What is everone reading ?

“Yep, meant to say white supremecist.”

“Wowie, pretty interesting reading dayhiker. Thanx. The book is great tho, and my children cain't wait to hear of his next adventure!”

“I thought it was interesting that a 2nd book was in the works when he passed.

The humor of the book really stood out to me. The subtlety of rural language and wit for example”

“Black Lies, White Lies
By Tony Brown
1993 or so...


The Prose Reader
College comp. textbook
Lotsa good reads for those with short attent... ooh look - a penny!”

“Under the banner of Heaven. Jon Krakauer”

“Under the Banner was a good read. A little different from his outdoor books. It was interesting to hear FLDSs (Warren Jeffs) in the news after reading it.”

“Reading "The Forest" by Stuart Edward White. Good book about exploring one of my favorite areas of Ontario back in the late 1800s. There's a very interesting chapter on the 1800s version of traveling light.....quite a bit different than today's standard, lol.”

“Icy Sparks about a little girl from Appalachia that has Tourette Syndrome. Kind of a strange story so far...
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“Also reading Amazing Grace. I'm not very deep in this one so I might start it over when I finish these others.”

“Comprehensive Review Textbook 37th Edition (Auditing & Attestation) by Bisk Education

Dang good...zzzzzzz”

“Just finished Night comes to the Cumberlands.

I found Horace Kephardt's book last night at McVay for $10. Going to start it tonight.”

“Dogtalk, for training my 2 new puppies”

“Clive Cussler " Inca Gold "”

“Shmuley Boteach's "Parenting With Fire"

So far (about 1/3 done) it's a lot of stuff I've already thought about, heard or common since. Still good advice though. A lot of ragging on modern day families, which I agree with, but it gets a little old.”

“I just picked up Joe Simpsons Touching The Void last night. The story is the stuff of legend, but now that I'm about 50 pages in, I can't believe the conditions they were facing even before the accident. Absolutely incredible.”

“I'm about 250 pages into Bernard Cornwells, An Archers Tale. I've really enjoyed it so far.”

“Is that non-fiction DH?”

“Yep. Historical fiction. He has a Napoleanic series that's about 10-12 books, a Grail trilogy, an Arthur trilogy, and others. I've probably gone through a dozen of his books.

I keep looking for a link to the show, but last night I was an ad for it on the Discovery Channel. It's some dude that lives with indigenious tribes and trys out their ways. The commercial showed 2-3 guys getting out of a hut and they had the tribal #&%!$ sheaths on. The next guy that got out was as white as my ass and had one on too. I immediately thought, MEANGREEN!!!!”

“Tough Guys don't Dance by Norman Mailer, The Juror by Grisham, The Drifters by Minchener, The Collected Works of Jack London by (who the hell cares) and the Home Ranch by Ralph Moody.”

“I've read all of Cornwell's books. An Archer's Tail was fantastic, so were two following books - Vagabond and Heretic. BTW, its only called The Archer's Tale in the US, everywhere else its called 'Harlequin'.

In my opinion, his best work is the Arthur Books - The Winter King, Enemy of God and Excalibur. My next favorite were the Starbuck Chronicles about the American Civil War.
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“The horrors of life at those points in history is really eye opening. You've got a good life, you work hard, then comes this rampaging army that invades your town, steals everything, kills most of hte men and rapes all the women and girls. Modern warfare probably wouldn't be that different, we're just blessed to live in a much safer environment.”

“Yeah, that was pretty interesting how the French boats raided the English shore. It wasn't even war, it was a theft on a grand scale.”

“I just mean all of it in general. When they sacked Caen and then the town where Jeanette was from. Similiar themes in the Sharpe series as well.

I guess it's shocking how women were a form of currency basically. I don't just mean at that time and place either. THe same thing shows up if you read about the Native Americans. Raiders took women.”

“This may sound weird, but the taking of women made a tribe stronger by expanding their gene pool instead of intermarrying within the same limited family units over and over.”

“LOL, i can hear hyway now..."but honey, i wasn't cheating on you, i was expanding our family's gene pool"”

“Kind of like deer hunting, shoot all the bucks you want, but need a strong female population.

All of that said, it's still chilling to even mentally put yourself in those shoes.

Something the Jewish doc said reminded me of Nigal. He said something like that what Christians read out of Daniel always made him chuckle. Christians read more into that stuff than the Jew's ever did.”

“Oh sure, some white dude goes native, and everyone thinks of me! LMAO!”

“Yes it is pretty chilling. Cornwell can really put you into the reality of that world. Lots of minor details that many writers would overlook.”

“Is meangreen nigal? Did I miss a memo?”

“I need to get back to the Sharpe's series. My partner used to get them unabridged books on tape. BOT went out of business I believe so no more of that. It was nice to have in the car. I went through most of hte Flashman series that way too.”

“Nope, they're different. MG was referring to something I wrote up the page.
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“Is meangreen nigal? Did I miss a memo?�
hyway
12:52:32 PM
1/25/08


How dare you! Nigal has a much prettier mouth.”

“I see it now. LOL my bad.”

“Moby Dick

...finally.”

“that is screaming for inclusion on the OOC thread :). Only I wouldn't be sure what it would mean”

“I just finished Durwood Dunn's book on Cades Cove. Probably the best written, most well documented work I have seen on this region.

I am working on a book about small towns in Arkansas that pretty well died out over the last century. Interesting history associated with some of them.

Hopefully, I will get to Kephardt's book soon.”

“Transforming Grace, by Jerry Bridges, and plodding my way through The Hobbit by JRRT.”

“Kephart's stuff is good, but very dated, language and attitude-wise. Makes me think of the "noble savage" crap I had to read in HS.”

“Durwood Dunn didn't say a lot of positive things about Kephardt's work.

I am anxious to read Miners, Millhands and Moutaineers. It is supposedly a good look at Appalachia during the last century.”

“My GPS instructions with 11 different Languages......”

“Good luck Rev. I'd rather try to memorize War and Peace.”

“I just finished "The World Without Us." I think it is mistitled, but it's still a very interesting book about what we have done to our planet and what it would/will take to clean up after us. Recommended!”

““Moby Dick

...finally.”

~gojo
2:05:15 PM
1/25/08


Still reading...”

“Pssshhh! What's taking you so long?! JK”

“Hey! I'll have you know that I read at a 53 y/o level (tho I'm only 49).”

“LOL!”

“You think Moby Dick was slow? Try anything by Tolstoi.

Or Charles Dickens, for that matter.”

“Try reading Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead - #1 and #2 on my favorite list. I'm reading Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales right now - it's FANTASTIC. It discusses the psychology of survival and how very experienced people die when faced with stressful situations by allowing their emotions to control decision making. Great survival story telling and great insight into the art and science of survival. Buy it, you won't put it down.”

“The Poet of Tolstoy Park is a GREAT read - delivers a lot of Tolstoi's philosophical ideas in a great little story. One of my favorites as well. Take a look...”