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Upcoming Hospital Stay - Need Book Recommendation (Vanity)
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Posted on 12/06/2016 6:28:58 PM PST by Veggie Todd

After surgery, I'll be in the hospital for about five days. Not sure how much lucid time I'll have, but I want to take a good book. I like Nonfiction, History, Autobiographies, and of course, America.


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Chit/Chat; History
KEYWORDS: books; fiction; nonfiction; reading; vanity
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To: Veggie Todd

https://www.amazon.com/Washington-Life-Ron-Chernow/dp/0143119966


41 posted on 12/06/2016 6:45:06 PM PST by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, deport all illegal aliens, abolish the IRS, DEA and ATF.)
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To: editor-surveyor

Hmmm...I don’t know what you’re thinking of but it isn’t this.

https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Maya-Code-Michael-Coe/dp/0500281335

An excellent read on an interesting subject.


42 posted on 12/06/2016 6:45:40 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Veggie Todd
Enemies..Foreign and Domestic...by Matt Bracken

Hands down.........

43 posted on 12/06/2016 6:47:05 PM PST by Osage Orange (Cover up after cover up...OUR GOVERNMENT is OUT OF CONTROL)
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To: Veggie Todd

Anything by Eric Larson—Devil in the White City, In the Garden of the Beast, Dead Wake. Pageturners all. His formula is two stories happening at the same time and then they intersect!


44 posted on 12/06/2016 6:49:25 PM PST by MHT (,`)
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To: Veggie Todd

Undaunted Courage (Lewis and Clark expedition-engrossing)
The Last Place on Earth (Amundsen’s Antarctica conquest)
The Worst Journey In the World (Scott’s ill-fated Antarctica conquest)

Read The Last Place on Earth first. Amundsen did it right. Scott didn’t.


45 posted on 12/06/2016 6:50:07 PM PST by randita (PLEASE STOP ALL THE WORTHLESS VANITIES!)
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To: Veggie Todd

Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian, the first of the Aubrey/Maturin series. There are 22 books in the series, so if you like the first, there are plenty to keep you reading for a good while. Set during the Napoleonic wars. Great sea stories.


46 posted on 12/06/2016 6:50:07 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: Veggie Todd

I mainly read historical fiction. If it’s done right it’s entertaining and you can still learn a lot about history. Right now I’m read Conn Iggulden’s Wars of the Roses series. I didn’t really know much about that period of English history, and it’s a good read.

For non-fiction about WWII I liked,

Citizen Soldiers, Stephen Ambrose

Lost Victories, Erich von Manstein

When the Odds Were Even: The Vosges Mountains Campaign, October 1944-January 1945, Keith Bonn

Death Traps: The Survival of an American Armored Division in World War II, Belton Y. Cooper


47 posted on 12/06/2016 6:50:26 PM PST by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: Veggie Todd

The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East


48 posted on 12/06/2016 6:50:30 PM PST by Fhios
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To: Veggie Todd

Strong Men Armed: The United States Marines Against Japan by Robert Leckie.


49 posted on 12/06/2016 6:50:47 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: hanamizu

I second post 42. My husband devoured those novels - all of them. If you love naval history, they’re the best.


50 posted on 12/06/2016 6:51:10 PM PST by randita (PLEASE STOP ALL THE WORTHLESS VANITIES!)
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To: Veggie Todd

So many great books, but I am currently re-reading Ragman’s Son, by Kirk Douglas...his autobiography. Amazing rags to riches story.

Kirk Douglas is a self-made man (and ladies’ man!), and an inspiration. He is about 100 now, and has lived an amazing life.


51 posted on 12/06/2016 6:51:36 PM PST by Swede Girl
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To: Veggie Todd

Art of the Deal.

Although I’ll sure second the Pendergast series and The Breed.


52 posted on 12/06/2016 6:51:56 PM PST by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: BenLurkin
Sepsis: Diagnosis and Treatment

Winning Medical Malpractice Cases with Rules of the Road Technique

Misery by Stephen King


53 posted on 12/06/2016 6:52:29 PM PST by fruser1
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To: workerbee

Interesting!


54 posted on 12/06/2016 6:52:34 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: caver

LOL!

The only time I was in the hospital, except to give me shots that put me to sleep, they left me alone entirely! One night I was freezing, and needed a blanket; kept ringing that buzzer to no avail.

There was a TV though, and a movie on it: Day of the Dolphin, with George C Scott. Remains one of my favorites, for some reason.


55 posted on 12/06/2016 6:54:49 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: Veggie Todd

The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

Biography of nine men going for Olympic Gold in 1936.


56 posted on 12/06/2016 6:56:55 PM PST by grame (May you know more of the love of God Almighty this day!)
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To: Jamestown1630

Day of the Dolphin!
I like George C Scott


57 posted on 12/06/2016 6:57:43 PM PST by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: Veggie Todd

LS’s book is good. Also, there is a graphic novel version of Amity Shlaes “The Forgotten Man”.

Anything by RC Sproul. If you have a kindle, all of his “Crucial Questions” books are free. These are short theological works on specific questions.


58 posted on 12/06/2016 6:58:15 PM PST by SoFloFreeper (Isaiah 25:8)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Leon Uris is great.


59 posted on 12/06/2016 6:58:54 PM PST by SoFloFreeper (Isaiah 25:8)
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To: Veggie Todd
Path Between the Seas:


60 posted on 12/06/2016 6:59:26 PM PST by mathprof
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