To: MplsSteve
Just finished “Girl In The Glass” which I think I heard about here. I also finished Jules Verne “Mysterious Island” at the beach last week.
Now I am reading this thread
2 posted on
06/27/2007 6:58:18 AM PDT by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: AppyPappy
3 posted on
06/27/2007 6:59:04 AM PDT by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: AppyPappy
Song of Susannah, Book Six in Stephen King’s Dark Tower series.
47 posted on
06/27/2007 8:15:02 AM PDT by
Ragtop
(We are the people our parents warned us about)
To: AppyPappy
1491 By Charles C Mann
Somewhat liberal viewpoint (in one section he quotes Ward Churchill as an expert on Indian Culture), but overall a good beginning for someone looking a overview into what this hemisphere was like before it was “discovered”.
He does do a good job of debunking the environmentalists view of the Amazon basin as pristine forest.
To: AppyPappy
halsey’s typhoon
sea cobra (another book about the typhoon)
inferno (july 43 bombing campaign by raf and usaaf that destroyed hamburg)
guns, germs, and steel
the battle of heligoland bight (ww1 north sea naval battle)
rules to wargame distant guns (russo-japanese war)
on the list
books 26 and 27 alexander kent bolitho series
books 5, 6 ,7 richard woodhouse drinkwater series
56 posted on
06/27/2007 12:04:50 PM PDT by
bravo whiskey
(everybody's shot. drive the truck)
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