Thread: What are You Reading?

Tonight I start "Lone Survivor" by Marcus Luttrell.

Originally Posted by Hirlau

Tonight I start "Lone Survivor" by Marcus Luttrell.

Just finished it two days ago,great read,wanna know how it ends

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Just bought "Empire and Honor" by Wm. E Butterworth IV

True account about American deals with Nazis for Russian intel.

Sounds interesting.

I read:
New deal or raw deal,
Burton W. Folsom Jr

It is most recommended.

Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, by Merle Miller

The Big "E" by by Edward P. Stafford
( The "Enterprise", one of the only early carriers from the beginning of to the finish of WWII !)
First read of it since I were in The USN back in '64
I was garage sale-ing and found a trove of New Old Stock paperbacks of WWII. I bought a few and may do so again.

What can I say..A lot! It is a book starting just before Pearl Harbor and the Dec 7, 1941 Fiasco and the fight all the way back to Tokyo and the glories and screw-ups of the folks that lived worked, survived and those who died, aboard her and her flight groups.
What is it like in the cockpit of a diving bomber? the spaces cut off by battle damage all around? The mind of the captain? or the Flight Officer, or the pilots? A very personal type of writing not just a battle log. I certainly wish that more politicians could read!
~Richard
Here is a Wikipedia of her life.
The USS Enterprise CV-6

Originally Posted by Geezer

The Big "E" by by Edward P. Stafford
First read of it since I were in The USN back in '64
I was garage sale-ing and found a trove of New Old Stock paperbacks of WWII. I bought a few and may do so again.

What can I say..A lot! It is a book starting just before Pearl Harbor and the Dec 7, 1941 Fiasco and the fight all the way back to Tokyo and the glories and screw-ups of the folks that lived worked, survived and those who died, aboard her and her flight groups.
What is it like in the cockpit of a diving bomber? the spaces cut off by battle damage all around? The mind of the captain? or the Flight Officer, or the pilots? A very personal type of writing not just a battle log. I certainly wish that more politicians could read!
~Richard

I will have to check this one out.

Originally Posted by kerryman71

Mick,

I read mostly older books myself. I go to another site, abebooks.com to buy them. I try to get the book as close to its original publication date as possible,
within reason. Some of the books sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars. I try to keep it under $20. I have several that are 100 years old or older.
I tell people that the books I like to read are the ones kids cringed about when they told us we had to read them in school!
John

Yup, I was one of those kids! Still enjoy the Science fiction genre and WWII and some philosophy.
I go to Alibris.com
They have bookstores, including the famous ones, entries and a lot of entries from garage sellers and small dealers. I've found fiction, collecting, hobby, and general knowledge books there at very reasonable prices for reading quality books. They can list your request by price from lowest for a disposable reading copy, or a bookshelf copy after reading, to highest for a collectors special.
~Richard

Well since I last posted here, a few of the books I've read are, The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins, The Grail Quest series by Bernard Cornwell and I've just completed The Winter King, and started on Enemy of God, also by Bernard Cornwell in his Warlord Chronicles series. After this series I think I might jump over to a classic or two or perhaps some non fiction...


Mick