What are you reading now - and then

[sukumvit boy]

Interesting and controversial new book from highly respected American writer / journalist Gay Talese , "The Voyeur's Motel" well written page turner.


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/17/bo...otel.html?_r=0

http://www.amazon.com/Voyeurs-Motel-Gay-Talese/dp/0802125816

[MrFanti]

Now - back to the Walking Dead comics....er...."graphic novels"

[buttslinger]

"Hell's Angels" -Hunter Thompson

[sukumvit boy]

"Dark Star Safari:Overland from Cairo To Capetown" , Paul Theroux
http://www.theguardian.com/books/200...uardianreview9
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Star_Safari

In the 1960's Theroux worked in Africa ,in the Peace Corps as a teacher. 40 years later he decided to return , in part to assess the impact of foreign aid , which he sees as having been mostly counter productive . " All news out of Africa is bad".
Also a very interesting and well written travel adventure.

[Stavros]

"Dark Star Safari:Overland from Cairo To Capetown" , Paul Theroux
http://www.theguardian.com/books/200...uardianreview9
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Star_Safari

In the 1960's Theroux worked in Africa ,in the Peace Corps as a teacher. 40 years later he decided to return , in part to assess the impact of foreign aid , which he sees as having been mostly counter productive . " All news out of Africa is bad".
Also a very interesting and well written travel adventure.

You may or may not know that Paul Theroux has acquired the reputation for being a 'grumpy old man' and had a famous/notorious falling out with his mentor Vidia Naipaul although that appears now to have been healed by the passage of time. There was also a follow-up to Dark Star Safari which does appear to confirm that Theroux tends most of the time to write about himself rather than Africa.

His son, Louis Theroux makes some interesting documentaries.

http://www.newstatesman.com/world-af...e-about-africa

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...l-reunion.html

[sukumvit boy]

Yes , thanks for adding all that interesting background to this thread.
I have family in Cape Town , and a much loved zoology professor took his PhD from Wits University and I never tire of Africa stories.
I have read most of Theroux's and much of Naipaul's work and followed that legendary falling out with much delight.
I just discovered his sons in preparing this thread . looking forward to exploring Louis's work .

[ILuvGurls]

Warhawk by James Rollins

[sukumvit boy]

Lee Child , "Night School"
http://www.bookseriesinorder.com/jack-reacher/
Yup , I'm a Jack Reacher addict . You too?

[sukumvit boy]

"The Making of Donald Trump" by David Cay Johnston.

Another frightening laundry list of Trump's treachery and deceit . Oh my , I've got to stop reading this stuff if I hope to get any sleep the next 4 years .
At least George Bush was just stupid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ma...f_Donald_Trump

[ILuvGurls]

An Obvious Fact...Craig Johnson

TV series Longmire was based off these books