What are you reading, Sig Forum?

July 23, 2017, 10:36 AM

Starting "Hero of the Empire". It's about Winston Churchill's time and exploits during the Boer War.

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July 23, 2017, 02:26 PM

downtownv

Mike Lee- Written out of History.
The unknown Constitutional founders and their role...

Just Finished Make your Bed-
Admiral William H. McRaven

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July 23, 2017, 06:44 PM

Herkdriver

Just finished The Plantagenets by Dan Jones. Prior to this I read his book about The War of the Roses. Both pretty good.

"I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared." Thomas Jefferson

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July 23, 2017, 08:16 PM

Rey HRH

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Originally posted by Herkdriver:
Just finished The Plantagenets by Dan Jones. Prior to this I read his book about The War of the Roses. Both pretty good.

I was part of a group who was into playing a board game based on the war of the roses. It was very interesting to play and was good in learning about history.

For myself, I'm reading "To Do, Doing, Done" an organizing book.

"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.

July 24, 2017, 01:54 AM

dsiets

While waiting for my next Harry Bosch book to become available on my kindle from the library, I'm reading Jim Butcher's Dresden Files.
Yeah, a wizard in Chicago who works/consults part time for a detective on the force.

It's better than I thought it would be. Not great but I find it has potential and the reviews show it gets even better further into the series.

Found it through booklaser.com which posts deals on popular books.

July 24, 2017, 07:44 AM

UTsig

Just finished "The Last Gunfight" by Jeff Guinn.
A good history of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and the town of Tombstone.

Jeff's a good writer, I've read two of a trilogy he's written - Glorious and Buffalo Trails, I have the third on my read list.

"Nature scares me" a quote by my friend Bob after a rough day at sea.

"We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities."

August 04, 2017, 01:01 PM

tanksoldier

Broke down and finally started reading Game of Thrones on my Kindle.

Avoided it, and the TV series, for years.

I'm hooked. Not sleeping, not eating.....

"I am a Soldier. I fight where I'm told and I win where I fight."
GEN George S. Patton, Jr.

August 04, 2017, 01:14 PM

mrapteam666

Never Call Me A Hero:
A legendary American Dive Bomber Pilot Remembers the Battle of Midway.

N. Jack "Dusty" Kleiss.

I am about the fourth chapter in. It is a really fast moving book. It starts with his upbringing in KS to Annapolis to the Battle of Midway.

I started it an hour ago and I will probably make it 3/4 of the way through this afternoon.

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August 04, 2017, 01:39 PM

JALLEN

I finally finished "The Complete Story of Civilization" and took a brief break.

Since then, I have read some Cicero, some Plato, "Righteous Indignation" by Andrew Breitbart, "License to Lie" by Sidney Powell, some "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, a couple of chapters of "A Torch Kept Lit," a collection of obituaries by William F. Buckley edited by James Rosen, and "Guilty: Liberal "Victims"'and Their Assault on America" by Ann Coulter.

Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.

When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown

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August 04, 2017, 03:50 PM

Expert308

I'm in the middle of my biennial re-reading of Red Storm Rising. I'm gathering the last couple of books in Brad Thor's Scot Harvath series, they'll be next.

August 04, 2017, 04:28 PM

icom706

Hey, I just finished my Annual Red Storm Rising re-re-re-re-read too...

Then in quick succession:
The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols.
U-Boat Adventures - First Hand Accounts from WWII by Melanie Wiggins
The Bridge at Dong Ha by John Grider Miller
In progress: The Blitzkrieg Legend: The 1940 Campaign in the West by Karl-Heinz Frieser

Of course I should be working on a resume.

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It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

Ayn Rand

"He gains votes ever and anew by taking money from everybody and giving it to a few, while explaining that every penny was extracted from the few to be giving to the many."

Ogden Nash from his poem - The Politician

"I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation."

Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II.