Books... What are you reading? And what do you recommend?

[Steve French]

Recently finished reading Chris Hedges' War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. There was a passage quoted in there from William Manchester's Goodbye Darkness where he viscerally describes his first kill in the Pacific War. Great writing, got me really interested in reading it. Turned out that Manchester is a total fraud and that kind of turned me off that one. Still felt like a good war memoir though.

Settled on George MacDonald Fraser's Quartered Safe Out Here. Pretty damn good book. Very stiff-upper lip, quite politically incorrect, full of that dry wit and deadpan humour, vivid characterization, and an interesting insight into the British soldier's perspective of the Pacific. The writing is quite good as well, often a problem in these types of books, seeing as Fraser was a novelist for many years before writing this one.

 

[BarnBuster]

Recently finished reading Chris Hedges' War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. There was a passage quoted in there from William Manchester's Goodbye Darkness where he viscerally describes his first kill in the Pacific War. Great writing, got me really interested in reading it. Turned out that Manchester is a total fraud and that kind of turned me off that one. Still felt like a good war memoir though.

Settled on George MacDonald Fraser's Quartered Safe Out Here. Pretty damn good book. Very stiff-upper lip, quite politically incorrect, full of that dry wit and deadpan humour, vivid characterization, and an interesting insight into the British soldier's perspective of the Pacific. The writing is quite good as well, often a problem in these types of books, seeing as Fraser was a novelist for many years before writing this one.

Interesting, first time I had heard this about Manchester. I wish the records at Umass and Wesleyan U. were digitized so I could read them myself. I did read the American Spectator article. Have all the other reports/articles originated from the A.S. one? Been a long while since I read any of his books.

 

[Laughing Grass]

MS-13 : the making of America's most notorious gang / Steven Dudley.

The apocalypse factory : plutonium and the making of the atomic age / Steve Olson
Backstory of Hanford and the Manhattan Project @cannabineer

Soul full of coal dust : a fight for breath and justice in Appalachia / Chris Hamby.
The folks we forgot about, still, to this day.

just some light reading.

 

[Steve French]

Interesting, first time I had heard this about Manchester. I wish the records at Umass and Wesleyan U. were digitized so I could read them myself. I did read the American Spectator article. Have all the other reports/articles originated from the A.S. one? Been a long while since I read any of his books.

Seems they all do come from that article. I would assume they did their research, he still has family around that could sue them. There was quite a lot of questioning of his credibility as a historian and researcher back in the 60s when he wrote about the assassination of JFK, though I suppose that's mostly a separate issue to misrepresenting his service. I suppose this doesn't really diminish the quality of his writing. However, I can't say I'm a fan of passing off half-truths and inventions as non-fiction.

 

[lokie]

Trey has a flawless record in the courtroom and was undefeated in political races.


A good read. Helpful in getting to the answers and NOT just what the subject wants to say.

This book is not written from a political view, it is written to help understand the importance of
effective communication.

 

[BudmanTX]

Currently reading exerpts from the Book of Judas

Gospel of Judas - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

you can read the translation at the bottom it's on PDF, it's broken, but you can get the jest of what it says....

 

[Lenin1917]

Just started The Art of The Ridiculous Sublime by Slavoj Zizek.

 

[Laughing Grass]

P is for Pterodactyl The worst alphabet book ever.

Not really but it's at the top of my list.

 

[injinji]

I came across this book review. Thought it might help if anyone was thinking of buying it.

 

[BarnBuster]

The superfortress is born : the story of the Boeing B-29 / by Thomas Collison

Saga of the superfortress : the dramatic history of the B-29 and the Twentieth Air Force / Steve Birdsall.

Building the B-29 / Jacob Vander Meulen.

Freedom's forge : how American business produced victory in World War II / Arthur Herman. (Great book, lots of stuff I didn't know about the turnover in factory tooling and production from making typewriters and refrigerators to machine guns and bombsights. Insight into business leadership and patriotism of the times.bb)

Energiya-Buran : the Soviet space shuttle / Bart Hendrickx and Bert Vis (Everything about the rise and fall of the Soviet shuttle, lots of detail) @cannabineer

Rage / Bob Woodward

 

[ChingOwn]

 

[BudmanTX]

so I did some light reading this afternoon:

Gospel of Mary - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

some what controversial in some surroundings....

Gospel of Mary Text

if you wanna read it.....there also some links in the Wikipedia for other areas to....

 

[injinji]

Sister dropped off Squeeze Me, the new Carl Hiaasen novel this morning. Will make time for this one. It's set in and around a fictional Winter White House in South Florida. I wonder who it could be about?

Squeeze Me (Skink #8)

From the best-selling author of Skinny Dip and Razor Girl, a new novel that captures the Trump era with Hiaasen's inimitable savage humor...

www.goodreads.com

 

[injinji]

so I did some light reading this afternoon:

Gospel of Mary - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

some what controversial in some surroundings....

Gospel of Mary Text

if you wanna read it.....there also some links in the Wikipedia for other areas to....

Mary and Jesus's next oldest brother John started the church after his death. Their vision was that all the Jewish rules (like their food laws, etc,etc) would continue to be in effect. There was a power struggle with the Saul/Paul wing of the church who had far more non Jews and didn't want the food laws and such to throw a wrench in their recruiting. As history shows us, the Saul/Paul folks won. There are/were many texts that didn't make it into the Canon.

 

[BudmanTX]

Mary and Jesus's next oldest brother John started the church after his death. Their vision was that all the Jewish rules (like their food laws, etc,etc) would continue to be in effect. There was a power struggle with the Saul/Paul wing of the church who had far more non Jews and didn't want the food laws and such to throw a wrench in their recruiting. As history shows us, the Saul/Paul folks won. There are/were many texts that didn't make it into the Canon.

you talking Mary, the mother, or Mary Magdalene?

gotta excuse me, just getting coffee in me

 

[Azn00Superman]

I bought the first new book since forever (I like used books normally). Night Sky with Exit Wound by Ocean Vuong. The poems I read so far in it had been amazing. I get so much out of it reading high

 

[injinji]

you talking Mary, the mother, or Mary Magdalene?

gotta excuse me, just getting coffee in me

The mother.

 

[cannabineer]

I bought the first new book since forever (I like used books normally). Night Sky with Exit Wound by Ocean Vuong. The poems I read so far in it had been amazing. I get so much out of it reading high

I find the imagery worrisome. I prefer titles like The Very Fluffy Puppy Goes to the Park.

 

[lokie]

I find the imagery worrisome. I prefer titles like The Very Fluffy Puppy Goes to the Park.

I always enjoyed the chronicles of Richard.

The moral of this saga is, there is a BIG DICK in every family.

 

[BudmanTX]

The mother.

That gospel is about Magdalene, not the mother, that's why it's controversial