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Post by oldcajun123 on Jun 24, 2024 12:34:15 GMT -5
 John there are 10 books in this series by Web Griffin, I’m useing kindle to read them.
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Post by Plainsman on Jun 24, 2024 12:46:04 GMT -5
That’s why there is no such critter as an “ex-Marine.”
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Post by mgtarheel on Jun 26, 2024 11:15:16 GMT -5
"Night School" by Lee child
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Post by Zach on Jun 26, 2024 12:27:17 GMT -5
I’ve most recently finished The Pale King by David Foster Wallace, The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice by Wilkie Collins, Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, half way through The Egyptian Book of the Dead by E.A. Wallis Budge, and starting The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time by Keith Houston. Next up, A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books by Nicholas A. Basbanes.
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Post by don on Jun 30, 2024 12:15:49 GMT -5
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Post by mgtarheel on Jun 30, 2024 16:43:28 GMT -5
"The Midnight Line" by Lee Child
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Post by mgtarheel on Jul 3, 2024 16:14:06 GMT -5
"Past Tense" by Lee Child
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Post by Plainsman on Jul 5, 2024 10:57:55 GMT -5
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Post by Plainsman on Jul 5, 2024 11:03:22 GMT -5
Like most of my generation I drank a full draught of the koolaid about Sitting Bull. He was a coward, a fraud, a troublesome agitator, and a vicious murderer. Western historian Utley has finally convinced me of the error of my ways. Without polemicism or rancor he lays out a convincing case for the “real” Sitting Bull. (Most of the koolaid was mixed up by two nasty haters: Sitting Bull’s reservation boss and Phil Sheridan.) I recommend this well-reasoned and copiously researched correction.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 5, 2024 13:21:19 GMT -5
In the biography of Sam Houston I'm reading I'm getting a different perspective on the Cherokee and other "civilized" tribes. Sam was adopted by a cheif and has a hand in some of the later negotiations and treaties.
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Post by toshtego on Jul 6, 2024 8:45:29 GMT -5
In the biography of Sam Houston I'm reading I'm getting a different perspective on the Cherokee and other "civilized" tribes. Sam was adopted by a cheif and has a hand in some of the later negotiations and treaties. That would be interesting. Let us know what you learn about this. I am truly interested in Native and European relations in the past. "European" is how we here are called by the Navajo and the various Pueblos. That is when they want to be polite. Otherwise they have other names for us. LOL. |
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Post by toshtego on Jul 6, 2024 8:49:31 GMT -5
Like most of my generation I drank a full draught of the koolaid about Sitting Bull. He was a coward, a fraud, a troublesome agitator, and a vicious murderer. Western historian Utley has finally convinced me of the error of my ways. Without polemicism or rancor he lays out a convincing case for the “real” Sitting Bull. (Most of the koolaid was mixed up by two nasty haters: Sitting Bull’s reservation boss and Phil Sheridan.) I recommend this well-reasoned and copiously researched correction. I was raised believing Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse were the heroes. Custer was out of phase with the dimension he was in out west. I do not see him a villain, just ignorant. Should have stayed home. I would like to read your book. Thanks for posting it. |
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Post by bill1994eopd on Jul 6, 2024 23:05:00 GMT -5
The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913 (Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922)
This is Cherry's firsthand account of the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition (British Antarctic Expedition) led by Captain Scott.
His preface to this book has to be the greatest summation of the so-called Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration ever written:
For a joint scientific and geographical piece of organization, give me Scott;
For a Winter Journey, Wilson;
For a dash to the Pole and nothing else, Amundsen;
If I am in the devil of a hole and want to get out of it, give me Shackleton every time.
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Post by don on Jul 7, 2024 0:08:52 GMT -5
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Post by urbino on Jul 7, 2024 0:14:15 GMT -5
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Post by mgtarheel on Jul 8, 2024 15:39:46 GMT -5
"The Hidden Tower" by James E. Wisher
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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 8, 2024 15:49:05 GMT -5
Dead Mountain. Preston and Child.
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Post by urbino on Jul 8, 2024 16:50:05 GMT -5
Re-reading Middlemarch.
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Post by cerealpiper on Jul 8, 2024 18:06:35 GMT -5
The wilderness hunter by theodore Roosevelt.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 9, 2024 22:41:04 GMT -5
Black Elk Speaks.
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Post by trailboss on Jul 9, 2024 23:26:46 GMT -5
Granddaughter is spending the night, she likes reading, but she also likes watching kid friendly youtube videos. We had a lengthy discussion on reading books instead of videos...I told her "Readers are Leaders", and I think it clicked with her.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 9, 2024 23:52:55 GMT -5
Granddaughter is spending the night, she likes reading, but she also likes watching kid friendly youtube videos. We had a lengthy discussion on reading books instead of videos...I told her "Readers are Leaders", and I think it clicked with her. She still using her pipe? 😁 |
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Post by trailboss on Jul 10, 2024 0:00:20 GMT -5
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Post by instymp on Jul 10, 2024 17:44:54 GMT -5
Jack Carr Red Star Mourning |
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Post by mgtarheel on Jul 11, 2024 13:07:20 GMT -5
"Blue Moon" by Lee Child
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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 11, 2024 19:30:56 GMT -5
I had this on my shelf for a long time. After the birth of the white Buffalo in Yellowstone I decided it was past time to read it. It's actually much better than I expected and it explained the story very well. Anyway, it's a really good book. |
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Post by mgtarheel on Jul 14, 2024 13:44:15 GMT -5
"The Great Northern War" by James E. Wisher
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Post by relight on Jul 15, 2024 12:58:22 GMT -5
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Post by mgtarheel on Jul 16, 2024 17:34:00 GMT -5
"The Sentinel" by Lee Child & Andrew Child
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Post by toshtego on Jul 17, 2024 5:27:51 GMT -5
Just finished I read Deep Survival. Fascinating accounts of perseverance in adversity. |
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John there are 10 books in this series by Web Griffin, I’m useing kindle to read them. 
