Just finished up the first two Game of Thrones book. Before continuing wanted to check out a couple of other books. Read Shadow Divers which was really good. Saw it suggested a lot and it did not disappoint. Now reading The Pearl by Steinbeck and Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers by Grant Naylor.
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Shadow Divers
Robert Kurson
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Shadow Divers (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9530.Shadow_Divers) - story of amateur deep sea divers who discover a sunken German U-Boat and spend years trying to get into it. Genuinely riveting story, absolute nutters operating at the edge of what’s possible (and what should be done?).
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Shadow Divers was amazing: https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Divers-Adventure-Americans-Eve... (https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Divers-Adventure-Americans-Everything/dp/0739320831) The Tiger was also amazing: https://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Vengeance-Survival-Vintage-Depa... (https://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Vengeance-Survival-Vintage-Departures/dp/0307389049) Both non-fiction
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Oh boy, you fucked up now. Here are the books I read this past year that I felt were "Good", starting from the most recent : To Kill A Mocking Bird (Insanely good) True Grit (Insanely good) The Little Friend (Good) Priceless (Very good, about art theft) The Secret History (Insanely good) Ready Player One (Good, nerdy) Shadow Divers (Very good, history nerd book) Diary of Anne Frank (Very good) Unbroken (Very good, way better than the movie) With The Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa (Very good) Seveneves (good, but I'm a Stephenson fanboy) The Martian (Very good, but just watch the movie). I read a bunch of other stuff, but that's what I found really "good" this past year.
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Currently reading A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. So far, it's a really charming history of science (and well, everything else), starting from the Big Bang. Bryson has never let me down before. I just finished Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson. That was an intense book! If you like deep sea adventure or anything U-boat, it's a worthy read.
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