What kind of stuff do you all read?

[Mike in FL]

I hope this is not inappropriate. My latest novel is INHERITED SHAME. A sea saga set during the Revolution. My 6th published book. The material was researched beyond need. Although fiction, the setting is accurate. See or buy it at Amazon. Just search the title.

 

[Mike in FL]

Or if your interest is not the sea but land adventures prior to the Revolution, look at CALL OF THE WHIPPOORWILL, a paperback story set in the NC mountains in the 1740s. Amazon. Woodsmanship and longrifles are alive within those pages.

 

[French Colonial]

Or if your interest is not the sea but land adventures prior to the Revolution, look at CALL OF THE WHIPPOORWILL, a paperback story set in the NC mountains in the 1740s. Amazon. Woodsmanship and longrifles are alive within those pages.

Amazon says it is out of print.

 

[Appowner]

After 40 plus years in a technical field, I read mostly technical articles. Mostly aviation related but Harleys and Guns also fare well. No novels to speak of since Clancy and I never finished all of his.

Hate to say it but when I got into IT and the certifications, I had tens of thousands of pages to study and essentially memorize to pass the tests. After 20 years of that I pretty much burned out.

 

[Mike in FL]

Amazon says it is out of print.

Well, rats. Thanks for telling me. I wondered why sales had stopped.

 

[BackDraft]

Well, rats. Thanks for telling me. I wondered why sales had stopped.

Switch over to Kindle versions. I prefer e reader formats, anyways.

 

[SOLANCO]

Years ago I had a neighbor who was a Japanese citizen. He decided to buy a gun and was amazed at how easy it was to get one. Just a background check, pay for it and out the door. Would maybe like to visit Japan some day... but I don't think I would want to live there. Wonder where the Yakuza gets their guns?

Banning something inevitably creates a black market for it.

 

[SOLANCO]

Most of my reads come from thrift shops, supplemented by online.

Age has been unkind to my eyes. Most of my reading is done on a Kindle. Will also use Audible, especially if on a road trip. If I want something not available in those formats I look for a used hard copy on Amazon.

 

[SOLANCO]

I found that I'm not the avid reader that I once was.What used to be some of my favorite magazines are getting "annoying" trying to read the smaller print.

Hard for me to read paper books/magazines too. Suggest you try Kindle and Audible.

 

[SOLANCO]

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)

John McPhee could write an essay on watching grass grow and it would be a good read.

 

[SOLANCO]

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

Nathaniel Drinkwater?

 

[BackDraft]

John McPhee could write an essay on watching grass grow and it would be a good read.

And Mike Rowe would be fantastic at narrating the audible version.

 

[springfield art]

Nathaniel Drinkwater?

No, I was being tongue-in-cheek! "Thirstin, get it? I can be corny at times.

 

[DuncNZ]

I read non fiction history books .
I have just started reading "Across The Wide Missouri, " by Bernard DeSoto, it is all about the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade and the discovery of Alfred Jacob Miller's collection of paintings and sketches which he made between 1832 and 1838 when he accompanied William Drummond Stewart to the west and made the only paintings of various rendezvous and Indian tribes and Mountain Men . It looks like an interesting read . The book is a 483 page hardcover in as new condition which cost me approximately 60 cents US at a fundraiser book sale .

 

[1950DAVE]

People speak of novels. What is that, maybe something new? As in a novel way of doing things.

 

[Rawhide67]

Well, I have every western ever written by Louis LaMour. Fond of Michael Connelly novels. And serial killer stuff, as well as historical pieces from time to time, like the Bill Orielly historical books too.

 

[DuncNZ]

People speak of novels. What is that, maybe something new? As in a novel way of doing things.

Maybe one should talk about fiction and nonfiction. Novels were certainly Novel when they first came along.

 

[Mike_1066]

I mostly read non-fiction, history and technical books. The older the publication the more excited I get about wanting to pick it up. My concurrent reading list goes something like this:


Artillery through the Ages (1949).
Round Shot and Rammers (1969).
British Smooth-Bore Artillery: A technological study (1988).
The Wars of the Barbary Pirates (2006).

 

[Eutycus]

Doing some rereading at present. I stumbled upon a "Shooter's Bible"from 1986 and old Dixie Gun Works catalog. The DGW catalog is in the other room and I don't feel like going to get it right now. I don't recall the year but Sam Colt is on the cover.Too good of info to throw away.

 

[Hermit Tim]

Doing some rereading at present. I stumbled upon a "Shooter's Bible"from 1986 and old Dixie Gun Works catalog. The DGW catalog is in the other room and I don't feel like going to get it right now. I don't recall the year but Sam Colt is on the cover.Too good of info to throw away.

Yep, those Dixie catalogs were packed with good stuff. Wish I had kept all of mine.