What's Currently on Your Reading List?
- MITCH RAPP
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I always thought 6 ft 4 Ray Stevenson would be perfect for the part!
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Yeah, he might do. Depends on how good he is as an actor. Ahh but they didn't ask us so we're probably stuck with Top Gun.
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Jerry D.
This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012
Re: What's Currently on Your Reading List?
I like cooking, among many other things, and I am always looking for good instructional books.
This is one I'm currently reading.
The Russell Shorto book I read a few years ago now, but remember it as a great read. So I recomend that for you history lovers. While not true history, it's an accurate story.
This is one I'm currently reading.
The Russell Shorto book I read a few years ago now, but remember it as a great read. So I recomend that for you history lovers. While not true history, it's an accurate story.
Joe
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Jerry, I think Ray is a very Good Actor, did you ever get a chance to see him in the HBO Series "Rome"?jerryd6818 wrote:Yeah, he might do. Depends on how good he is as an actor. Ahh but they didn't aski us so we're probably stuck with Top Gun.
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No. I don't have HBO.
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The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.
This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012
The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.
This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012
- Cowboy7130
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Re: What's Currently on Your Reading List?
Currently re-reading Louis L'amour westerns as my go-to-bed reading.
The last "serious" book I read was Empire of the Summer Moon, by S C Gwynne. a really good history of Quanah Parker and the Comanches. Really, REALLY well-written and researched.
The last "serious" book I read was Empire of the Summer Moon, by S C Gwynne. a really good history of Quanah Parker and the Comanches. Really, REALLY well-written and researched.
Cowboy7130
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Re: What's Currently on Your Reading List?
well..if you like commache history...this is the one.
http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=0300126549
serious text....places southwest history in a new light.
http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=0300126549
serious text....places southwest history in a new light.
Re: What's Currently on Your Reading List?
Cowboy......Gringo........ pretty interesting and inexpensive books.
I orderd both of them. Thanks.
I orderd both of them. Thanks.
Joe
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gringo -
Thanks! That one is definitely going into my own Christmas stocking!
Thanks! That one is definitely going into my own Christmas stocking!
Cowboy7130
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Re: What's Currently on Your Reading List?
I read most of Louis L'amour's books in college. It was a nice break from textbooks. Now I read knife related material and science fiction when I can find a good writer that I haven’t read all of their stuff. I don’t read fantasy or dragons, just ‘hard sci fi.’
I also read theologically based works from time to time. One of my favorite writers is Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Growing up without electricity I learned to read. Reading, working and hunting were my main forms of entertainment as a kid.
I also read theologically based works from time to time. One of my favorite writers is Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Growing up without electricity I learned to read. Reading, working and hunting were my main forms of entertainment as a kid.
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- jerryd6818
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I suppose all of you sci-fi readers have read the Dune series.
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The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.
This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012
The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.
This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012
Re: What's Currently on Your Reading List?
I did not like Dune. For me the book was as dry as the sands in which the story was set.jerryd6818 wrote:I suppose all of you sci-fi readers have read the Dune series.
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I think I have read a few of those.
The last series I finished was the Starfist series; Marines in Space, Oorah!
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I made it through the first book in the series. Bailed out early in the second book. Never went near the third book. I thought it was just me.orvet wrote:I did not like Dune. For me the book was as dry as the sands in which the story was set.jerryd6818 wrote:I suppose all of you sci-fi readers have read the Dune series.
Forged on the anvil of discipline.
The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.
This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012
The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.
This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012
Re: What's Currently on Your Reading List?
Just finished Skeletons on the Zahara by Dean King...about the loss of the US Brig Commerce off the western shore of Africa in 1815, and the subsequent enslavement of it's crew by Arabs in the Sahara desert...pretty intense re-counting of a true story, those men were made to suffer for certain. I like reading stories of survival, nautical stories, historical fiction and non-fiction. One of my favorites is The Sea Wolf by Jack London, read that one many a time.
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We are sure getting older...What happen to the old trashy magazines????...Easy Rider??....just looking at the ol Harleys.....heeehee....Now days an old western novel is ok with me
Re: What's Currently on Your Reading List?
Edgar Rice Burroughs Mars series is on my to find and reread list. I went to my favorite use sci-fi bookstore and found only a single copy of one of the approximately 15 books in that series. I guess everybody else had the same idea since the John Carter movie comes out tomorrow.
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- jerryd6818
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Tons of 'em on eBay but most aren't cheap.orvet wrote:Edgar Rice Burroughs Mars series is on my to find and reread list. I went to my favorite use sci-fi bookstore and found only a single copy of one of the approximately 15 books in that series. I guess everybody else had the same idea since the John Carter movie comes out tomorrow.
Forged on the anvil of discipline.
The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.
This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012
The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.
This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012
Re: What's Currently on Your Reading List?
I recently finished a book by Stephen King titled 11/22/63. It is about a guy who has a chance to go back in time and stop the JFK asassination.
I don't like all his writing, but I really enjoyed this book. He even manages to wrap characters from a previous book into this one!
I also enjoyed his Dark Tower series.
Glenn
I don't like all his writing, but I really enjoyed this book. He even manages to wrap characters from a previous book into this one!
I also enjoyed his Dark Tower series.
Glenn
Re: What's Currently on Your Reading List?
I will soon finish "Empire of the summer moon", suggested by Cowboy on Dec. 12th.
Very good history and apparently well researched.
If you like North American indian history and history of the early American West this book is calling to you.
The book cost something like $7.00 at Alibris.
Very good history and apparently well researched.
If you like North American indian history and history of the early American West this book is calling to you.
The book cost something like $7.00 at Alibris.
Joe
Re: What's Currently on Your Reading List?
Joe,
I read Empire of the Summer Moon when it first came out a year or so ago. Outstanding read. I was born and raised in the Fort Worth area. As a child on family vacations, while driving up through the Texas Panhandle to Borger to see my grandparents, my dad would point out the various Indian sites, like Medicine Mound, Palo Duro Canyon etc. That made the book that much more interesting for me.
I told him about it, and he read it as well - he said he enjoyed more than any book he has read in years.
I picked up the book "The Captured" as well. It's about whites who were taken captive by the Comanche and Apache during the 1860-70s in Texas. It's a good read too.
I read Empire of the Summer Moon when it first came out a year or so ago. Outstanding read. I was born and raised in the Fort Worth area. As a child on family vacations, while driving up through the Texas Panhandle to Borger to see my grandparents, my dad would point out the various Indian sites, like Medicine Mound, Palo Duro Canyon etc. That made the book that much more interesting for me.
I told him about it, and he read it as well - he said he enjoyed more than any book he has read in years.
I picked up the book "The Captured" as well. It's about whites who were taken captive by the Comanche and Apache during the 1860-70s in Texas. It's a good read too.
Mike
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Re: What's Currently on Your Reading List?
Just got a couple of new ones for my birthday:
Unrepentant Sinner - the autobiography of Colonel Charles Askins.
http://www.amazon.com/Unrepentant-Sinne ... 105&sr=8-1
No Second Place Winner, by Bill Jordan
http://www.amazon.com/Second-Place-Winn ... 156&sr=1-1
Under the Overpass, by Mike Yankoski
http://www.amazon.com/Under-Overpass-Jo ... 261&sr=1-1
Gonna be a good weekend
Unrepentant Sinner - the autobiography of Colonel Charles Askins.
http://www.amazon.com/Unrepentant-Sinne ... 105&sr=8-1
No Second Place Winner, by Bill Jordan
http://www.amazon.com/Second-Place-Winn ... 156&sr=1-1
Under the Overpass, by Mike Yankoski
http://www.amazon.com/Under-Overpass-Jo ... 261&sr=1-1
Gonna be a good weekend
Re: What's Currently on Your Reading List?
Good reading there, Blue.
I have a Jordan designed K frame Smith. Model 19.
I have all of Robert Service's work. Great stuff.
Unk,
I hope to get in that country some day. Thanks for your responce. I'm from the West. Spokane, Wa....
But I want to hang out in the real west sometime.
I have a Jordan designed K frame Smith. Model 19.
I have all of Robert Service's work. Great stuff.
Unk,
I hope to get in that country some day. Thanks for your responce. I'm from the West. Spokane, Wa....
But I want to hang out in the real west sometime.
Joe
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Just finished reading this Book and as weird as the Title is it was a Great Read! It's also coming out as a Movie in June 2012. Here is one of the Movie Trailors.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZp7eBSt ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZp7eBSt ... re=related
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