What are you reading?

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One of my favorite oldies "Use Enough Gun" by Robert Ruark.
I just finished another of his oldies "The Old Man and The Boy" About growing up in Eastern NC in the early 1900's. He grew up around Southport.
Most of his stuff is a good read, he died in 1965.
If you have never read anything of his and you like either hunting, fishing, drinking and women, or all of these, then you owe it to yourself to read some of his stuff.
 
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halfway through the Second Book of Tale of Two Cities.
 
John D McDonald’s “A Deadly Shade of Gold”. Love some J D McDonald.
That will be a childhood memory I'll never forget. My dad was always reading one of those books.

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I'd had that same thought before...

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Read the two Dan Kilmer books by Matt Bracken last week. Liked them a whole lot better than the Enemies Foreign & Domestic trilogy.

I've started through some of the Bracken Anthology as well...some good, some meh.
 
A really good book I have started-about halfway through now - Resistance To Tyranny by Joseph P. Martino. Details the history of armed resistance to tyrannical governments, the importance of preserving the right to keep and bear arms with many quotes and sources for further reading. If you have not heard of it, well worth the time. Just thought some of you would have an interest.
 
I’ll admit it.

The “Heat” series by Richard Castle.

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_The_Land_We_Love_
by Dr. Boyd D. Cathey
A collection of his essays about the South
 
Currently reading 3 WW2 books
-Brothers In Arms, about the all black tank battalion
-Beyond Band of Brothers, Dick Winters and his tales of Easy Company's journey
-Forgotten Soldier, a Nazi soldier's tale of fighting on the eastern front
 
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Will do. I've been listening to the Chernobyl podcast and started reading Voices from Chernobyl last night. As Chernobyl is a "docu-drama"I started looking to see if there was any reading material available that goes into more detail about actual events. Came across Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbothan. Ordered it Friday. Should be here tomorrow. Will start that once I finish Voices.
 
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Bleed
I forget who here mentioned it, good read so far.
Finishing up John Plaster's "Secret Commandos"
 
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Excellent, recommended if you want a view of the life of a British motocross champion in the 50s and 60s . Jeff was one of the original hard men - he would train by running cross country with an Olympic champion, except Jeff would be wearing full battle rattle with heavy boots. He autographed the tank of my BSA Victor :cool:
 
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That’s intriguing.
Im about halfway through it and it is pretty interesting.
He does a good job of laying out the evidence, competing theories, and studies from all over the world showing how some of the traits are beneficial to individuals and society when they are not coupled with other traits that make the next Dahmer.
 
Re-reading the Stone Barrington series by Stuart Woods....good stuff.
 
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Just started “Friday” Robert A. Heinlein I think I was 17 or 18 last time I read this one.
 
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Half way through with it (I read when I get the chance). It's interesting for the most part. The stories of people that were on the front line are interesting. Some of the stories of people who were not at the plant, but were affected by the meltdown, are a little slow at times. Some quotes.

"The prayer of the Chernobyl liquidator: Oh, Lord, since you've made it so that I can't, will you please also make it so I don't want to?"

"My little daughter-she's different. She's not like the others. She's going to grow up and ask me: Why aren't I like the others? When she was born she wasn't a baby, she was a little sack, sewed up everywhere, not a single opening, just the eyes. The medical card says: Girl, born with multiple complex pathologies: aplasia of the anus, aplasia of the vagina, aplasia of the left kidney. That's how it sounds in medical talk but more simply: no pee-pee, no butt, one kidney."

"Then we discovered a sign, which all of us followed: as long as there were sparrows and pigeons in the town, humans could live there, too."

Regarding shooting the local animals- "We're dumping them from the dump truck into the hole , and this one little poodle is trying to climb back out. No one has any bullets left. There's not one to finish him with. Not a single bullet. We pushed him back into the hole and just buried him like that. I still feel sorry for him."

"And we saw that all women's uteruses (this we could understand even then) were falling out, they were tying them up with rags. I saw this. They were falling out because of hard labor. There were no men, they were at the front, or with the partisans, there were no horses, the women carried all the loads themselves, and the kolkhoz fields. When I was older, and I was intimate with a woman, I would remember this- what I saw in the sauna."

"He started to change- every day I met a brand-new person. The burns started to come to the surface. In his mouth, on his tongue, his cheeks- at first there were little lesions, and then they grew. It came off in layers- as white film...the color of his face...his body...blue...red...gray-brown." Lyudmilla Ignatenko, wife of deceased fireman Vasily Ignatenko.

While reading it I think it is interesting that some parts of the surrounding areas developed a barter system. Vodka was at the top of the list.
 
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Original Intentions, by M.E. Bradford
 
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Finished this about ten minutes ago.

Great book, that was suggested here on CFF, about the all-black tank battalion in the European theater during WW2.
Would recommend!
 
Just completed Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer
Good, but a hard read.
It's 465 pages, but just felt like a lot longer.

I enjoyed it, showed the hardships felt by the Germans on the Eastern Front.
 
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For all the fans of old school SciFi...

http://www.superversivesf.com/recommended-superversive-reading/

Many people ask us about the definition of Superversive:

Superversive: As a subversive work strives to bring about change by undermining from below, a superversive work strives to bring about change by inspiring from above.

It's a nice break from modern pink SciFi and nihilism.
 
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_Viking Age Iceland_, by Jesse Byock. Next up in the pile is _Historical Consciousness_, by John Lukacs. In the background for episodic re-reading (i.e. one chapter at a time, then a break to digest) is M. E. Bradford's _Original Intentions_.
 
I am about half way through Volume 3 of 5 of Battle Report, The End of an Empire. This is a narrative of the Navy's part in WWII. It was initiated by Frank Knox, Secretary of the Navy, and authorized to be completed by James V. Forrestal when he became Secretary of the Navy. It was prepared from official sources by three Navy Officers, Kraig, Harris, and Manson. I recently finished Volume 2 and will probably go back and read volumes 1,2, and 5 by the end of the summer.
 
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Just started this one.... it's a narrative of our War for Independence, but from the British perspective.

Parts of is contain the as expected British condescension of how we perceive the war, and the American Exceptionalism writ large that we have applied to most of its mythos, but so far it is a solid read discussing just how inhospitable North America was to armed conflict in the 18th century and the difficult task of subduing an angry and armed population that did not intend to submit. In the first chapter it discusses how an armed population takes the traditional modes of victory off the table (holding the strategic administrative centers and town over large swaths of territory) as any ground not physically occupied by a British Army was controlled by the local rebels.

One of the best quotes so far, after talking about British successes in terrorizing the inhabitants of the Highlands in Scotland to submit, was how very different America was.

In the case of the American rebellion, the picture was very different. Perhaps the war's most unorthodox dimension, and the most fundamental barrier to the restoration of British authority, was the fact that the great majority of the adult white male population had access to modern firearms and we're (as one contemporary commentator our it) 'deep into principles.' From Massachusetts in 1774, Brigadier General Lord Percy warned of the threat that the existence of the colonial militia posed to British authority: "What makes an insurrection here always more formidable than in other places, is that there is a law of this province, which obliges every inhabitant to be furnished with a forelock, bayonet, and pretty considerable quantity of ammunition."

It's written by a British professor, so not a progun guy making the argument by any scope. So far it's a great book.
 
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