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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #325 on: August 30, 2021, 11:22:21 pm »
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #326 on: September 05, 2021, 08:23:50 am »
"The Split (Kelly Turnbull Book 6)" by Kurt Schlichter.

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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #327 on: September 05, 2021, 09:30:32 am »
“The Viking Heart” by Arthur Herman.

Good history book, even though the title makes you think of a book in the Romance genre
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #328 on: September 05, 2021, 02:26:27 pm »
Just finished a WEB Griffin Brotherhood of War book that I somehow missed when I read the series about the USMC.
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #329 on: November 01, 2021, 07:33:09 am »
Lee Child just came out with a new book this past week.  I need a good dose of Jack Reacher about now!

Has anyone read any books by Jeff Abbott?  New name for me, but I will most likely begin reading him soon.  If you have read him, do you have preferences in his series?

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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #330 on: November 01, 2021, 01:40:59 pm »
Just watched "Dune" going to pick up a couple of copies of the series from Amazon
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #331 on: November 01, 2021, 01:41:27 pm »
Just finished "Atlas Shrugged." Resting my brain for a few days.
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #332 on: December 01, 2021, 10:17:57 am »
Funny, I haven't picked up a book for a month or so.  Working, tired at the end of the day, etc.  Not like me to go so long without reading, but I just haven't had the energy.

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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #333 on: December 01, 2021, 12:24:36 pm »
Just got James Golden's "Rush on the Radio" yesterday.
I am in the middle of "The Devil's Sea" by Dirk Cussler. He took the series over from his father. So far it is a pretty good read.
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #334 on: December 01, 2021, 01:03:34 pm »
Just starting “The Dying Citizen” by Victor Davis Hanson.
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #335 on: December 01, 2021, 10:54:16 pm »
Currently reading "Things Will Never Be the Same: A Howard Waldrop Reader".

A collection of science-fiction short stories.
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #336 on: December 07, 2021, 04:30:07 am »
Any of you ever read/subscribe to "Issac Asimov's Science Fiction and Fact" magazine?
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #337 on: December 07, 2021, 12:58:50 pm »
Any of you ever read/subscribe to "Issac Asimov's Science Fiction and Fact" magazine?
I read it years (20+) ago. I thought the quality went down a little after he passed.
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #338 on: December 07, 2021, 03:21:22 pm »
I read it years (20+) ago. I thought the quality went down a little after he passed.

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I am embarrassed to admit I subscribed to their digital version,and then never got around to downloading any issues to my Kindle.

Mostly because I never use the Kindle. I am a geezer,and love the smell and feel of actual books/magazines.
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #339 on: December 07, 2021, 03:49:38 pm »
I'm halfway through the first (of 3) volumes of Steven Ambrose's biography of Richard Nixon. Immense amount of detail and very readable even though you can tell Ambrose does not care for Nixon.

Also working through The Federalist Papers In Modern Language. How we have gone astray!!!
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #340 on: December 08, 2021, 12:03:47 am »
@verga

I am embarrassed to admit I subscribed to their digital version,and then never got around to downloading any issues to my Kindle.

Mostly because I never use the Kindle. I am a geezer,and love the smell and feel of actual books/magazines.
I agree, there is just something about the feel and smell of a book. The Kindle is nice and portable for a hundred books or so, but you just can't beat a book.
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #341 on: December 08, 2021, 12:34:37 am »
I agree, there is just something about the feel and smell of a book. The Kindle is nice and portable for a hundred books or so, but you just can't beat a book.

I am that way... My Biblical library has all been converted to electronic, and I like it for the searching capability... All I need is to recall a partial phrase and I can search my whole library for instances -  such a convenience, and so good for discovery - I have found things that I never had a chance of finding searching old skool books. And I love that I can adjust font and type - I never have to find my danged ol glasses.

But that is for study. For readings sake, for pleasure, I need the smell and feel... I need to turn the page.  :beer:
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #342 on: December 08, 2021, 12:50:04 am »
I'm all for turning pages as well.  I haven't had a chance to read in awhile (that and my neck and shoulders crink up  :crying:)
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #343 on: December 08, 2021, 02:07:01 am »
Any of you ever read/subscribe to "Issac Asimov's Science Fiction and Fact" magazine?
Not since the 70s.
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #344 on: December 08, 2021, 12:15:59 pm »
I am that way... My Biblical library has all been converted to electronic, and I like it for the searching capability... All I need is to recall a partial phrase and I can search my whole library for instances -  such a convenience, and so good for discovery - I have found things that I never had a chance of finding searching old skool books. And I love that I can adjust font and type - I never have to find my danged ol glasses.

But that is for study. For readings sake, for pleasure, I need the smell and feel... I need to turn the page.  :beer:
I don't know if you are familiar with "CCEL" Christian Classic Ethereal Library. They have been converting the writings of the great thinkers to digital. They are faithful translations from the original text of some of the greatest theological literature of history.
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #345 on: December 08, 2021, 03:22:14 pm »
I don't know if you are familiar with "CCEL" Christian Classic Ethereal Library. They have been converting the writings of the great thinkers to digital. They are faithful translations from the original text of some of the greatest theological literature of history.

Yes, I am familiar... Albeit that I only know of the online resource... If they have software I am unaware. A good site, nonetheless, and it is in my bookmarks.  :beer:


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« Reply #346 on: December 09, 2021, 12:37:40 pm »
Yes, I am familiar... Albeit that I only know of the online resource... If they have software I am unaware. A good site, nonetheless, and it is in my bookmarks.  :beer:
I purchased a CD from them years(20+) ago. IO just checked the site, but did not see that it was still available.
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If God invented marathons to keep people from doing anything more stupid, the triathlon must have taken him completely by surprise.

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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #347 on: December 18, 2021, 05:15:51 pm »
For some reason Carlos Castaneda's books popped in my head the other day(must of been a flashback). And I found there's a book of his I haven't read. I'll get a copy tomorrow, "The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life Death And The Universe"

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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #348 on: December 18, 2021, 10:59:57 pm »
Currently reading "Survivors: A Novel of the Coming Collapse" by James Wesley Rawles, about people struggling to keep going after a massive economic collapse.

It was published in 2011, but reads like it could be describing events today.

More here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriots_(novel_series)#Survivors:_A_Novel_of_the_Coming_Collapse

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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #349 on: February 20, 2022, 07:56:17 pm »
I just finished "The Escape," by David Baldacci. It's about an Air Force Major, framed and wrongfully convicted of espionage. He escapes from the maximum security prison at Leavenworth when someone sends in an assassin to kill him. Couldn't put it down, but it takes a rather frightening look at all of the gazillion competing intelligence agencies in the U.S. government and just how bloated, redundant and possibly corrupt they are. Pretty scary stuff, but a good book. Now I have to go back and find the two previous books in this 4-book series.
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