Recommend to me some great books
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Some of my favorites and things I've read recently:
Nonfiction:
Earl Swift Auto Biography. Good read if you're a gearhead.
Bryce Andrews Badluck Way
John McPhee Irons in the Fire (short essays), Basin and Range, and Rising from the Plains. You might not think geology is interesting, but McPhee could change your mind.
Philip Connors Fire Season
Susan Southard Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War
Tom Zoellner Uranium
Jon Krakauer: I've enjoyed everything I have read by him, especially Into the Wild and Into Thin Air
You didn't ask, and it's hard to recommend poetry, but check out David Lee or B.H. Fairchild
Nonfiction:
Earl Swift Auto Biography. Good read if you're a gearhead.
Bryce Andrews Badluck Way
John McPhee Irons in the Fire (short essays), Basin and Range, and Rising from the Plains. You might not think geology is interesting, but McPhee could change your mind.
Philip Connors Fire Season
Susan Southard Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War
Tom Zoellner Uranium
Jon Krakauer: I've enjoyed everything I have read by him, especially Into the Wild and Into Thin Air
You didn't ask, and it's hard to recommend poetry, but check out David Lee or B.H. Fairchild
JHZR2
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The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
Some good engineering and physics textbooks.
Some good engineering and physics textbooks.
I have never been too much of a fiction reader - but the Dirk Pitt adventures (Clive Cussler is the author) are an excellent read. As are the Longmire mysteries.
On a few of my camping trips this summer, I plan on spending a bit of time in a book here or there.
On a few of my camping trips this summer, I plan on spending a bit of time in a book here or there.
Clancy is always great, of course. An excellent non-fiction book, that I'd recommend widely, would be The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan.
Originally Posted By: Pop_Rivit
Books. They're like television for smart people.
A few that are some of my favorites:
In the Heart of the Sea.....Nathaniel Philbrick
Write It When I'm Gone.....Gerald Ford
Thunder Dog.....Michael Hingson
Walk Across America.....Peter Jenkins
I forgot about "Walk Across America". That was a good book I read years ago.
Another author you may consider is Henry Petroski. His books are on engineering and engineering history. In one book he describes Charles Eads walking across the Mississippi river bottom in a diving bell to survey for a bridge, a bridge that would be the first successful major Mississippi crossing. They may be a bit slower of a read, but rewarding reading.
For light reading, I'd suggest anything by James Herriot, the English veterinarian. His first book was "All Creatures Great and Small". His short stories are like potato chips, you can read a few or read a bunch, but you're going to finish the bag. In my favorite story, the eccentric old lady of the town takes on a sad neglected young dog and gives him a second life. Very entertaining books and the stories weave together with colorful characters.
Books. They're like television for smart people.
A few that are some of my favorites:
In the Heart of the Sea.....Nathaniel Philbrick
Write It When I'm Gone.....Gerald Ford
Thunder Dog.....Michael Hingson
Walk Across America.....Peter Jenkins
I forgot about "Walk Across America". That was a good book I read years ago.
Another author you may consider is Henry Petroski. His books are on engineering and engineering history. In one book he describes Charles Eads walking across the Mississippi river bottom in a diving bell to survey for a bridge, a bridge that would be the first successful major Mississippi crossing. They may be a bit slower of a read, but rewarding reading.
For light reading, I'd suggest anything by James Herriot, the English veterinarian. His first book was "All Creatures Great and Small". His short stories are like potato chips, you can read a few or read a bunch, but you're going to finish the bag. In my favorite story, the eccentric old lady of the town takes on a sad neglected young dog and gives him a second life. Very entertaining books and the stories weave together with colorful characters.
Originally Posted By: Eddie
"A BRIEF HOSTORY OF TIME" by S. Hawking.
Updarted and better:
"A Briefer History of Time"
"A BRIEF HOSTORY OF TIME" by S. Hawking.
Updarted and better:
"A Briefer History of Time"
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Originally Posted By: Miller88
I have never been too much of a fiction reader - but the Dirk Pitt adventures (Clive Cussler is the author) are an excellent read. As are the Longmire mysteries. . . .
Let's not forget the spy figure who stands above them all: Ian Fleming's James Bond. Not all the books are dynamite, but Live and Let Die,, Moonraker, From Russia with Love, and Doctor No are the best.
For classic old-style mysteries, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe stories: Murder by the Book, Might As Well Be Dead, The Mother Hunt, and the Arnold Zeck trilogy (And Be a Villain, The Second Confession, and In the Best Families). I reread several of the Wolfes every year, even when I remember who the murderer is. Now that's writing.
I have never been too much of a fiction reader - but the Dirk Pitt adventures (Clive Cussler is the author) are an excellent read. As are the Longmire mysteries. . . .
Let's not forget the spy figure who stands above them all: Ian Fleming's James Bond. Not all the books are dynamite, but Live and Let Die,, Moonraker, From Russia with Love, and Doctor No are the best.
For classic old-style mysteries, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe stories: Murder by the Book, Might As Well Be Dead, The Mother Hunt, and the Arnold Zeck trilogy (And Be a Villain, The Second Confession, and In the Best Families). I reread several of the Wolfes every year, even when I remember who the murderer is. Now that's writing.
Pop Rivet and Rick in PA: I read "a walk across America" and "the walk west" but never got the chance to get the third book. I have a few of his other books also I am working on
I just got conspiracies of the ruling class, by L.B. Linsey
Jules Verne: just to read what they where thinking what the future will be in 150 years...
Sci-Fy?: too many to quote.
but, what rocks your boat? (tech/fiction/non-fiction/....)
Sci-Fy?: too many to quote.
but, what rocks your boat? (tech/fiction/non-fiction/....)
Finnegan's Wake could keep you busy for the next 25 years or so.
Originally Posted By: JHZR2
The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
Some good engineering and physics textbooks.
I've read both of those Rand books. She can get a bit wordy. Took me a long time to get through them. They are not good books to read at the beach.
The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
Some good engineering and physics textbooks.
I've read both of those Rand books. She can get a bit wordy. Took me a long time to get through them. They are not good books to read at the beach.
I recommend waiting for the movie.
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Originally Posted By: JHZR2
The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
Some good engineering and physics textbooks.
I've read both of those Rand books. She can get a bit wordy. Took me a long time to get through them. They are not good books to read at the beach.
AS is the 7th longest novel written in English.
Originally Posted By: JHZR2
The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
Some good engineering and physics textbooks.
I've read both of those Rand books. She can get a bit wordy. Took me a long time to get through them. They are not good books to read at the beach.
AS is the 7th longest novel written in English.
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