Books... What are you reading? And what do you recommend?

BarnBuster

BarnBuster

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Here's my latest stack to read:

America's ancient forests : from the Ice Age to the Age of Discovery / Thomas M. Bonnicksen.
The world encyclopedia of rifles and machine guns / William Fowler & Patrick Sweeney.
Wild woodlands : the old-growth forests of America / photographs and text by Bill Thomas.
Tom Clancy : true faith and allegiance / Mark Greaney.
The Obsidian chamber : a Pendergast novel / Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
Twenty-six seconds : a personal history of the Zapruder film / Alexandra Zapruder
The whistler : a novel / John Grisham.
Pogue's basics: money : essential tips and shortcuts (that no one bothers to tell you) about beating the system / David Pogue.
Nature's temples : the complex world of old-growth forests / Joan Maloof ; illustrated by Andrew Joslin.
The fish market : inside the big money battle for the ocean and your dinner plate / Lee van der Voo.
Gin : the manual / Dave Broom.
 
BarnBuster

BarnBuster

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my latest:

Curtain of death : a clandestine operations novel / W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV.

The midnight bell / Jack Higgins.

The final day / William R. Forstchen. (This guy has written several other books that should be of "Prepper" interest. About what happens after EMP blast.) @whitebb2727 @wascaptain

The case against sugar / by Gary Taubes. (All about Big Sugar, stuff you didn't and probably don't want to know) @sunni
 
sunni

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BarnBuster said:
my latest:

Curtain of death : a clandestine operations novel / W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV.

The midnight bell / Jack Higgins.

The final day / William R. Forstchen. (This guy has written several other books that should be of "Prepper" interest. About what happens after EMP blast.) @whitebb2727 @wascaptain

The case against sugar / by Gary Taubes. (All about Big Sugar, stuff you didn't and probably don't want to know) @sunni
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mmm sugar. lol :p
ill check it out thanks
 
GreatwhiteNorth

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BarnBuster said:
IKR? i luv sugar! but sugar and tobacco?? Who'd a thunk it. :neutral:
at least you're close to a regular library now.
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Hey, we have a real library here - it's primarily occupied by drunks & vagrants during the daytime while their not allowed in the Salvation army center though.
So there is that.

The down side is that you rarely see any younger kids in there doing research or looking for books.
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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BarnBuster said:
my latest:

Curtain of death : a clandestine operations novel / W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV.

The midnight bell / Jack Higgins.

The final day / William R. Forstchen. (This guy has written several other books that should be of "Prepper" interest. About what happens after EMP blast.) @whitebb2727 @wascaptain

The case against sugar / by Gary Taubes. (All about Big Sugar, stuff you didn't and probably don't want to know) @sunni
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Gary Taubes also wrote/compiled Good Calories, Bad Calories, a genuinely surprising analysis of nutrition science across the last century. It raises very serious questions abut the current "healthy diet" criteria.

Was Forstchen the guy who wrote One Second After, a novel about electromagnetic pulse? I read it last year.

Might want to give The Long War (Pratchett and Baxter) a read ... traveling a multiverse stack in airships
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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GreatwhiteNorth said:
Hey, we have a real library here - it's primarily occupied by drunks & vagrants during the daytime while their not allowed in the Salvation army center though.
So there is that.

The down side is that you rarely see any younger kids in there doing research or looking for books.
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That is scary. I consider the presence of good, clean, free libraries to be an index of our civilization. No vagrants in our rather rural library, but the staff has given up trying to keep the kids with cell phones etc. even somewhat quiet. There is something to be said for the rigid social conformity the elders on this site may remember.
 
BarnBuster

BarnBuster

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cannabineer said:
Gary Taubes also wrote/compiled Good Calories, Bad Calories, a genuinely surprising analysis of nutrition science across the last century. It raises very serious questions abut the current "healthy diet" criteria.
Good deal, I reserved that as well as his other one "Why We Get Fat And What To Do About It"

Was Forstchen the guy who wrote One Second After, a novel about electromagnetic pulse? I read it last year.
Yes, this is his third in the series. Takes place 900 days after. He has also co-authored a few books with Newt G.

Might want to give The Long War (Pratchett and Baxter) a read ... traveling a multiverse stack in airships
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GreatwhiteNorth

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I realize this is an older release but I had to pick it up for our upcoming journey to Jamaica.
Stephen King - The Gunslinger.

Oh, and I picked up a new set of water shoes & a speedo from Amazon while I was at it. :wink:
 
BarnBuster

BarnBuster

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my latest stack to read:

The last ship / a novel by William Brinkley. (The TV series by the same name is loosely based on this book (1988; offers an interesting perspective on Command at Sea, a little tedious
but well written)

The plant paradox : the hidden dangers in "healthy" foods that cause disease and weight gain / Steven R. Gundry, M.D., with Olivia Bell Buehl

The will to kill / Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins.

Robert B. Parker's Little white lies / Ace Atkins.

The truth about your future : the money guide you need now, later, and much later / Ric Edelman.
(Big Fan of Ric's, everyone should read this)

Dr. Colbert's guide to vitamins and supplements : be empowered to make well-informed decisions / Don Colbert, MD

The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outside) a Bird’s Egg / Tim Birkhead @curious2garden

Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World /
William H. McRaven (short, quick, insightful read by the Adm.)
 
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BarnBuster

BarnBuster

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my latest:

Tower down / David Hagberg.

Hong Kong black : a Nick Foley thriller / Alex Ryan.

Mycorrhizal planet : how symbiotic fungi work with roots to support plant health and build soil fertility / Michael Phillips.

Whistleblower at the CIA : a path of dissent / Melvin A. Goodman.

Agent M : the lives and spies of MI5's Maxwell Knight / Henry Hemming.

G-man / Stephen Hunter.

Nighthawk : a novel from the NUMA Files / Clive Cussler and Graham Brown.

and as a PDF thanks to @DaveInCave :)

Cannabis sativa L. - Botany and Biotechnology - Suman Chandra • Hemant Lata Mahmoud A. ElSohly Editors
 
curious2garden

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BarnBuster said:
my latest:

Tower down / David Hagberg.

Hong Kong black : a Nick Foley thriller / Alex Ryan.

Mycorrhizal planet : how symbiotic fungi work with roots to support plant health and build soil fertility / Michael Phillips.

Whistleblower at the CIA : a path of dissent / Melvin A. Goodman.

Agent M : the lives and spies of MI5's Maxwell Knight / Henry Hemming.

G-man / Stephen Hunter.

Nighthawk : a novel from the NUMA Files / Clive Cussler and Graham Brown.

and as a PDF thanks to @DaveInCave :)

Cannabis sativa L. - Botany and Biotechnology - Suman Chandra • Hemant Lata Mahmoud A. ElSohly Editors
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Nicely diverse reading list!
 
BarnBuster

BarnBuster

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the latest:

MacArthur's spies : the soldier, the singer, and the spymaster who defied the Japanese in World War II / Peter Eisner.

Camino Island / John Grisham.

Posh rice : over 70 recipes for all things rice / Emily Kydd ; photography by Alex Luck.

The Russian Revolution : a new history / Sean McMeekin.

Castles : their history and evolution in medieval Britain / Marc Morris.

Oppose any Foe : the rise of America's Special Operations Forces / Mark Moyar.

The Aleppo code : a novel / by Terry Brennan.

For nobody's eyes only : missing government files and hidden archives that document the truth behind the most enduring conspiracy theories / Nick Redfern.

The Radium Girls : the dark story of America's shining women / Kate Moore.

Dragon teeth : a novel / Michael Crichton.
 
tyler.durden

tyler.durden

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I've been reading this all week. My condition has always been such a burden, it's nice to know I'm not the only one dealing with it...




This book is enormous, how tiny it looks in my giant hand...
 
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