Are you a reader? KARMA winner is Muley Gil

I'm an avid reader, I go through 40+ books a year. Mostly history, firearms or religion related. I have a long 1.5 hr commute to and again back from work and can read for about 45 min morning and evening. Buying all those books can get expensive!
 
I too, am an avid reader although I only read a few hours a day. I read both fiction and non-fiction, a couple of one type then a couple of the other type. Like one other poster, I read all of Robert B. Parker's books. I also read most all of W.E.B. Griffin's series. I am currently on #4 of the Presidential Agent series and can't put it down. The last non-fiction book was Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell.

For those of you who buy books and like hardbacks, try betterworldbooks.com ,. They sell ex-library books usually for less than $4 which includes shipping.
 
I don't remember NOT being a reader. When I tell people I haven't had TV at home in 12 years, they say What do you do and I answer READ! CASS shooters say their hobby is the closet you can get to the Old West outside of a Time Machine,a good book is the closest you can get
to a lot of other places-and people-as well.
 
Yup, always have at least 2 books going.. including Atlas Shrugged right now.

Deadin, if you like Havill, you might look into Michael McGarrity's series featuring Kevin Kerny. Also takes place in NM and well written.

I just finished "One Second After" by William Forstchen. It's about life in the US after an EMP attack. I read it in one day, could NOT put it down....
 
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My personal library of Civil War books at the present time. I've had to become very selective due to limited shelf space. Last year I donated thirty plus books to the local library that I had removed from shelf space and had stored in sealed boxes for several years. I have three in the night stand That I'm now reading.
 
I read a lot generally 500-600 pages a week. I got turned of on Michael Magarrity in his 3rd or 4th book when his hero traced a 4 wheeler by claiming there were only 3 in a County and all ranchers did it off a horse. I haven't know a rancher in the last 30 years that didn't have at least 2-3 as their main workhorse.
Dick Francis remains an alltime favorite. I enjoy Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Walter Mosley, Robert Crias, Earl W Emerson and a few others. Donald Harstad and Paul Garrison wrote some great stuff, Garrison is no longer using that pen name and I have not read anything by Harstad in a while.
I hit used book stores for paperbacks and order through a local [25 miles away] store when I need to.
I buy every copy of "The Red Fox" by Anthony Hyde and "Endurance" the Alfred Lansing authored I can find to share with others. I think I have 5 or 6 copies of each out now with aquaintances.
 
dennis40x said:
My personal library of Civil War books at the present time. I've had to become very selective due to limited shelf space. Last year I donated thirty plus books to the local library that I had removed from shelf space and had stored in sealed boxes for several years. I have three in the night stand That I'm now reading.
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Before the flood last year, I had 40 lineal feet of floor to ceiling bookcases, mostly full. I didn't get enough water to get to the books, but it got into the drywall and I had to demolish the built-in bookcases so I dumped most of them at Half-Price Books for about .01 on the dollar. I'm being a bit more cautious about accumulating them now, getting more from the library inter-loan system when possible, as I've been through the selection in our local one.
 
I don't read as much as I used to. I was almost a reading addict and had to make the decision to not have a book with me all the time. I tend to go a bit overboard on things I enjoy. I would buy paperback books, usually at least one a day. Think of all the guns I could have bought instead.
 
Can't imagine not reading. Allegedly Benjamin Franklin and some friends were sitting around doing one of those "what if" things; in this case, what was the saddest thing they could imagine. Ben's was a man, alone on a rainy day, who didn't know how to read.

I read mostly nonfiction these days, usually history, science, or sociology. It makes you realize how fantastic everything is, from the smallest atom to the universe, and helps to put your problems in perspective. You also realize how open to question everything is; whenever I hear someone expounding as facts what are really their opinions, I feel sorry for them. Of course, that never happens on gun forums!
 
actually if you like a really good book look up orson scott card's Enders Game, I hold this book very dear. It really captures mental processes and feelings of the main charachters VERY WELL
 
I just finished "Patriots" by James Wesley, Rawles. Very interesting read.....its about how the Economy collapes in the United States and how a group of friends (they are survivalist to begin with) survive the next few years in chaos.

I read this book in two days. It was that intense in very interesting.
 
I read a great deal of books about history. When my daughter was studying about Lewis and Clark in school, I read Undaunted Courage by Steven Ambrose. Read lots of books by Ambrose. D-Day, Nothing Like it in the World, Wild Blue and Band of Brothers.

Read two by David McCullough, 1776 and Truman. 1776 took me about 10 days and Truman took me about a month.

I read a lot of adventures books. Miracle in the Andes, Shadow Divers (very exciting and I do not dive) and Into the Wild.

I read almost anything about WWII aviation. A great book I found last year was about US citizens joining the RAF and the Battle of Britain. It is title The Few by Alex Kershaw.
 
I love reading. I am constantly out of space in the bookshelf. I weeded out the collection a few years ago & got several hundred dollars of credit at the local used book store...so I can buy more books.

I go in spurts with books. I am reading 4 right now pretty slowly. Sometimes I run through them quickly. Two are science fiction. One is the Lee reloading manual & the other is the Standard Catalog of Smith & Wesson. I am taking my time with the Lee & Catalog.

One of my favorites is Borders of Infinity by Lois McMaster Bujold. (It's Sci Fi.)
 
Yeah, I do a lot of reading --- right now, a fluffy little Dave Barry humor piece, Elmore Leonard's last crime novel, and "Traffic" a non-fiction examination of highway traffic dynamics and driver behavior/psychology, as well as magazines and lots of natural history reference books... One of the best sideline gigs I ever had was writing a book review column for a sportsmens' magazine --- lots of free books, an incentive to read them, and a little money to boot! It was nice work while it lasted, which was until the clever editors decided that actually paying for material was unnecessary and didn't fit their parsimonious business model. Of course the "get what you don't pay for" plan put the publication on the skids.
 
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