What's Currently on Your Reading List?

[Steve Warden]

Looks like a good one, David.
Enjoy

[WillyCamaro]

Excellent lookin' read David, on-to my "buy it" list she goes.

[Mumbleypeg]

That one is filled with great history David. I have a copy around here somewhere.

Ken

[Challenger007]

I have already begun to draw up a reading plan for 2021. It includes Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Titan, Stoic, Dreiser's The Financier, How to Win Friends and Influence People by Carnegie, The Catcher in the Rye, Selinger, Remarque's Arc de Triomphe. I also think to read Loughcraft. In general, I try to build plans for the coming year in all directions.

[Quick Steel]

Challenger, You have some serious reading ahead of you. I wonder if you might enjoy The Razors Edge by Somerset Maugham. It had a great influence on me as a young man.

[Steve Warden]

I've heard he's one of the best to ever pen the genre of Western. Here's a collection of shorts.

We'll see if he's as good as L'amour

[Ridgegrass]

Our property is adjacent to the Glen Riddle farm where the great, "Man o' War" and his "get", "War Admiral" (who raced the famous Seabiscuit) were raised and trained. The farm is now a development, three golf courses and a Ruth's Chris Steak house. Found a copy of MAN O' WAR in a hospital thrift shop. It's a great read. Written partly from the horse's perspective, lots of great history. Didn't know every thoroughbred horse in America is descended from only three "Arabian" or "Turkish" sires. Love history! J.O'.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good knife!

[Steve Warden]

I've heard he's one of the best to ever pen the genre of Western. Here's a collection of shorts.
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We'll see if he's as good as L'amour

Nope. Couldn't finish it. Got 2/3 through it and said to myself, "Ya know, I don't have to finish this." So I decided I'll go grab one from L'amour.

How 'bout a story of the Sacketts?

[cudgee]

Our property is adjacent to the Glen Riddle farm where the great, "Man o' War" and his "get", "War Admiral" (who raced the famous Seabiscuit) were raised and trained. The farm is now a development, three golf courses and a Ruth's Chris Steak house. Found a copy of MAN O' WAR in a hospital thrift shop. It's a great read. Written partly from the horse's perspective, lots of great history. Didn't know every thoroughbred horse in America is descended from only three "Arabian" or "Turkish" sires. Love history! J.O'.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good knife!

Every thoroughbred in the world is from the same sires.

[rangerbluedog]

I'm taking a week off to "celebrate" the end of 2020, so I'm alternating between these top two.

[cudgee]

I'm taking a week off to "celebrate" the end of 2020, so I'm alternating between these top two.
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That fly fishing book is iconic in fly fishing circles.

[Unk]

I just finished this "A Journey Through Texas", written in 1856. A New Yorker traveled to Louisiana, then on to Texas in 1856-57. He writes about the characters he meets, the cities as well as the wilderness. Interactions with the settlers, Germans, cowboys, indians, slavery, crops, farmland, prices, etc. A very detailed day to day experience. If you lived in Texas back then, you needed to be very fond of cornbread and pork, as that is what they subsisted on pretty much every day.

It's an interesting read.

[Steve Warden]

I just finished this "A Journey Through Texas", written in 1856. A New Yorker traveled to Louisiana, then on to Texas in 1856-57. He writes about the characters he meets, the cities as well as the wilderness. Interactions with the settlers, Germans, cowboys, indians, slavery, crops, farmland, prices, etc. A very detailed day to day experience. If you lived in Texas back then, you needed to be very fond of cornbread and pork, as that is what they subsisted on pretty much every day.

It's an interesting read.

Now that certainly does look like an interesting read.

[Mumbleypeg]

That looks like an interesting read. The author, Frederick Law Olmstead was a renowned landscape architect who designed New York City’s Central Park, Saint Louis’s Forest Park, the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina and numerous other large scale landscape projects. Besides being an author he was also at various times in his life a sailor, surveyor, conservationist (one of the early advocates of Yosemite being made a national park), and a pre-Civil War abolitionist among other things. Quite an interesting person.

Ken

[WillyCamaro]

Well,
This all should keep me plenty busy for the next few weeks.

[Steve Warden]

Willy, I don't know how facetious you were being, if at all, about keeping you busy for a few weeks, but that lot would have me going for about 6-8 months! I'm not a fast reader, by any means.
Maybe if I spent less time on AAPK...



HA! Like that's gonna happen!!

[dlr110]

Got this one today. It should explain some basic steps and procedures I need to know
before jumping in the deep end of knife repairing. I know I'm going to have fun and I
know I'm going to make mistakes, but I want to try and limit them as much as possible.
One I know the rules and procedures on something, the best way I learn and develop
a skill is, just do it.

[WillyCamaro]

Willy, I don't know how facetious you were being, if at all, about keeping you busy for a few weeks, but that lot would have me going for about 6-8 months! I'm not a fast reader, by any means.
Maybe if I spent less time on AAPK...



HA! Like that's gonna happen!!

Ah, I'm thinking around 2, or less, at the rate I'm chewing (already 2/3 done on Holding Juno).
All you need to-do Steve, is completely set aside a whole day, and power read.
Common man, get it together!

[Steve Warden]

NEXT!

[cudgee]

NEXT!
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Looks interesting, can we have a review when you're finished.

[Steve Warden]

NEXT!
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Looks interesting, can we have a review when you're finished.

Well, just finished it. This is a collection of short stories, all set in the old west of the late 1800s.
I read mostly for enjoyment, an escape from the day-to-day rat race. For that reason, I'm not very analytical of my reading. My Bible reading, on the other hand, is done with a desire to learn, grow, and allow the power of God through His Word change me. That I'm going to pay attention to and study for all I'm worth. The Westerns, not so much.

All that said, I really enjoy L'amour's work. It isn't overly descriptive, the stories move right along, they're not a heavy read demanding scrutiny and intense focus, and for me, they're entertaining. As I said, my little escape.

[Steve Warden]

Latest issue came in this week.

True West Magazine

[cudgee]

Latest issue came in this week.
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Nice looking knife, what is it? And regarding reading, sometimes you just want to read something that is not taxing and an easy read, similar to going to just a watchable movie without having to concentrate to much on the script and plot, you just want to be entertained. Have a good week mate.

[Steve Warden]

Latest issue came in this week.
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Nice looking knife, what is it? And regarding reading, sometimes you just want to read something that is not taxing and an easy read, similar to going to just a watchable movie without having to concentrate to much on the script and plot, you just want to be entertained. Have a good week mate.

Thanks. It's a Marble's with bone to look like stag.

And I agree with you--sometimes you just want to be entertained.

[cudgee]

Latest issue came in this week.
20210109_104152.jpg

Nice looking knife, what is it? And regarding reading, sometimes you just want to read something that is not taxing and an easy read, similar to going to just a watchable movie without having to concentrate to much on the script and plot, you just want to be entertained. Have a good week mate.

Thanks. It's a Marble's with bone to look like stag.

And I agree with you--sometimes you just want to be entertained.

I only have one Marbles, but it is a good quality knife, especially for the price. Yours look like a really nice little knife.