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Post by bigwoolie on Jan 3, 2020 19:44:31 GMT -5
One of my daughters got me a hardback copy of "Death In the Dark Continent" at the used bookstore today. Man, I've got some great kids who really know their Dad! I love everything by Peter Hathaway Capstick.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 3, 2020 20:49:21 GMT -5
One of my daughters got me a hardback copy of "Death In the Dark Continent" at the used bookstore today. Man, I've got some great kids who really know their Dad! I love everything by Peter Hathaway Capstick. I have a set of autographed books by him. I re-read one every year. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 3, 2020 20:50:34 GMT -5
Way more than I want to know. Thanks. Someone has to know this stuff ... I'm taking one for the team!  Well, you didn't MAKE me read it all. I did that to myself. 🙄 |
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Post by toshtego on Jan 3, 2020 21:41:33 GMT -5
Re-reading Nicholas Monsaratt's The Cruel Sea for about the tenth time.
This novel is so brilliant in its descriptions of humans under stress and their environment. I tend to read the same great books over and again.
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Post by driftingfate on Jan 11, 2020 14:18:00 GMT -5
One of my daughters got me a hardback copy of "Death In the Dark Continent" at the used bookstore today. Man, I've got some great kids who really know their Dad! I love everything by Peter Hathaway Capstick. Great books! Loved them as a teen and plan on gifting them to my nephews when they are old enough. I know some have taken Capstick to task for embellishing or telling others' stories as his own. Don't know if that's typical sniping at the guy who made good or true, but, I do know the books are fantastic reads and that he had a talent for making you feel like you were there with him. Also, a good introduction to practical wildlife conservation and not the utopian stuff pushed in the schools these days. |
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Post by bigwoolie on Jan 13, 2020 12:26:31 GMT -5
One of my daughters got me a hardback copy of "Death In the Dark Continent" at the used bookstore today. Man, I've got some great kids who really know their Dad! I love everything by Peter Hathaway Capstick. Great books! Loved them as a teen and plan on gifting them to my nephews when they are old enough. I know some have taken Capstick to task for embellishing or telling others' stories as his own. Don't know if that's typical sniping at the guy who made good or true, but, I do know the books are fantastic reads and that he had a talent for making you feel like you were there with him. Also, a good introduction to practical wildlife conservation and not the utopian stuff pushed in the schools these days. Yeah, I've read some of the sniping over the years too. I've no doubt he polished up some stories around the edges, but heck, that's what makes a good story teller! Was he all wind? Heck, no. As a hunter myself with several years in bush Alaska (I've taken Alaska grizzly, not cape buffalo) I know full well that a bloviating windbag doesn't survive long in the bush with dangerous game and trigger-happy clients. And his record speaks for itself, his propensity for scotch not withstanding. |
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Post by blacksun on Jan 13, 2020 18:51:25 GMT -5
Just finished a Brett Battles book "Night Man". I give it a 7 out of 10. nice read
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Post by Stearmandriver on Jan 14, 2020 22:02:29 GMT -5
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Post by toshtego on Jan 15, 2020 10:31:24 GMT -5
That story sounds so interesting I had to order a copy of the book (used) from Amazon. This makes you an "Influencer". Watch your step, now. Seriously, What an amazing incident. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 15, 2020 12:10:23 GMT -5
Persuader, a Jack Reacher novel. Not good, but distracting.
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Post by Stearmandriver on Jan 15, 2020 20:18:54 GMT -5
That story sounds so interesting I had to order a copy of the book (used) from Amazon. This makes you an "Influencer". Watch your step, now. Seriously, What an amazing incident. I guess I've influenced worse things than reading  . I'm into the 2nd part now, which is Brown's biography. Looks like he tells each of their stories separately, up to the point where they meet over Germany. I can't imagine you'll be disappointed. And hey - Stigler is even a pipe smoker. |
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Post by oldcajun123 on Jan 16, 2020 10:16:32 GMT -5
 I read that book and it was uplifting to me as Germans are held in bad light in WWII, To be clear my wife and her family are German Dutch. Not all Germans were SS, it’s a fine book. PS the Germans got blamed somewhat by the Russians death squads, but that’s another story.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Jan 16, 2020 10:18:12 GMT -5
Thank you and daughter Dwayne for moving me in that direction, got the kindle book.
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Post by toshtego on Jan 16, 2020 11:47:13 GMT -5
I read that book and it was uplifting to me as Germans are held in bad light in WWII, To be clear my wife and her family are German Dutch. Not all Germans were SS, it’s a fine book. PS the Germans got blamed somewhat by the Russians death squads, but that’s another story. I knew two veterans from Germany growing up. As a boy, I sailed regularly on a small boat skippered by a former U-Boat commander. He was a friend of my uncle. I was a boy so I did not get to know the man well but I watched his competent handling of the sailboat. He was always nice to me as the nephew of his friend. While sailing on the Bay, every now and then I would see him staring at a passing freighter or tanker in the distance. I had an idea what was in his mind like he was calculating. In my early 20s, I worked with a old guy who was a sailor in the German Navy during the war. He was captured when the Russians sank his ship in the Baltic and spent much of the war in a POW camp. When the war ended, the Russians opened the camp gate and told them to go home, on foot a long way. He was quite the pipe smoker, Old Ernst. We traded tobacco back and forth and shared many pipes. He was a good man, reliable, steady, calm. Whenever a problem developed, Old Ernie would, "Ya, Vee take it as it commmbs." He never lost his accent even into the early 1970s. I spent many months in Germany in the early 1980s. The crowd I knew were children during the war and were the guys who made the post war German miracle happen. We would drink in bier stubes/ bier halls and I would strike up conversations with old guys who spoke some English. I never met anyone who fired a shot at the Americans. It seems everyone I met "served on the Russian Front". I had the feeling this was a courtesy extended to me as an American. They did not want to offend me as a former enemy. Even more odd were the old guys still wearing a mustache like Adolph's. I guess the imprinting was too strong. Good people. Glad they are on our side now. Twice was enough. |
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Post by booknpipe on Jan 16, 2020 21:11:40 GMT -5
Combat Patrol - the incredible saga of the u.s. submarine forces in the war against Japan. On deck, War Under the Waves. My dad was on a submarine in WWII and we had the latter in our stack of paperbacks that got handed down from my older brothers. I found it used online and had to have it.
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Post by toshtego on Jan 16, 2020 21:36:57 GMT -5
Combat Patrol - the incredible saga of the u.s. submarine forces in the war against Japan. On deck, War Under the Waves. My dad was on a submarine in WWII and we had the latter in our stack of paperbacks that got handed down from my older brothers. I found it used online and had to have it. is one of my favorite books. So, is Edward L. Beach's history of the USN. I recall being inside one those WWII submarines, years ago. Amazing what they could do in that tiny space. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 16, 2020 21:58:38 GMT -5
"Ride the Wind" by Lucia St Clare Robson. The story of Cynthia Parker who was captured by the Indians in Texas and raised her son to be a great Comanche war chief. True story. The first chapter was so rough I had to put it down for a while.
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Post by toshtego on Jan 16, 2020 23:53:55 GMT -5
"Ride the Wind" by Lucia St Clare Robson. The story of Cynthia Parker who was captured by the Indians in Texas and raised her son to be a great Comanche war chief. True story. The first chapter was so rough I had to put it down for a while. Them Comanche could be mighty rough on captives and anyone else they met. |
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Post by oldcajun123 on Jan 17, 2020 7:56:37 GMT -5
Read it in 2017, yes it was good but brutal,happenings.
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Post by bigwoolie on Jan 23, 2020 22:52:48 GMT -5
"A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open" by Theodore Roosevelt. 1923 edition.
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Post by Kerley0319 on Jan 26, 2020 8:40:43 GMT -5
Crossers by Philip Caputo.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2020 16:02:45 GMT -5
I'm currently reading 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King.
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Post by fadingdaylight on Feb 15, 2020 14:06:55 GMT -5
A post started by fadingdaylight that has abandoned a thread he started. Fair enough old friend, I came back, and here is my update: Since abandoning this thread, I changed majors to business and graduated Suma Cum Laude, was promoted twice at work, and finally had some time to read books that I wanted to read, over the last year I have finished: All 15 books in Jim Butcher's Dresden Files (many for the 4th or 5th time) The Name of The Wind and A Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss Mind of the Raven by Bernd Heinrich Gracious Wild by Stacey Couch Several translations of the Tao Te Ching The Feng/English translation of Chuang Tsu' Inner Chapters The Tao of Pooh and The Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff And a reread of the Hollander translation of The Poetic Edda |
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Post by oldcajun123 on Feb 15, 2020 15:49:21 GMT -5
Two Popes by Daniel OConnor, Family in Brooklyn over the years, seen in my eyes about getting old, body falls apart but mind is still there, good read.
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Post by fadingdaylight on Feb 16, 2020 9:24:06 GMT -5
I have been reading the Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss. Excellent series except that the third and last book is 8 years overdue. 💩😒. There is a book 2.5 that is about a character that is mentally ill from her point of view. It's really very interesting. Her particular insanity is that she sees every inanimate object as having feelings and personality, and one unhappy broken gear can ruin the feeling of the room. It is interesting because it is understandable by those of us who feel bad for neglecting a favorite pipe for too long. My apologies for the severely late reply, but I am right there with you. I found the first 2 books nearly impossible to put down, tore through both of them in about a week and a half, then I was miserable when I realized that George Martin Jr. over here was nowhere near finished with book 3 still. But I will wait, and hope it's worth it. |
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Post by just ol ed on Feb 16, 2020 10:18:51 GMT -5
off the norm here, but after feeding the humans (brunch) to smoking room & finish the paper. Wifie to clip coupons from the inserts.
Ed Duncan, Batavia, NY
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Post by toshtego on Feb 16, 2020 11:33:32 GMT -5
Reading Fatherland by Robert Harris.
The year is 1964.
The Naaazis won the Second World War and Adolph is about to celebrate his 100th birthday.
The book's, Hero, is a Berlin Police Detective investigating the death of an early Nazi Party official in mysterious circumstances. He is cynical about the Third Reich and its leaders and followers.
Very interesting depiction of how different Europe and Eastern Europe would be under this outcome.
Excellent story, if the reader can tolerate the evils of National Socialism.
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 16, 2020 12:09:12 GMT -5
Excellent story, if the reader can tolerate the evils of National Socialism. That's asking a lot! 🙄🤠 |
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Post by jeffd on Feb 16, 2020 20:46:14 GMT -5
The ultimate. Sitting in my OSC (over stuffed chair) smoking some G.L. Pease Stratford in a large bowled Neerup churchwarden, reading essays by G.K. Chersterton. A collection of his "best" essays, entitled In Defense of Sanity. I keep this book right next to my smoking chair because it is the book to grab when I don't know what I want to read. Essays you can paw through. Not a lot of time - read one. A whole wintry day to yourself, read a handful of them. For those of you who haven't read any Chesterton - it is like having a conversation with the man over a pipe. How could you not love to sit with this guy - G.K. Chesterton was an early 20th century English writer, journalist,theologian, poet, dramatist, literary and art critic, biographer, cultural observer and anthropologist, philosopher, orator, and Christian apologist. He was also a wine drinking, cigar smoking raconteur that would have been in good company with Mark Twain. I have this down. One essay one bowl. Skill or coincidence? So here is the problem - with smoking companions like this, available any time day or night without changing out of my old ratty batman shirt and sweatpants and Redhead Ultimate Wool Heavyweight hunting socks, I am becoming a little too isolated. I find myself not wanting to go out and meet people because, well I mean why bother. |
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Post by trailboss on Feb 16, 2020 21:28:10 GMT -5
The ultimate. Sitting in my OSC (over stuffed chair) smoking some G.L. Pease Stratford in a large bowled Neerup churchwarden, reading essays by G.K. Chersterton. A collection of his "best" essays, entitled In Defense of Sanity. Color me jealous, I look forward to the day. |
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. I'm into the 2nd part now, which is Brown's biography. Looks like he tells each of their stories separately, up to the point where they meet over Germany. I can't imagine you'll be disappointed. And hey - Stigler is even a pipe smoker. 
I read that book and it was uplifting to me as Germans are held in bad light in WWII, To be clear my wife and her family are German Dutch. Not all Germans were SS, it’s a fine book. PS the Germans got blamed somewhat by the Russians death squads, but that’s another story.
