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Post by ironclad on May 20, 2020 17:56:14 GMT -5
The Death of Dulgath by Sullivan I read the Theft of Swords and I dropped the series for a while. Just too dark and violent for me at the time. It's no sin to be circumspect. I don't read a lot of horror for the same reason. |
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Post by Ronv69 on May 20, 2020 18:01:38 GMT -5
The Death of Dulgath by Sullivan I read the Theft of Swords and I dropped the series for a while. Just too dark and violent for me at the time. I dropped the book about Cynthia Parker for the same reason. It's history, but the first chapter where she was captured by the Comanche gave me nightmares. |
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Post by pepesdad1 on May 20, 2020 18:05:37 GMT -5
Vol. #2 of "The Growth of the American Republic" by Morison & Commager. At the ripe age of 76 I figured now was a good time to actually learn the history of our country.
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Post by Ronv69 on May 20, 2020 18:22:42 GMT -5
Vol. #2 of "The Growth of the American Republic" by Morison & Commager. At the ripe age of 76 I figured now was a good time to actually learn the history of our country. Never too late. I've learned more about history in the last 10 years than I ever did in school. |
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Post by toshtego on May 21, 2020 17:57:25 GMT -5
Started reading Raymond Chandler again for the Nth time. Starting with Lady in the Lake. I never tire of him nor does he ever seem to expire.
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Post by Ronv69 on May 21, 2020 23:14:11 GMT -5
There are so many books and so little time that I can't understand reading a book twice. I mean a few like Tale of Two Cities and the bilble or something that moves you, but a detective novel I can't see. I am not criticizing, as the fault may very well be with me. But I don't understand. 🤔🙃🗣️
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Post by trailboss on May 21, 2020 23:15:56 GMT -5
I am the same way with movies.
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Post by Ronv69 on May 21, 2020 23:18:33 GMT -5
I am the same way with movies. There are a half dozen or so that I can watch over and over, but mostly I can't watch them again. Unless it's a Mel Brooks film. "Perhaps some cocoa?" |
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Post by trailboss on May 21, 2020 23:23:40 GMT -5
I agree...
I can watch Mel Brooks several times over, he is a comedic genius
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Post by bishop on May 27, 2020 20:01:03 GMT -5
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Post by ironclad on May 27, 2020 20:41:03 GMT -5
I just finished Heir of Novron by Sullivan.
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Post by driftingfate on May 28, 2020 19:06:58 GMT -5
"Straight Talk on Armed Defense: What the Experts Want You To Know" edited by Massad Ayoob.
It goes over a lot of well worn territory, but even in his autumn years, Ayoob throws out an interesting and new perspective. Plus, anything with Dr. William Aprill is a must read. Wish that dude would write a book, but if you follow his Instagram account it's like a page a day of what he should publish.
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Post by Gandalf on May 28, 2020 20:14:18 GMT -5
There are so many books and so little time that I can't understand reading a book twice. I mean a few like Tale of Two Cities and the bilble or something that moves you, but a detective novel I can't see. I am not criticizing, as the fault may very well be with me. But I don't understand. 🤔🙃🗣️ I understand what you mean. I've probably got books I'll never get to. And when I do read a a book, or series, a second time, I'm usually disappointed. It's never as good the second time. I guess that even though I don't remember the story when I start out, as I read I start to remember at least a little - so it's not fresh and new. Kind of a waste of time. |
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Post by bishop on May 28, 2020 21:11:07 GMT -5
"Principles" by Ray Dalio (was listening to it on Audible the other day).
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Post by jeffd on Jun 3, 2020 14:29:04 GMT -5
Victor Hugo: Toilers of the Sea
What a great read. With a pipe of course.
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Post by kxg on Jun 3, 2020 15:32:00 GMT -5
Just started the Jon Reznick series by J.B. Turner. There are 8 books in the series with another coming out around the new year. It is another in a long series of action thriller/mysteries that I've been reading for several years. I call it my mindless reading. I can enjoy the story and characters and not worry about remembering much of anything.
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Post by sperrytops on Jun 3, 2020 17:27:01 GMT -5
There are so many books and so little time that I can't understand reading a book twice. I mean a few like Tale of Two Cities and the bilble or something that moves you, but a detective novel I can't see. I am not criticizing, as the fault may very well be with me. But I don't understand. 🤔🙃🗣️ I'll do the same thing. I like mystery novels. I read them, throw them in a box, then mail them to my sister. She then does the same, giving them to someone else when she's done. There are other books I enjoy for more than just a story. They mean something. I tend to buy those in hardback and keep them. Much more important. I often read from them again. . |
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Post by oldcajun123 on Jun 3, 2020 18:04:54 GMT -5
 Reserrection Day by Brendon Dubois, what if Cuba Missle crisis went wrong and Nuclear War happened. Provocative!
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Post by bishop on Jun 3, 2020 21:36:56 GMT -5
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
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Post by jeffd on Jun 8, 2020 11:36:28 GMT -5
There are so many books and so little time that I can't understand reading a book twice. I mean a few like Tale of Two Cities and the bilble or something that moves you, but a detective novel I can't see. I am not criticizing, as the fault may very well be with me. But I don't understand. 🤔🙃🗣️ . I think it depends on the author. I really like Lawrence Block, and have read most of what he has written. There are several of the Mattew Scudder series I have read twice, and a few of the Keller Hit Man series I have read a few times. I would not confuse Lawrence Block with literature, but I find he does read well the second time. The reason, I think, is that the first read I am obsessed with "what happens next" while a second reading brings out a lot of character detail. Scudder, and especially Keller, are great characters to meet, sort out, hang with. Kind of like rereading some Sherlock Holmes for Holmes's quirkiness, while the plot was revealed in the first reading. A counter example might be Danial Silva, who writes a good story, but once you know "what is going to happen next" there is, for me anyway, little reason to pick up the book again. Same thing with Stephen King. I find him a really compelling read, sometimes un-put-down-able. He makes you want to turn that page. But... after you know what comes next, there is no point in keeping the book around and I give them away. |
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Post by bishop on Jun 9, 2020 21:03:58 GMT -5
Desert Fox: The Storied Military Career of Erwin Rommel
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Post by ironclad on Jun 11, 2020 17:18:27 GMT -5
Woodsmith Vol. 42/No. 248
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Post by toshtego on Jun 12, 2020 6:29:33 GMT -5
Desert Fox: The Storied Military Career of Erwin Rommel Certainly one of the most interesting figures of the 20th century. I read a bio from the early 196s, The Foxes of the Deseret I would enjoy reading this newer one. |
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Post by toshtego on Jun 12, 2020 6:36:38 GMT -5
Grant by Ron Chernow, the large print edition which I can see better. This tome weighs in at 7 pounds, is 1,285 pages in length.
I have the earlier edition with its fine print. If anyone of you with sharp eyes wants it, PM me and I will mail it to you.
This re-assessment of U.S. Grant dispels many of the myths made popular by his rivals and enemies. A man with a deeper soul and finer mind that has been attributed.
We have not reached the War Between the States as of yet. I will be interested to learn of his complicity in many of the atrocities committed by federal forces upon the Southern states. Separating truth from fiction?
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Post by kxg on Jun 13, 2020 14:27:42 GMT -5
Grant by Ron Chernow, the large print edition which I can see better. This tome weighs in at 7 pounds, is 1,285 pages in length. I have the earlier edition with its fine print. If anyone of you with sharp eyes wants it, PM me and I will mail it to you. This re-assessment of U.S. Grant dispels many of the myths made popular by his rivals and enemies. A man with a deeper soul and finer mind that has been attributed. We have not reached the War Between the States as of yet. I will be interested to learn of his complicity in many of the atrocities committed by federal forces upon the Southern states. Separating truth from fiction? Just started Grant myself. The Kindle version is 1074 pages and I’m on page 74; 1000 to go! A lot of information packed into those first 74 pages. Interesting reading, especially since I live in a namesake town and county in a state that figured prominently in the run up to the Civil War. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 13, 2020 21:34:14 GMT -5
Just for grins I started looking for a copy of The Tuner Diaries, but I don't think that I want to pay $50 for one, maybe $1. I just want it to piss off the professionaly pissed off. I read Mein Kampf when I was 11 and wasn't persuaded. 😁🤠
I need to find my copy of Unintended Consequences. It's the most in demand out of print book.
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Post by ironclad on Jun 14, 2020 14:35:24 GMT -5
The Grand Crusade by Stackpole
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Post by oldcajun123 on Jun 14, 2020 15:15:53 GMT -5
Breeden Dubois Betrayed, Vietnam POWs are sent to Moscow when war winds down, unknowly kept for life so Captialists get good deals when Russia explodes, unsavory State Dept Individuals make deal with CEOS of Industry so their companies can make money now that Russia has imploded.
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Post by Gandalf on Jun 14, 2020 21:53:02 GMT -5
Just for grins I started looking for a copy of The Tuner Diaries, but I don't think that I want to pay $50 for one, maybe $1. I just want it to piss off the professionaly pissed off. I read Mein Kampf when I was 11 and wasn't persuaded. 😁🤠 I need to find my copy of Unintended Consequences. It's the most in demand out of print book. Unintended Consequences by John Ross? I read that - digital version. I don't think things would work out that easily. We might actually find out in the near future, the way things are going. |
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Post by jeffd on Jun 15, 2020 10:42:43 GMT -5
The weather this last weekend was glorious, and I spent it on my porch reading, while raising huge clouds of blue reek. I have rediscovered a couple of things:
I have rediscovered French authors, like Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac.
I have rediscovered G.L.Pease offerings that I have liked. Specifically Telegraph Hill, and Stratford.
I live on the edge of the woods. My back yard but for 10 feet is "deep" woods. Douglas Fir and Sugar Maple, and the remnants and great grandchildren of an old apple orchard from over 150 years ago. This seems to yield more than my share of insects, coming to the porch to investigate me and interrupt my reading. I keep them all behind a perimeter of Telegraph Hill smoke.
Having been out of town for a very long extended period, the bugs have "claimed" my porch, with a certain impunity that really makes me angry. Now I am the interloper, in my own yard. So reading without smoking is impossible on my porch.
Ditto several species of small sandwich stealing birds, who, when I am deep in my book and haven't moved for a while, will come sit on my deck railing and look at me and look at my half eaten lunch and say "I don't know who you are but hey, thanks. PB&J my favorite." I have to shoo them away if the breeze is not sufficient to diffuse my perimeter reek.
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Reserrection Day by Brendon Dubois, what if Cuba Missle crisis went wrong and Nuclear War happened. Provocative!