So what have you read recently? what are reading?

"Stuka Pilot" by Hans Ulrich Rudel and "Duel of Eagles" by Peter Townsend.
 
"Lindberg" by Scott Berg(?), and just picked up a paperback copy of "Term Limits" by Vince FLynn, but I've got lots waiting in the wings. I got "Lovely Bones" from NetFLix this week, we'll probably watch it tonight, it sounds different but got stellar reviews.

One of the most moving books I've read in the last year was "The Last Battle" by Ralph Weeterhahn about the Mayzquez incident and the subsequent battle. It certainly hit home, I was a 20 year old AF cop and we were told to bag a bag and make sure we had our dog tags 'cause we might be out our way. We didn't go, but the story of what happened to the Marines, well let's just say, you'd have to be a harder man than me not to have you affect you.

Take care...
 
"The Big Burn" by Timothy Egan. It's about Teddy Roosevelt, the founding of the US Forest Service, and the fire of 1910 that burned large parts of Idaho and Montana.
 
I've just finished WHY EVOLUTION IS TRUE, by Jerry Coyne, an excellent, readable, and comprehensive treatment of a topical subject. If you know anybody who's graduation this spring, it's worth considering as a graduation gift. Here is the starred review from Publishers Weekly, at Amazon:

With great care, attention to the scientific evidence and a wonderfully accessible style, Coyne, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Chicago, presents an overwhelming case for evolution. Ranging from biogeography to geology, from anatomy to genetics, and from molecular biology to physiology, he demonstrates that evolutionary theory makes predictions that are consistently borne out by the data—basic requirements for a scientific theory to be valid. Additionally, although fully respectful of those who promote intelligent design and creationism, he uses the data at his disposal to demolish any thought that creationism is supported by the evidence while also explaining why those ideas fall outside the bounds of science. Coyne directly addresses the concept often advanced by religious fundamentalists that an acceptance of evolution must lead to immorality, concluding that evolution tells us where we came from, not where we can go. Readers looking to understand the case for evolution and searching for a response to many of the most common creationist claims should find everything they need in this powerful book, which is clearer and more comprehensive than the many others on the subject.

 
I've been reading Deer Hunting with Jesus by Joe Bageant. I should have read the subtitle, Dispatches from America's Class War, a little more closely tho. The guys a pretty radical lefty at heart, though justifiedly claims redneck roots, and spends an inordinate amount of time bashing big business, GWB, the Republican party, etc. On the other hand he is right on when he criticizes the liberal elite, Democratic and urban, as having no idea what is going on in the heartland, and regarding the rednecks thereof as a barbarian tribe. Defends gun ownership, too, so I'll give Joe points for that.

Last couple of days tho, as the lefty rant above reached a crescendo, I switched to Panama, a Lengendary Hat, by Martine Buchet. Got a new one on the way, panama, that is.

(Also one of yours on the way, bellevance. It will be my first, and I look forward to it! :))
 
Volume III of The Civil War by Shelby Foote. Slow reading, but a must-read for anybody interested in the war.
 
I am re-reading all of the Sackett series by Louis L'Amour. I think he is the greatest western writer ever.


snakeman
 
I've read all of Robert Rourks books. About all of Jack O'Connors, most by Elmer keith, John Pondoro Taylor, JA hunter, WDM Bell and many on African and Indian hunting. I read quite a bit of Historical that is Military related. Anything I can find on the Missouri-Kansas conflict from the 1850's to the end of the civil war. Since I do not do HBO I'll read the PACIFIC book. I also read all the Death in the longrass or what ever by Peter Hathaway Capstick. The man could spin a good story. In one of his books he covered death by snakes, I read it in the middle of the winter with snow on the ground, I kept wanting to pull my legs up and look under my chair for snakes. I'm going to look for the Last Battle mentioned above. I also enjoy reading the S&W Forum. Nice folks and very interesting items.
 
I just finished reading "Strong Men Armed" by Robert Leckie. I am unable to do it justice with my limited vocabulary but i do recommend it highly. Prior to this, I read "The Only Thing Worth Dying For" by Eric Blehm. This last gives some pretty good insight into the issues at play in Afghanistan.

Both of these are "keepers" that I will re-read from time to time.

FrankD
 
I'm cramming for an upcoming trip to the Sierra Nevada range,up, over, and around, so am about a third through The Sierra Nevada, Naturalist's Guide, which sends me spinning off to other references, such as the charmingly lyrical A Natural History of Western Trees, by Donald Culross Peattie, The Complete Trees of North America, and such page-turners as Geology Underfoot in Death Valley and Owens Valley.

Accumulating dust in the meanwhile is a growing stack of fiction ---Cormac McCarthy, Barry Hannah, Ed McBain, and others, along with Richard Dawkins latest, The Greatest Show on Earth, illuminating evolution, and more. I'm gonna need to spend a lot of weekends lazing at the lakeshore or in the mountain pines, wearing out my folding chaise lounge, cold beverage in one hand, book in the other, with protection nearby of course, to catch up...
 
jkc--THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH is a wonderful book. You'll be enlightened by it, as I was.

If Cormac McCarthy's THE ROAD is the novel on your list, well, I'm sure you already know it's about the bleakest contemporary novel there is. Yet everyone I know who has read it says it's worth reading--which is worth plenty--and I agree.

If you have not read THE LONG WALK, the True Story of a Trek to Freedom, by Slavomir Rawicz, it may be the most extraordinary true story about human endurance in the history of literature.

From an Amazon review: "The story in a nutshell: A Polish Army officer is captured by the Soviets after they have joined Hitler in dismembering his country. Rawicz (the officer) is tortured in the Soviet prison system and sent to the Gulags. Faced with misery in Siberia and probable death, he and a band of others escape and undertake a two thousand-mile long journey from the snows of Siberia through Mongolia, the Gobi Desert, and across the Himalayas toward British India and freedom."
 
Right now I am reading "Use enough Gun" by Robert Ruark and "Ghosts of Tsavo" by Philip Caputo. Next on my list is "Man-eaters of Tsavo" by J.H.Patterson. I'm on an Africa kick right now for some reason. I'm even trying to find a Bubba'd Lee Enfield with a decent bore so I can start on my Lee Speed clone project.
 
"jkc--THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH is a wonderful book. You'll be enlightened by it, as I was.

If Cormac McCarthy's THE ROAD is the novel on your list, well, I'm sure you already know it's about the bleakest contemporary novel there is. Yet everyone I know who has read it says it's worth reading--which is worth plenty--and I agree."

Bellevance --- I'm looking forward to reading Dawkins' Greatest Show on Earth. He's not only an admirable intellect, but also a great writer.

I've read, and re-read The Road, and also have seen the short/limited run film. It affirms my belief in the lowest-common-denominator behavior of humans, as did Lord of the Flies, and similar novels, and prompted hoarding of ammo, &tc.
 
Just finished "All Things Bright and Beautiful" By Herriott.
Read recently:
"An Army at Dawn". Rick Atkisson
"Rickenbacker", by Rickerbacker. (He sure didn't like FDR).
"Birth of a Legend, the Spitfire", by Jeffrey Quill.

About to start:
"Sharps Rifles and Spanish Mules". Wayne Austerman.
"Crusade". Rick Atkisson.

Gotta get a copy of "Shots Fired in Anger" by John George.
 
Herodotus, "The Histories": Greek history to include the first and best account of the battle of Thermopylae. Sort of the Ernie Pyle of his day...

"Shots Fired In Anger" is excellent, as is "Beyond Band of Brothers" by Dick Winters. "The Marauders" by Charleton Ogburn good also.
 
I just finished ship wrecks on the north carolina coast. now im reading the wilderness hunter by theodore roosevelt
 
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