🧑‍🤝‍🧑 / 🏡 Tim suggested it, so here we go. Book Thread.

[TerryP]

This is a fun read.

Naked Lunch book by William S. Burroughs

 

[64Tide]

Harbinger 1 and Harbinger 2 by Jonathan Kahn. Intriguing scriptural connections between the fall of Israel and 9/11/USA.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

I finished Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell this morning. It's a really great read, quick of Luttrell's sole escape from the Taliban. Even with his plain writing style, it had me tearing up on the plane as I was getting to the end of it this morning.

I had Hillbilly Elegy by Vance in my bag, so I got into it some of it on the plane, looking forward to it.

I bought a copy (it was my free book from Thriftbooks) of Charlie Wilson's War. Read a little this afternoon. It is a dense book, but I'm fascinated by the story.

I'll provide updates on these two as I complete them.

 

[TerryP]

Fannie Flagg

Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man

 

[TerryP]

I've really enjoyed the memoirs of US Grant. He has a way...the turn of a phrase. Dry witted fella.

Mathematics was very easy to me, so that when January came, I passed the examination, taking a good standing in that branch. In French, the only other study at that time in the first year's course, my standing was very low. In fact, if the class had been turned the other end foremost I should have been near head. I never succeeded in getting squarely at either end of my class, in any one study, during the four years. I came near it in French, artillery, infantry and cavalry tactics, and conduct.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

I read a good bit of The Wild Blue by Stephen Ambrose on a flight yesterday, and I plan to finish it over my next two flights Sunday and Tuesday. It's a good read. It focuses on WWII B-24 pilots, almost all surrounding George McGovern. I disagreed with his politics, but I'm in awe of his service. To a certain degree (and not to diminish McGovern's service at all), I think Ambrose's friendship and political support of McGovern colored his writing a bit, but it's a really good book so far. Ambrose has received similar (or worse) criticism in his extensive volumes on Eisenhower (he was a keeper of Eisenhower's writings and documents and was accused of creating at least one letter), but I plan to get to those volumes.

It's hard to believe Ambrose has been dead for over twenty years. He's on my list of thrift store books to read. I've read Band of Brothers, Nothing Like it in the World (transcontinental railroad construction - very good), Citizen Soldiers, and Undaunted Courage (Lewis & Clark). I plan to get to a good number of his other titles as time allows.

There's a certain sadness in having missed many books as they were released due to a career focus or lack of interest in reading, but I've achieved a certain economy to not have to pay retail for this backlog of books. Also, I just joined my local library, so I intend to be more of a miser and limit my accumulation.

 

[TerryP]

Undaunted Courage (Lewis & Clark).

That one caught me. It's like this one I'm reading. I kept looking at maps and "thinking.."

 

[TerryP]

@It Takes Eleven have you read Grant?

 

[It Takes Eleven]

@It Takes Eleven have you read Grant?

No.

 

[TerryP]

No.

I kept looking at maps and "thinking.."

I downloaded the book on my Kindle...ended up having my laptop close at hand sometimes.

Look at the selection and this is a just a few of them.

MAP OF THE FIELD OF SHILOH

MAP OF THE COUNTRY ABOUT CORINTH, MISSISSIPPI

MAP OF THE BATTLES OF IUKA AND CORINTH

MAP OF THE VICKSBURG CAMPAIGN

MAP OF BRUINSBURG, PORT GIBSON AND GRAND GULF

MAP OF THE COUNTRY ABOUT JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI

MAP OF THE BATTLE OF CHAMPION'S HILL

MAP OF BATTLE-FIELD OF BIG BLACK RIVER BRIDGE

MAP OF THE SIEGE OF VICKSBURG

MAP-LINE OF DEFENCES VICKSBURG TO HAINES' BLUFF AND
BLACK RIVER BRIDGE