Reading List??
Anyone reading anything you would recommend to the rest of us?? Let's start a reading list.
Right now, I am halfway through "The Rifle" where a former Marine bought a Winchester M1 Garand and visited WWII vets, recorded their stories, and had them sign the M1. These guys were all in their 90's and the stories they tell will stay with you.
I just started "Money, the story of a made-up thing" about how currency originated and how value was and is assigned. I am maybe 20 pages in, and it looks to be a very interesting book.
How about you guys?? Ken are you still going with the big books with the fold out pictures??
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As always, my recommendation for the best English prose of all time goes to the immense Master and Commander series by Patrick O'Brian.
I also like the still-ongoing Longmire series by Craig Johnson.
For humor and outdoorsy stuff, there's always Pat McManus and Gene Hill. Plus classics like Gordon MacQuarrie.
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Pretty much anything by Peter Hathaway Capstick and Patrick F. MacManus...
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See Spot Run, Run Spot Run.
I prefer to call them "Pop Ups," Ricci. Constantly surprised when turning the page. Always an adventure. I've moved on from those books with fold out pages. Yesterday's technology.
There is the Classic "Green Eggs and Ham." Or, is that "Green Ham and Eggs?"
I have a couple cured Hams hanging. I've not opened the canvas bags to see if they are green. Maybe I should. 🤔
What were we talking about?
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Modesty and humility do not prevent me from suggesting...
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Anything by Kenneth Roberts. The author of Northwest Passage.
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Rocky Raab: 30422795837083/comments/30422804693659
Modesty and humility do not prevent me from suggesting...
I second the motion...
Great reads!
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The Bible
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My wife threw my last book away, and I wasn't even done coloring it yet. Dangit!
Googled Rocky Raab hoping he was on Wikipedia....no luck. But there is a great snippet from PBS of an interview on his work with NASA. Boy, I would've enjoyed seeing more of that!
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I had that PBS video archived in the cloud, but my account seems to have evaporated.
Wait...Found it!
https://video.kqed.org/video/rocky-raab-moon-memories-kueds-summer-of-space-xlljub/
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I like the Longmire series too. I bet I've read Dark Horse half a dozen times, obviously my favorite.
The chase scene at the end is terrific!
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The art of the rifle by Jeff Cooper.
When the water smokes by Bob Simpson
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in addition to the longmire series there is also a Longarm series of westerns, somewhere around 490 books or so, that should hold you for a few weeks if you like westerns Ricci..........
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I am pretty sure I have read everything Louis L'amour wrote, some two or three times. I read Zane Gray but didn't really care for him. I will look at the Longarm stuff. Thank you.
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"Unintended Conveniences" by Jon Ross.
Think I'm om my 3rd-4th read.
Just getting ready. Great read on over stepping Government.
Fiction with some true caricatures (if you read between the lines), I may be there.
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Yup. I have it here on my shelf. Great book if you can find a copy to buy.
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hoosier: 30422795837083/comments/30422891267611
"Unintended Conveniences" by Jon Ross.
Think I'm om my 3rd-4th read.
Just getting ready. Great read on over stepping Government.
Fiction with some true caricatures (if you read between the lines), I may be there.
I have that on my phone, and have read it several times.
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Greatly enjoyed Rocky's books. I think we may have known some of the same folks, but the Statute of Limitations has not run out yet.
George MacDonald Fraser wrote the Flashman series of very well researched fiction- but would suggest 2 others of his. "Quartered Safe Out Here" was his biography of his time as an enlisted rifleman, British Army, WW2, Burma. "The Complete McAuslan" is semi bio of his time as a new lieutenant with a Highlander unit right after WW2.
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