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Avante has a long list of books in waiting...(have read a book a week since I was 15)
Underboss...by Peter Mass, the story of Sammy "Bull" Gravano's life in the mob.
The Gold Coast...Nelson DeMille
Is Fanatic Islam a Global Threat....Victor Mordecai
Atlan...Jane Gaskell
Keno...T.V. Olsen
Ambush at Osirak...Herbert Crowder
Life....Keith Richards, yep, that one.
Walking the Dog....Walter Mosley
When Harlem Was In Vogue....David Sterling Lewis
Made In America...Matt Hughes, MMA fighter.
Black Rage...Wiliam H. Grice and Price M. Cobbs
American Jihad....Steven Emerson
As ya can see I'm pretty well set as far as my reading goes for at least the end of 2016.
A book I highly recommend for everyone.....A Flame of Pure Fire....Roger Kahn
A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring ’20s
BookPage review by Budd Bailey
Roger Kahn on boxing? It just doesn't sound right.
Kahn is better known for writing about baseball. His book on the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1940s and 1950s, The Boys of Summer, is still considered to be one of the finest pieces of literature ever written about the game. His new book on boxer Jack Dempsey and his reign as the world's heavyweight champion proves, however, that Kahn is worth reading under any cir stances. The 1920s are sometimes called the first Golden Age of Sport, and Dempsey was one of the period's main heroes. World War I had ended, and as leisure time increased, Americans focused more attention on spectator sports. Dempsey ranked alongside Babe Ruth, Bill Tilden, and Bobby Jones as headliners of the decade.
According to Kahn, boxing exploded in the public consciousness while Dempsey was champion. Twenty-thousand fans looked on as Dempsey took the le from Jess Willard in 1919. His last championship bout, the famous Long Count fight against Gene Tunney, was witnessed by an estimated 125,000 and followed by millions of others. Along the way, Dempsey defended his le a few times, divorced one woman, married another, starred in some movie serials, and was an attraction wherever he went.
This biography is a little more personal than one might expect. Kahn interviewed Dempsey several times when the ex-champ was holding court as a restaurant owner in New York City in the 1950s and 1960s. Flame recounts some of these stories. Dempsey obviously made a big impression, as Kahn suggests that Dempsey is the greatest heavyweight of all time. And while that's not the majority position in that never-ending debate, Kahn does a good job convincing the reader that Dempsey is a deserving contender. He makes an even better case that Dempsey is a figure of historical importance.
A friend of Kahn's once told him a few years ago, I think too much has been written about Babe Ruth and not enough about Jack Dempsey. Kahn does a nice job of closing that gap. ¦ Budd Bailey is a hockey reporter and editor for the Buffalo News, and a contributor to The Sporting News
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I'll say it again.....
Why Michael Moor 's "Elric of Melnibone" stories haven't made the big screen, ????? They are superior to anything from Marvel, and would be right there with Tolkiens "Lord of the Rings" epic.
Elric the brooding albino prince with his vampiric runeblade Stormbringer.......this is as good as it gets.
This ain't got to do with reading, I just dig the out of it.
Bought the CD, pleasently surprised.
chill brah I just laughed my ass off at robz pick... I am not in the olongapo back and forth business so yeah keep your arguments to people who actually care
