Slothpenguin

Jan 16, 2025 09:39

My fav author is Deric Longdon. He first wrote about his wife who had ME before they knew what it was, before it was cruelly labelled yuppies disease. He then wrote about his mum, followed about his new life with his cats and blind wife. He has the ability to make you laugh and sob the next moment. Diana's story is the first book.
I also love true crime, Mr Ballen and criminal make up podcasts. I'm reading lucy letby at the moment, well listening to it in audible.

TheDarkGeek

Jan 16, 2025 09:57

If you like sci-fy space war stuff Id suggest the God Engines by John Scalzi.

DSBM99

Jan 16, 2025 16:55

The German Iliad by Mary E Burt.

https://images.app.goo.gl/FZ9z1JNtCZ2KRQRH6

It's like The Ring Cycle except if a dwarf like creature finding the right it's starts with Odin thor and Loki and Loki kills an otter to where they have to pay the otter's father for killing his song, which then proceeds like the ring cycle.

DSBM99

Jan 16, 2025 16:56

*except WITH a dwarf like creature finding the ring...*

DSBM99

Jan 16, 2025 16:56

Omfg *SON*

DSBM99

Jan 16, 2025 16:59

Not Odin, wodin instead since it's Germanic

Daddy Gru

Jan 17, 2025 00:50

The Saga of the Volsungs is my favorite Norse / Germanic saga.

Weary whisper

Jan 17, 2025 02:29

Wow! thanks guys, lots of suggestions. 🙂 I read both fiction & non fiction. So both suggestions are great.

@Slothpenguin I love when books draw you in that much. I use to catch a train to work, because
driving to the city was a nightmare in peak hour. I'd read on my commute. I'd often find myself laughing out loud reading, taking some moments to realise I was sitting on a train with others around. 😆

DSBM99

Jan 17, 2025 03:44

@Daddy Gru. Looked into Volsung and seems pretty inline with the Germanic Iliad book.

Found that book and an antique mall for 5$ I believe. It's a short read, no more than 120 or so pages.

Weary whisper

Jan 17, 2025 07:21

Slothpenguin I remember the first time I read Wuthering Heights, that had me punching pillows in frustration 😅 handmaids tale almost had me punching pillows too. Another book called the white tiger, had me a bit shocked & outraged.

I know why the cage bird sings, made me cry.

The road with Jack kerouac made me want to go overseas or for another adventure.

I read lots of genres of books, as long as it's written well.

DSBM99

Jan 17, 2025 09:17

The Hellbound Heart

Weary whisper

Jan 22, 2025 13:01

I'm off for awhile, ill be caring for my mother after major surgery.

See you later online friends

Dedicating this song to you guys 🙂 be good, be well.

https://youtu.be/BsJisD7n8_Q?si=NR55N896m4U3m-hM

Pale Horse Named Death

Jan 25, 2025 02:25

Blood Meridian

WaveFormReactor

Jan 25, 2025 10:27

I recommend 'The Demon-Haunted World' to everyone. It was written by Ann Druyan and Carl Sagan. It encourages critical and skeptical thinking and science, and shows how they're all critical to ensuring basic freedoms and the such in a democratic society. Very relevant.

Morpheus'RedPill

Jan 25, 2025 17:55

Fiction: Plutoshine by Lucy Kissick. Marvellous Sci-fi about a colony on Pluto.

Non-Fiction: Unnatural Causes & the Seven Ages of Death by Dr Richard Shepard. He's one of the UK's preeminent forensic pathologists. Fascinating reads about some pretty famous dead people, and the story of many completely normal people's deaths.

Podcasts: Hardcore History by Dan Carlin. Epic. Start with the free ones, but his older paid content is well worth the price.

Flyxglitter

Jan 25, 2025 18:39

As long as the lemon tree grows. It's about a girl who battles herself trying to figure out how to balance country and family. It's fictional but based off of real situations when Syria broke our with war. 18 year old Salma graduated from pharmacy school just to be thrown under the bus to be a doctor trying to save her people. While trying to get her sister in law which is out of the country to safety. Plus she meets a boy she would have before the war .. it's magical and great 😃

Mercurius Mesmerize

Jan 25, 2025 21:47

Where's spot? By Eric hill. It's about a mother who's son goes missing and she ends up on an epic adventure to find him, coming across all manner of strange creatures along the way...

Daddy Gru

Jan 26, 2025 01:19

For children: “Fortunately” by Remy Charlip. One of my favorite books ever when I was little. It’s absurd and funny and wholesome.

For adults, and this is going out on a limb for this particular audience: “The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam”. This is one of the more interesting and engaging books on Vietnam for a lay audience that you can find. It’s not narrowly focused on Vietnam, rather, it’s more about Lansdale and his amazing life as a spy influencing world events in forgotten corners of the world. Highly recommended.

ERB

Jan 27, 2025 03:20

favourite book i would suggest was the blue nowhere by jeffrey deaver. Good take on thriller and twist and indeitfy theft and more in that book.

DÜmR

Jan 27, 2025 03:26

I do read, but not too often. I wouldn't really say it's a podcast, but something I'm currently watching as week speak is a channel called, "All gas no brakes" and later dubbed themselves Channel 5. It's definitely a lesson in human behavior, and sociology. I like podcasts, but anything I like, you've already heard about I'm sure.

Otherwise any book about a depraved Rockstar is probably worth a read, especially NOFX'S book. Or Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, then the Curse of Lono if you like that.

Weary whisper

Jan 29, 2025 14:03

Not sure if anyone read my previous message ^^^
But I'm back, my mums operation was postponed till February some time, due to another person needing more pressing emergency surgery. Oh well that's how the cookie crumbles.

Weary whisper

Jan 29, 2025 14:04

Wow thanks again everyone for your contribution. I'll look into them all, & see if there something I'd be interested in.