Well...this is so "retro" ...but my daughter gave me Andy Weir's The Martian for my birthday back in May (I loved the movie)...I'm just starting it...I know, it's been out forever (in dog years)...BUT 2017 has been THAT kinda year my friends ...I think I will enjoy it!...thank you Val...
I just finished "re-reading" Company Aytch by Sam Watkins...one of the best civil war books written IMHO...it's in Public Domain on Amazon and other sites...download it and read it...I am so looking forward to talking to Sam whenever that time arrives (he may have been friends with my great-great grandfather...their paths did cross in Resaca Ga. back in the day...who knows )
"we've gotta roll with the punches, learn to play all of our hunches Making the best of what ever comes our way Forget that blind ambition and learn to trust your intuition Plowing straight ahead come what may And theres a cowboy in the jungle" Jimmy Buffet
August 04, 2017, 05:31 PM
SilverWolf
Barry Eisler's novels. Great look at the Mossad taking care of business.
August 14, 2017, 03:33 AM
Excam_Man
The new 320 novel... trying to keep up!
August 14, 2017, 03:54 AM
Jraz
"Last hope island' by Lynne Olson.940.5334O5261. Some real eye openers Re: Britain and WW2
August 14, 2017, 04:42 AM
Hamden106
Book continuing later of the Harry Potter series about his kids. Really a stage play format.
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August 14, 2017, 08:33 AM
Ironbutt
I'm going back & re-reading my old classic novels, like Steinbeck, Hemmingway, Mitchner. Grisham, Baldacci and some of the newer writers are OK , but they're just not the same as Clancy, Ludnum & Higgins, Griffin, etc.
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"It's hard to imagine a more stupid or dangerous way of making decisions, than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." Thomas Sowell
August 14, 2017, 08:52 AM
matai
Really enjoying "Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon" by Kim Zetter.
August 14, 2017, 12:58 PM
florida boy
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Originally posted by H&K-Guy: I've been reading "The Bible", by God. It's a different kind of reading, really, so a few chapters a week is enough to get you thinking.
H&K-Guy
I am reading the Bible(King James Study Bible second edition) on the 3 year plan, reading all the annotations, footnotes and references and trying to absorb as much as possible.
The 1611 King James is pretty rough going, if you're reading it through. I might suggest you also try some other accurate translations that are in modern English.
I am using The American Standard Version, The Bible in Living English, King James, The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures, and the New World Translation.
It's kind of nice to have a few translations, just for reference.
If you do it right, you can go through about four chapters a day. Including time spent to meditate on what you are reading, you can finish in just over a year. But this is not a race. The three year plan is just fine.
H&K-Guy
I have read the Bible before at a faster pace but I think you miss a lot. I have a 1978 edition of the NIV, a NKJV and a newer HCSB which I sometimes reference but the more you read the KJV you get used to the writing and it becomes much easier to follow and I really like the style. But any version and reading plan is great.
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August 14, 2017, 01:07 PM
TMats
Back to non-fiction. Just started an amazing book about a little known American mission at the end of WWII in Europe to rescue the Royal Lipizzaners from the Nazis (and the advancing Soviets) from a secret farm.
"The Perfect Horse" Elizabeth Letts
Recall, early in the War, horses were an integral part of Germany's advance into Poland and their annexation of the Sudetenland. The Nazis had ideas of a super horse as well as a super race.
ETA: "While most people associate warhorses with WWI, during WWII, the German Army used 2,750,000 horses, double the number in World War I."This message has been edited. Last edited by: TMats,
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August 14, 2017, 01:10 PM
Orive 8
Currently re-reading the Rigante Series by David Gemmell.
Almost done with the first one, Sword in the Storm.
Maybe I'll re-read the Drenai series after that.
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August 14, 2017, 01:29 PM
RogueJSK
Currently reading "14" by Peter Clines. (Actually, I'm listening to the Audible audiobook.)
There are some odd things about Nate’s new apartment.
Of course, he has other things on his mind. He hates his job. He has no money in the bank. No girlfriend. No plans for the future. So while his new home isn’t perfect, it’s livable. The rent is low, the property managers are friendly, and the odd little mysteries don’t nag at him too much.
At least, not until he meets Mandy, his neighbor across the hall, and notices something unusual about her apartment. And Xela’s apartment. And Tim’s. And Veek’s.
Because every room in this old Los Angeles brownstone has a mystery or two. Mysteries that stretch back over a hundred years. Some of them are in plain sight. Some are behind locked doors. And all together these mysteries could mean the end of Nate and his friends.
Or the end of everything...
August 14, 2017, 01:53 PM
lkdr1989
Reading The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left by Dinesh D'Souza. The book is quite germane to the last weekend's happenings.
...let him who has no sword sell his robe and buy one. Luke 22:35-36 NAV
"Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves." Matthew 10:16 NASV
August 14, 2017, 02:38 PM
4x5
My kids talked me into reading Harry Potter book 1. Only 200 pages to go.
Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice - pull down your pants and slide on the ice. ʘ ͜ʖ ʘ
August 14, 2017, 03:10 PM
HawkeyeJohn
"Civilization: The West and the Rest" - Niall Ferguson.
"The Times Complete History of the World"
August 16, 2017, 02:49 PM
Cliff
Defeating Jihad: The winnable war by Sebastian Gorka. Excellent educational read about Islam and how to counter jihad.
"All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."
--Sir Winston Churchill
"The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose."
--James Earl Jones
August 27, 2017, 10:42 AM
Cliff
Just finished Progressive Racism by David Horowitz, starting Reaper by Nicholas Irving.
"All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."
--Sir Winston Churchill
"The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose."
--James Earl Jones
August 27, 2017, 11:16 AM
226Reasons
David Gemmell - Dark Moon
August 27, 2017, 11:19 AM
MitchbSC
Slowly making my way through a book called The Art of the Deal written by some NYC real estate developer back in the 80s. It strangely parallels how our current President prefers to run things.
They don't think it be like it is, but it do.
August 27, 2017, 12:05 PM
Humbug
HUE, 1968 - by Mark Bowden, account from a 50 year perspective.
Castle in the Forest - by Norman Mailer, historical fiction of Hitler's ancestry and his first 15 years. This is one creepy book!
August 27, 2017, 03:38 PM
HayesGreener
Anything I can get my hands on by James Patterson, Michael Connelly, or Craig Johnson
...but my daughter gave me Andy Weir's The Martian for my birthday back in May (I loved the movie)...I'm just starting it...I know, it's been out forever (in dog years)...BUT 2017 has been THAT kinda year my friends 
...I think I will enjoy it!...thank you Val...
