What are you reading?

[Dungannon]

In the last six weeks I've finished reading
Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie
Company Aytch by Sam Watkins
The Exploits of Ben Arnold by Lewis F. Crawford
James Krenov: Leave Fingerprints by Brendan Gaffney
Good Work by Christopher Williams

Reading now
Country Woodcraft: Then and Now by Drew Langsner
Parables in Jewish Tradition & Christian Interpretation by Brad H Young

 

[sobo]

One Year After, sequel to One Second After. Can't remember the author's name, darn good read.

William R. Forstchen

 

[LDmax]

 

[WAW44]

Hookers and Blow Save Christmas

Buy it on Amazon

 

[Mikej]

Hookers and Blow Save Christmas

Buy it on Amazon

Dang. Who'd a thunk it?


I'm not much of a reader, other than the forum. I read gun rags too. I DID become interested in the history of our happy place, "Westlake Oregon". Westlake is six miles south of Florence. We've been vacationing there since we discovered the little community on the shore of Siltcoos Lake in 1998. Wifey got a couple of books written about the area, written by people that grew up there in the barely post WWI to WWII years. They involve the time before there was a HWY 101.

"Westlake Girl" by Frieda Wampler.
"Hell's Hole and Battle Beach" and "I was No Hero", both written by Bob Jackson. The second book is his story of joining the Navy in 1942 and ending up flying PBMs.

 

[Certaindeaf]

Dang. Who'd a thunk it?


I'm not much of a reader, other than the forum. I read gun rags too. I DID become interested in the history of our happy place, "Westlake Oregon". Westlake is six miles south of Florence. We've been vacationing there since we discovered the little community on the shore of Siltcoos Lake in 1998. Wifey got a couple of books written about the area, written by people that grew up there in the barely post WWI to WWII years. They involve the time before there was a HWY 101.

"Westlake Girl" by Frieda Wampler.
"Hell's Hole and Battle Beach" and "I was No Hero", both written by Bob Jackson. The second book is his story of joining the Navy in 1942 and ending up flying a PBMs.

Cool, I'll have to check that out.
My favorite lake is East Lake by Paulina Lake in Eastern Oregon.. cabins and prime rib at the kitchen oh my!

Oh, for some Oregon history, check out Clyde Rice.. I met him a few times.. wrote some good books.

 

[Mikej]

Cool, I'll have to check that out.
My favorite lake is East Lake by Paulina Lake in Eastern Oregon.. cabins and prime rib at the kitchen oh my!

Oh, for some Oregon history, check out Clyde Rice.. I met him a few times.. wrote some good books.

Yeah, see, I get it....We've been to East Lake. Years ago, and camped for six nights on the East side. Had never been there. We caught fish and ate them. Got our pictures up in the lodge because of our fish. We got blown off the lake and drove East out of the crater. Explored through a burnt forest and climbed an old cinder cone ( with the truck) to a fire lookout we could climb up. Truly an Amazing place, that Newberry Crater.

 

[No_Regerts]

 

[Astoria9mm]

This book was amazing! Long...but very good.

 

[Dungannon]

Over Christmas I finished "American Rifle" by Alexander Rose, "Shop Class as Soulcraft" by Matthew B. Crawford and "The Wright Brothers" by David McCullough.
Currently reading "The Mountain Meadow Massacre" by Juanita Brooks and "Down Home Ways" by Jerry Mack Johnson.

 

[clearconscience]

Lately read
The Immortality Key by Brian Muraresku
Tribe by Sebastion Junger
Breath by James Nestor
The Carnivore Code by Paul Saladino
Outlaw Platoon by Sean Parnell (read it again)
The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston
Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock
(Read it again)

 

[Wood Worker]

Confessions of a Yakuza, by Junichi Saga

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Just finished today :
The ocean at the end of the lane by Neil Gaiman.
An excellent , if bittersweet , read.
Andy

 

[Soli]

Finished Stephen Kotkin's "Armageddon Averted", history of the collapse of the USSR from 1970 to 2000. (Updated in 2010)

If you're at all interested in USSR history I can't recommend Kotkin strongly enough. His multi volume bio of Stalin reads like a novel in places. I recommend it to young people all the time, moral: you really don't want to live through a socialist revolution. Why? Besides the fact everything you know and love will be unrecognizable or gone afterwards, because there's a good chance YOU won't live to see it.

 

[Certaindeaf]

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.
A loose historical account of Texas/Mexico border shenanigans in the 1850's.
After reading the first chapter, I am compelled to proclaim that there were some real a-holes back in the day.

 

[oremike]

I'm just starting book 2 of this 5 volume set.

Gathering Storm Thunder Over the Ochoco Volume 1: Gale Ontko: Trade Paperback: 9780892882458: Powell's Books

 

[Soli]

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.

Wow... get ready.

I love McCarthy. Though that's the probably the wrong word to use when admiring his writing and stories. He's compelling.

 

[Soli]

About half way through Tower of Skulls, by Richard Frank. Read his Guadalcanal thirty years ago. The man can write military history.

 

[BBQ Guy]

Some of you guys are better at reading some heavy duty stuff.
I read to escape my daily life and to wear my brain out so I can sleep at night.
I found this author and have been reading all of his books.

 

[No_Regerts]

Extreme Ownership, and then Dichotomy of Leadership. Both by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin