What are you reading today?

[Crowbob]

I just reread 'Devil In the White City'. A fascinating history of a serial murderer during the World's Columbia Exposition of 1893 (Chicago World's Fair).

[John Rogers]

Thanks for the ideas. I really like well written true or sort of true stories. Over the years I tended to have to read an awful lot on "manuals" starting when I was a kid and teenager reading model airplane and R/C magazines, US Navy nuclear power manuals, school books when I was using my GI bill and finally those great but looooong winded Oracle "documentation" docs.

As noted I read everything on my iPhone, usually in a converted PDF format.

One hard cover book I have read 4 times in the past few years is Major Roberts' book called "Muzzle-Loading Cap Lock Rifle". I learn something new every time. He also wrote a great single shot rifle book too.

[scottmandue]

Poetry

Mocking Bird Wish Me Good luck, By: Charles Bukowski.

I was born in L.A. and my family moved to San Pedro when I was five.

This guy is a local legend but I never gave him a second thought until someone at work mentioned him. So I googled him and turns out he is rather famous, curious I read some excerpts online and liked it. Got a couple of his books used off eBay.

[sand_man]

Originally Posted by Eric Hahl

Pelican O.T.

We should be in a book club together! I wish I read more. I love magazines...always been an addiction of mine!!! Books, eh, I'm a sad sack in that regard! I need to do better...

[tabs]

Originally Posted by John Rogers

Thanks for the ideas. I really like well written true or sort of true stories. Over the years I tended to have to read an awful lot on "manuals" starting when I was a kid and teenager reading model airplane and R/C magazines, US Navy nuclear power manuals, school books when I was using my GI bill and finally those great but looooong winded Oracle "documentation" docs.

As noted I read everything on my iPhone, usually in a converted PDF format.

One hard cover book I have read 4 times in the past few years is Major Roberts' book called "Muzzle-Loading Cap Lock Rifle". I learn something new every time. He also wrote a great single shot rifle book too.

Ned Roberts..developed the .257 Roberts rifle cartridge. I have the book having gone through it numerous times.

Roberts grew up in the 1870's using muzzle loading percussion rifles. His book gives you a real flavor or feeling about attitudes of what it was to live in those times. Anybody who is interested in those sorts of rifles should read that book. The accuracy achieved with those rifles is astounding.

In the second half of the 19th century it seemed every town had its own shooting club. Target shooting was the Sunday golf of its day. Or was perhaps as popular as nfl football is today. Popularity seemed to wane after WW1 and 2. It was a different time with a different mindset. Nobody gave a second thought to having guns around.it wasn't a problem.

[cairns]

Hirthcock's "The Age of Eisenhower". Fascinating man and underrated President IMO.

[Hawkeye's-911T]

Still having fun!

Cheers
JB

[LakeCleElum]

Expats - by Chris Pavonne

[wdfifteen]

I’m re-reading Steinbeck’s East of Eden now. Powerful book. Steinbeck is my favorite author because of the richness of the characters he creates. He writes of the kind of people I can relate to, his main characters are multi-faceted, but there is a melancholy about them that makes them relatable.
After this I’ll take a break and the re-read Travels With Charley.

[yellowperil]

[Por_sha911]

The Bible - NIV Currently studying the book of Philipians and Excellence Magazine.

[billybek]

"A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush".

Interesting read but not terribly exciting.

[BeyGon]

Re reading On The Road by Jack Kerouac, this time it's called The original Scroll, the first draft so it's a little longer and racier. I liked his stories.

[herr_oberst]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

I’m re-reading Steinbeck’s East of Eden now. Powerful book. Steinbeck is my favorite author because of the richness of the characters he creates. He writes of the kind of people I can relate to, his main characters are multi-faceted, but there is a melancholy about them that makes them relatable.
After this I’ll take a break and the re-read Travels With Charley.

Great minds, Patrick.
Last month I stumbled across "The Short Novels of John Steinbeck" in one of those bargain Kindle sites.

I'd read most of these as a boy or a young man, but took great pleasure in savoring every word and sentence and paragraph of this re-visitation because this Steinbeck fella can really spin a yarn, and I didn't want to miss a single nuance.

"The Red Pony"
"Cannery Row"
"Of Mice and Men"
"The Pearl"
"The Moon is Down"
"Tortilla Flats"

Then, in the last few weeks, for some odd reason I'm reading lots of those serial westerns from the forties and fifties by Zane Grey and Louis L'Amour and Max Brand.

Fast reads, all of them are a lot alike, kinda hokey and corney, but I'm nostalgic and I think I'm just worn out from the current state of the world right now and I need a break.

[dafischer]

Have you read Steinbeck's "Travels with Charley"? If not, I'd highly recommend it.

Originally Posted by dafischer

Have you read Steinbeck's "Travels with Charley"? If not, I'd highly recommend it.

+1 on Ts w/C. I took and entire semester of Steinbeck in college and am a huge fan.

I'm reading "Ran When Parked" right now.

[Skip Newsom]

The Canoe and the Saddle by Theodore Winthrop.
PNW travel memoir from 1859.

[Dan J]

I've been re reading the 20th century this year
Hemingway is my favorite right now- Read The Sun also rises, A Farewell to arms, and For whom the bell tolls. All fantastic, didn't want them to end
Also read On the Road, Slaughter house 5, currently reading Sometimes a great notion which is pretty dense
Long plane trips are my favorite time to read

[astrochex]

“The Problem of Pain”, C.S. Lewis

[Por_sha911]

Originally Posted by astrochex

“The Problem of Pain”, C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis is incredible reading!