What kind of stuff do you all read?

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Check out the Steven Hunter books. There’s no wokeness, and he spins a good yarn. Disregard the “Shooter”, Mark Walberg move loosely (like a .36 down the barrel of a .68) based on this book, “Point of Impact”, which was an outstanding book, but it ruined the movie for me because the book was a thousand times better, and Mark Walberg is no Ouichitau Mountains hillbilly.

 

[chorizo]

I can make the font bigger.

Exactly. I can blow up the font while hunting and not wear my glasses in case something shows up!

 

[Edm]

Check out the Steven Hunter books. There’s no wokeness, and he spins a good yarn. Disregard the “Shooter”, Mark Walberg move loosely (like a .36 down the barrel of a .68) based on this book, “Point of Impact”, which was an outstanding book, but it ruined the movie for me because the book was a thousand times better, and Mark Walberg is no Ouichitau Mountains hillbilly.

I really enjoyed his books….till the last one about Earl Lee in Chicago. He basically killed it for me at the end. He didn’t have to do that. I considered it woke

 

[RB POWELL]

Just curious what taste every one has when it comes to reading material?
I am not a huge magazine reader simply due to the boring stuff and mostly advertisement stuff in them. They can be good for pictures though to look at and day dream, but usually the writing sucks LOL.
I've pretty much destroyed the book department and am looking for "new" authors that write decent about the mountain man era. I've gone through so many books by various authors, including one writer that has a 70+ book series, that it's getting super hard to find new material to enjoy.

Greetings, I primarily read history, sprinkled with biographies. Subject matter varies: from Homer, to WWll. Interested in exploration on sea and land. My interest is generally very slanted to military history. Just bought The Complete Victory, by Kevin Weddle. Really looking forward to getting into it. That's about it. I used to read some dystopian novels, and science fiction, but I now find the real thing more interesting. Here's to good reading.

 

[jd hearity]

I read "Our Southern Highlands" by Horace Kephart on Kindle a while back and found it very interesting. I like James Lee Burke's book in fiction. Pat McManus books for outdoor humor.

 

[yellowhammer]

Just finished "Journal Of A Trapper", by Osborne Russell.

Also, on ebay found a nice hardcover edition of "Wildwood Wisdom" by Ellsworth Jaeger; been perusing it - remember reading it when I was a boy in Jr High:

 

[yellowhammer]

I read "Our Southern Highlands" by Horace Kephart on Kindle a while back and found it very interesting...

That book has been criticized by historians for being overly sensationalist and helping create negative distortions that still exist to this day about the people that live in this part of the country. Kephart focused on odd backwoods villains and eccentric people living in extreme poverty while ignoring the region's middle class and people living in towns close by, who would have been indistinguishable from mainstream America.

 

[bullshot]

Hear are a few books I have enjoyed. I have read all of them several times.

Skeeter Skelton anthologies: "Good Friends Good Guns and Good Whiskey" and "Hoglegs, Hipshots and Jalapenos". (Skeeter was the real deal and one of the all time great gun writers).

Guy Lautard editor. "The J.M. Pyne Stories and other selected writings by Lucian Cary" (Fiction based around Harry Pope the great barrel maker. Also exciting stories about machinists).

John McPhee. "Rising From the Plains" and "Irons in the Fire". ("Rising..." the geology of Wyoming told thru true history of pioneer family. "Irons..." cattle rustling in contemporary Nevada.) {Many more great books too numerous to list}.

Jim Rearden. "Castner's Cutthroats. Saga of the Alaska Scouts" (Historic fiction about Scouts in WWII Jap invasion. In reality, the Scouts were masters of bushcraft)

 

[bullshot]

That book has been criticized by historians for being overly sensationalist and helping create negative distortions that still exist to this day about the people that live in this part of the country. Kephart focused on odd backwoods villains and eccentric people living in extreme poverty while ignoring the region's middle class and people living in towns close by, who would have been indistinguishable from mainstream America.

Our Southern Highlanders focused on the backwoods culture. Where Kephart slipped up was giving the impression that the whole of the southern Appalachians was undeveloped backcountry. You are correct regarding the middle class culture of the region being like the rest of the country. But then who would have wanted to read about that.

 

[SOLANCO]

I have loved the texture and feel and smell of an actual paper book in my hands for my whole life. But age related macular degeneration has largely deprived me of that and the Kindle has allowed me to keep reading. Thank God for that mercy. God and Bezos.

 

[SOLANCO]

I do also like to sit down and open the Old Testament at random. The authors of the New Testaments could have taken writing lessons from their ancestors.

 

[yellowhammer]

I do also like to sit down and open the Old Testament at random. The authors of the New Testaments could have taken writing lessons from their ancestors.

Was just reading Acts 17 where Paul addressed the Athenians at the Areopagus. They insult him and say (NASB version) "what could this scavenger of tidbits want to say", and then he stands up and proceeds to eloquently blow their minds LOL. Would love to have been a fly on the wall there .

 

[1950DAVE]

I do also like to sit down and open the Old Testament at random. The authors of the New Testaments could have taken writing lessons from their ancestors.

I Start by doing 5 chapters in the OT every day, since January. I'm almost thru the Minor Prophets then on with the New.

 

[springfield art]

Hornblower is good. But I'd sooner the Aubrey/Maturhin series by Patrick O'Brian.

Wait till you read the exciting, authentic, Thirstin Drinkwater series!

 

[springfield art]

The great OT went thru so many translations of so many languages by so many translators that it has little connection with modern English, let alone the King James 1600's Shakespearian printed language.

 

[springfield art]

Oops. We're not to discuss religion on this site

 

[Eutycus]

The great OT went thru so many translations of so many languages by so many translators that it has little connection with modern English, let alone the King James 1600's Shakespearian printed language.

Got to agree, it somehow loses some of it's meaning when translated into modern English.But I am a big believer when I understand what's being told. Plus it's the small print that gets me.

 

[James Kopp]

any good journals to read from the Frontier time 1740-1780...French and Indian war, ect.

 

[1950DAVE]

Just finished this
And this,

starting this,

 

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muzzleloader porn.