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Post by Plainsman on Aug 7, 2023 8:31:19 GMT -5
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Post by mgtarheel on Aug 7, 2023 11:34:02 GMT -5
"City Primeval" by Elmore Leonard
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Post by toshtego on Aug 7, 2023 18:05:58 GMT -5
Elmore is always a good read.
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Post by Plainsman on Aug 7, 2023 19:09:26 GMT -5
Recent… Military History of Late Rome 395-415, Syvanne; At War with the Wind, Sears (kamikazes); Rasputin: The Untold Story, Fuhrman; The Histories, Herodotus.
(PUT THIS IN THE WRONG THREAD EARLIER.)
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Post by jeffd on Aug 8, 2023 14:29:45 GMT -5
Another Malcolm Guite video.
I really like this guy. He is perfect to have a pipe with, when you don't want to smoke alone and you don't want to invite anyone over.
Books, and pipes, and ale, and books, and smoking and ale. And books.
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Post by mgtarheel on Aug 10, 2023 13:22:13 GMT -5
"American Prometheus" by Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin
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Post by jeffd on Aug 21, 2023 22:39:57 GMT -5
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Post by urbino on Aug 22, 2023 2:34:53 GMT -5
I wouldn't say I'm a Joyce fan, but I do love Dubliners. Thanks for the link. |
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Post by toshtego on Aug 22, 2023 10:55:45 GMT -5
"American Prometheus" by Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin I am reading that, too. Well written. |
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Post by mgtarheel on Aug 30, 2023 17:07:32 GMT -5
"Dead Mountain" by Preston & Childs
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Post by Plainsman on Aug 30, 2023 18:23:06 GMT -5
"Dead Mountain" by Preston & Childs A terrifying tale. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Aug 30, 2023 22:17:20 GMT -5
I just ordered that after seeing this thread. These guys are my favorite currently working writers. I've read the rest of the series and most of their other books.
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Post by mgtarheel on Sept 2, 2023 17:39:38 GMT -5
"Die Trying" by Lee Child
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Post by Plainsman on Sept 3, 2023 19:08:30 GMT -5
THE SEARCHER, Tana French. Retired Chicago cop moves to remote western Ireland and, against his will, gets involved in a local mystery that puts him at risk. Very well done. Except for the complete bolloxing she does to details about a Henry rifle. Why don’t writers do their homework, which is so easy to do? Fortunately she writes so well, and the story is so well-crafted that I could (almost) overlook the hindrance to the willing suspension of disbelief and appreciate the deeper tale.
BLOOD MERIDIAN, Cormac McCarthy. A tale of hell and mayhem on the early western frontier. McCarthy’s prose is dense, incantatory, bardic. Sometimes almost too much. Rich and fragrant like dried blood and the evil just keeps coming.
Finished both of them…
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Post by urbino on Sept 3, 2023 19:11:43 GMT -5
Blood Meridian is a harrowing read. One you don't forget.
Speaking of firearms, I've been using that .308-.357 tamper you sent me, a lot lately. Nice heft to it.
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Post by Plainsman on Sept 3, 2023 19:16:26 GMT -5
Blood Meridian is a harrowing read. One you don't forget. Speaking of firearms, I've been using that .308-.357 tamper you sent me, a lot lately. Nice heft to it. So glad to hear. When you wear that ‘un out lemme now and I’ll replenish ye. |
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Post by urbino on Sept 3, 2023 19:41:36 GMT -5
Ha. You sound like old Bearclaw in Jeremiah Johnson. "Skin that one, pilgrim, and I'll bring ye another!"
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Post by Plainsman on Sept 4, 2023 19:35:30 GMT -5
Robert Kee, 1939: THE WORLD WE LEFT BEHIND. A detailed, almost day-by-day account of that year of destiny. (I confess I have some personal interest in that fateful year.) Even though I have studied this pre-war period in some detail I have never seen such a clear and exhaustive exposition of its myriad complexities. After a war the victors have a tendency to simplify, truncate, and cleanse the history of it and its prelude. Kee avoids this tendency and I would encourage anyone who wants to know the complex details to get this book and devour it, as I have. It is particularly illuminating on the “Jewish problem.” Readers will come away with new insights into its mind-numbing complexity and heart-rending details. I recommend this book highly.
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Post by don on Sept 5, 2023 6:18:16 GMT -5
Generally this is pretty good, but some of the statements and tank fuddlore are a bit distracting.  |
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Post by exbenedict on Sept 9, 2023 13:21:21 GMT -5
Bitterly Divided: The South’s Inner Civil War
D. Williams
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Post by mgtarheel on Sept 13, 2023 9:57:39 GMT -5
"Tripwire" by Lee Child
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Post by fadingdaylight on Sept 13, 2023 19:26:45 GMT -5
Currently working through Scattered Minds by Gabor Mate.
Wish I could remember everything I’ve read since I last posted, but I can’t. A few that really stood out were How To Think Like A Roman Emperor by Donald Robertson, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chogyam Trungpa, and Your Brain’s Not Broken by Tamara Rosier.
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Post by trailboss on Sept 13, 2023 20:01:48 GMT -5
The Blade Of Perseus by Victor David Hanson, a man of the soil that grew up farming and entered the world of Academia which he has excelled in, a brilliant man with a great mind. His knowledge of history, ancient, American, and present is quite remarkable. victorhanson.com/(The podcasts are free, but the reading content of the blade is worth the price of admission) |
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Post by toshtego on Sept 14, 2023 9:01:49 GMT -5
Bitterly Divided: The South’s Inner Civil War D. Williams Have you read Alexander Stevens' "Keystone Address"? As you know, he was Vice President of the Confederacy and quite the intellectual. This speech is an excellent description of the Southern Cause which led to war between the States. If you have not read it and are interested I can email you a copy of the speech. His rhetoric is fantastic. His views on the system of government at the time are prescient. His views on racial superiority are clearly abhorrent but insightful. |
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Post by Plainsman on Sept 14, 2023 10:15:38 GMT -5
I believe it’s more commonly known as the “Cornerstone Address.”
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Post by toshtego on Sept 14, 2023 17:47:56 GMT -5
I believe it’s more commonly known as the “Cornerstone Address.” Yes, you are right. More of the mental confusion which has plagued me the past weeks. Getting names wrong frequently now. Have you read it? Remarkable. |
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Post by Plainsman on Sept 14, 2023 19:02:45 GMT -5
I’ve got my share of that, too, John. Names, particularly, which I have always been very good about.
Yes, I read it. Didn’t think much of it, actually.
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Post by Ronv69 on Sept 15, 2023 0:59:33 GMT -5
That used to be the standard way of life before the 1600s. Maybe more normal than the current method.
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Post by toshtego on Sept 15, 2023 10:12:39 GMT -5
I believe it’s more commonly known as the “Cornerstone Address.” OK. I thought it brilliant but wrong headed in places. Certainly his comments on the system of government and the powers of taxation were prescient. Best explanation of the Southern cause I have read. |
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Post by toshtego on Sept 15, 2023 11:35:17 GMT -5
I thought Alexander Stephens was nobly portrayed in the movie "Lincoln" by the actor Jackie Earle Haley.
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