US Army survival manual. Good survival book if you should ever fall out of an airplane onto a battlefield with no food, water,or equipment and have to fight the urge to surrender for some bread and water.
Seriously, it’s a good PRACTICAL book. It’s not Shakespeare, but it’s PRACTICAL.
"US Army survival manual. Good survival book if you should ever fall out of an airplane onto a battlefield with no food, water,or equipment and have to fight the urge to surrender for some bread and water.
Seriously, it’s a good PRACTICAL book. It’s not Shakespeare, but it’s PRACTICAL."
Practical? How many people fall out of airplanes onto a battlefield?
“Practical? How many people fall out of airplanes onto a battlefield?”
And Lives…the fall was cool but the landing sucked!
I really hate when that happens
lilthrock,
I’m reading God of Small Things now–I’d recommend it if you haven’t started yet. It depends on what you like though–the structure is more a series of concentric circles than a linear layout. Everyone who I’ve talked to that doesn’t mind that style, really likes the book.
In the last few weeks I’ve read: Connecticut Yankee–Twain (great), Monkey Bridge–Lan Cao, Walt Whitman’s Civil War, Complete Poetry and Selected Prose–Whitman, The Rich Get Richer, the Poor Get Prison–Reiman (very liberal but don’t let it scare you away), The Souls of Black Folks–Du Bois.
Not actually read anything for a week or so but I usually read Computing, Physics or Politics books for non-fiction with a biography now and then. As for fiction I mainly focus on Science Fiction and Fantasy, but I recommend the following:
His Dark Materials (Trilogy) by Philip Pullman.
The Biography of Lord Louis Mountbatten.
The Biography of Lord Heratio Nelson.
Any of the Hornblower series by C.S Lewis.
Any of the Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell.
Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy.
The Helmsman series by Bill Baldwin.
Any of the Ringworld books by Larry Niven.
Bill O’Reilly and Ann Coulter, I like the stuff those two write even though I’m not from the USA.
Right better stop now or this post will up like a novel.
Chemical muscle enhancement part 2
Great book so far.
I finished Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons and am now reading A Winter Haunting by the same author. Both are awesome.
Just finished PeopleWare.
Charles Bukowski’s
Tales Of Ordinary Madness
I’m in high school, so I’m reading quite a few things right now.
Henry V by William Shakespeare
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
The Frogs by Aristophanes
The Iliad by Homer
Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus
A History of the Jews by Solomon Grayzel
The Da Vinci COde
do my six 800-page lecture books count??
the light at the end(john skip and craig
spector)
DPH has good taste. Bukowski is a great writer.
I’m currently reading “Billy Budd & other tales” by Herman Melville (Moby Dick) and …“To Kill a Mocking Bird”.
I got these books as gifts so I feel obligated to read them.
The US Army survival book teaches you how to survive in any environment,and how to look for unconventional sources of food and water. It shows you the best way to survive longer by managing your resources and teaching you what edible plants you may find in a specific climate/area, first aid, shelter, hunting with unconventional means, building unconventional tools.
If you ever get lost in the mountains skiing, or in the woods after hunting for blair witch and stick figures, in the desert after a plane crash, or in the ocean after you get lost at sea… you will know what you need to do to stay alive.
Currently working my way through Robert B. Parker’s
Spenser series. Highly recommended if you enjoy
detective fiction. Also reading John Eldredge’s Wild at Heart.
The Silmarillion- Tolkien
(The history of everything in LOTR)
The Dark Tower series- King
(a 30 year series in the making, mixes lots of ideas from other works)
New Spring- Jordan
(the prequel to the Wheel of Time series)
T-Raven, if you haven’t already, check out Parker’s Jesse Stone series. BTW, his next Spenser novel is due in March.
Other detective/investigator/badass authors I love:
Lee Child
Dan Simmons
Janet Evanovich
Lawrence Block
J.A Jance
Dennis Lehane
Harlan Coben
Stuart Woods
Walter Mosely
Joe. R. Lansdale
Carol O’Connell
Katy Munger
Currently reading Jaws, by Peter Benchley…
Hemingway on War- Its a compilation of different writings by Hemingway. Um…did somebody say they are reading a bio of Michael J Fox -WTF!