Just got James Patterson’s(& Maxine Patero)
“21st Birthday” from the library. Sitting down now to start reading.
“21st Birthday” from the library. Sitting down now to start reading.
What are you reading right now?
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Reading "The Devil And Bobby Hull" by Gare Joyce. It's absolutely enthralling - one of the best sports bios I've ever read.
"ENERGY" by Richard Rhodes. Easy to read and a plethora of information. Rhodes won a Pulitzer for non-fiction with "The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Best and most thorough history of early development of nuclear weapons.
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I liked this book. It’s been several years since I read it but it helped me change my mind on nuclear energy.Physics for Future Presidents...
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I am about 3/4 thru a book about former POTUS - IKE, Eisenhower / In War and Peace.
Its pretty easy to burn thru books when you are retired and can't physically do much.
I just recently was reading some family history on my mom's side in a book a relative had put together some years back.
Discovered I had a great uncle who was a Military Police and served some time as security & driver for IKE. He traveled across North Africa with the General during the early parts of WWII.
Its pretty easy to burn thru books when you are retired and can't physically do much.
I just recently was reading some family history on my mom's side in a book a relative had put together some years back.
Discovered I had a great uncle who was a Military Police and served some time as security & driver for IKE. He traveled across North Africa with the General during the early parts of WWII.
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That B-17 book looks good - please let us know your thoughts on it.
No more Grisham for me - The Firm and The Pelican Brief were really good, but it's been mostly duds since.
Ike was a great president. He tends to be overlooked by historians.
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The USAF book looks like a good story. I think that is about a true story I saw a special about on Tv before. There are many stories of USAF + RAF bomber planes that were built so well they could not be shot down. Some quite literally shot to pieces and missing big sections and engines, yet the pilots were able to get the crews home safely aboard those planes.
Here is one story about a German Air Force pilot who was part of a squadron who ambushed a daytime American bombing run of B17 Flying Fortress bombers over Germany. One B17 was shot up so bad it was missing a big part of the fuselage and 3 of its 4 engines. The German fighter pilot after using most of his ammo and getting close enough to see the B17 was no longer a threat decided to escort the plane to safety. The German and American pilots actually met and became friends after WWII.
Check out "Flying Fortress" by Edward Jablonski - it's full of incredible stories of the B-17s ability to return home with incredible battle damage, matched only by the valour of its crewmen. It's an older book, perhaps from the 1960s, so most of the stories were told to the author firsthand.
"Black Thursday" by Martin Caidin is also excellent - it's about the disastrous but heroic Schweinfurt raid of October 14th, 1943. Sixty out of 300 Forts were shot down that day, and many of the surviving aircraft had to be scrapped with unrepairable battle damage.
I see we have a lot of non-fiction readers. My current book is The Master and Margarita. I've been going back and forth between different translations and each have their pluses and minuses. Russian to English translations always seem a bit clunky to me.
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I do most of my "reading" on Audible. It's currently this:
. But I'll enjoy the read as it's inspiring & motivating
