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The Bible - preferably on a daily base.

The Talmud - in between to get the hang of it.

The Koran - also in between, to get the hang of it.

Louis Lamour - usually when on holiday, for the fun of it.
 
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This one requires some explaining.

When I was in the third or fourth grade as a class we read a book called The White Mountains the one on the left.

The storyline is several hundred years after our time Earth has been invaded and overtaken by a race of aliens.

The aliens are never seen or described in the book.

The aliens are represented by tripod walkers and it's never made clear in the first book whether the tripods are the aliens or are the alien's vehicles.

The aliens practice mind control on all human beings the age isn't made clear in the book but it's basically once they hit early puberty say 13 to 15 years old.

I live in a wind farm. I can't walk out my house and look in any direction and not see a turbine.

The turbines reminded me of these books. So I bought the set on eBay and I'm working my way through it.

Even after 50 years the books are surprisingly well written . Even though they're written out of fourth or maybe 5th grade level. They were written when fourth or fifth graders were expected to be better educated than they are today.
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Be sure to check out the prequel, When the Tripods Came

(Edited to correct title). Our teacher read the original 1968 series to us in gradeschool too and we loved them. The prequel was written 20 years later. Now my kids have enjoyed them!
Todd
 

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I have neglected reading for a while, other than a passage from the Bible, but I recently spent some time in the hospitial and I am slowly bouncing back. In the last week I have read:

Shotluck, by Jeff Cooper (I read it when it came out but read it recently with new interest!)
Another Country, also by Jeff Cooper

And now I'm reading The Authentic Wild West by James D. Horan (1976) - I haven't read this in 40 years, he has a lot of supporting documentation!

Riposte
 
P. T. Deuterman's WWII series. Excellent so far. So were his earlier works. My wife stopped reading them because they kept her up at night checking that all the doors and windows were locked.
 
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. Is touted as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, western novel. I find if monotonous, hard to read, similar to some of Faulkner's works... he isn't quite sure where to use, or just to use, punctuation. A lot of "old west" terms, that to really understand the book, you would have to have a lexicon from the "old west". That being said, if anyone is interested in reading it, drop me a PM and I will send it to you when I am done. I just ask for cost of postage. By the way, I can only get through about 20 or so pages a day, so it might be awhile.
 
toddimusnimski said:
Be sure to check out the prequel, When the Tripods Came

(Edited to correct title). Our teacher read the original 1968 series to us in gradeschool too and we loved them. The prequel was written 20 years later. Now my kids have enjoyed them!
Todd
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I found a set of all four books on eBay for like $15. I haven't read When The Tripods Came yet.

I'm also looking for his The Sword of the Spirits trilogy
 
I discovered When the Tripods Came as an adult but really appreciated having the backstory. It's also a nice sense of nostalgia to revisit books from my childhood.

Besides the Tripods series, author John Christopher wrote The Lotus Caves, another good juvenile read but not as well-known. Love the groovy 60's artwork!

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Reading Quantum Tempest in the Oregon Files series started by Clive Cussler.
This one was written by Mike Maden.

Some like it. I do not.
To contrived and has unneeded details that do not develop the story line.
e.g. Extensive discussion of Japanese Archery equipment and ritual.

The plot Sickens.

I am reading copy from local library.
Free and still not worth my time.

I will not finish it.

Bekeart

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Quoting from a review:
This book is all over the place and ridiculously off pace for an Oregon Files book.
 
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“The Second World Wars” by Victor David Hansen. Yes, it’s plural. It’s a good commentary on how different the fighting was around the globe. Good read so far.

Still working through “The Politics of Heroin.” By McCoy. It’s a very good book. It has a lot of detail and history and jumps around a bit, so that makes it a hard read, but very interesting.

(I tend to have 2-3 books going at any one time.)
 
Re-reading "The Bridge at Remagen" by Ken Hechler. Last read it 30+ years ago. Ken Hechler was a war historian assigned to the US Army during the push to cross the Rhine River and enter the center of Germany in early March 1945. His record of the history later became the movie of the same name. The crossing gave the USA, Great Britain, and Free French divisions a first crossing into western Germany while Russian troops marched towards Berlin. If they had not found and crossed this bridge, Russia might have occupied all of Germany at the end of WWII. Effected the history of the world post-WWII.
 
Just finished reading the book "Frankenstein." Surprisingly, none of the Frankenstein movies are even remotely similar to the book. The only common element is that Victor Frankenstein builds a creature out of body parts and brings it to life. Otherwise, you wouldn't even know that the movies are based on this book.
 
Just finished re-reading Chic Gaylord's Handgunner's Guide. Sorting through the pile to see what to re-read next. Before that, it was Joyce Lee Malcom's Right to Bear Arms--outstandingly researched and written history of the pre-American-revolution treatment of the individual right to arms in Britain. A real view of the reasons for several parts of our Bill of Rights.
 
I am currently reading Saps,Blackjacks and slungshots.
By Robert Escobar
Only book I know of on the history and use of a misunderstood weapon system.
 
Just finished reading Son of Witch after finishing Wicked. Both are based on the Wizard of Oz and present the wicked witch of the west in an entirely different light. Very involved storylines.
 
“Mississippi Mud.” Great true crime account of the last of the Dixie Mafia and a lot of crooked, murderous stuff in the Deep South.
 
...I am a fan of Dr. Eric Kline's two books "1177", and "After 1177" which cover the late Bronze Age collapse and the distinctly different world after recovery and move into the Iron Age. Both were excellent in making plain the rise of the Phoenicians and power shifts of the time. I'm now reading his book about the Amarna Letters and it is just a good. He definitely has a gift for communicating what could otherwise be pretty dry facts in an engaging manner.
 
Just finished "The People of the Book" and "Requiem for Battleship Yamato" and have started on "The Nazi and the Psychiatrist"
 
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