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08-09-2014, 04:09 PM #1
I also like Michener's books'. I read "Hawaii" and was then stationed there in the USN. His long books are great for getting an internal awareness of the subject and the social and political nuances of the time.
~RichardBe yourself; everyone else is already taken.
- Oscar Wilde
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08-10-2014, 03:42 PM #2
I just finished a book first read, 50 some years ago, while on a Navy base, awaiting transfer to my new duties aboard ship.
Death in the South Atlantic
by Michael Powell
A fictionalized but accurate tale of the end of the German pocket battleship "Graf Spee. Well written and an easy book to keep reading till 'O' Dark Thirty!
~Richard
Further Information about the history of the ship:
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08-11-2014, 03:25 AM #3Chaplain
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Just got Shaping the Journey of Emerging Adults: Life-Giving Rhythms for Spiritual Transformation by Dunn & Sundene. Looking forward to reading this one actually. Again falls into the "required reading" for college but positive nonetheless
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08-11-2014, 03:52 AM #4Senior Member
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Another cussler fan here!
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08-11-2014, 04:21 PM #5Who's that guy think he is...
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Just started "Cloud of Sparrows" by Takashi Matsuoka. Historical fiction set in 1861 Japan.
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08-19-2014, 02:54 PM #6Vitandi
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I started reading Cussler as "flight books" back in the 80's. most of them lasted as long a my flight times, there and back. in the storeroom at work we kept a bookshelf of books that workers borrowed for trips... there was a lot of Cussler and oddly Andrew Greeley. you took and added to the shelf as you wanted . back then I usually had a suitcase packed and ready to go straight from work.
re-reding Vonnegut's "Player Piano"Be just and fear not.
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08-19-2014, 04:13 PM #7
I enjoyed the early Cussler books also.
I am now reading :
Musashi
by Eiji Yoshikawa, Charles S Terry (Translator) 984 op
Miyamoto Musashi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I read this when it came out and rereading it, I find I have changed! That is the advantage of a reread after some years' time lapse.
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08-19-2014, 04:35 PM #8Senior Member
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