Great Books

[Sgt Nambu]

No, I haven't read TR's account but have read about the expedition in the usual biographies. The common thought is that the trip made TR so ill he never really recovered and died 10 years earlier than he should have.

Yes, that's my understanding, also! That was about the most harrowing journey I have ever read about!
One thing I'm sure of! On my best days I couldn't have survived that journey!

 

[USMC-03]

Here is a list of other books I've read and recommend - it's far from exhaustive and in no particular order of importance...

The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
Animal Farm & 1984 by George Orwell
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea & The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Story of My Life by Moshe Dayan
An American Life by Ronald Reagan
Chasing Villa by Frank Tompkins
Thunder Over the Ochoco by Gale Ontko
At Belleau Wood by Robert B. Asprey
My Experiences in the World War by John Pershing
The First and the Last by Adolf Galland
The Art of Strategy by Sun Tsu
Start With the Why by Simon Sinek
Radical Son by David Horowitz
Liberty and Tyranny by Mark Levin
The Federalist Papers by Hammilton, Madison & Jay
Symposium, Apology, Phaedo & Crito by Plato
Ethics by Aristotle
MASH by Richard Hooker
Lincoln on Leadership by Donald Philips
The Mystery of Capital by Hernando de Soto

 

[Hop Sing]

One more: Sometimes a Great Notion. Not necessarily an easy read, but it is very good fiction that is set in the PNW.

 

[Gaucho Gringo]

I remember when they built the house for the movie on the Siletz River. Used to go by it all the time while salmon fishing from a boat on the Siletz in the early 70's after they built it for the movie.

 

[salmonriverjohn]

It's still there.

 

[HuckleberryFun]

Search out a copy of Huckleberry Finn.

Did someone say my name? Oh...

 

[maddog]

Well, my reading list has just grown to fill the rest of my life! Most of these are calling to me!

A couple I haven't seen here yet are: "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand about Louis Zamperini and his story of survival.

"Iron Coffins" by Herbert A. Werner. A first hand story of a WWII German U Boat Commander's experiences during the war.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Iron Coffins is an excellent read.
Andy

 

[JedB]

I'm going to add to my prior additions and include

"The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes.
In addition to it being about the Atomic Bomb, it's a excellent capture of all the scientific advances that had been needed to get to the point of making it. Amazing that so many different aspects of science were advanced.
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Chemistry
Nuclear Plant construction
Bomb-ology