CAJUNLAWYER
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currently, "The Bear and The Dragon" by Tom Clancy
What are you reading
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29Wheelgunner
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"Tripwire" by Lee Child.
Love this series from Child.
Love this series from Child.
I tend to read by author than by title these days, so I have been on a string of crime novels by James Lee Burke, Robert Crais, Harlan Coben. Waiting for a new Michael Connelly. Also finished Elmore Leonard's latest a couple of weeks ago. How can that guy still be writing that well at the age of 80 or whatever he is? I'm over 15 years younger and can barely compose a grocery list.
In 1963 I got hooked on Thomas Pynchon based on his first book, V., but nothing he has published in the last 20 years is in the same league as his earliest books. I'm now plowing through his latest, Inherent Vice, and he is from time to time as funny and imaginative as he ever was, but the writing seems forced; I know my attention is. I guess I'll just go back and read V. and Gravity's Rainbow again.
On a more serious level, I am reading about electronic publishing and text formatting for Kindle display. I am also intermittently working through a Hebrew grammar because I would like to read the Old Testament in the original before I croak. I already know Greek and Latin, but it's a lot tougher picking up a new language in my 60s than it was in my teens and 20s.
In 1963 I got hooked on Thomas Pynchon based on his first book, V., but nothing he has published in the last 20 years is in the same league as his earliest books. I'm now plowing through his latest, Inherent Vice, and he is from time to time as funny and imaginative as he ever was, but the writing seems forced; I know my attention is. I guess I'll just go back and read V. and Gravity's Rainbow again.
On a more serious level, I am reading about electronic publishing and text formatting for Kindle display. I am also intermittently working through a Hebrew grammar because I would like to read the Old Testament in the original before I croak. I already know Greek and Latin, but it's a lot tougher picking up a new language in my 60s than it was in my teens and 20s.
Opie
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TR
I just started "Wilderness Warrior" by Douglas Brinkley. It's a bio of Theodore Roosevelt with an emphasis on his work as a naturalist and conservationist.
I just started "Wilderness Warrior" by Douglas Brinkley. It's a bio of Theodore Roosevelt with an emphasis on his work as a naturalist and conservationist.
ACP230
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I'm reading The First American Revolution: Before Lexington and Concord by Ray Raphael. (The New Press, NY 2002).
What our American ancestors were doing before the war broke out makes the Obamanite squealing about rude behavior at the Town Halls sound ridiculous.
What our American ancestors were doing before the war broke out makes the Obamanite squealing about rude behavior at the Town Halls sound ridiculous.
BarbC
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Our new homeowners association bylaws and the Uniform Planned Community Act. 
"Basic Economics" by Dr. Thomas Sowell. Sounds dry and boring? It is not. Far from it. Dr. Sowell is a captivating writer. He is clear, lucid, and has an easy-to-understand style. He gives lots of entertaining examples with a nice dose of pointed commentary. Excellent book. Trust me, get a copy from the library or your favorite bookseller and you won't put it down. Just started "King Rat" by James Clancy, too.
Chris
Chris
cmort666
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"Moscow 1941", Chinn's "The Machine Gun", and "Fast and Fancy Revolver Shooting", among others.
gunlovingirl
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"Culture Of Corruption" by Michelle Malkin.
Chik a Boom
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That's next on my list, Misty. I hope it's good.
Wow, what a literate bunch-I'm really impressed! I'm probably the last to do so, but I'm reading Beck's Common Sense that I just got for my birthday.
Wow, what a literate bunch-I'm really impressed! I'm probably the last to do so, but I'm reading Beck's Common Sense that I just got for my birthday.
gr8AmericanBash
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"Separation of Power" by Vince Flynn
Picked up one of his later novels from a clearance rack a few months ago. Loved it, and now I'm going back and reading all of his novels from beginning to end.
Also have in the queue the Lee Child/Jack Reacher novels and the Brad Thor series. Have heard nothing but great things about Child. I'm looking forward to those.
Haven't heard as much about Thor, but they sound good.
Picked up one of his later novels from a clearance rack a few months ago. Loved it, and now I'm going back and reading all of his novels from beginning to end.
Also have in the queue the Lee Child/Jack Reacher novels and the Brad Thor series. Have heard nothing but great things about Child. I'm looking forward to those.
Haven't heard as much about Thor, but they sound good.
Mostly WWII, ETO. Have read all of Ambrose's books as well as Rick Adkison's books. Also Bio's of many, if not all, 5 Stars as well as a few other notables. My Father spent 33 months in the ETO from '42 to the end of the war in Europe. I have a shelf full of WWII and 2 shelves full of Civil War.
Most recent read was Ernie Pyle's Accounts of the War in Europe and the Pacific.
LTC
Most recent read was Ernie Pyle's Accounts of the War in Europe and the Pacific.
LTC
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truckemup97
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Just finished Divine Justice, by David Baldachi (sp?). Now on to T is for Trespass, by Sue Grafton. I'll get back to the serious stuff soon.
I read those two, but most books I "listen" to. Some people get a little uptight when they see a trucker driving down the road with a book on the steering wheel.
I read those two, but most books I "listen" to. Some people get a little uptight when they see a trucker driving down the road with a book on the steering wheel.
Landpimp
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new Brownells catalog 
bricker
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HVAC Control Systems, second edition. It's between that and Fundamentals of HVAC/R. No time for anything else!
Frizzman
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"Roanoke, Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony" by Lee Miller. I like to read historical books. Actaul historical events are far more interesting and unique compared to novels in my experience. I am now reading some books concerning the early English colonies. I live not far away from Jamestown and Roanoke Island.
Pasifikawv
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All the Lee Child novels are darn good. The series of Jack Reacher novels by Child would be my first fiction recommendation(s) to forum members. Can't go wrong with any of them...
The "Prey" series from John Sanford also get high marks.
Vince Flynn novels featuring the Mitch Rapp character also recommended.
