailed. Just started 'Walk in My Combat Boots.' Series of fairly short personal stories of combat.

 

[blackbeard]

The blank cover is Man Eaters of the Kamaon. Jim Corbett has some great books

 

[Nameless Range]

A sort of very deep travel guide written about the mountainous chunks of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. Written in 1950. It’s funny and tragic when juxtaposed against reality 70 years later, but the author is a good writer and knows his stuff.

 

[the nikster]

Threads West series.

 

[morley.tyler]

Turns out it's less about the whiskey and really about the relationship between fathers and sons.
Wright Thompson is often referred to as the greatest living sports writer. I think that's dismissive and disrespectful to how good a writer he actually is.

 

[noharleyyet]

About halfway...

 

[bigsky2]

The blank cover is Man Eaters of the Kamaon. Jim Corbett has some great books

Just read that one, it was a good one.

 

[Sasquatchewan]

Just started Moby Dick. I ordered a bunch of "classics" I'd never read while Amazoning under the influence. Next is Hatchet.

I also have The Guns of August on the go but that one is my bear hunting treestand novel.

 

[Happy Myles]

If you are thinking of an African safari have a go at, Scramble For Africa, by Tom Pakenham. It’s length is a little daunting but it reads easily.

 

[duckhunt]

 

[Irrelevant]

Just started Moby Dick.

Prepare yourself

Finally finished GD Moby Dick. Did you know that in a book that is 604 pages (my copy) old Mody Dick doesn't actually appear in the story until page 578? 550 page on whaling and odd metaphors and 30 pages where a whale attacks a boat and kills almost everyone. Sure seems like the editor failed on that one.

 

[Sasquatchewan]

Prepare yourself

I raised a few eyebrows after reading the first few pages that were nothing but gibberish/metaphors about a man his relation to the sea/water... I'm giving it a chance but you're not making it easy!!!