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.
Just finished Cormac McCarthy’s “Border Trilogy.”
Catastrophic Failure by Stephen Coughlin.
Russell Kirk’s, “The Roots of American Order”. Also a Perry Mason, very relaxing.
I would also highly recommend reading all of the novels by F van Wyck Mason, who wrote historical novels of early America during the Revolution. You may have trouble finding his books in the Public Library but Amazon.com has them. His novels would be considered ‘politically incorrect’ today. He was a retired military officer that seems to be biased towards ‘Making America Great Again’.
“One of my favorites is “The First Team” by John Ball. I’d love to find a hardback of that to read again a few times.”
Amazon has it used through third-party sellers for cheap. I read the paperback when I was in Jr. High back...well, a long time ago.
1Peter
McCartney The Life. Philip Norman
thanks
In my car: A Complaint Free World http://www.amazon.com/Complaint-Free-World-Complaining-Enjoying/dp/0770436390?ie=UTF8&keywords=a%20complaint%20free%20life&qid=1464444026&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1
At home, in book form: Noah’s Compass by Anne Tyler
On device that I use when I walk the dog: A God In Ruins by Kate Atkinson
The Federalist Papers.
Labyrinth by Walter Schellenberg (1956), Hitler’s Secret Service Chief in WWII.
No higher pucker-factor than having your immediate bosses be Heydrich, Himmler, and Hitler.
“Captain Caution” by Kenneth Roberts. Historical fiction about the War of 1812. I’ve been reading his books for decades and they always thrill me. Finished his “Boon Island” a couple months ago. It’s a historical fiction tale about a shipwreck six miles off the coast of Maine in 1715 in December. You’ll never be so cold in your life as when you are reading this book.
Next-up: “Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West” by Hampton Sides. We are meeting the kids in the Rockies in a few weeks so I thought it would be good to read about westward expansion and conquest, particularly Kit Carson.
After the standard bearers trample on their own banners, Count Vivien says: Now we shall have no one who can hold us together, nor any standard we can rally to. Men without a lord are lost indeed; leave me, noble, valiant knights, for I cannot hear or endure that so many noble men should be betrayed. I shall go forward into this grievous peril; I shall not leave this place, for I have sworn to God that I will never flee because of the fear of death. . . .And I on my side swear to you, by God the mighty king, and by the spirit which he had in his body when he suffered death for sinners, I will not fail you whatever I may suffer. Then at this word he brought out his standard.
Then he puts his hand into his scarlet hose and drew out a pennon of silk; with three golden nails he fastened it to his lance; with his right arm he has brandished the shaft; the streamers reach down to his fists. He spurs on his horse, so that it cannot but leap forward, and strikes a pagan on his double shield; he splits it across from one edge to the other, he cuts through the arm in the shield-strap, he cuts open his chest, and strikes right through his heart; he thrusts his great lance through his spine, and strikes him down full-length dead on the ground. He shouts ‘Monjoie'; that was the battle cry of Charlemagne..
“The Iodine Crisis: What You Don’t Know About Iodine Can Wreck Your Life” by Lynne Farrow
I read “One Second After” not long ago and enjoyed it so much I followed it up with “One Year After.” Very chilling tales that I hope are exaggerated.
Since I had gotten into the mood for apocalypse books, I then read his “Day of Wrath.”
It’s time for some more cheerful books now.
Just started on The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman.
The first Sparrowhawk by Edward Cline.
Also, Hal Gold’s Unit 731 Testimony.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.