Reave the Just and Other Tales by Stephan R. Donaldson
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Reave the Just and Other Tales by Stephan R. Donaldson
Phrank, Good call, Sir.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phrank
I'm ashamed to say I haven't read it yet...but I did purchase it recently in eBook format.
I'm on it Sir!
Haha...good call Sir, reading it on my Kobo e-reader now...superb book, regardless of the controversy surrounding it and it's author.Quote:
Originally Posted by ColonelG
Just finished re-reading "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" which, having recently visited Savannah, seemed like the appropriate thing to do. :)
Next up: the new Ian Rankin, "Saints of the Shadow Bible"
The monument men,a great read.
Still reading Ulysses.
Just out of curiousity, anyone here belong to Goodreads.com? It's a pretty good site. You select books you've read and rate them and after 20 ratings it starts
suggesting books they think you might be interested in, based on your ratings. You can also select books you'd like to read which also contributes to their
suggestions for you. I've read some books based on their suggestions that I probably would've never thought of.
John
'The English Gypsies and Their Language' by Charles Godfrey Leland. I got this one from the Gutenburg Project as a free ebook. Plenty of stuff there to keep me reading for the rest of my days I think, but I might have to change the pace a bit and go on to a bit of fiction for my next read. Maybe something a little more modern as well. I've been reading books written a century or more in the past of late.
I'm also going to have to check out Goodreads.com now that John has mentioned it...:)
Mick
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
I love my Nook, but only because I'm a pilot and it can be difficult to carry around two or three books at a time on the road without them getting destroyed. I decided well over a year ago that I'm going to start reading through the Bible and have tried to do at least one chapter a day since. I started with the New Testament and finished that and moved to the Old Testament. I just finished Acts yesterday and started Romans. I also just finished cool blue tomb by Paul kemprecos. He helps write some of Clive Cussler's books. It was a good beach style read. I'm about to read Kill Devil Hill by Harry Combs with Martin Caidin. It's about the early history of the Wright Brothers.
When you're finished that, you can move on to one of my favorite reads, "Commentaries", by Julius Caesar, make sure you get his commentaries regarding the conquest of Gaul (modern day France and more), and then of course the Roman Civil War, his fight against the famous Roman General Pompey...interesting to read about a couple of characters who had a part in the war, as allies and enemies, some Egyptian dame named Cleopatra and a Roman dude named Marc Anthony....Quote:
Originally Posted by JBPilot
Tonight I start "Lone Survivor" by Marcus Luttrell.
Just finished it two days ago,great read,wanna know how it ends:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Hirlau
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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
I will have to check this one out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Geezer
Yup, I was one of those kids! Still enjoy the Science fiction genre and WWII and some philosophy.Quote:
Originally Posted by kerryman71
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
The Boys In The Boat
in the middle of Moby Dick, or The Whale
The bible every day!! and just finished Fearless by Eric Blehm.
I just finished reading this one:
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
by Jon Meacham.
A good read and a fascinating man during interesting times.
Very good choice Birnardo,, I just finished "The Geronimo Breach". Tc
At Home by Bill Bryson...
He writes about the history of his home, a former rectory. In doing so follows how houses have evolved over the centuries.
I'm reading Lone Survivor. My son, who is in the service, said it was an "intense" movie and I wanted to read the book before I see the movie. So far, the book is fairly intense too. It's a good reminder of what Memorial Day is about.
Been too many years since I've read, Cornelius Ryan's, "The Longest Day".
Every time the movie is on, it's a must watch, along with his, "A Bridge to Far".
Excellent choice on both counts. The movie captures the "intensity" of combat realistically when your training and experience control your reactions, at least in my experience.Quote:
Originally Posted by Haroldg48
Both the book and the movie bring home what our Seal teams are subject to on a moments notice. They and all of our fighting men and women are my Heroes.
Civilization by Neil Ferguson.
I am a fun of Ferguson and this is one of his greatest books. A must read if you are interested in economic history and politics.
"Fearless" just broke my heart! It is a must read.Quote:
Originally Posted by Walterbowens
Jane Eyre by Currer Bell (Charlotte Bronte)
John
Jane Eyre was a college assignment for me. It is quite possibly the last (and only) "chic flic" I enjoyed.Quote:
Originally Posted by kerryman71
The original d'Artagnan romances by Dumas. Written in such a wonderful archaic way albeit on my tablet :D
Great books! I enjoyed them immensely. I have tried to get the Mrs. to read them as well. The Count of Monte Cristo was also very good.Quote:
Originally Posted by DaveTheGeordie
Two to three times throughout the day!! Just can't fall asleep without my nighttime reading.Quote:
Originally Posted by Walterbowens
I recently finished, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", by Victor Hugo, awesome read.
[QUOTE=coachschaller;1343324]Great books! I enjoyed them immensely. I have tried to get the Mrs. to read them as well. The Count of Monte Cristo was also very good.[/
The count of monte cristo and the 3 musketeers are my favourite books. Gone through several copies of both and thought I'd get them in kindle form to save killing another 2. Can't wait to read them to my boy. I'll have to paraphrase the same as my dad did to begin with, not sure he'll know who Don Quixote is or what a doublet is etc.
As a Canadian, an awesome, absolutely stunning book for me, was Margaret Mitchell's, "Gone with the Wind". She was alive during the Civil War, and capture's much of the societal upheaval and events that occurred during this horrible tragedy that took more American lives than all future wars America was involved in combined. When watching an old documentary, "World War I in Color", they were showing a Victory Parade in the States, and lo and behold, marching with their fellow soldiers, were the Blue and the Grey, soldiers that were still alive from that terrible Civil War.
1865, when put in perspective, wasn't really that long ago, and the fact that many of us possess straight razors or other antiques from even before this time, causes some interesting reflection...
[QUOTE=DaveTheGeordie;1343328]Yeah, those are some true classics!Quote:
Originally Posted by coachschaller
Funny you should mention reading books like that to your kid.
I recently started reading the classics to my own kids, age 9 and 12.
To a dad, seeing the excitement when reading them Papillon was priceless:)