What book are you reading now?

[birdographer]

And do you recommend it?

[anciano]

1. "Butchered by Healthcare" by Robert Yoho, MD

Have only read the first few chapters so far, but it has been very interesting. So we shall see.

[JoseBalow]

2. I just started reading "Times Three" by Robert Silverberg

It's a compilation of three novels about time travel. One of the stories in it (I forget which one) was mentioned and recommended by someone here on DU (I forget who) in a thread where we were discussing time travel paradoxes, particularly relating to historic events getting crowded with time traveling tourists from the future.

I ordered it via inter-library loan, and just picked it up last week. I haven't gotten through the introduction yet, but already I can tell that I am going to enjoy it based on the background and writing style of the author. I hadn't heard of Robert Silverberg before this, and I usually read non-fiction these days, but I am a fan of time travel stories, so I am looking forward to it.

In Times Three, Science Fiction Grand Master Robert Silverberg presents a trio of ingenious variations on one of science fiction's most durable time travel. These three novels, all of them prime Silverberg, approach that subject from a dizzying variety of perspectives. The result is a remarkable display of ingenuity, erudition, and sheer narrative power.

In Hawksbill Station, political prisoners from the 21st century are sent on a one-way journey to the late Cambrian era a half billion years in the past. Their struggle to survive the privations of this bleak, almost lifeless world forms the centerpiece of a deeply affecting account of loss, exile, and repression.

Up the Line, by contrast, is a comic/erotic romp featuring Judson Daniel Elliott III, Time Courier and tour guide to the wonders of the past. While on a routine assignment in ancient Byzantium, Jud unexpectedly encounters his true Heart's Desire, and his well-ordered life slides inexorably into chaos.

In Project Pendulum, identical twins Eric and Sean Gabrielson become the primary participants in the very first experiment in time travel. From a fixed point in time, they move by equidistant, steadily increasing arcs toward both the remote past and the unimaginable future. Their alternating viewpoints constitute a dazzling portrait of the wonders and terrors of a constantly evolving universe.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10490124-times-three

[birdographer]

7. That sounds good--love time travel!

[fierywoman]

3. Make it stick -- the science of successful learning --Brown, Roedinger, McDaniel

I've only begun it, but I'm definitely intrigued (I'm a fan of iconoclasts!)

[The Blue Flower]

4. Dissident

About Alexei Navalny and putin's persecution of him.

[Chainfire]

5. I am reading The Judges List by John Grisham; it awful.

I have been a Grisham fan for years, but this book is dreadful... I am two thirds through it and I don't think I care enough to read it to the end. It is as if the publisher called and said, "John, we need a new book by next week." He was busy so he paid the the neighbor's 8th grader $20.00 to write this one. The plot can't carry water and I don't give a damn about any of the characters. But other than that ...

Grisham is going to end up as the man who had dozen good books in him but wrote 40.

[PJMcK]

6. A Cruising Guide To The New England Coast

We’re planning a sailing trip from NYC to Maine and back this summer.

I can only recommend it if one is a boater on the east coast! It’s an excellent reference.

[Rizen]

8. I'm reading Dune.

But tbh it's a bit disappointing. The word crafting is really good but it drags on and on with very little happening. I'm well over 200 pages in and it's just now that a key plot event is taking place.

[mike_c]

9. The Last Lion, Alone 1932-1940

The Last Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill, Alone 1932-1940

It's the second volume of William Manchester's biography of Churchill.