All About Pocket Knives

Thanks to an inter-library loan, I've just started "Battle Cry" by Leon Uris. I read it once a long time ago so it should all be fresh and new to me.

I have embarked upon the reading of a two volume set of The Complete Works of O'Henry.

Charlie Noyes

I read Battle Cry about forty five years ago. I still remember quite a bit about it so I guess it was a powerful novel. I mainly remember the boot camp stuff and the battles in the Pacific.

This past week I read Knight Moves by Walter Jon Williams, a science fiction novel written back in the 1980s. I enjoyed it but it was too dominated by problems related to philosophy with not enough action.

First time for this author so far so good. May have to find his other books.

bighomer wrote:First time for this author so far so good. May have to find his other books.

The Dave Robicheaux Series. I've read 'em all.

The Neon Rain (1987)
Heaven's Prisoners (1988)
Black Cherry Blues (1989)
A Morning for Flamingos (1990)
A Stained White Radiance (1992)
In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead (1993)
Dixie City Jam (1994)
Burning Angel (1995)
Cadillac Jukebox (1996)
Sunset Limited (1998)
Purple Cane Road (2000)
Jolie Blon's Bounce (2002)
Last Car to Elysian Fields (2003)
Crusader's Cross (2005)
Pegasus Descending (2006)
The Tin Roof Blowdown (2007)
Swan Peak (2008)
The Glass Rainbow (2010)
Creole Belle (2012)
Light of the World (2013)

You'll like all his stuff in the Robicheaux series.

bighomer wrote:First time for this author so far so good. May have to find his other books.

He is my all time favorite author.

Ray

I really enjoyed James Lee Burke's style, he's very descriptive makes you feel like you're right there. Just finished this one.gonna start Bullseye.

Over several months a couple of years back after I first discovered him, all I read were books by James Lee Burke - just could not get enough of them.
Recently tongueriver (Cal) put me onto Craig Johnson's Longmire Books .... enjoyed the TV show but enjoying the books even more.
But I have just finished one of the best books on the early years of the American West that I have read for a long long time ... if not the best ever. I'm a bit late to the party it was written in 1923 .... I just did not want this book to end. A cracker of a yarn mixing fiction with historical facts.

'Borrowed' from the net .... " White s tale of young Andy Burnett, carrying Daniel Boone s very own long rifle, is as powerful today as ever. Imagine a young man s adventure in the untamed Rocky Mountains during the early fur trade era. The Long Rifle recalls a time of endlessly expanding horizons, of being one with the natural world, and of innocence. The Long Rifle has a spirit that almost forgotten "



Derek

This'un.

Found a story by a favorite author I hadn't seen before today; The Quest by Nelson DeMille. This man hasn't written a poor story yet. One of his yarns was made into a movie, The General's Daughter.

steve99f wrote:Found a story by a favorite author I hadn't seen before today; The Quest by Nelson DeMille. This man hasn't written a poor story yet. One of his yarns was made into a movie, The General's Daughter.

Thanks to you, I just discovered a couple of DeMille's books I haven't read. Also found out DeMille, is set to release his next novel, The Cuban Affair, on September 19, 2017.

Currently reading: Waiting patiently on my dining room table:

Happy to help Jerry!

Glorious right now with True Blue waiting in the wings.

I read Glorious a while back. Good read. Been looking for the sequel.

Meantime I'm reading this. Originally published in 1915, it's the sequel to Riders of the Purple Sage which I read several years ago. It was originally published as The Rainbow Trail, a heavily edited version of Grey's original manuscript, censored by the publisher at the time because of its strong critique of the Mormon practice of polygamy, a sensitive issue 100 years ago. This version using his original title is supposed to be the real story. Interesting read, once I got accustomed to the 100 year old writing style.

Ken

Currently reading:
Next up:

[quote="Mumbleypeg"]I read Glorious a while back. Good read.

Ken it was a good read, I bought that at the dollar tree, had never heard of the writer but figured for a buck I could trash it. Reading the list now with a couple waiting in the wings. I guess I've read everything that Zane Grey, Luke Short and louis lamour ever wrote. I've probably read everything Lamour wrote three times, and I have them in plastic boxes and if I live long enough I may revisit them again.

Speaking pf L'Amour, I'm on the last story from this collection. This is my first of his works. I really enjoyed it and I am glad there are many more to be enjoyed!

L'Amour spins some great stories. I've read most of them and it's hard to pick a favorite but I think Last of the Breed is the one I enjoyed most. "A man with a knife can survive."

Ken

I really enjoy JK's books, how about that Spyderco on the cover.

I'm also a Kellerman fan. I've read (so far) 20 or the Alex Delaware series, slightly less than 2/3 of the series.

My favorite WW II topic is the Pacific war. Being ex navy, no surprise. Just finished Pacific Crucible:War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 by Ian Toll. I now have in hand his second of the trilogy, The Conquering Tide that takes it to where the first left off, after Midway and goes from mid 1942 to mid 1944. Just outstanding from any point of view. Just now telling the Guadalcanal story.

steve99f wrote: Just now telling the Guadalcanal story.

Be interesting to see what the Navy's perspective is/was on Guadalcanal.

I just finished reading Stephen Hunter's G-MAN. Seems to me like the last 2 or 3 of his books are slow starters and I don't like the trend. Early on, It was good action from chapter 1. Maybe Bob Lee Swagger is getting so old it takes a while for him to get into the swing of things.

Ray

jerryd6818 wrote:

steve99f wrote: Just now telling the Guadalcanal story.

Be interesting to see what the Navy's perspective is/was on Guadalcanal.

Jerry, the author pulls no punches with regard to the situation the Marines were left in. He lays the blame for it Adm King's feet ultimately. It was his baby. The situation wasn't helped by a split command structure ( Nimitz and MacArther) and a nervous carrier admiral.

The author gives as complete a picture as has ever been done in my opinion. Tells the Japanese side of things including political considerations and the allied side of things including political and economic. And not just generals and admirals which is the usual view. Tells of the coast watchers in the Solomons by name, provides anecdotal stories of individual action. Makes for an interesting read, not just battle maps and fleet movements.

I think a Marine would enjoy this trilogy.