Re: With time on your hands, what are you reading?
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Well I don't have any books here, wasn't really planning on staying here long. I thought about downloading a book to my kindle but with the crappy, limited internet we get here it would probably take a week to download and use up all my limited download ability. So, I'm stuck reading moparts.
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Re: With time on your hands, what are you reading?
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Re: With time on your hands, what are you reading?
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Since you asked, my recent stack of read Non-fiction:
"Fascism" Madeleine Albright 2018
"The Sociopath Next Door" Martha Stout, PhD 2005
"The Art of the Deal" Donald Trump, 1987
"Paris 1919" Margaret Macmillan 2001
"How Democracies Die" Steve Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt 2018
"Sacred Duty" Tom Cotton 2019
"Once upon a time in Russia" Ben Mezrich 2015
"A very stable Genius" Philip Rucker & Carol Leoning 2020
"Fear" Bob Woodward 2018 will finish within a day or two
The last two were given to me for reading by my 90 year old mother.
I prefer non fiction, as I get enough fiction on the nightly news shows.
Everything above I found to be a worthwhile read, and will only discuss by PM, until further notice.
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Re: With time on your hands, what are you reading?
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I recently read Moby Dick, by Herman Melville. I never read it before until now...great story!
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Re: With time on your hands, what are you reading?
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This. Very sad but a good read. A must read for a die-hard RUSH fan.
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Re: With time on your hands, what are you reading?
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I recently read Moby Dick, by Herman Melville. I never read it before until now...great story! Check out "In the Heart of the Sea" it is the true story of the event that inspired Melville to write Moby Dick. Excellent book.
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Re: With time on your hands, what are you reading?
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I recently read Moby Dick, by Herman Melville. I never read it before until now...great story! I probably started Moby Dick a half-dozen times before I got past the 30th page. When I finally did read it, I was glad that I did. It's easily one of the best American novels ever written. Like a lot of readers, I struggled reading the long and descriptive passages related to the anatomy of whales, etc., but Melville's knowledge of whales and the whaling industry is impressive. It's probably not true, but I read somewhere that Melville purposefully made those passages tedious and boring to give the reader an idea of what it was like to be stuck at sea for months on end.
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Re: With time on your hands, what are you reading?
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I just finished Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants.
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Re: With time on your hands, what are you reading?
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THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE AMERICAN RACING CAR by Griffith Borgeson "The Golden Age of the American Racing Car" emphasizes the human side of racing history, offering insight into the men who shaped the golden age. Covering a period of time from the 1910s through the 1930s, the book describes the historical development of race car technology and presents fascinating information on race courses, designers, builders, drivers, and events. Racing pioneers covered include: Fred Duesenberg, Louis Chevrolet, Harry Miller, Leo Goossen, and Fred Offenhauser." I find it a fascinating read. https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Age-American-Racing-Car/dp/B000LB60SO
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Re: With time on your hands, what are you reading?
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I just finished Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants. Next on your list should be "Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics: The History of the Explosive that Changed the World" by Jack Kelly. Very readable.
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Re: With time on your hands, what are you reading?
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That sounds interesting, I have no idea how those without all the current technology back in that day could accomplish so much. Based on all the complaining today with just "Stay at home", we would of back in that day would have a hard time just getting a bicycle manufactured. I'll track down your book read and give it a shot.
Reality check, that half the population is smarter then 50% of the people and it's a constantly contested fact.
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Re: With time on your hands, what are you reading?
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Lots of interesting books here. The one listed by JCC that I would highly recommend to everyone here is "The Sociopath next door". If you are not a Sociopath or a Psychopath, it is extremely hard to understand the way they think. I guarantee you will recognize people you know and have worked with after reading this book. As to fiction, anything by John Sandford is good, the Jack Ryan books that Clancy started and have been well carried on by some other authors, and the Walt Longmire novels make nice, quick "airplane" reads.
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Re: With time on your hands, what are you reading?
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Reading lots of books lately on southern civil war generals. The books aren't as plentiful as one might expect once you get off the big guys like Lee/Jackson but what I have found is most of these guys really had some odd habits and beliefs. Lemon eating, going around with one arm up in the air to help blood flow, etc. Jackson was considered very odd and pretty much a rube by almost all the other generals. Even once he became famous, most of the solders couldn't believe it was him when they saw him as he was completely dirty and dressed like a regular solder, not an officer. For those from the more refined parts of VA this was odd as they had tailored uniforms and held balls in the towns they occupied.
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Re: With time on your hands, what are you reading?
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The First and the Last by Adolph Galland Wow! I have "Fighter General" by Galland. I have read that twice.
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Re: With time on your hands, what are you reading?
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I recently read Moby Dick, by Herman Melville. I never read it before until now...great story! And I also read that one & finished it a few months ago! My dad had it in his library. Queequeg................ Great book. Never did tame the great white whale.
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Re: With time on your hands, what are you reading?
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I recently read Moby Dick, by Herman Melville. I never read it before until now...great story! I probably started Moby Dick a half-dozen times before I got past the 30th page. When I finally did read it, I was glad that I did. It's easily one of the best American novels ever written. Like a lot of readers, I struggled reading the long and descriptive passages related to the anatomy of whales, etc., but Melville's knowledge of whales and the whaling industry is impressive. It's probably not true, but I read somewhere that Melville purposefully made those passages tedious and boring to give the reader an idea of what it was like to be stuck at sea for months on end. I believe it was all quite accurate. He DID serve on a whaling ship & was a real sailor back then. The story itself of the "great white whale" was fiction though I'm quite sure. His detailed writing of life aboard a sailing ship back then & the anatomy of whales I would think was spot-on. The book & his style of writing (old English) was tedious, & very complex. After chipping away at that book for a few months (I'd normally read 4 pages an evening), I finally finished it. I started it in November while my dad was doing poorly & told him I was reading it. My dad passed away on 12/4 & I finished it after - in his memory. The book was a difficult read but worth it. After spending all that time reading it, I could not write ONE sentence in Melville's style or structure as he did. It was that complex.
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Re: With time on your hands, what are you reading?
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Just started reading this one a couple nights ago:
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