What Books Have You Read Recently

[oscarflytyer]

BTW - I find I just (sadly) do not read books anymore. Not sure why. And not like I watch TV or hang out on the phone either... I DO have a lot of books - but these days they are, and almost all used for research and to have older information on older things that are still hard to find and catalog in the net. The US Army Rifle book above is case in point. Anyone else in this mode?

 

[Wiresguy]

I just finished Tales from a Tin Can, the USS Dale. The author’s father was aboard the USS Dale from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay. The story of the ship is told from interviews of former crew members.
Just started In The Company of Heroes, by Michael Durant.

 

[Petrol & Powder]

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Just started In The Company of Heroes, by Michael Durant.

I read, "In the Company of Heroes" several years ago and it's a good book. It is also a good companion book to Blackhawk Down.

 

[RicinYakima]

My reference library is mainly books published at least 50 years ago and the information is not on the net. Try finding loading data for a 35 Stevens Tip UP on the net.

 

[RicinYakima]

Last novel from the weekend was "Five Years After" the forth and last book of the John Matherson series about a EMP hitting the country. Good series if you are into the EOTWAWKI.

 

[todd]

Last novel from the weekend was "Five Years After" the forth and last book of the John Matherson series about a EMP hitting the country. Good series if you are into the EOTWAWKI.

jack hunt and kyla stone, both authors, are into emp's hitting the US. i have read them.

 

[oscarflytyer]

Michael Durant - Hellova guy. Local area guy. I was able to arrange for him to speak at one of our HS Baseball banquets. Funny story from that (will post elsewhere if interested - lemme know). And, when my youngest son wanted to join the Army/fly Helicopters (he was a HUGE Blackhawk Down movie fan - again, another story), Mike was generous enough to have lunch with us and talk to my son about flying/Army/WO off the Street program. Just a great all-around guy.

 

[Ian]

Just starting in on Graham Hancock's Fingerprints of the Gods, first book of his that I will have read. Still need to finish the Sitchen series.

 

[obssd1958]

I used to read ALL the time. I would read 3 or 4 novels, several magazines, a paperback or two or the Reader's digest, and the newspapers - every week. I took books with me everywhere I went.
I also smoked whenever I was reading, or read whenever I was smoking.
When I quit smoking after 33 years, I quit reading. The two were too closely related in my life.
Now I read online. But it's forums, and articles, not fiction (okay, I do get some fiction from some of the google and Yahoo news stories!)
I've tried to go back to reading books, but I couldn't even do it in hunting camp. Wish I could.

 

[Mitty38]

Currently browsing thru. The Oxford Book Of American Poetry.

 

[462]

"Arron Burr", by Gore Vidal. Federalists, Anti-Federalists, Whigs, Tories, Abolitionists, Anti-Abolitionists, Republicans, Democrats . . . President Jefferson's accusation of Burr committing treason is being replayed today with only the changes of a supposed crime and the accused name. Didn't know that Jefferson did not live by the words of his Declaration of Independence, that Chief Justice Marshall was a such hypocrite, and still don't know how to view Alexander Hamilton. But, then, the country was in its infancy and just learning how to take its first few baby steps.

 

[Petrol & Powder]

Be cautious of the source. Authors sometimes have an axe to grind and dedicating ones’ beliefs to text doesn’t necessarily validate those views.

 

[462]

An author's bias and what an historical person wrote and is known to have said is always taken into consideration.

 

[Mitty38]

Working my way a third time thru Pride and Prejudice.

 

[Mitty38]

Just picked up a 1st edition of 1984. That's next.

 

[RBHarter]

History is written by the victors.
Charles Dickens wrote 'A childrens history of England ' . Edward the 1st aka Long Shanks made the Ghangis Khan I read about look like a peach . I'm not saying Dickens exaggerated but in that portrayal his sending 50,000 troops to quell an uprising of 10,000 was basically how he handled everything that didn't suit his way .

 

[JWinAZ]

Ancient Communities in the Mimbres Valley by Roger Anyon. The Mimbres people lived in SW New Mexico 750 to 1350. In the now Silver City area. Definitely a scholarly work, sadly without photographs. My favorite area of the country. In my hikes I have seen some artifacts: pottery shards, metates, beads and other.

 

[Petrol & Powder]

History is written by the victors.
Charles Dickens wrote 'A childrens history of England ' . Edward the 1st aka Long Shanks made the Ghangis Khan I read about look like a peach . I'm not saying Dickens exaggerated but in that portrayal his sending 50,000 troops to quell an uprising of 10,000 was basically how he handled everything that didn't suit his way .

It's more interesting for the reader if you make it sound like one side is the underdog.
And if you're the king, you don't want even odds, you want to crush your enemy - so maybe he did use 50K to attack 10K.

 

[462]

"Ceremony", as I make my way through Robert B. Parker's Spenser series.

Though haven't completed it, I'm close enough to say so: John Jakes "In the Big Country" a collection of 12 Western short stories.

 

[todd]

i've read....
A King's Ship (Book 2) by DJ Holmes
Return to Haven (Book 3) by DJ Holmes
The Price of Liberty (Book 4) by DJ Holmes
Merfolk by Jeremy Bates
The Man from Taured by Jeremy Bates

and i'm starting to read

Maniac Menagerie by Iain Wright