What book are you reading right now? (Page 1 of 40)
Posted: 3/19/2008 11:39:29 PM EDT
| I decided to finally read Band of Brothers the other day. I am a little over half way through it. It is pretty good so far and an easy read. How about you guys? |
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I just finished the first volume of Warfare in Antiquity by Delbruck. It was very challenging, but a MUST read for any student of history. I still have three volumes to go... Shane |
If you have the training, and the tools, and the permit, and you walk out the door *without* them, then you are making an active choice to lay on the floor when the shooting starts - and won't you feel like a dumb-ass?
| I finished Band of Brothers, and I am now reading Lone Star Nation: The Epic Story of the Battle for Texas Independence by HW Brands. It is pretty good so far. I really liked his books The First American which was about Ben Franklin, and Andrew Jackson, His Life and Times which were both excellent. |
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Taking Heaven by Storm by John H Wigger Good book so far. IM on the edge of selling my tv so that i can get more reading and studying done. |
"The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume." --Thomas Jefferson
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I just finished "Don't Tread on Me" and "Killer Elite." Fascinating books, which both point to at least one conclusion: don't let the politicos run wars. Bill |
Please check out the FairTax at http://www.fairtax.org, and if it makes as much sense to you as to me, please ask your representatives to support it!
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Skeletons on the Zahara by Dean King. It's 1815 story of a Connecticut ship's captain, Reily, whose ship runs aground off the coast of Africa. They're captured by the arabs who make them slaves. Beaten at the slightest mishap, there seems to be no hope for them. Then one night Reily dreams he meets a gentleman who promises him that if he can reach Swerah, he can be saved. Reily convinces one Arab trader, Sidi Hamet, to buy him and promises that the consulate in Swearah would pay a good ransom for his return. The Arab agrees and the story of their journey across the desert, drinking camel urine at times to keep hydrated, eating entrails and bugs to survive, is a story of inner strength. The hazards of the desert aren't the only foes they face as other arabs attempt to steal Reily and his handful of survivors along the way. Sidi Hamet does deliver a note to the British counsul who pays the ransom for the American. Treachery by Sidi Hamet's angry father-in-law almost forfeits the exchange but Reily and his men are saved. If you want some insights into the Arab mind, this is a good book to read. The author Dean King doesn't denigrate the Arabs for what happened and even traced on camelback Reily's steps as best as he could. |
| I am now reading Lone Star Nation: The Epic Story of the Battle for Texas Independence. It is very good thus far. I am a little over 3/5ths of the way done with it and I look forward to my next book which will be about cocaine from people eating the leaves once upon a time through the 19th century. |
| Just finished reading, A Pilot's Journey: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman; Curtis Christopher Robinson. It's not the best book I've read, but it is a decent read about a college educated man who enlisted into the Army Air Corps and becomes a Tuskegee Airman. The book covers his post-war experience with the fledgling NSA and how he quit in disgust (these college grads, ex-Army officers, were all given menial jobs and insult to injury, were supervised by a non-college graduate who was younger than them). He returned to college (Howard Univ this time) and became a pharmcist who owned six pharmacies. He still has one today (just to keep himself busy) and does home delivery to his old customers. What a guy! I'd love to meet him someday. I bought my autographed copy at the Smithsonian Aerospace Museum the last time I was there. |
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I just got done with: Uhuru by Robert Ruark and Day by Day Armageddon by J. L. Bourne Now I'm working on: Horn of the Hunter by Robert Ruark next in line is: Something of Value by Robert Ruark  What can I say... I've been on an Africa kick lately... although I realize now that I should have read these works from Ruark in a different order. In my free time I've been trying to leave the TV off and read a lot more than I have lately. I've bought probably 50 books in the past few years and they're not gonna read themselves  ... lots of reading to be done if I'm ever gonna get through it all.  |
Paralyzed Veterans of America need your help:
http://www.surplusrifleforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=42485
http://www.surplusrifleforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=42485
| In the middle of two right now; "Flying Through Midnight" my John T. Halliday for the dozenth time (an EXCELLENT book) and "Veil - The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987" by Bob Woodward. |
Order some golf shoes... otherwise we'll never get out of this place alive
.308- because people have a strange tendency to get behind things when you start shooting at them.
.308- because people have a strange tendency to get behind things when you start shooting at them.