What are you reading now - and then

Coach Tony Dungy's "Quiet Strength"....

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"Ghost Rider: Travels on the healing road", and "Roadshow, landscaping with drums, A concert tour by motorcycle", both by Neil Peart....along with various issues of ADVmoto,RoadRunner and Rider magazines.... I guess I've been bitten by the adventure touring bike bug.

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Looks like a good read and an interesting pass time if one can avoid becoming part of the frightening highway accident statistics associated with motorcycle travel.
https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Rider-T.../dp/1550225480

Looking forward to reading the just discovered 'lost' Walt Whitman auto biographical novel...
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...ck-engle-found

https://www.amazon.com/Life-Adventur...+of+jack+angle

John McHugo, Syria: A Recent History (Saki, 2015)
This is a narrative history of Syria that begins at the end of the First World War, and ends circa December 2014. The final chapter does have the superficial problem all contemporary chapters have, not least in a time of war when much can change, but this is an excellent introduction to Syrian history and a worthy successor to the studies by the late Patrick Seale. If you want to know how Syria developed into the mess it is today, a combination of internal greed and autocracy, and external meddling and often complete indifference to Syria's genuine rights, this book will tell you. If you want a more analytical study Raymond Hinnebusch is recommended but this is a welcome addition to a rather small core of books on this extraordinary country, diverse in geography and culture and religion, so let down by small minds with big bank accounts to protect. At my age I don't expect to see Syria or Aleppo again, and that alone is a negative testament to the savages who litter this country with their violence and criminal neglect.

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John McHugo, Syria: A Recent History (Saki, 2015)
This is a narrative history of Syria that begins at the end of the First World War, and ends circa December 2014. The final chapter does have the superficial problem all contemporary chapters have, not least in a time of war when much can change, but this is an excellent introduction to Syrian history and a worthy successor to the studies by the late Patrick Seale. If you want to know how Syria developed into the mess it is today, a combination of internal greed and autocracy, and external meddling and often complete indifference to Syria's genuine rights, this book will tell you. If you want a more analytical study Raymond Hinnebusch is recommended but this is a welcome addition to a rather small core of books on this extraordinary country, diverse in geography and culture and religion, so let down by small minds with big bank accounts to protect. At my age I don't expect to see Syria or Aleppo again, and that alone is a negative testament to the savages who litter this country with their violence and criminal neglect.

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Looks interesting.
http://www.amazon.com/Syria-Recent-History-John-McHugo/dp/0863561608/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1488593737&sr=1-3

Against The Day by Thomas Pynchon

Shemale stories on Hung Angeles

Tripwire....Lee Child

Jack Reacher novel

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Against The Day by Thomas Pynchon

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Have struggled with Pynchon so many times I have all but given up. I might try again one day, but I do wonder what the appeal is of this particular writer.

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Have struggled with Pynchon so many times I have all but given up. I might try again one day, but I do wonder what the appeal is of this particular writer.

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I've had the same difficulty with Pynchon , but looks like a great read if you're a Pynchon fan .
http://www.amazon.com/Against-Day-Th...gainst+the+day