Reading Suggestions??

[Aries]

Having finished Moshe Pearlman's book on Adolf Eichmann a couple of weeks ago, I then read Clark Howard's book Zebra. It is the story of the Zebra murders in San Francisco in the early 1970's.

The story is not too well-known especially in today's media culture, because it details a series of Black-on-White racially-motivated attacks.

This is a link to it. Some of the language is extremely vulgar, so be warned.

https://archive.org/details/Zebra-Clark-Howard/mode/1up

I am reading Zebra now and REALLY find it compelling. I started it Thursday and may finish it tonight. I can't remember a book I found this hard to put down since I read Helter Skelter 45 years ago.

 

[John6185]

If one isn't into such long and heavy works, check out the western books by Louis L'Amour. He was a very prolific author of westerns, and a number of his books have been made into movies. The Sacketts, Conagher, and The Shadow Riders were all movies made from his books.

L'Amour could paint a picture with his descriptions, I read every one of his books and wanted more buy unfortunately he died and I think one of his books he was working on was finished by someone else. He was a great author.

 

[gerhard1]

There is also Tom Clancy's excellent non-Jack Ryan novel (and one of my favorites) Red Storm Rising. It was written in the 1980's and tells of a war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact.

 

[gerhard1]

If you don't mind stuff from the 1930's there is the excellent When Worlds Collide/After Worlds Collide duo by Edwin Balmer and Phillip Wylie. Superb story!! These are two of my all-time novels, that tell the story of an interplanetary collision. Some of the science is, to be kind, out of date, but the story presented was fascinating. BTW, even though there are two novels, they tell but one story.

One of my friends told me about it in junior high back in the early 1960's and even after more than fifty years, the book has lost none of its' appeal for me.

Just curious. Has anyone here besides me read these?

 

[gerhard1]

Project Gutenberg has over 60,000 eBooks that are out of copyright. Founded in 1971.
https://www.gutenberg.org

Right now, I'm reading a novella by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Mystery of Cloomber. About a third of the way in and Doyle is just setting it up. Doyle is best-known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes. He also wrote The Lost World.

 

[ratski]

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Just curious. Has anyone here besides me read these?

I have. Several times.

I liked the first one better than the sequel.
Enjoyed the movie also.

Dave

 

[Snattlerake]

Free books NW OKC.

 

[gerhard1]

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I have. Several times.

I liked the first one better than the sequel.
Enjoyed the movie also.

Dave

I liked the sequel better and did not care for the 1951 movie. It changed too much from the novel.

 

[ratski]

I liked the sequel better and did not care for the 1951 movie. It changed too much from the novel.

The movie was campy, but that's kinda what 50s SciFi was.
But now I'm going to have to go back and reread them.
After I get done with this other long book I"m reading.

Dave

 

[Aries]

I read Zebra and thought it was really good.

Now reading The Zebra Murders: A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights, supposedly the only other book written about the Zebra killings.

Except it's not really ABOUTthe Zebra killings, it's more about race relations in the SFPD in the '70's. The Zebra killings are just sort of a backdrop. It does kind of give a different perspective of the case from two characters who you also see in the first book.