What Are You Reading

[Smithy]

Currently reading James Salter's "The Hunters", a novel of a Sabre jet fighter pilot in the Korean War based on the author's experiences during that conflict.

It is a beautifully written book, the writing is very reminiscent of Hemingway and Dickey. Very, very highly recommended.

 

[jamespowers]

I finished The Iron Gates and then went on to finish Fire Will Freeze both by Margaret Millar. That broad could write a mystery! I have to find more works of hers! Fortunately she had a loooonnnggg career.

 

[alsendk]

Currently reading James Salter's "The Hunters", a novel of a Sabre jet fighter pilot in the Korean War based on the author's experiences during that conflict.

It is a beautifully written book, the writing is very reminiscent of Hemingway and Dickey. Very, very highly recommended.

Have made a notice of this book Smithy. have read somewhere that the airfights was even more fierce at times than in ww2

 

[Smithy]

Have made a notice of this book Smithy. have read somewhere that the airfights was even more fierce at times than in ww2

It's an absolute cracking read alsendk, definitely pick up a copy as you won't be disappointed.

The fighting in Korea was very fierce from what I have read and there were a lot of MiGs based just over the border in China.

 

[alsendk]

MIG 15 it must have been ? My chinese born girlfriend gave me a chinese MIG 15 leather helmet for my birthday, having it hide away for almost ½ year. She bought it in a military secondhand shop in Beijing, but it apears to be unused...I can even play mp3 music using the the intercom speakers in the helmet
Our mutual friend Søren hav been most helpful about finding books for me...mostly about BOB.
Allan

 

[Smithy]

MIG 15 it must have been ? My chinese born girlfriend gave me a chinese MIG 15 leather helmet for my birthday, having it hide away for almost ½ year. She bought it in a military secondhand shop in Beijing, but it apears to be unused...I can even play mp3 music using the the intercom speakers in the helmet
Our mutual friend Søren hav been most helpful about finding books for me...mostly about BOB.
Allan

Hi Allan, yes the little MiG-15 with the very big 37mm cannon!

That helmet sounds brilliant, post some pics in the militaria thread in the WWII forum as I'd love to see it.

I've pretty much run out of space for my BoB books, I've had to put some in storage in boxes as they'd grown from the bookshelves into several piles on the floor!

 

[Widebrim]

This, A Tale of Two Cities being the other, has one of the best opening lines in all of fiction history.

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a great fortune,
must be in want of a wife."

That pretty much sums up a major area of man/woman relations, does it not?

Excellent (the quote, not the summation of your man/woman relations...).

 

[Late to the Party]

John Galsworthy A Country House

 

[Harp]

Bob Feller, Now Pitching, Bob Feller; A Baseball Memoir

diamond wisdom from the mound

 

[BladeOfAnduril]

Wow, a big 'respect' to you for that! It's quite a work!

I read his 1912 work Socialism, and even that was tough going. There's something about academic German-to-English translations -- above average concentration required.

Thanks Otis. Human Action was actually written in English, so it lacks some of the issues that come from a translation. Even so, it is still not at all what one might call "light reading". It is straining my comprehension, which is a good thing.

 

[Vera Godfrey]

House of Darkness House of Light by Andrea Perron.

Not vintage, though the events in the book take place in the 70's. It's the book that the movie The Conjuring is based on.

 

[Alice Blue]

It Can't Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis. He wrote it in 1935, and the premise is a takeover of the United States by homespun American fascists.

 

[cw3pa]

Finishing up "Hatcher's Book of the Garand" copyright 1948 by Maj. Gen. Julian S. Hatcher. Good history of the iconic firearm of WWII. The first section on developement is especially interesting.

 

[jamespowers]

Finishing up "Hatcher's Book of the Garand" copyright 1948 by Maj. Gen. Julian S. Hatcher. Good history of the iconic firearm of WWII. The first section on developement is especially interesting.

Nice. I need one to go with my Garand.

 

[cw3pa]

I ordered mine from Amazon.com

 

[jamespowers]

The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln. Very interesting looking at his letters and getting into what he was thinking at the various times of his life.

 

[BigFitz]

"Red Badge of Courage" Stephen Crane.

 

[VTporkpie]

Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon. Absolutely fantastic, modern novel but with strong underpinnings of funk and jazz.

 

[jamespowers]

A Miracle for Caroline by Ruth Feiner.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Just picked it up at the local hobby shop:
He 111 Kampfgeschwader on the Russian Front by John Weal