What are you reading?

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Reading several books

"Sexual Selection and Severed Heads"
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-906832540x-2

"The Eastern Archipelago"
http://ilmu.ssl.sabah.gov.my/elmu/FullDisplayRetriever.jsp?0000038996
I love old books. This was published in 1880. Handwritten presentation to by Sergt Major Hood, S.W.A. to C.R. Lewis for Steadiness and Attention at Drill. Xmas 1881"

"Moro Swords" by Robert Cato
http://www.eriksedge.com/MoroSwords1.html

"Islamic Weapons -- Maghrib to Moghul" Anthony C. Tirri
http://www.oriental-arms.co.il/item.php?id=1174

Anyone reading any of these, I would love to discuss them!

Anne is reading "The Archeology of Weapons -- Arms and Armour from Prehistory to the Age of Chivalry" By R.Ewart Oakeshott
http://www.ancient-empires.com/arofweap.html

and I read and show her things from the books I am reading

She is right now reading the New Yorker magazine


I REALLY wish we could get our business under other management so we could go see all the things we read about. Just tied up here! Frustrating.

I guess for now, we will just study the world through books, pictures, artifacts and the Internet.
 
Paths of Faith by John A. Hutchison . I don,t agree with everything put forth by the author . I find this is often the case with those who examine faith from a dispassionate view .

The Sleep Of Stone by Louise Cooper . If you like tales of the supernatural that don,t have a bambi-ish quality to them this would be an interesting book . I like the settings which may be stark to some .
 
I just finished Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic, by Tom Holland and Vespasian, by Barbara Levick. Thr first is a very ccessible discussion of the social/economic/political factors from about 145 BCE to the rise to power of Octavian (Augustus) in the late 1st Century BCE. It may be one of thelearest discussions of the how and the why of the collapse of the Roman Republic that I've evcer read. The other, Vespasian, is a rather scholarly biography of my favorite Roman emperor.

I am currently reading a collection ofd short stories compiled and edited by David Drake called Mountain Magic. It includes Crakes "Old Nathan" stories and an Eric Flint novella. You can't be serious all of the time. :D
 
Deep Water and Shoal, by William Robinson. True story of a man's circumnavigaion back in the early 30s, on a 32 foot boat. Never shipwrecked, but he was captured by pirates in the Gulf of Aden, and ate supper with headhunters in the New Hebrides ... finding out too late that they were eating one of the enemy killed the day before.

Steel Boatbuilding, by Tom Colvin. Maybe the most respected steel boatbuilder and designer out there, Colvin uses one of his own designs (a 42' schooner, with a cargo hold) to walk you through every bit of it. That's the boat I want to build - but probably never will.

Walter the Lazy Mouse. I've got kids, right?:D My almost 8-year-old loves this one.
 
Honor In Exile is my fun book

Not a serious book, but I've been reading a lot on the net about small boats, I've been wanting to buy a small aft cabin cruiser, ~$12K, so obviously an older boat is called for. Started taking the US Power Squadron's Safe boating Class.
 
Just finished Dave Barry's "Money Secrets". Tried to be cheap and just read it at the half priced book store, but I was laughing out loud too much and decided i better bring it home so I could annoy the kid while she was watching school video's. Plus the management kept giving me funny looks............

Now I'm reading "Flags of Our Father's" written by James Bradley whose father was one of the flag raisers on Iwo Jima. It is being made into a movie now. Very interesting story.
 
Recently or currently:
Manwatching
Preacher: Gone to Texas*
A Very Short Introduction to History
Chesty
Aliens: Book One*
Aliens: Stronghold*
The Names Not On the Wall
The Age of Alexander

*Graphic novels.

Bill, you need a size-efficient bodyguard for that world trip? I don't eat much, and I pack easily. Hm. Let me rephrase that... :barf:

John
 
Spectre said:
Bill, you need a size-efficient bodyguard for that world trip? I don't eat much, and I pack easily. Hm. Let me rephrase that... :barf:

John
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Hi John,

Actually I need someone to stay here and manage properties, collect rent .... hmmm, ever break any knees? Tenant knees? Will the Army let you keep your rifle?

What kind of khuk would be most effective on Tenant Zombies? I think that I have a few of them. But as long as they pay their rent, they are OK with me!

Umm, John, don't know if I should ask, I mean your business is your business, but you are reading "Manwatching?" Don't know much about it. Never heard the title before. It wasn't written in San Francisco or Atlanta's Midtown was it?
 
Bill,

I used to work security at a club there in ATL, on 10th. In Midtown, incidentally. ;)

I have my own weapons. They are significantly more powerful than my army-issued carbine.

Manwatching (ISBN: 0810921847) was kindly sent to me by Kismet, who's also sent me other reading material. It was written by a zoologist, and concerns human behavior.

I actually have a perfect little tomahawk for mutant zombie tentants...and I love dogs. Especially King Charles spaniels.

John
 
I've been on a bit of zombie kick over the last couple of weeks.

Re-read The Zombie Survival Guide
Picked up a copy of Day By Day Armageddon and knocked it out in a day.
Just breezed through the first 2 installments of a graphic novel series called The Walking Dead. A very human character driven story about how we tear ourselves apart, come together, and find love during the worst of times (What could be worse than zombies?:confused: ;))

I have installments 3-5 of the series as well as World War Z waiting be ordered from Amazon.com

I kind of enjoy mindless fluff when it comes to reading. However, most of my reading is done in the winter months when business is slow. Therefore, i feel that I am obligated to at least pepper some of my reading with various work related (and quite boring) material as i am basically being paid to read, play on the net, goof off, and of course shark the DOTDs;)

Jake
 
Spectre, you need to read the whole Preacher series. I have become addicted to Garth Ennis' somewhat warped sense of humor. His Tales of the Rifle Brigade is one of the funniest books that I have ever read bar, perhaps, his book, The Pro. Even his not so funny ones have a sort of twisted sense of humor to them. Try Hitman: The Ace of Kilers and The Authority: Kev, in that order.

BTW, I would not suggest letting any of Ennis' work lie around where children can lay hands on them. Let me just say that the ideas covered are a bit to mature and the graphics a bit too graphic for younger kids.
 
Hugh, what I've been doing, is looking through the used graphic novels at Amazon, to see ones I could find at a bargain. I'm sure I'll get them (Ennis) eventually. :) I'm also partial to the Alien/Predator Dark Horse comics. Stronghold wasn't the best art I've seen, but great, great story.

And if a movie version is ever done, I want to play Jerri. I have the perfect voice for him.

John
 
I'm not familiar with this Jerri. Is he in the Alien/Predator graphics?

There is a single graphic by Michael Straczynski, he of "Babylon5" fame, called Midnight Nation about the people who just sort of slip between the cracks in society and cease being noticed. It is an excellent read with excellent graphics that is scary as Hell!

Also, for those who enjoy graphic novels, may I recommend Neil Gaiman's superb "Sandman: series. it is, far and away, the very best graphic novel work ever done. I recently finished my fourth timne through it and I have found new things each time. I mentioned this to Gaiman at a booksigning and he gave me a huge grin and stood up to thank me, saying that that is what he wrote them for. Also, Sandman has spun off any number of other series, such as "Lucifer" and three "Death" books. Death is like no Death figure that you have ever encountered before. She is a cute Goth chick who is the separation between what comes before and what comes after, both at birth and at death.
 
I started reading Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil not too long ago, but progress is slow. I also subscribe to several monthly magazines, which I read primarily in my fortress of solitude, aka the "single-seat library."

Eric
 
Advanced Physical Assessment and Understanding Pathophysiology. Got time for nothing but textbooks right now, and this is my little break for the day.
 
I'm in college, so tonight I'll be rereading and writing theses on the poems, "Sex without Love," by Olds, and "The Beautiful Changes," by Wilbur. After that, I'll be going over my Chemistry lab manual to do my pre-lab for tomorrow.

After that, I'll read the good 'ole HI CANTINA!!!! :D Always good reading, every time. Great break from too much high-browed academic literature and talking heads. Just good sense.

Chris
 
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