Besides guns, one of my other interests is reading (history, military memoirs, American history).

I'm currently reading "John Adams" by David McCullough.

In the long line after, I have on deck "Truman" also by McCullough, and "1776" again, by McCullough.

I find it refreshing to jump from one point in history to another, then back again. Keeps me interested. I won't even get into how many memoirs I have in my collection from WWII, mostly from the German perspective. Actually, I'd say it's pretty evenly divided. I just ordered six more books tonight, mainly focusing on the Founding Fathers. On a big Revolutionary War kick as of late.

Very interesting book!

Just finished The Perfect Pass by S.C. Gwynne, which traces the development of the "Air Raid" offense that has infected football. Very informative book.

I'm reading "American Betrayal" by Diana West. It's not a fun read.

Young Earth by Frank Morris -- an apologetic for a 6-10k year old earth by using a historical-grammatical interpretation of Genesis.

FYI, radioisotope dating is not accurate between the different isotopes and even if it were, it would call for uniformitarianism or a physical steady-state decay rate which, at very best for the evolutionist, is arguable - highly.

Very informative.

i have read it before, i find it very interesting...

an apologetic for a 6-10k year old earth --i guess this is my next book. can i find it on amazon ?

Would that be John Morris?

The Reformation by Will Durant. I'm about ¾ through a 1,000 page history of the Reformation of the Roman Catholic Church leading to Protestantism. Very interesting and very enlightening.

L.W.

Dynasty by Tom Holland




Almost done, pretty good. Don't love his writing style but the subject matter is great.

I've read several of McCullough's books, and must say that I've enjoyed them all. Check out his bio of Harry S. Truman if you can.

I'm just finishing up "Clash of the Carriers", about the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot". Fixing to get into "Observing Hancock", about Union General Winfield S. Hancock at Gettysburg.
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De Shootinest Gent'man & Other Tales, Really good book. It's a little hard to read because it's written in the way people spoke in the early 1900s. Just about ready to start JACK HINSON'S ONE-MAN WAR.

My primary reading is here on the internet and on forums that interest me. I don't get any magazines except for the ones that come with the NRA memberships.

Here on the internet I can find the topic I want and even write there on that forum what I want about it.

You can use the website : www.boardreader.com to find forums on topics that interest you,

I think that's about the fifth time I have read that post. You should write a new one.

Maybe you can find one on the Internet.

"The Perfect Pass", SC Gwynne. Recommended by 5sdad. Gwynne also wrote "Empire Of The Summer Moon".

Good read and good history if you like football. Goes back to the reasons teams run spread offenses, how they work and the coaches that developed it. Bill Walsh, Lavell Edwards, Hal Mumme and others.

Mike Leach, Texas Tech and Washington St., an atty who never played a down of college football, gets a lot of credit for what he's done with it but he learned it as an assistant to Mumme at Iowa Wesyan, a school that had a poor football tradition until Mumme got there. Mumme turned them into winners in three years but his contract wasn't renewed. They didn't give a reason but it appears Iowa Wesleyan didn't think a winning football program was worth what went with it.

Overall this has been quite good (except for one bad error or bad metaphor) in the first story, which is too bad because it's a pretty good story otherwise. Some solid work overall though, worth a read if you like short stories. I like short stories. Couple more to go in this one.

Update:

The last couple stories were largely bad. Flashes of excellence notwithstanding, overall a mediocre body of work. Heralded as the next great short story writer, Saunders falls very short in my opinion. Some very good mixed with garbage. Too much writing about things he doesn't understand or has misinterpreted. It's like he does understand a good deal of human emotion and then weaves it into an uninteresting story or ruins a good story with weird dream-state crap. The story Escape From Spiderhead is great. I also like Puppy and and Al Roosten. Flashes of genius in Tenth of December and The Semplica Girl Diaries (although most of this one I did not care for and the good is better captured in Puppy and Al Roosten). Without the futuristic intoxicant nonsense My Chivalric Fiaso would have been a great story.

So far it's been a good read (now on chapter 7 IIRC).
Kid got me a signed copy.
Raining out so started this today.

Not into autobiographies or celebrity really, but the guy is pretty interesting (fencer, pilot, frontman for a heavy metal band).

Been into Maiden since '80, seen 'em a few times too. Good fun.

I hate reading, but I am consumed by George Custer. So I keep plugging away at books about him. After a lot of careful reading, you come to understand what a man Custer really was...

John Morris, also a geologist, is Henry’s son.

G5m, sorry; I didn't catch that I typed the wrong name in my first post. It is "John" as mentioned and he is the son of Henry Morris; both are PhD geologists.

In Defense Of Food, Michael Pollan.

Getting to middle age comes with a few perks, but simple weight control isn’t one of them. I’m amazed at how much harder it can get. After reading a half dozen contemporary books on diet and snake oil, this one has been the most sensible one

I'm about 850 pages into a 1,200 page biography, John Adams by Page Smith, © 1963.

It is a very interesting read of Adams' life, career, and the early days of our country.

L.W.

No problem here. I just wondered if there happened to be another that I didn't know about. (And then would have to hunt that book down, too!)

Just finished re-read of "The Killing of Crazy Horse" by Thomas Powers. A very good book. Now started to re-read "We Pointed Them North" by Teddy Blue Abbot. A great book on the cattle drives out of Texas in the early days and ranching in Montana.

Two Kinds Of Truth,,Michael Connely,,,,The Killing Of The Rising Son,, Bill O'Reilley,,,,,,Hellhound On His Trail,,Hampton Sides,,

Play by play of how Colonel David Hackworth took the ragtag 4th Battalion/39th Infantry and completely turned it into a disciplined fighting unit.

A graphic description of the ugly ground war in Vietnam...Very informative, a great read.

Undisputed Truth-Mike Tyson

"Killing England" O'Reilly & Dugard. Covers the American Revolution. I've read a lot about it but there's a plenty of material I've either forgotten or never was aware of; "more actual battles were fought in South Carolina than any other state". There's also considerable personal info on a great number of people involved on both sides. Good read.

"Over the Beach"

The Air War in Vietnam.