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.
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.
Hands down.........
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!
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.
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.
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
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East
Strong Men Armed: The United States Marines Against Japan by Robert Leckie.
I second post 42. My husband devoured those novels - all of them. If you love naval history, they’re the best.
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.
Art of the Deal.
Although I’ll sure second the Pendergast series and The Breed.
Interesting!
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.
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
Biography of nine men going for Olympic Gold in 1936.
Day of the Dolphin!
I like George C Scott
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.
Leon Uris is great.
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