Whats everybody readin???

1-tonmudder

1-tonmudder

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Im a big WWII history guy and Tonya got me Killing Patton for Christmas.I finished it last week and have moved on to Wrath in Burma.Which is a book about the Burma road that the allies used/built to supply the Chinese during WWII.The book was written in 1948 and its havin a hard time keepin my attn but my grandfather served in Burma during the war and Im hoping to learn something I didn't know from this book.Im not one to make resolutions,I'm more of a goals type of person,and one of my goals for this year was to read more.

So who else reads and what are you readin now??
 
In the past year I've read....
Del Toro -
The Strain
The Strain : The Fall
The Strain : Night Eternal

Drew Karpyshyn-
Star Wars Darth Bane : Path Of Destruction
Star Wars Darth Bane : Rule Of Two
Star Wars Darth Bane : Dynasty Of Evil
Star Wars : A New Dawn

Jasper Kent-
Twelve :Russia 1812
Thirteen Years Later : Russia 1825

..... and soon to be reading "The Third Section : Russia 1855"


I love history and books about it, but also find it hard to keep my attention because most of it has already been told. As you can see Im a lil bit of a scifi fan.
 
I mostly read Christian literature. Read lots of books by John MacArthur.
I did read a military/Isis based fictional book called "Danger Close" by William Boykin, excellent book that I couldn't put down.
This year I am reading thru the Bible all the way. I enjoy it but I have a very hard time keeping up with who is who and the family lines.

For anyone skeptical about the Bible and Christianity, More Than a Carpenter by Josh McDowell is a great short book packed with a lot of things to make you think.
 
Just finishing up the Zane Grey books;all of them :)

Recently finished "Battlefield Of The Mind", Joyce Meyer and "Farther Along The Road Less Traveled", Scott Peck.
 
A Failure Of Civility
Lights out
One Second After
The Reluctant Partisan

Have read many times but I have always read books multiple times.

My favorite book and One I have read the most is The Chronicles Of Narnia. If you have never read this as an adult, you are missing out.
 
77GreenMachine said:
I mostly read Christian literature. Read lots of books by John MacArthur.
I did read a military/Isis based fictional book called "Danger Close" by William Boykin, excellent book that I couldn't put down.
This year I am reading thru the Bible all the way. I enjoy it but I have a very hard time keeping up with who is who and the family lines.

For anyone skeptical about the Bible and Christianity, More Than a Carpenter by Josh McDowell is a great short book packed with a lot of things to make you think.
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If you have a smart phone, use the Youversion Bible app. They have different Bible plans catered to whatever your schedule. I did a One Year Bible plan last year, finished it and have started a different Bible in one year plan. So I've read the Bible once and am about halfway through it again. You can make bookmarks, highlights, notes, and even share your notes/thoughts on social media. Pretty cool
 
Recently finished "The Last Season" by Eric Blehm...true account of a ranger that went missing several years ago in the High Sierras. Had me ready to go to CA and hike.

Now reading Billy Graham "Peace with God".

I've read all the Zane Grey, too. :)
 
kaiser715 said:
Recently finished "The Last Season" by Eric Blehm...true account of a ranger that went missing several years ago in the High Sierras. Had me ready to go to CA and hike.
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Read that book a few yrs ago before we went hiking out west. We get to glacier np and just before we got there a young college student working at the park had gone out for a solo afternoon off trail hike and had not returned. I spoke with an older ranger at the park about it and mentioned I'd recently finished that book, so had he and he happened to be from Davidson, nc. When we left there he had been missing for around two wks. The ranger was locating some grizzly bears wearing collars and referenced how much they can eat, not good.

I love reading nonfiction outdoors related books. I need a new one now.
 
Last night I read 'Happiness is a Warm Blanket Charlie Brown' and 'Its The Great Pumkin Charlie Brown'. Apparently my boy was in the mood for Charlie Brown, lol. I used to read pretty regularly. Now that my boy has gotten older and pushed his bed time back I rarely have time to read.
 
Only ever read non-fiction/biographical type stuff. With the amount of time I've been spending on planes, I'll grab something that fits the bill off the New York Best Sellers list at one of the airport book stores at each stop.
 
Try Day of Wrath by William Forstchen. 168 pages that will tear you out of the frame. Also the 5 book Going Home series by A. American is awesome, except for the language.
 
Lets see... last night's first reading was The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss. A good follow up to There's A Wocket in my Pocket the night before o_O.

Later in the evening after kids went to bed, it was, "Ultra Low Power programmable biomedical SoC for on-body ECG and EEG processing" by Bunze et al in the Netherlands, followed by
"Ultra-low-noise EEG/MEG systems enable bimodal non-invasive detection of spike-like human somatosensory evoked responses at 1 kH" by Fedele et al.

After that it was the instruction manual for installing and programming some Aspire Z-wave wireless "smart" light switches.

I used to be an avid book reader, but now I read (& write) all the time for work. In my "free time" I just want to do something useful like building stuff. I can't remember the last time I read a book that wasn't for kids or work.
 
drkelly said:
Last night I read 'Happiness is a Warm Blanket Charlie Brown' and 'Its The Great Pumkin Charlie Brown'. Apparently my boy was in the mood for Charlie Brown, lol. I used to read pretty regularly. Now that my boy has gotten older and pushed his bed time back I rarely have time to read.
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RatLabGuy said:
I can't remember the last time I read a book that wasn't for kids or work.
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I hear ya,around here it was Diary of a wimpy kid and rotten school.If you have older kids(7-10ish) thcose are pretty good books for them or if you have girls Junie B Jones has a whole series of books for them.Most of my readin is WWII history or the occasional books about Appalachia,spec KY and WV.

I've read
Growing up hard in Harlan KY
Bloody Harlan
The prince of frog town
Avas Man
The most they ever had
Nights of ice.
Killing Patton
Ernie Pyles war
Secret weapons of WWII
Untold stories from the band of brothers

The local library has a yearly book sale that is mostly books that have been donated and they elected not to use them.I always buy a bag full but my reading pretty much stops when the weather warms up so I always have stack waitin on me.
 
Unbroken. Haven't seen the movie and probably won't since movies tend to disappoint when I've read the book.
And finishing The Last Boy about Mickey Mantle now. Sad how much of his talent he wasted.
 
TARider said:
Unbroken. Haven't seen the movie and probably won't since movies tend to disappoint when I've read the book.
And finishing The Last Boy about Mickey Mantle now. Sad how much of his talent he wasted.
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Yes!!
I read that book years ago. Amazing what that man went thru! I'm sure the movie will be very watered down.
 
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