If I tell you, I'd just get Liberal and PH in a flame war with me, so I'll have to pass on this one.
-------------- "Facts are meaningless, they can be used to prove anything." -Homer Simpson Government isn't the solution to the problem. Government IS the problem -Ronald Reagan
Group: Super Administrators
Posts: 3040
Joined: Oct. 2003
Posted on: Jun. 21 2011,6:58 pm
Lately I've been reading Once an Eagle by Anton Myer. The book is more than 1,200 pages long so I won't be done anytime soon. Mainly an anti-war book, but a relative told me it's required reading for the USMC and students at West Point, so those of you who are military or history buffs would probably enjoy it.
-------------- You know it's going to be a bad day when you cross thread the cap on the toothpaste.
i am currently reading License to Pawn by Rick Harrison. it is about the world famous gold & silver pawn shop in las vegas. they have a tv show on the history channel. this book is about how they got started in the business. on the tv show they have a very subtle sense of humor. it is interesting to see the variety of things that people bring in to sell.
-------------- "Do not confuse dissent with disloyalty" Edward R Murrow
Memento homo quia pulvis es, et in pulverem veverteris
I just finished 'Unbroken' by Laura Hillenbrand, she also wrote 'Seabiscuit'. It is the true story of Louis Zamperini, who ran in the 36 Olympics in front of Hitler, and ended up shot down in the pacific and became a Japanese POW. IF you like history or anything WWII related, check it out..great read. I believe it is number 1 on the New York Times bestseller list.
I found a copy of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. I figured I should find out why some make a big deal out of it.
I am about half way through it. I am not quite sure where she is going with it completely,but it is a brilliantly written and very engaging. It is a very fast moving book. It is hard to tell the heroes from the scoundrels and I can see where some could pick one sentence and have it become their mantra. As a book I give it high marks so far.
-------------- I stepped up on the platform The Man gave me the news He said you must be jokin' son Where did you get those shoes?
Good suggestion by Canvasback on "Unbroken" I tend towards most anything military, as well as Vince Flynn and John Sanford. You do not have to have an interest along any specific line however to enjoy this. Well written and detailed. Terrific (true) study of perseverance and will. Hard to imagine human beings treating each other that way....but it happened.
-------------- If guns kill people, then logic tells us that spoons made Oprah fat.
"Life is not holding a good hand, life is playing a poor hand well." Danish Proverb
I'm working on writing the books at this point. Not reading them.
Anyone else care to guess as to what some of those working titles might be? I can think of many, but it just seems too easy...
Poet, porn star, musician, rocket man, medician man, radioman(paul) fish(minnow)vulcan(spock)initailman(ttt) has lived and been everywhere, expert of all, short bus rider, jimmies best buddy _ - - Sorry, my side is hurting! Please carry on.
has lived and been everywhere, expert of all, short bus rider, jimmies best buddy 