Posted on 05/28/2016 6:09:42 AM PDT by vis a vis
Good bad or ugly----what are FReepers reading?
I always get a lot of good ideas from these threads.
Brian Kilmeade’s book
‘Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates’
And now we see Ozippy importing Syrian refugees as fast as he can and congress doing nothing.
Book is about how the USA was astounded with the answer why the pirates / muslims felt they could just take over any ship. Says so in Koran. Gee does that sound familiar? Infadels.
Ecclesiastes
Vanity Fair, Thackeray
Skunk Works, Ben Rich
Digital Apollo, David Mindell
The Essential Schopenhauer.
The English Girl by Daniel Silva.
I usually have two books going at once.
Hippie Homesteaders
“The rise of universities”
By Charles Homer Haskins
“Dreadnought: A History of the Modern Battleship”
By Richard Hough
Zero Footprint by Simon Chase and Ralph Puzzullo, A military contractors sorry about work in the middle east and his experiences in Benghazi. Quite interesting.
I recently had a couple long plane flights, so looked around at Project Gutenberg for some good reading to put on my iPad. I like “free”, and I like not having to carry books on flights.
One thing I found were some short pamphlet-length (100pp+/-) histories of the WWII Pacific Island Campaigns. Guadalcanal, Tarawa, etc. There are seven of them there.
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/World_War_II_%28Bookshelf%29
Appropriate for Memorial Day weekend.
There was also some interesting stuff on Trinity, the first atomic bomb test.
In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash.
I have wanted to read this forever, and at least now I know why the lamp was a leg.
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Diane West’s “The Death of the Grown-Up” and her other one “American Betrayal”.
I just completed reading all of the Bernard Cornwell’s novels of England, finished reading ‘East of Eden by John Steinbeck and now I have ‘Sarum, the Novel of England’ by Edward Rutherfurd in front of me, ready to read when I have the time.
Doomday Brunette. Second in the Zach Johnson series. It’s comedy books, half sendups of noir detective half sci-fi serials. Pretty funny, disposable but funny.
Just finished (a few days ago) James S. A. Corey’s (pen name used by collaborators Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck) first volume of The Expanse trilogy. Good escapist space opera with a mystery thrown in.
Just finished last night CJ Cherryh latest volume in the Foreigner series. Always interesting. That was volume 17.
also reading through the original version of the Douay Rheims Bible and transcribing the notes from the Fathers into a wide-margin Bible. Lots of neat insights!
Next up! I have to read about 10 books on Salvation History and distill them down to a digestible form. At this point I have no idea how I’m going to do that! Well, I suppose I’ll follow the covenants, but I’m looking to put together something that simultaneously goes deep for the viewer/reader yet avoids details that are not essential to the other story.
I usually read several books at a tine. Right now I’m reading America Alone by Mark Steyn, The Infidels Guide to the Koran, and The Jesus Dynasty.
On Ocracoke so...
New Guinea skies : a fighter pilot’s view of World War II / Wayne P. Rothgeb.
Goodbye, darkness : a memoir of the Pacific war / William Manchester.
Brothers in battle, best of friends : two WWII paratroopers from the original Band of Brothers tell their story / William “Wild Bill” Guarnere and Edward “Babe” Heffron with Robyn Post ; foreword by Tom Hanks.
Cruise of the Lanikai : incitement to war / Kemp Tolley.
Dispatches From Pluto : Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta — by Richard Grant
Jesus Made in America — by Stephen J. Nichols
I am 3/4 of the way through Ben Hur (again) and I must say, it is not a riveting read. Most of the time, a movie is not as good as the book— well, in this case I still give the movie a four star and the book not so much. I finally gave up reading it (for now) and have just switched to Kipling’s Captains Courageous. I think I’m going to really like it!
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