"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

mnblade said:
How about non-fiction books, guys? Any tips on good, compelling must-reads about the Old West, Civil War, WWII, etc.?

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I'd recommend 'Triggernometry' by Eugene Cunningham, along with 'Ten Texas Feuds' or 'I'll Die Before I'll Run,' both by C. L. Sonnichsen.
 
For non-fiction on the border with crook is a good memoir going through the US campaigns against the natives and such...quite bias but a good read, I also read a lot into my ancestors so anything on the Norse, their day to day life, religion, art etc is of interest to me.
 
Not sure if anybody is familiar with Frank E. Peretti, But I just finished This Present Darkness and am working on Piercing The Darkness (in audio form)
 
How many of you listen to audio books rather than reading actual hard copies? Do you have a kindle or e reader of some kind?


Whats your preferred method to reading?
 
I don't listen to audio books - I tend to space out and miss whole chapters. I read both hard copies and e-books. I have a Nook that I really like. I do a fair bit of reading and I like not having to build new bookshelves.
 
I do mostly audio more or less because I have a 45min drive to work and a 45 min drive back so its an easy way to make the trip more enjoyable and get some "reading" in.
 
For a while I did audio books while working long shifts with no supervision (not allowed head phones in a shop) but in a 12 hour shift I could get through a lot. I didnt find it hard to focus.
 
I eat through a good amount of audio with just and hour and a half a day, at 12 hours a day i don't think i could afford my hobby lol
 
I use a Nook myself. I get ebooks from my county library, and it works out really well. I never got into audio books.
 
It's like a bedtime story for adults ;) my wife has a nook but we also have a large collection of first edition books...one day I'll have the hobbit and lord of the rings first editions! and if i'm lucky a first edition of the inferno.
 
I always loved paper and "old style" books, but I'm changing.
I got an eBook reader for Xmas and I'm very happy with it. It's extremely thin and light, reading is comfy (more than I thought), and it allows me to go around (especially when I travel) saving room and weight. I read books in three languages (original language) and it's alot easier for me to find foreign books on the internet than order them here. Also, as someone told me, I'm saving a few trees (I had never seen it that way).
I do believe in the charm of paper pages. but honestly I don't think I'm going to step back.
As for audio books, they always felt weird to me, so I don't "read" them :D

Fausto
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Old fashioned book reader here. Of course.

But I'd be may be willing to try the new tech stuff. Karen and I do the books on tape if we have a lot of driving to do. If we're going to be on the road for hours, it's nice to put a book in the cars stereo and go with it.

Carl.
 
I actually would rather do most of my reading by actually reading a book, I just find that I don't have the time for it anymore. Aside from doing a nightly devotional and a bit of scripture reading I find no time for sitting and reading. The one book I have found I don't like on audio is the Bible, I have it on audio but can't get into it, it just feels better to have that particular book in my hands.
 
My sense of timing can be pretty entertaining at times. I decided to haul a load of stuff to the landfill today. It's only needed to be done for about three months, but today seemed like a good day, and nobody checks the weather forecast before they go to the dump, right? Well, it started to rain about the time I finished loading my truck. Our landfill is a pretty heavy clay soil, so with the rain, by the time I got there it was nice and muddy. By the time I finished, my mud-covered truck smelled like it had been buried in rotting garbage for a couple of years, so I decided to run it through the car wash. It's either that, burn the truck, or drive the neighbors out of their homes. So I pull up to the carwash at Jiffylube in the rain, half expecting someone to come out and ask me if I'd lost my mind. Fortunately there was no line. Can't imagine why. I'm sure everyone washes their car in the rain. So I drove inside and chilled out eating my sausage, egg, and cheese breakfast sandwich and drinking a diet pepsi. Now that's pretty funny right there. Eating a heart attack sandwich and drinking a diet soda 'cuz it's good for me. This story is getting smarter by the second. Anyway, the carwash ends, and I realize I get 40 seconds of time under the car dryer - you know, those monster fans that blow all the water off of your vehicle to make it nice and dry. Well, I paid for it, so I'm darn sure going to use it. The best thing is that it's on the edge of the parking lot at the grocery store, so there's something like 900 people who could potentially see me sitting under a fan drying my very distinctive truck off in the middle of a rainstorm. If people ever start treating you like you are smart and you want them to stop, that'll do it.
 
If this was in Carroll County, you're good ;). Hey, I live in Hazard county myself, I can't say anything. That's funny man.

I used to think the idea of an eReader was an abomination. Now, hearing about all of the free books out there, I am thinking about getting a Kindle Fire.
 
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