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Re: What's piled on your bedside table to be read?
« Reply #25 on: August 11, 2011, 02:35:33 PM »
Just started The Breath of God by Jeffrey Small.
Cumberland Island: Strong Women, Wild Horses by Charles Seabrook (about a local barrier island but I mostly bought it for the name)
Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz
Tactics of the Crescent Moon by H. John Poole
An American Sailing Story by Gary Jobson
Breathless by Dean Koontz (gotta have a light read too)
Have The Pirates of Somalia, Inside Their Hidden World, by Jay Bahadur (research for my Gulf of Aden charter business idea)
And of course, my M&P9.
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Re: What's piled on your bedside table to be read?
« Reply #26 on: August 13, 2011, 09:53:22 AM »
The Time Machine; Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)   

War and Peace; Tolstoy, Leo   
 
The Jungle Book; Kipling, Rudyard 

The War of the Worlds; Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)   
   
White Fang; London, Jack

Just got free off of Amazon to put on the Kindle.
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Re: What's piled on your bedside table to be read?
« Reply #27 on: August 13, 2011, 11:39:45 AM »
I'm going back into my Star Wars book collection to read the Yuuzhan Vong series....I couldn't stand it when it first came out; but, after ten years, I'm interested in reading it. Even went out and bought the books that I didn't have in the series. Go figure.....  =|
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Re: What's piled on your bedside table to be read?
« Reply #28 on: August 13, 2011, 01:35:44 PM »
Currently waiting to be read:
The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education - Craig M. Mullaney
Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained - John Milton, Originally tried to start this and got a few pages in when I figured this book was going to require more time to read it to understand it so I put it back in the pile for when I had more time to do that.
A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson
Munster Hunter International - Larry Correia
The Odyssey - Homer
Dune - Frank Herbert, read it once back in high school and liked it so I figured I would read it again.
Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci Code, and The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
Enemies Foreign and Domestic - Matthew Bracken
The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire - Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden

Those are just what I have here on base with me. I have a BUNCH more back home,  =D

Also just recently started reading The Iliad - Homer
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Re: What's piled on your bedside table to be read?
« Reply #29 on: August 13, 2011, 01:58:12 PM »
I find this and "what are you reading now" threads funny....

I only have "books i'm going to read" for the day or two after a trip to a bookstore. Actually, i'm lucky when a decent pile (5 or 6) books actually lasts that long.
And since, I read novels in a sitting, i'm almost always between books if i'm not actually reading one that second.

So what i'm reading next is going to be whatever I happen to pull of the shelf.  :laugh:
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Re: What's piled on your bedside table to be read?
« Reply #30 on: August 13, 2011, 02:11:29 PM »
Well, since it's on my Kindle, the "pile" is only 1/4" high. Also I read in my reading chair, while matching a nightcap beverage to the book.

Legions of Space - Keith Laumer (in progress)
Armageddon 2419 AD - Philip Francis Nowlan
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol - Nikolai Gogol
Visionen und Andere Phantastische Erzahlungen - Ivan Turgenev
The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
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Re: What's piled on your bedside table to be read?
« Reply #31 on: August 13, 2011, 02:14:05 PM »
Also have a Dean Koontz book I picked out of a care package that was sent to one of my guys to share.  Not sure what the name of it is but it is Koontz and something to read.
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Re: What's piled on your bedside table to be read?
« Reply #32 on: August 13, 2011, 05:11:44 PM »
I've most stuff off the Kindle app on my droid phone.

I have recently finished:
* The Honor Harrington books by David Weber and the Weber/Flint collabs.
* The Belisarius series by David Drake
* The Blind Side by some dude.

On paper, I am reading:
* In Search of the Dark Ages by Michael Wood
* The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell, if I can muster the credulity to take the author seriously after reading the preface & prologue.  That will be a monumental task in self-deception.



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Re: What's piled on your bedside table to be read?
« Reply #33 on: August 13, 2011, 05:52:36 PM »
Quote from: wmenorr67 on August 13, 2011, 02:14:05 PM
Also have a Dean Koontz book I picked out of a care package that was sent to one of my guys to share.  Not sure what the name of it is but it is Koontz and something to read.

Pm me your APO I've got a few books I could send ya.
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Re: What's piled on your bedside table to be read?
« Reply #34 on: August 13, 2011, 07:50:49 PM »
All in progress:
Alas Babylon
Case studies in special operations
Two Tom Clancy books
Digital signal processing
FPGA primer
Excel for scientific analysis
An introduction to grey hat hacking
Too big to fail
Culture of corruption
The art of choosing
Clean kill
The Sinclair intl catalog
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I read 2-4 fiction and 3-5 nonfiction books a week (helps when you can read at high retention at 5-10 pages a minute)
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Re: What's piled on your bedside table to be read?
« Reply #35 on: August 13, 2011, 07:56:29 PM »
Quote from: JamisJockey on August 13, 2011, 05:52:36 PM
Pm me your APO I've got a few books I could send ya.

PM me too with your addy.  Neighbor just gave me a whole big shopping bag full again.  (First batch went to my cousin's kid over there, but since he is at 26 and a wakeup, you've got dibs.)
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Re: What's piled on your bedside table to be read?
« Reply #36 on: August 13, 2011, 07:59:39 PM »
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Weird.  One of the best nights of sleep I ever got.  I pulled out my canteen (which is curved), dropped it, laid my k-pot into the curve where the canteen lay.  Slept like the dead.   Was only about two, three hours, but it felt incredible. 

Our drill sergeants taught us that in BCT, (FLW, summer 1983.) with the old steel pots, had to put the rim just right though... 


Bryson's Walk in the Woods is a great book.  The bunkhouse is the best part.....
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Re: What's piled on your bedside table to be read?
« Reply #37 on: August 14, 2011, 05:17:10 AM »
Quote from: scout26 on August 13, 2011, 07:56:29 PM
PM me too with your addy.  Neighbor just gave me a whole big shopping bag full again.  (First batch went to my cousin's kid over there, but since he is at 26 and a wakeup, you've got dibs.)
Quote from: scout26 on August 13, 2011, 07:56:29 PM
PM me too with your addy.  Neighbor just gave me a whole big shopping bag full again.  (First batch went to my cousin's kid over there, but since he is at 26 and a wakeup, you've got dibs.)

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Re: What's piled on your bedside table to be read?
« Reply #38 on: August 14, 2011, 07:32:24 AM »
Quote from: wmenorr67 on August 14, 2011, 05:17:10 AM
Done

Likewise, PM address to me as well...I have 4-500 paperbacks here and my GF has another hundred or so, and we are consolidating libraries.
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Re: What's piled on your bedside table to be read?
« Reply #39 on: August 14, 2011, 08:41:45 AM »
Quote from: birdman on August 14, 2011, 07:32:24 AM
Likewise, PM address to me as well...I have 4-500 paperbacks here and my GF has another hundred or so, and we are consolidating libraries.


Will do, but I would also suggest taking some of them to the local Blue Star Mothers chapter.  They could probably use them also.
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Re: What's piled on your bedside table to be read?
« Reply #40 on: August 14, 2011, 09:37:52 AM »
Quote from: wmenorr67 on August 14, 2011, 08:41:45 AM


Will do, but I would also suggest taking some of them to the local Blue Star Mothers chapter.  They could probably use them also.

I'll look it up, thanks!  Whatever they don't want, I'll send your way.  May be a few weeks, got all this movin' to do.
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Re: What's piled on your bedside table to be read?
« Reply #41 on: August 14, 2011, 11:22:09 AM »
Quote from: wmenorr67 on August 13, 2011, 09:53:22 AM
The Time Machine; Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)   

War and Peace; Tolstoy, Leo   
 
The Jungle Book; Kipling, Rudyard 

The War of the Worlds; Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)   
   
White Fang; London, Jack

Just got free off of Amazon to put on the Kindle.
M-4 w/ 30rd mag in wall locker less than three feet away. :laugh:
Nice selection. The Jungle Book is and excellent read. You'll notice it doesn't quite follow the Disney movie(s).  ;/

I'd save W&P for last or it'll end up being the only one you read. lol... The war parts were good but the peace parts were boooooring... lol

took me about 200 pages to get into it.  ;)
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Re: What's piled on your bedside table to be read?
« Reply #42 on: August 14, 2011, 12:27:30 PM »
Quote from: scout26 on August 13, 2011, 07:59:39 PM

Bryson's Walk in the Woods is a great book.  The bunkhouse is the best part.....


A great companion to A Walk in the Woods is Reading the Forested Landscape by Tom Wessels.
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Re: What's piled on your bedside table to be read?
« Reply #43 on: August 14, 2011, 12:44:52 PM »
Quote from: 280plus on August 14, 2011, 11:22:09 AM
Nice selection. The Jungle Book is and excellent read. You'll notice it doesn't quite follow the Disney movie(s).  ;/

I'd save W&P for last or it'll end up being the only one you read. lol... The war parts were good but the peace parts were boooooring... lol

took me about 200 pages to get into it.  ;)

I've read all of these once or twice but it has been awhile.  Just a few I found on Amazon that are free.  After reading them I will find a few more free ones.
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Re: What's piled on your bedside table to be read?
« Reply #44 on: August 14, 2011, 01:08:45 PM »
Birdman - I loved Alas Babylon and it stays on my "go back to and reread" shelf, no matter how many times I've read it. Come to think of it, it's been a few years.

For any of you Irish folk out there, another of my "read it too many times to count and will likely read it again" books is The Lion of Ireland by Morgan Llewellyn. Historical fiction but based as much in fact as she was able to dig up and an epic story. Oh, yeah, good bit of fighting as well.

Ben - just looked up Armageddon 2419 and have added it to my list. Sounds like a good read but let me know what you think too.
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Re: What's piled on your bedside table to be read?
« Reply #45 on: August 14, 2011, 01:17:22 PM »
Current: James Holland's "The Battle of Britain; Five Months That Changed History"

On deck: David Kenik's "Armed Response" and John S. Farnam's  "The Farnam Method of Defensive Shotgun and Rifle Shooting"
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Re: What's piled on your bedside table to be read?
« Reply #46 on: August 14, 2011, 01:25:49 PM »
Just "bought" the Kindle version of Armageddon 2419.  It was free since it is in the public domain.
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Re: What's piled on your bedside table to be read?
« Reply #47 on: August 14, 2011, 03:06:59 PM »
Have not caved to a kindle yet though suspect will be forced to soon.
But let me know what you think of it Wmenorr.
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Re: What's piled on your bedside table to be read?
« Reply #48 on: August 14, 2011, 03:13:58 PM »
Quote from: MrsSmith on August 14, 2011, 01:08:45 PM
Ben - just looked up Armageddon 2419 and have added it to my list. Sounds like a good read but let me know what you think too.

I will. I should finish up the Laumer book today and will probably start reading it tomorrow (unless a printer falls on me or something). For when you finally end your independent and outlandish ways and get a Kindle, I found Armegeddon 2419 on:

http://www.feedbooks.com/publicdomain

Which also has a lot of other stuff that I think would be up your alley.
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Re: What's piled on your bedside table to be read?
« Reply #49 on: August 14, 2011, 03:20:58 PM »
Dante "Paradisio" and a bunch of survival & edible plant books, mostly by Angier.
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