Re: With time on your hands, what are you reading?
[Re: Hemi_Joel]
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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.
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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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04/24/20 08:46 PM
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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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