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Mish mash => Open Forum => Topic started by: Sgt Mac on January 14, 2013, 02:40:49 PM
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Since there's a 'What are you listening to right now?' thread, how about a 'What book(s) are you reading' thread. Might give me some leads on good books.
Jack Higgins- Dark Justice and Clive Cussler- The Thief
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Just finished Executive Power - Vince Flynn
Good read - I'd give it an 8/10 in the Thriller category.
Good idea on the thread :thumbs: I am always looking for good books, even more so now with my new Kindle.
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Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash. Prior to this another Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon. Both excellent reads.
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I don't do fiction ???
Florida Firearms Law Use & Ownership Jon H Gutmacher,
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This NetBook
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FAR/AIM, KLMO METAR, FA, DEN TAC.
Dry as a popcorn fart for some people.
Rick
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I'm all for the FAR/AIM. Just renewed my CFI/CFII/MEI in December.
Loads of fun.
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Does the service manual count? Gonna do some PM work over the winter as well as farkling. :)
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I'm all for the FAR/AIM. Just renewed my CFI/CFII/MEI in December.
Wished I'd known, and we were closer.... Currently 30% though the SEL book, I 'read' 3-4 times a week.
And have read several Burt Rutan and Nat Puffer books, currently 80% finished with Puffer's latest.
Rick
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Does the service manual count? Gonna do some PM work over the winter as well as farkling. :)
Yes.
And I'm reading anything in the Dresden Files series...
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Harry Harrison - Planet of the Damned
Enumclaw, if ya like Neal Stephenson try his 2nd novel "Zodiac: An Eco-Thriller".
Quite different from his current style but excellent fun and full of action.
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"Lost Light"-by a guy named Connelly, crime drama about a retired LA detective, starts slow but gets good.
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Silmarillion by Tolkien. 3rd attempt
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The Girl Who Played With Fire. Sequel to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
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Pepsi, tried watching the movie and stopped after about 10 minutes, dumb, too Euro weird. Book though I found really good, but then the books are always better. OK, back to books.
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SB, I really enjoyed the american version of GWADT, well other than the motorcycle chase scene.
So far the book is good. I look forward to the movie made here.
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Wished I'd known, and we were closer.... Currently 30% though the SEL book, I 'read' 3-4 times a week.
And have read several Burt Rutan and Nat Puffer books, currently 80% finished with Puffer's latest.
Rick
Rutan is a genius. I have seriously thought of buying a kit to build, but not sure I would be willing to fly anything I built. And I am a bit of a performance snob, I really couldn't afford to build anything that would properly entertain me. Acro-wise yes, overall performance no.
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205Vne, 8gph @ 75% @ 8k and 150kt, four seats, 1200+ range @ 65%, ceiling FL180+ ... You get real cautious at building when you know your a$$ will be in the right seat. I'll come visit, maybe this year if I'm lucky.
Erps, reading e6b instructions. It's dry as a popcorn fart too :-/
Rick
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205Vne, 8gph @ 75% @ 8k and 150kt, four seats, 1200+ range @ 65%, ceiling FL180+ ... You get real cautious at building when you know your a$$ will be in the right seat. I'll come visit, maybe this year if I'm lucky.
Erps, reading e6b instructions. It's dry as a popcorn fart too :-/
Rick
Yeah, good numbers for the fuel used. I'm looking at 300+ kts and pressurized. Known icing cert too. But then, I'm a dreamer. If I ever hit the lotto daddy's gettin a King Air. One of the sweetest planes I've ever flown.
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Currently nothing. I actually have to find new material to read as I have read all of my favs, or almost all. I have read all of Lee Child, Vince Flynn, Brad Thor, David Baldacci.
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"Lost Light"-by a guy named Connelly, crime drama about a retired LA detective, starts slow but gets good.
That is the series I am trying to get thru now. I really like the character. I have read 3 books in the series and there are a lot more to read.
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timsatx, I've got a few books by him I picked up at a sale. Almost threw the book away as it looked like it was just a silly LA crime drama read by folks on the beach who never had any excitement in their lives. It got better and now i' going to read the next in theseries after I'm done with this current book about a couple of WWII OSS guys hunting former Nazi's from late WWII Yugoslavia, man is it different, not graphic, well, yeah, its graphic, but thorough in describing torture techniques used.
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"Young Patriots" by Charles Cerami. Story of Alexander Hamilton and James Madison around the time of the Revolutionary War. These guys were amazing and only in their early 30's!!when they created the U.S. Constitution.
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Couple of books I've read multiple times in the last few years and really enjoyed.
American Patriot: The Life and Wars of Colonel Bud Day
http://www.amazon.com/American-Patriot-Life-Wars-Colonel/dp/0316067393 (http://www.amazon.com/American-Patriot-Life-Wars-Colonel/dp/0316067393)
One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
http://www.amazon.com/One-Mans-Wilderness-Alaskan-Odyssey/dp/0882405136 (http://www.amazon.com/One-Mans-Wilderness-Alaskan-Odyssey/dp/0882405136)
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tjpgi, if you enjoy that kind of reading check out "Rise to Rebellion" by Jeff Shaara. In fact I have a copy if you'd like it, respond here and I'll send you a message and get your home address and it comes to your mailbox a few days later, best part? Its FREE!
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tjpgi, if you enjoy that kind of reading check out "Rise to Rebellion" by Jeff Shaara. In fact I have a copy if you'd like it, respond here and I'll send you a message and get your home address and it comes to your mailbox a few days later, best part? Its FREE!
Sounds great. I do enjoy reading about the lives of these brilliant men. It gives me hope that maybe soon someone like these men will surface in our country to help guide us back to our founding principles.
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Monster Hunter International by Larry Corriea.
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Ghost Rider by Neil Peart. Hard read.
Next up is Neil Young's Waging Heavy Peace.
If you are into 60-70's music, David Crosby's Long Time Gone is a must.
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tjpgi, you got mail.
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Enumclaw, if ya like Neal Stephenson try his 2nd novel "Zodiac: An Eco-Thriller".
Quite different from his current style but excellent fun and full of action.
Thanks Boomer, I'll give that a shot. Just finished Snow Crash this weekend.
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tjpgi, you got mail.
PM sent
Thanks
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Just finished reading "The Great Bridge" By David McCullough about the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. Also read his book "John Adams", also a good read.
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Just fnished "Ready Player One"
Very geeky, movie loving, role playing, video gaming...
Excellent book.
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I have it sitting in front of me though I haven't quite started reading it yet. The Intercept by Dick Wolf, who is also the creator and producer of NBC's Law and Order. I did just finish my re-reading of Stephen Hunters Point of Impact.
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Siblings Without Rivalry - by Adele Faber.
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"A Higher Call" by Adam Makos
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I'm working my way through a series. "The Sacketts" by Louis L'amour. Never thought I'd like reading westerns, but I picked one up when I had nothing else handy and for the moment, I'm hooked.
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"Full Black" by Brad Thor. Scary.
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"A Game of Thrones" by George Martin.
My wife bought the 5 book bundle for her Kindle and the way she ranted and raved I had to give it a go. I'm about half way through the first book. Damn good reading! It's hard to put down.
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About 1/2 through volume one of Shelby Foote's three volume set on the Civil War (The War between the States for our southern brethren). I am pretty familiar with American history, especially that period but the way Foote writes I am continually surprised as he does not name the battle coming up but rather sets the stage and we get to watch the engagements unfold. Just finishing up with Seven Pines. Unbelievable suffering and privation, fortitude, duty and bloodshed; I find it a moving read 150 years after the fact.
Brian
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I did not know McCullough wrote a book about the Brooklyn bridge- fantastic! I will have to grab a copy. I am a big fan of McCullough and an even bigger fan of the Brooklyn Bridge, one of the few truly magnificent engineering feats that I am aware of.
Brian
Just finished reading "The Great Bridge" By David McCullough about the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. Also read his book "John Adams", also a good read.
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That would be 'The War of Northern Aggression'.
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I sometimes read two books at once, I'll be starting "Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest" this week. I've been searching for months for that book, finally found it in hardback for $2 at a Goodwill store.
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The series, A Song of Ice and Fire. Hooked... Half way through A Feast of Crows.
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That would be 'The War of Northern Aggression'.
+1
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Berlin : The downfall...1945 by Anthony Beevor
As writing goes this one would be hard to top
Read it before and gave the book away... Just picked up a hardback copy at a boot sale for 20p. That will be about 30 cents ;D
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Berlin-Downfall-1945-Antony-Beevor/dp/0141032391 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Berlin-Downfall-1945-Antony-Beevor/dp/0141032391)
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Berlin : The downfall...1945 by Anthony Beevor
As writing goes this one would be hard to top
Read it before and gave the book away... Just picked up a hardback copy at a boot sale for 20p. That will be about 30 cents ;D
There you go again. Guess what we buy at a boot sale? ;)
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There you go again. Guess what we buy at a boot sale? ;)
Boots? ;D
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Trunks? Although, the best I saw was a "GROJ" sale, this was way before the awful spelling of the younglings nowdays and their texts. It meant Get Rid Of Junk sale. ;D All my books are from sales, Goodwill, Salvation Army, resale stores, I never buy new, and I never buy hardback unless theres no other way around it, maybe once every 5 years or so.
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Is this the answer a question with a question thread?
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I thought it may have been arguments, but that's down the hallway.
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Is this the answer a question with a question thread?
Not sure.. is it?