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I have a couple of books on my shelves that every three or four years I pick up and read - for the second, third and perhaps fourth time.
I just finished John M. Browning, American Gunmaker by John Browning and Curt Gentry. The genius of Browning is always stunning, both as an inventor and as a businessman.
Next up is The Two Ocean War by Samuel Eliot Morison. This is a short history of the United State Navy in the Second World War.
Finally is Dwight Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe (1948), This book gives an interesting insight into the logistics and politics underlying the effort to defeat Hitler.
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Titus Bass series by Terry C Johnston.
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Atlas Shrugged
The Count of Monte Cristo
Mercy ceases to be a virtue when it enables further injustice. -Brent Weeks
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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Any Jack O'Connor stuff I have
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I'm about to start my "Master and Commander" 20-volume set yet again. It's been a couple years, and so all of O'Brian's marvelous prose will be fresh for me again.
Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult.
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Green Hills of Africa by Hemingway
Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
Christianity & Liberalism by J Gresham Machen
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Too many to list them all, but here are a few:
The James Herriot books
The Old Man and the Boy and The Old Man's Boy Grows Older
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson - if you haven't read this, you really owe it to yourself to do so.
The Capstick "Death" books
Horn of the Hunter
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Not a real member - just an ordinary guy who appreciates being able to hang around and say something once in awhile.
Happily Trapped In the Past (Thanks, Joe)
Not only a less than minimally educated person, but stupid and out of touch as well.
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I have zero patience to read books.
I’ll read a dry, 30 page medical research study but I just can’t get into that Danielle Steele fantasy world or whatnot.
Just ain’t me dawg
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Months of the Sun by Nyshens
Heat Thirst and Ivory by Everett also Tuskers in the Dust
Tough Trip Through Paradise by Garcia
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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and The Hobbit.
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The Word of God
One fish, Two fish, Red fish, Blue fish
Amelia Bedelia
"I never thought I'd live to see the day that a U.S. president would raise an army to invade his own country."
Robert E. Lee
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Skeeter Skelton's two books, "Hog Legs and Hipshots" and "Good Friends, Good Guns and Good Whiskey," and all of Ben K Green's books on horse trading, cowboying and veterinary tales.
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Some days it takes most of the day for me to do practically nothing...
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Or if you are ex-Navy, David Poyer is a master of storytelling as only a Navy man can tell it.
This kindle fire electric book is the deal. I can download any book from any library.
W. Bill
I'd rather die in a BAD gunfight than a GOOD nursing home.
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Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans by T. R. Fehrenbach
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb by Richard Rhodes
Every day on this side of the ground is a win.
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“Then the old man got to cussing, and cussed everything and everybody he could think of, and then cussed them all over again to make sure he hadn't skipped any, and after that he polished off with a kind of a general cuss all round, including a considerable parcel of people which he didn't know the names of, and so called them what's-his-name, when he got to them, and went right along with his cussing.”
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I have zero patience to read books.
I’ll read a dry, 30 page medical research study but I just can’t get into that Danielle Steele fantasy world or whatnot.
Just ain’t me dawg I think there might be a lot of space between medical research and Danielle Steele but to each his own...
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Damn nazis here closed the library.
Sam......
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I used to read every night before falling asleep. Since starting CPAP and using the TV in the bedroom as a distraction to deal with wearing the mask, my reading has fallen to near zero. Anyway, when I did read, I must have read Horatio Hornblower a few times, as well as The Cruel Sea. Anything by P.G. Wodehouse or Damon Runyon is also on repeat.
4 out of 5 Great Lakes prefer Michigan. 
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Home Tanning Skins by Edward Gein is interesting
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