Quillback Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 Re-reading one myself. "Pea Ridge - Civil was campaign in the West" William L. Shea. Very readable account of the battle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ness Posted April 22, 2013 Author Share Posted April 22, 2013 I've heard that recommended before, quill. Gotta check that out too. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Jones Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 Reading Child 44 - a serial killer story based loosely on the Rostov Ripper case and set in Stalinist Russia. Also reading The Wilderness Warrior, about big TR. "Thanks to Mother Mercy, Thanks to Brother Wine, Another night is over and we're walking down the line" - David Mallett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Spencer Posted August 29, 2013 Share Posted August 29, 2013 Been on a Hemingway kick, just finished The Sun Also Rises which I really liked, A farewell to arms a little to much of a love story for me, Old Man and Sea great, Snows of Kilamanjaro and Sweet short life of some guy were both good short stories. Next up Capote's In Cold Blood. "The problem with a politician’s quote on Facebook is you don’t know whether or not they really said it." –Abraham Lincoln Tales of an Ozark Campground Proprietor Dead Drift Fly Shop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ness Posted August 29, 2013 Author Share Posted August 29, 2013 Next up Capote's In Cold Blood. Great book. I loved it the first time I read it, and did some other reading on the whole situation which led me to read it again. Capote took quite a lot of poetic license that many people have had issues with over the years. The remaining sister and some friends have spoken up in recent years about not only the inaccuracies, but how the book has been a bit of a curse due to the continued attention they get. Just finished Steven Ambrose's "Undaunted Courage" about Lewis and Clark. A really good read, but Ambrose seems to inject a lot of judgement, speculation, and also has a bit of a 'fan-boy' infatuation with Lewis at times, kinda like he did in Band of Brothers and Eisenhower. It was very interesting how close L&C were to complete disaster on many occasions, but ultimately only lost one man on the journey -- due to an apparent appendicitis. The description of the last couple years of Lewis' life were really interesting, and sad. Next up "Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage" about an expedition to Antarctica that went bad. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Spencer Posted August 29, 2013 Share Posted August 29, 2013 I'll add Corps of Discovery to my list, love Lewis and Clark stuff. "The problem with a politician’s quote on Facebook is you don’t know whether or not they really said it." –Abraham Lincoln Tales of an Ozark Campground Proprietor Dead Drift Fly Shop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old plug Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Garden books with a view towards what we will do next year around here. Also Hosta and Heuchera (coral bells) publications to see what new. I have at least one seminar to host next year about these two plants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillback Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 I'll add Corps of Discovery to my list, love Lewis and Clark stuff. Get the Bernard DeVoto edited edition of the journals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillback Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Just finished "Game Wars" - "The Undercover pursuit of wildlife poachers." By Marc Reisner. Published in 1991, might be a tad hard to find, but it's probably on Amazon. The book covers some of the cases of wildlife poaching taking place in the 80's. Ivory from walrus in Alaska, Louisiana ducks, crappie and deer. The descriptions of some of the poachers are hilarious, but some of those dudes were bad characters. What surprised me was how big the crappie poaching operations were at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ness Posted August 30, 2013 Author Share Posted August 30, 2013 I'll add Corps of Discovery to my list, love Lewis and Clark stuff. Originally I said Corps of Discovery -- it's actually Undaunted Courage. I think the Ken Burns thing was Corps of Discovery. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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