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John Leather's "Spritsails and Lugsails" and Phil Bolger's "100 Small Boat Rigs."
Ignorance is not confined to uneducated people.
WHO IS JOHN GALT?
LIBERTY!
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Herman Melville
Wilke Collins
Joseph Conrad
Ann Radcliffe
All old stuff I'm finding at the thrift store.
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Ernie's War - The Best of Ernie Pyle's World War II Dispatches
Edited with a biographical essay by David Nichols, Foreword by Studs Terkel
A jewel. Hey, Hoser,.....I've got a couple of first editions by our esteemed Mr. Pyle. You're welcome to the loan of em', if you take the notion. There's an original Bill Mauldin, too,....somewhere. GTC
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-- “Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”- Mark Twain
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I'm with mudhen on Cormac McCarty. All his is good. I also like Rick Bragg - "All Over But The Shoutin" and "The Prince of Frogtown". Been on a William Faulkner short story kick - The Big Woods, lots of early stuff. I also read Gene Hill, Nash Buckingham and Robert Ruark annually when I can't hunt.
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the Fourth Way by PD Ouspensky?
ol Gurdjeff, roughly spelt, says that we should open our eyes, just as quickly as we can? If you want to spend a few weeks, try "Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky", all 5 volumes, by Maurice Nicoll. Took me a whole summer to get through. Ignore the metaphysical explanations of the universe - everybody has'em and they all come out of left field - but the rest of it is pretty good. The mystical and spiritual portions of most of Ouspensky's works are pretty good but he was writing in the first two decades of the last century and his physics can be a bit quaint. Also, if you want to pull your hair out, try "Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson" by Gurdjieff. Each paragraph, almost each sentence, takes an entire page and wanders through about 15 to 20 parenthetical levels before emerging. By the time you come to the period at the end you forget where the sentence started. Seriously, stick with Ouspensky and/or other folks' explanations of Gurdjieff. I've read all three of Gurdjieff's books and except for some interesting history of his life you don't get a whole lot out of them.
Gunnery, gunnery, gunnery.
Hit the target, all else is twaddle!
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To the original question:
"The Perennial Philosophy" by Aldous Huxley
"The Book of Chuang Tzu"
"The Secret Path" by Dr. Paul Brunton
Gunnery, gunnery, gunnery.
Hit the target, all else is twaddle!
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Just started rereading "All the Pretty Horses" by Cormac McCarthy. Haven't read it since I was given a pre-release copy. Forgot how captivating his prose can be, and the dialogue is spot on. I read "The Road" when it first came out. Couldn't stop reading it, sure was glad when I finished it. I found it very powerful, and descriptive. Sycamore
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Thanks for starting this Ken. And thanks to you all for the leads to some good summer reading. Mine: The Holy Earth, L.H. Bailey http://www.amazon.com/Holy-Earth-Liberty-Hyde-Bailey/dp/0960531467"L. H. Bailey, a proponent of environmental stewardship, reflected on society's disconnect with its own earth at the turn of the twentieth century. Progressive and provocative, Bailey's seminal 1915 work calls on the individual to recognize the divine in the common land we occupy." My highlighting. Sometimes it seems to me not much has changed. Perhaps more folks should have read it in the last century? I try to re-read it once a year or so as a reminder.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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the Fourth Way by PD Ouspensky?
ol Gurdjeff, roughly spelt, says that we should open our eyes, just as quickly as we can? If you want to spend a few weeks, try "Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky", all 5 volumes, by Maurice Nicoll. Took me a whole summer to get through. Ignore the metaphysical explanations of the universe - everybody has'em and they all come out of left field - but the rest of it is pretty good. The mystical and spiritual portions of most of Ouspensky's works are pretty good but he was writing in the first two decades of the last century and his physics can be a bit quaint. Also, if you want to pull your hair out, try "Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson" by Gurdjieff. Each paragraph, almost each sentence, takes an entire page and wanders through about 15 to 20 parenthetical levels before emerging. By the time you come to the period at the end you forget where the sentence started. Seriously, stick with Ouspensky and/or other folks' explanations of Gurdjieff. I've read all three of Gurdjieff's books and except for some interesting history of his life you don't get a whole lot out of them. thanks for the head's up. beyond the Fourth Way School and book, i'm pretty bereft when it comes to the subject at hand.
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MadMooner,
WEST WITH THE NIGHT is a very fine book. Unfortunately, Beryl didn't write it. Her husband did. She had a live-in "ghost writer." I've seen that debate but I thought final consensus was that she wrote it. He was more of a hack screen writer. IIRC Either way, it was her remarkable life I suppose.
"Be sure you're right. Then go ahead." Fess Parker as Davy Crockett
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MadMooner,
WEST WITH THE NIGHT is a very fine book. Unfortunately, Beryl didn't write it. Her husband did. She had a live-in "ghost writer." I have read that in several places,. I have also read several refutes of the claim. Some chalk it up to his editing the book, others give credit to him entirely. Either way, yes, it is a fine book!
“Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.”
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Two years Before the Mast by Dana. I got my copy from a fine gentleman by the name of Ken Howell.
The first time I shot myself in the head...
Meniere's Sucks Big Time!!!
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I was completely ruined when it came to reading heavy material in college. I view it as absolute torture, no exaggeration, I hate to read things that require a lot of thinking. I've been reading the Leatherstocking Tales, just started on the first in the series, The Deerslayer. Recently finished up a couple of Peter Hathaway books. I view reading as a release, and a good story does that for me, he11 I have all of Louis L'Amour's books and have probably read all of them at least 3-4 times. I still pull one off the shelf occasionally and sit down to read it for an afternoon.
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Hell Wouldn't Stop. I don't get emotional. Almost never. I had to stop reading this book a couple times. It's about Wake Island told through interviews and letters from the Marines who served there. From before the war all the way through surviving (for some) the POW camps. Hell Wouldn't Stop I'll look for one of these.
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Ever read the Key-Lock Man, by Louis L'Amour?
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The first time I shot myself in the head...
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Just recently read the Berger Manual all the way up to the loading data, good story about Walt Berger, definately changed my views on his products, now when I buy and shoot Berger bullets, I know and appreciate all his hard work and his contributions to shooters and the quest for accuracy, especially at extended range ....
"The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants".
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Read a couple recently by some upstart by the name of John Barsness. Ever heard of him? 
"Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life." (Prov 4:23)
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Anything by George V Higgins. I have almost all of his published stuff.
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Read the Key-Lock Man several times. I would have to say that one of my absolute favorites is the Comstock Lode. The Sackett series is great, the Kilkenny books, I really can't think of one that I didn't enjoy.
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