I'm reading The Natural, by Bernard Malamud - 1952.
January 30, 2018, 01:50 PM
RogueJSK
Shift, the 2nd book in Hugh Howey's Silo series. I recently finished the first book, Wool.
January 30, 2018, 02:32 PM
TMats
A Christmas gift. A first edition copy of “The Haj.” Uris
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January 30, 2018, 02:39 PM
PHPaul
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Originally posted by RogueJSK: Shift, the 2nd book in Hugh Howey's Silo series. I recently finished the first book, Wool.
I've got Wool too, struggling to get through it.
At the moment reading Gordon R. Dickson's second book of Dragon Knight series. Not normally a huge fan of fantasy but this one is fun.This message has been edited. Last edited by: PHPaul,
Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent.
January 30, 2018, 03:15 PM
Orive 8
Re-reading the Track series by Jerry Ahern. Book 4 at the moment.
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January 30, 2018, 04:57 PM
Orguss
Origin by Dan Brown.
"I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes"
January 30, 2018, 05:24 PM
Hound Dog
D-Day by Stephen Ambrose.
EXCELLENT read about the D-Day landings in Normandy. Full of first-person accounts, enemy and allied points of view, etc. He is an outstanding author. The book is 700+ pages long, but it's a very easy read. . .
Fear God and Dread Nought Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jacky Fisher
January 30, 2018, 06:22 PM
bdylan
Rebel Yell. It's a biography of Stonewall Jackson
January 30, 2018, 08:04 PM
Humbug
Hue 1968 by Mark Bowden. Recommended reading!
January 30, 2018, 08:04 PM
germandogs
The Cuban Affair by Nelson Demille. I highly recommend!
Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies.
Gene Hill
January 30, 2018, 09:08 PM
PKFan
The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth. Next up is One Year After by William Forstchen (let's hope Forstchen used an editor this time).
January 30, 2018, 09:29 PM
shovelhead
Zora Arkus-Duntov, The Legend Behind Corvette.
Next up, The Moon Is Down by Steinbeck
-------------------------------------—————— ————————--Ignorance is a powerful tool if applied at the right time, even, usually, surpassing knowledge(E.J.Potter, A.K.A. The Michigan Madman)
January 31, 2018, 09:23 AM
UTsig
Just finished "In Harms Way", now killing time reading some Louis L'Amour. I've got 4 on my library hold list for my Kindle:
The Alienist Collapse City of Endless Nights - next in the Prendergast Series Deep Freeze - next in Sanford's Virgil Flowers series
A favorite from a bit ago: Killers of the Flower Moon, what an American tragedy, a very good read.
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"Nature scares me" a quote by my friend Bob after a rough day at sea.
January 31, 2018, 09:37 AM
just1tym
Encounter in Rendlesham Forest by Nick Pope, John Burroughs USAF (Ret) and Jim Penniston USAF (Ret) another classic UFO incident to add to my collection, one of the greatest in fact!
Regards, Will G.
January 31, 2018, 10:21 AM
CoolRich59
Just finished Artemis by Andy Weir. I figured it would be tough to equal his book The Martian and, while Artemisstarted strong, IMO, it ran out of gas and was tough to finish.
I also just read Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick and thought it was excellent.
I'm just about to leave for vacation and picked up Xenophon's Cyrus the Great: The Arts of Leadership and War which was recommended by Ryan Holiday.
_____________________________________________________________________ “Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again." - Will Durant
January 31, 2018, 10:31 AM
Expert308
quote:
Originally posted by CoolRich59: I also just read Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick and thought it was excellent.
I read Philbrick's The Last Stand, about the battle of the Little Big Horn, last year and it was very good.
January 31, 2018, 12:39 PM
matai
7 habits of highly effective people... again
January 31, 2018, 12:42 PM
Deqlyn
Tribe of Mentors - Tim Ferriss
What man is a man that does not make the world better. -Balian of Ibelin
Only boring people get bored. - Ruth Burke
January 31, 2018, 12:51 PM
Hound Dog
quote:
Originally posted by Expert308:
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Originally posted by CoolRich59: I also just read Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick and thought it was excellent.
I read Philbrick's The Last Stand, about the battle of the Little Big Horn, last year and it was very good.
Oh, good. I picked that one up at a Goodwill store, and it's on my "need to read" list (along with about 30 other books).
Fear God and Dread Nought Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jacky Fisher
