if you REALLY liked Crytonomicon, you might also lilke Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon; it also has a Marine, submarines and Swartzkommando
Conan is not a thinking persons book I agree, but great reading Have you read Burrough’s Tarzan or John Carter? Same idea but really wonderful stuff IMO.
G- I read Tarzan as a kid and couldn’t really get into it. But I’d like to read John Carter sometime to see how it fares in print- the movie wasn’t terrible but I didn’t know the story.
" I Could Never be so Lucky Again " by Gen Jimmy Doolittle . His accomplishments and contributions to aviation are amazing to read about. He did so much more than just the Tokyo raid.
Just finished Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent, and am now reading T.E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph.
I just finished Shelby Foote’s three volume series “The Civil War”. The clash of personalities among the Union and Confederate General Officers was a surprise, and Lincoln was different from what I always believed.
Jim
I just finished “Reports of the Inspectors of the Mine in the Anthracite Region of Pennsylvania for the Year 1883”, an old book that I got off eBay. Being from a coal-mining background and family, I’ve been researching the history of Scranton Pa’s mining.
This book was fascinating, talking of all the improvements, accidents, deaths, and hazards of mining coal–as well as the lessons learned and recommendations for future miners. It has diagrams, pull-out maps and illustrations, and I genuinely couldn’t put it down.
I ordered five more copies of reprints from different years of the late 1800’s.
“Under Ice” the biography of Waldo Lyons: arrived today.
It’s all about developing the technology to sail submarines below the polar ice cap. Won’t mean much in just a few years.
Just read “Green Eggs and Ham” for the upteenth million time, this time for my grandsons. No one can deny that this is a good book.
Nothing beats the classics Sub… Shakespear, Dumas, Dickens, Conrad, Hemingway, Seuss…
Dang right!
I love reading about people in general, so bios are my favorite, like the one’s I’ve read on/by John Lennon, George Harrison, Jackie Chan, John Madden, Jim McMahon, Kenny Stabler, Denis Potvin, Rita Hayworth, Chuck Yeager, Erich Hartmann, well, you get the idea. Right now I’m reading Rickenbacker’s, and it’s awesome!
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Still reading " A DIRTY JOB " by CHRISTOPHER MOORE. Weird ! ( a loaner from a neighbor ) Now I usually read CLIVE CUSSLER and authors like that , and of course ANYTHING on WW 2 ships ! The most impressive books I think I’ve read over the years are ones like " MEIN KAMPF " by you know who . and other WW-2 generals and admirals .
You certainly get an insight into their thinking . Now I do like , and I guess it’s cause I can look at all the great " pichurs" is the SQUADRON/SIGNAL and OSPREY books . Tanker-builder
I read over 30 books in 2012. By far the most I have ever read in a year.
A Kindle and a job in security was the reason. [;)]
I just started reading this on my Kindle today.
That is a decent read Mike. Read that one several years ago, but not one I will read again every so often like “Ghost Soldiers”, “Incredible Victory” or “The Longest Day”…
I finally finished up “Wings of Gold”. On the one hand it gives short shift to the big picture of the carrier war. On the other hand it brings a far more up close and personal view to that war. The attrition/loss rates of those naval aviators was pretty high and even when we were an unstoppable juggernaut, lots of brave young men were to never come home. Not to mention the junior and mid grade officer views of the senior leadership. Overall a very good book. Now to finish up “The Guns of August” in the next few days. Talk about learning something on every page. I am oh so glad that I picked up this book.
Does “Anatomy and physiology” and “Human Kinetics” count? It is interesting and educational so…
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They are books, right?
Yes, big, thick books…