What books are your reading?

Riverwarrior

Riverwarrior

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When your not out in the woods or at work, what books are you reading? I usually read one book at a time, but this winter, I'm going between 3 books.

1. Valley Forge (Newt Gingrich)
2. Lights Out (David Crawford)
3. The Creature From Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve (G. Edward Griffin).
 
I am almost finished The Prow Beast by Robert Low. It is the last in a 4 book series about a Viking band called the Oathsworn. If you like Bernard Cornwell's Saxon series, you'll love these.
 
Way too many books honestly. I have my (4)books for school, so some get read more than others.

I am reading Stiglitz' Globalization and Discontents, but I can't find where it is lately. Currently reading The New Market Wizards by Schwager.

Last book I finished was Felix Gilman's The Half-Made World.
 
I mostly read technical drivel for work... Sometimes few hundred pages every few days. It gets boring real quick. I've been trying to read 127 hours or whatever that new movie was based on. Seems decent and I've refrained from seeing movie. Many people will love this one around here and I'm even a city slicker...but I'm in love with the whole alexander super tramp type books. I can see myself at some point perhaps doing the same. Into the wild is of my very favorites in this genre. John krakeour. Sp? Love a lot of his stuff and highly recommend. I also read 7-10 different magazines. From blade and other knife pubs to computer mags and 4x4 mag's. Thx guys. Craig
 
Mostly read magazines- Backwoodsman, Survival Quarterly, American Rifleman, Outdoor Life, North American Hunter, Progressive Farmer and others. Dad, my FIL, a friend, and I pass magazines back and forth.

Last book I read was One Second After before that was a book about a sniper in Vietnam. I do have several outdoor, camping, wilderness books that I read portions of or look up specific information, but haven't just sit down and read cover to cover. I did just started a book on Disaster Preparedness for the Family. I'd like to improve my knowledge/skills and be better prepared to take care of my family.
 
Have not been reading much lately, got some other things going on right now. I do enjoy reading David Morrell, and Marcus Wynn for novels. I was a huge Clive Cussler fan when he was doing the Dirk Pitt series.
 
I've been juggling a few different ones lately. Sharpe's Fortress - Bernard Cornwell, Life - Keith Richards and The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival - John Vaillant. Will probably finish The Tiger tonight and add in a new one. :thumbup:
 
Just finished Stephen Hunter's new one (Dead Zero). This morning I started an older one by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (Mount Dragon). Both are great reads.

Jeff
 
Right now I am readying Me Against My Brother

It's about the struggles in Modadishu, etc.
 
Currently reading "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe. I'm about 70 percent through and it's way better than I anticipated. I guess it's a classic for good reason.
 
I don't know anything about JK Handmade knives but I'll play...

I'm reading The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly. Soon to be a major motion picture (next month). Looking forward to seeing it on the big screen. The novel reads like a hollywood blockbuster.
 
Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance:
A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, the book becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions of how to live. The narrator's relationship with his son leads to a powerful self-reckoning; the craft of motorcycle maintenance leads to an austerely beautiful process for reconciling science, religion, and humanism.

Jack Kerouac's On the Road:

On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz combine to make On the Road an inspirational work of lasting importance.



See a common thread here?:)
 
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Just finishing Marcus du Sautoy's Music of the Primes. Who knew math could be so interesting (I'm a right brainer). I have to do some traveling later this week and will be taking either White Fang or To Kill a Mockingbird, probably both.
 
Hi Riverwarrior -

I am a little over 1/2 way through Bush Craft, by Kochansky, and I have Mr. Kephart's book on deck.

best regards -

mqqn
 
outdoorsfan said:
Just finishing Marcus du Sautoy's Music of the Primes. Who knew math could be so interesting (I'm a right brainer). I have to do some traveling later this week and will be taking either White Fang or To Kill a Mockingbird, probably both.
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If ya like math read Infinity and the Mind by Rudy Rucker:

SynopsisThe book contains popular expositions (accessible to readers with no more than a high school mathematics background) on the mathematical theory of infinity, and a number of related topics. These include Gödel's incompleteness theorems and their relationship to concepts of artificial intelligence and the human mind, as well as the conceivability of some unconventional cosmological models. The material is approached from a variety of viewpoints, some more conventionally mathematical and others being nearly mystical. There is a brief account of the author's personal contact with Kurt Gödel.

An appendix contains one of the few popular expositions on set theory research on what are known as "strong axioms of infinity."
 
I recently finished Cody Lundin's "When All Hell Breaks Loose", good read I thought. I've got his "98.6 Degrees" haven't started it yet. I just started on James Wesley, Rawles "How to Survive The End of The World As We Know It". I've also got a few others to get to reading pretty soon. Gonna have to cut down on some web time in order to burn through'em.
 
Imperial Life In The Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaren (got the book right in front of me). I'm about a third of the way through and wondering when the movie (Green Zone) will kick in. Still, it's an enlightening read as far as the inner workings (or lack of working) of government, inside post Saddam Iraq and the US.

Thinking about something by T. Jefferson Parker cause I'm interested in the border wars. There's a lot of truth in them there fiction books.
 
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