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I'm in need of some new books. I've finally got some time to sit back and enjoy a good book, and it's occurred to me that I don't have anything to read. The last one I read was "Everlasting Stream" by Walt Harrington and it was one of the better ones I've read in a while. Any suggestions welcome.
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� and I have 'way too many books and one remaining eye that's failing. Count your blessings! By the way, you mean a reading question, not a writing question, don't you? 
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Currently reading a biography of John Adams by David McCullough--it should be required reading for any American History curriculum, not to mention all patriots.
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Elmer Keith-Sixguns and Hell I was there.
US Grant-Autobiography.
Theodore Roosevelt-Autobiography.
The Still Hunter.
"The Church can and should help modern society by tirelessly insisting that the work of women in the home be recognized and respected by all in its irreplaceable value." Apostolic Exhortation On The Family, Pope John Paul II
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Skip Don Quixote.
Plutarch's Lives was entertaining and informative. "Nothing new under the sun" is right!...
Jerry Pournelle wrote enjoyable fiction.
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Just a very incomplete list...
U.S. History
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt & Theodore Rex, Edmund Morris
Special Providence, Walter Russell Mead (best one volume analysis of American foreign policy and diplomatic history published in the last 30 years. It's that good.)
Two books on the last years of WWII in the Pacific, and the air campaign against Japan: Downfall, by Richard Frank; Retribution, by Max Hastings
Novels
Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
Hunting
One Man's Wilderness, Warren Page
Guns and Loads
The Springfield Rifle, E.C. Crossman
Game Loads and Practical Ballistics for American Hunters, Bob Hagel
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Old man and the Young Boy by Robert Ruark
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Sheep and Sheep Hunting by Jack O'Connor
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty
This is a good start especially the first.
Sincerely,
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Just finished Nathaniel Philbrick's "The Last Stand" which was a little weak compared to his history of the whaling ship Essex, but had some of the latest thoughts on what happened in detail.
His obvious lack of firearms comprehension is proved in his description of rim failures in the trapdoor Springfields and entertainiing. Somehow the copper "brass" of the day, in a matter of just a few shots (in a single shot, no less) heated it so thoroughly the weakened copper allowed the extractor to pull through the rim.
His use of the term "noncombatants" for women and children and applying it to Calvary Officers of the day was also interesting...
Having read a lot of the history over the years it was quite a different take. His battlefield did not seem like the same place I visited...
But it is still a decent read and moved along far better than most history I have read...
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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Well, you can skip the novel version of "Dances With Wolves."
You can safely leave "Le Morte 'D' Arther" unread and loose nothing.
For thrillers I think anything by Martin Cruz Smith is good.
"A person that carries a cat home by the tail will receive information that will always be useful to him." Mark Twain
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The Aubrey-Maturin novels of Patrick O'Brien are some of the best prose ever written. It is a 20-novel set of over 8,000 pages that is so good I read it every other year or so. It is based on the fictionalized events of the British Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. It begins with "Master and Commander."
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A couple of good books that deal with the 1820's-1860's opening of the West:
Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West by Hampton Sides
Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America by Walter R. Borneman
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*Undaunted Courage* by Stephen Ambrose and about the Lewis & Clark expedition. It's one of the best books I've ever read.
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Death in the Long Grass Peter Hathaway Capstick
West with the Night Beryl Markham
"...the designer of the .270 Ingwe cartridge!..."
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"Maneaters of India" by Jim Corbett
"Karamojo Safari" by W.D.M. (Karamojo) Bell
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Don't blame me. I voted for Trump.
Democrats would burn this country to the ground, if they could rule over the ashes.
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20 years ago I bought a six-volume biography of Jefferson by Dumas Malone. I only ever got through the first two volumes, so I picked it up again a month ago.
If you really like history it's good stuff.
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"Jedediah Smith", by Dale L. Morgan.
"Monte Walsh", by Jack Schaefer
The Border Trilogy ("All the Pretty Horses", "The Crossing", and "Cities of the Plain") by Cormac McCarthy. (It's best if you read them in order.)
Anything by Ben R. Green.
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The Berkut http://www.amazon.com/Berkut-Joseph-Heywood/dp/0394560884Historical fiction about a Russian tasked with capturing Hitler vs a German tasked with helping Hitler escape. Vince Flynn is great Joseph Wambaugh- Choirboys is classic
Broncos are officially the worst team in the nation this year.
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"Out of Africa" Isak Dinesen
Very well written, not the typical bluster of life in Africa ,not the romanticized movie version either.
"Camping places fix themselves in your mind as if you had spent long periods of your life in them.
You will remember a curve of your wagon track in the grass of the plain like the features of a friend."
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"For Whom the Bell Tolls" - E. Hemingway
Ignorance is not confined to uneducated people.
WHO IS JOHN GALT?
LIBERTY!
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