Who's Reading What?

[ness]

Sounds kinda cool, bfishn. I like history schtuff.

I finished up "This Town" a few weeks back. That's the book Al was talking about where the author gives the inside skinny on the goof-balls running our country. Dang, what a bunch of idiots. It's far worse than I thought. Both sides. It goes into the seamy relationships of politicians and lobbyists, but also how the media is in bed with everybody too.

Near new condition hardcover mailed at my expense to the first human that PMs me their address.

[bfishn]

...Near new condition hardcover mailed at my expense to the first human that PMs me their address.

ROFLMAO!

To Whom it may Concern

1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Washington DC

[Quillback]

Just finished reading a book I picked up at the library "Monsters - the 1985 Chicago Bears - and the wild heart of football" by Rich Cohen. The title is deceiving, it does cover the 85 Bears but also begins with several chapters on the earliest days of the NFL, George Halas, and the founding of the Bears. A good read for the most part, if you're interested in this kind of stuff.

[Quillback]

Just finished another library book - "Shot All to Hell - Jesse James, The Northfield Raid" - Mark Lee Gardner. Interesting read if you like reading about western outlaw history. Fairly well written, it goes into great detail, too much in my opinion, about the post Northfield raid posse chase of the James and Youngers.

[Al Agnew]

Got back into Conn Iggulden's series on the Mongols, starting with the birth of Genghis Kahn and am now up to "Conqueror, a Novel of Kublai Khan". I finally got into reading on an I Pad, and now I love it, not to mention being able to order the book online and get started reading a minute or two later.

[ness]

Just got started on "The Glorious Cause" by Jeff Schaara -- an author Al recommended a while back. It's historical fiction about the Revolutionary War, told through the eyes of Washington, Franklin, Cornwallis and others. I'm only a little way into it, but I think I'm gonna like it a lot. If so, I'll plow into some of his other books about the Civil War, WW I and II. Thanks for the tip, Al.

[Quillback]

Just read another James brothers book - for some reason there's been a couple published lately. It's "The Lost Cause - The Trials of Frank and Jesse James." Author - James P. Muehlberger. Author talks about how hard it was to arrest and try the James brothers. Frank James, for example was tried twice but never convicted. No forensic evidence in those days, eyewitness testimony was unreliable as the robbers wore masks. Judges and attorneys received death threats, and in those days, jurors names and occupation were published in the local newspapers. If the posse didn't catch them right after the robbery, then it was almost impossible for the legal system as it was to arrest and try them. If a posse did catch a robber, it was a good chance there'd be a lynching. People got upset when their local bank was robbed, no FDIC in those days.

[Justin Spencer]

Finished Atlas Shrugged a few weeks ago, really enjoyed it, a good pro-capitalism anti-government novel that will go down as one of my favorites for sure.

[ness]

I did the audiobook of Atlas Shrugged a couple years ago. It was a struggle for me to get through.I think the format was partly to blame. I didn't want to commit to a book that big, so I took the easy way out.

I figure since I didn't pay my dues and read the book, I haven't earned the right to spout off about how deep and meaningful it is. Plus, I didn't get large parts of it. Seemed part Econ class, part soap opera.

[Quillback]

Finished Atlas Shrugged a few weeks ago, really enjoyed it, a good pro-capitalism anti-government novel that will go down as one of my favorites for sure.

Some people like that book, I read it, but it was a struggle.