What book are you currently reading?
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
WOW can’t believe this thread was resurrected during ski season.
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
tyrolean_skier wrote:WOW can’t believe this thread was resurrected during ski season.
In case you didn't know, people read during ski season."Abandon hope all ye who enter here"
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
Airplane books for western trips.
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yup, still have to take a dump..Bubba wrote:tyrolean_skier wrote:WOW can’t believe this thread was resurrected during ski season.
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
American Tantrum is an entertaining quick read 
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Want a good spy novel? Just finished "The Other Woman" by Daniel Silva. Excellent read.
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
For anyone who has any interest in American history, WWII, FDR, construction, or the Ford Motor company, this book is absolutely fascinating:
The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War
It's about how FDR had to mobilize a nation that was totally unprepared for war and how the Ford Motor company switched from building cars to building heavy bombers and built a massive bomber plant outside of Detroit which was the largest factory in the world at the time in order to meet their commitment of producing a bomber an hour, mostly the B-24 Liberator heavy bomber which was the work horse of the USAF used to bomb the hell out of Germany. It's about how we basically out manufactured Hitler to win WWII. They shot our planes out of the sky left and right which were flown by mostly inexeperienced US pilots but we just kept coming with more and more of them until we finally gained total air superiority and then basically bombed Germany flat. The survival rate of US airmen was amazingly low prior to air superiority, I think it said that after 7 missions you were done but very few every survived that long.
It's also a fascinating look into the Ford Motor company at that time and Henry Ford's strained relationship with his only son Edsel.
Great read, everyone I know that has read this book was totally blown away by it.
The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War
It's about how FDR had to mobilize a nation that was totally unprepared for war and how the Ford Motor company switched from building cars to building heavy bombers and built a massive bomber plant outside of Detroit which was the largest factory in the world at the time in order to meet their commitment of producing a bomber an hour, mostly the B-24 Liberator heavy bomber which was the work horse of the USAF used to bomb the hell out of Germany. It's about how we basically out manufactured Hitler to win WWII. They shot our planes out of the sky left and right which were flown by mostly inexeperienced US pilots but we just kept coming with more and more of them until we finally gained total air superiority and then basically bombed Germany flat. The survival rate of US airmen was amazingly low prior to air superiority, I think it said that after 7 missions you were done but very few every survived that long.
It's also a fascinating look into the Ford Motor company at that time and Henry Ford's strained relationship with his only son Edsel.
Great read, everyone I know that has read this book was totally blown away by it.
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
Miss Tiller and I are on the last couple of pages of The New Ann Rice...
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On deck, Tom Clancy "Oath of Office" written by a ghost writer. It's a first edition! Doubt they'll be a 2nd.
K4, Yea Ford was a neat guy. I think it was Ioccoca who took Gia's design and built the Mustang. A sports car the working man can buy.
Ms. Tilly likes it when they attack. She is a bad puppy dog.
On deck, Tom Clancy "Oath of Office" written by a ghost writer. It's a first edition! Doubt they'll be a 2nd.
K4, Yea Ford was a neat guy. I think it was Ioccoca who took Gia's design and built the Mustang. A sports car the working man can buy.
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
"The Engineer of Human Souls" by Josef Skvorecky, as I work my way through some Czech Literature.
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
For a good laugh and a few tears, Dave Barry's Lessons from Lucy. A day's read on the beach. Dave Barry always cracks me up and his latest book was no exception.
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"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function" =
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"There's nothing more frightening than ignorance in action" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Killington Zone
You can checkout any time you like,
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"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function" =
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"There's nothing more frightening than ignorance in action" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Re: What book are you currently reading?
-All about Technical Analysis
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Thomas McCafferty
McGraw - Hill
Confessions of a Street Addict
James J. Cramer
Trees
Year book of Agriculture
1949
United States Dept. of Agriculture
These are Reference books
BUTT always great reads
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-Options 2nd Edition
Thomas McCafferty
McGraw - Hill
Confessions of a Street Addict
James J. Cramer
Trees
Year book of Agriculture
1949
United States Dept. of Agriculture
These are Reference books
BUTT always great reads
Did you know you can kill off pests with a Mix of #2 fuel oil and DDT?
You do now.
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
I read the dictionary. All the other books are in there.
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"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function" =
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"There's nothing more frightening than ignorance in action" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Killington Zone
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"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function" =
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"There's nothing more frightening than ignorance in action" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Re: What book are you currently reading?
Witch oneBubba wrote:I read the dictionary. All the other books are in there.
This one is okay, butt there is nothing on the inter - webs worth reading in this arena. It's all in ancient texts and those, are of course very expensive. You have to out bid Gates and those guys.http://www.latin-dictionary.net/list/letter/a" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
Oath of Office
Tom Clancy butt he's dead so Marc Cameron.
This is about the spy games going on around the world as The United States prepares to nuke Iran. The beginning was boilerplate spy stuff: putting cell phones in minifridges, sex and torture. Then Cameron does a nice job developing characters... Of course there are loose nukes. This is a good summertime read. Last one I read was ops center. The books read like a cross between R. Ludlum and Mitchner.
In the end it's a book.
Edit: It does have maps when you need them and helicopters.
Tom Clancy butt he's dead so Marc Cameron.
This is about the spy games going on around the world as The United States prepares to nuke Iran. The beginning was boilerplate spy stuff: putting cell phones in minifridges, sex and torture. Then Cameron does a nice job developing characters... Of course there are loose nukes. This is a good summertime read. Last one I read was ops center. The books read like a cross between R. Ludlum and Mitchner.
In the end it's a book.
Edit: It does have maps when you need them and helicopters.
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