If anyone else is here that loves to read books. I know reading is difficult for some of us....lol..But  I would think this thread would be good. Post up their book a quick review and what kind it is.(I.E. political,fiction,western,ect...) I will start.

I haven't finished it yet but I have thoroughly enjoyed "the shadow party" by David Horowitz (political)

very good book and explains a lot about what is going on politically with in the dems party. And the BIGGER picture of what is going on. David Horowitz was brought up as a radical leftist and is now shining some light on what their (leftist) plans are and how they are going about it.

I read a lot.

suspense novels- Just finished reading all of Randy Wayne Whites books about mystery with a Florida fish biologist (Doc Fords) who is an ex CIA op.  can put them down. 

Like history and like WW2-  Bodyguard of Lies and presently reading An Army at Dawn (about North African campaign) R. Atkinson(sp?).

Vintage hunting and fishing is great stuff.  Corey Fords works (Field and stream columns from the 1950-60).  Can't miss on Jim Corbett hunting tigers in India at turn or 1899.  Presently reading "I Always feel better in November" good read for southern gentleman.

I try to only buy one book ahead, I'm compulsive and once I start a book I MUST FINISH IT.

Got14u-- wat have you read lately or all time favorites?

Bear,

Is that the Jim Corbet that was the boxer? He boxed around the turn of the century.

Wing master

Not the fighter.

"Jim" Corbett (25 July 1875 – 19 April 1955) was an Indian-born British hunter, conservationist and naturalist, famous for slaying a large number of man-eating tigers and leopards in India.

He was gifted writer.  Every hunter should read:  Man-Eaters of Kumaon (1944), The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag (1948), and the Temple Tiger and More Man-Eaters of Kumaon (1954).  I’ve read all of them.  Most are out of print, but you can get them on e-bay.  He was very popular in the ‘50s and was a book-of-the-month club and New York Times author, so most libraries have his works.  I’ve even bought a few copies at library Book Sales for a $1.  But I’ve also paid $100+ for first editions on e-bay.

Bear I seem to go through different phases. I read all of Gresham's books about 6 years ago. Before I got on that kick I read most all of Louis L'Amour books and one series that was about the oregon trail. I am trying to find out the name of the series it was the BEST western I have ever read. I should know what they are tonight. The last 6 years or so I have been into biographies and true life, or history(true) and do it your self books. Some of these are 30 years in dog fighting(I know I will get flamed on this book but I like the history) Sonny Barger's book on the Hell's Angels (just because I knew some and met Sonny numerous times while in AZ) Pat Buchanan's book  The Death of the West , All of Bill O'reilly's books, and I am starting on one of Beck's also. I also have a lot of canning books, cheese making books, sausage books, ect....I am looking for a book on how to make the most out of your land, or how to get the most production per acre of land. Something along those lines.

Oh a must for anyone that like grillings and southwest flavors is anything from Mad Coyote Joe (The Senoran Cook) I got to build his house for him in phoenix (actually Cave Creek) He also had a cooking show their. here is a link to his books http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_0_11?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=mad+coyote+joe&sprefix=mad+coyote - http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_0_11?url=search-alias%3Dst ripbooks&field-keywords=mad+coyote+joe&sprefix=mad+c oyote +

Oh I almost forgot about all the Dog books I have on training or Genetics and breeds along with history of breeds and breeding. A lot on American Bulldogs. What a BREED !!

james michener, james clavell, clive cussler and frank herbert's "dune" series get most of my reading attention. i also am a big fan of anything written by jack o'connor. there are many, many other assorted books and authors, but those are the ones i seem to keep coming back to.

also, i am working my way through an old late 1960s series from time/life titled "foods of the world," where they went all over the globe and gathered up the histories, traditions and representative recipes of every region imaginable (except, notably, from korea and afghanistan, as far as i can tell).

Fella's;

If you want to get into an addictive series, start reading W.E.B. Griffin.  Start with "The Lieutenants".  Bear, if ya do, we'll just kiss you goodby for about two years.  Although Griffin's books are fiction, it's obvious that Griffin has BTDT for some of it, and done meticulous research and interviewing for the remainder.

Oh, and if you want a good Sci-Fi action with authentic gun scenes and equipment, read Larry Corriea's "Monster Hunter International".  T'aint deep literature, but it is entertaining.

Or, read John Ringo's "Ghost".  And we'll say goodby while you find your personal limit's with that author.

900F

GOT14U wrote: tas where did you find the time life articles ? Old food recipes are great !

found the first four at a garage sale: spain & portugal, the british isles, italy and provencial france. picked them up, read them and was hooked. got the rest thru ebay, amazon etc. outstanding series!

If you like medieval history, Louis L'Amour's last book Flower Drum Song is very good.  I also like "Below the Salt.

Like most of you I get hooked on authors and start reading them till they die or go sour (too much $$4 and books become a commodity. 16 of Randy Wayne White and he ran out of steam.  Same thing happened to Tom Clancy; Hunt for the red October was great and they started downhill from there.  I stopped after 4 of his.

Most of you could guess the Bible is the only thing I read a lot of.

Mark Of The Grizzly. Is a great read! First hand accounts of bear attacks by the victoms or first responders of bears killing people. It will give you a hole new out look on Griz and just what they are capible of. The man I replaced years ago as the tranny man at City Motors Bill Tanzinski (sp) was killed in Yellowstone and the account of his death and being eating is in there.

MM

Bear, if you haven't read Clancy's Clear And Present Danger, you might want to give it a try.

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got1 - here's a lsiting of all the FOTW books:

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African Cooking
American Cooking
American Cooking : Creole and Acadian
American Cooking : The Eastern Heartland
American Cooking : The Great West
American Cooking : The Melting Pot
American Cooking : New England
American Cooking : The Northwest
American Cooking : Southern Style
Cooking of the British Isles
Cooking of the Caribbean Islands
Cooking of China
Classic French Cooking
Cooking of Provincial France
Cooking of Germany
Cooking of India
Cooking of Italy
Cooking of Japan
Latin American Cooking
Middle Eastern Cooking
Pacific-Southeast Asian Cooking
Quintet of Cuisines
Russian Cooking
Cooking of Scandinavia
Cooking of Spain and Portugal
Cooking of Vienna's Empire
Wines and Spirits

Supplements:
Menu Guide & Recipe Index
Supplement Number One
Supplement Number Two
Kitchen Guide

Kingpin wrote: I don't believe that I ever read Mark of the Grizzly in the Bible. What book is he in?...................................Kingpin

Between the book of Bob and Romans 2

Fella's;

I think I 'member's reading the book of Bob, but wasn't it by Bob Goldthwait?  He may have mentioned Romans in there somewhere, but damned if I can 'member it all.  I think I know that I usta was be semi-normal before's I read it anyhow.  Wasn't I?

900F

Amazon.com has it KP

I've always enjoyed reading older books. Some,  I've gotten from my grandparents, who had many books from early in the 20th century.   I used to be a voracious reader, but in the last 10 years or so, I haven't done so well.

The last book I read was "Brave Men" by Ernie Pyle.  My copy is the tenth printing, in 1945. 

In that book there's also a newpaper clipping from that year, telling how Ernie was killed by a Jap machine gun bullet. 

As related by Lt Colonel Joseph Coolidge of Helena, Arkansas.....

"We were moving down the road in our jeep. Ernie was going with me to my new command post. At 10 o'clock we were fired on by a Jap machine gun on a ridge above us. We all jumped out of the jeep into a roadside ditch."

"A little later, Pyle and I raised up to look around. Another burst hit the road over our heads and I fell back into the ditch. I looked at Ernie and saw he had been hit."

"He was killed almost instantly, the bullet entering his left temple just under his helmet."

Another quote....."I was so impressed with Pyle's coolness, calmness, and his deep interest in enlisted men. They have lost their best friend."

I dunno.  The old stuff seems the best to me.  Something about the way it was written. 

I need to do more reading!

Just finished Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol. Excellent read.  Continuation of the Tom Hanks movie dealing with ancient symbols (mainly Masonic) and being a Mason I found it most interesting.  It also has a great plot and difficult to put down.

As for "older" books the last one I read was from by childhood collection entitled "A Ship Must Die" by Douglas Reeman 1979.

I read the book of Mormon about 30 years ago, when I was dating a Mormon.  Also went to Salt lake Temple and the Hill Camora for the pageant. 

Nice girl, unfortunately she left her church and took a bad direction in Chicago.

substance abuse, working the streets.  Never go back!

Nice thought, but how you going to keep them down on the farm, after they see broadway?

reading opens up new vistas for anyone who choses to do so......reading is the key to everything......

A great author of our time in MHO is Major John L. Plaster, USAR(ret).  Former SOG soldier in Vietnam.  I highly recomend that you all Read "SOG: The secret wars of Americas Commandos in Vietnam" by John L. Plaster and you will learn stuff you never knew about our involvement in the Vietnam war and the valor of so many young Green Berets!  These men were the "Elite Warriors of SOG" as Major Plaster calls them and he should know as he was one of them. Another of his books is "Secret Commandos" Behind enemy lines with the elite warriors of SOG.  A great read also. Major Plaster is also the author of some of the very best books on the modern sniper as well as a sniper instructor of great renown. The man whom the snipers of today to turn to for advice and training.  I have met this man who now lives in Iron River WI which is near my hunting cabin in northern WI.  He also writes for the American Rifleman on occasion. 

A few of the authors that I have liked and read: Corey Ford was a great story teller of my youth, Louie L'Amour...I have and have read most of his books and they are fun fiction, Elmer Keith, Jim Kjelgaard,(Big Red series and others), Gordon McQuarrie: Stories of the Old Duckhunters series, Stephan Amborse, historical stuff, and many many more too numerous to remember and set down here.  I do a lot of reading when I am at my log cabin with my dogs for company.  This past November I spent 24 days during our grouse season (dogs too) and deer season there (no dogs) and passed most evenings reading books, mostly westerns, to pass the time. I must have in excess of 100 books at the cabin at any one time.  Most are "reading" books but many are resource books on hunting and shooting/firearms and reloading......all subjects that are of interest to me. Without electrical power or other amenities at the cabin the reading is done under gas lights with a wood fire to stave off the cold which means my reading is interuped ocasionally to add wood to the firebox.  Alas, I don't have a fireplace just a wood burning stove.   

IBD

You should like Burton L. Spiller's books on grouse hunting?  I've read most of his stuff, good read.

Bear......

I have a copy of "Grouse Feathers" by Burton Spiller circa 1972.  Also, a copy of "New England Grouse Shooting" by William Harnden Foster, circa 1942 an original copy along with "Coverts & Casts" by William J. Schaldach circa 1943 also an original copy.  There is a copy of "The Upland Shooting Life" by George Bird Evans on the shelf too.  There are other good books on the shelf at the log cabin too that I can't recall the titles of or authors at this time.

When I am chasing grouse with my 20ga sxs & my bird dogs I like to think of the times they wrote about in New England of those who so admired the grouse and pursued the grouse with Honor & dogs and it was wing shooting only after a flush.....as it is with me and my dogs.

What do you say of Robert Service, the poet, who wrote about his WWI experiances as well as in the Klondike gold rush days?  Then there is Robert Rourke who wrote great hunting stories, I have some of his reprints and an original copy of "Use Enough Gun".  So many good books and so short a life time to read them all. 

Year ago in the 1960s I use to work on the pulp/papper and mining industries.  Lived in Appleton for a while.  And that meant spending lots of time in places like Rhinelander, Houghton, Escanaba,  Marinette,   Iron Mountain and Menominee.  Nice country, and nice local people.   I’ve not been back since 1970, bet it changed!

I'm reading the Book of Mormon, along with one about Hare Krishna.  I'm caught between looking for a 2nd woman, or shaving my head.  As a compromise, I'm thinking of looking for a shaved woman.

Hey Mule, why not just shave your ass and walk backwards?...................LOL.........................Kin gpin

One really good book not related to the outdoors or shooting, is The Million Dollar Gate by Jack Kearns. Kearns was Jack Dempseys manager for the first half of his boxing career. Then later my uncles manager. Quite an interesting guy.

Lately I have read "The Pokey Little Puppy" to my grandaughter about 20 times. Other than that, I am not much of a reader.

Wing master

Porky...this was out before I was born!  and oldie.

A book I can recomend that I have recently read and that is very special to me is one that was just published in 2007.  It is titled: "Private Soldiers" A YEAR IN IRAQ WITH A WISCONSIN NATIONAL GUARD UNIT.  This book was written by a Lt. and the photo's taken by another Lt. and a SSg from the unit written about in the book.  That unit is the 2/127 Infantry Battalion, 620 soldiers of the WIANG.  The author/photographers are from Charlie Co., my son's company. For you military history buffs these are the 32nd Infantry 'Red Arrow' soldiers of today following the heroic footsteps of that most famous unit from WWI & WWII, adding to the proud and distinctive service of those former 'Red Arrow" soldiers. The book tells of their time in country as citizen soldiers.  The battalion saw hundreds of attacks, saw dozens of wounded and lost three members killed in action.  The book can be found from the publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 816 State Street, Madison, WI 53706-1482.  http://www.wisconsinhistory.org - www.wisconsinhistory.org . "All royalties from sales of Private Soldiers will go to the 2-127th's family support group and to funds established in memoriam of the battalion members who gave their lives in the Iraq war."  As I write this 3,600 Red Arrow soldiers are in Iraq right now serving again with distinction! Most of them on their 2nd tour and some on their 3rd tour to Iraq. Give it a read...... I know you will appreciate it!