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    • The Twelfth Imam by Joel C. Rosenberg
      I've read other books by him and really liked them so I got this out of our local library.
      It's a fiction.

      Rumors are swirling through the region of a mysterious religious cleric claiming to be the Islamic messiah known as the Mahdi or the Twelfth Imam. Word of his miracles, healings, signs, and wonders is spreading like wildfire.

      CIA operative David Shirazi was born for this moment. He is recruited and sent into Tehran with one objective: use all means necessary to disrupt Iran's nuclear weapons program, without leaving American fingerprints and without triggering an apocalyptic new war. But time is running out.
    • Just finished Countercoup: the Struggle for Control of Iran by Kermit (Kim) Roosevelt, the grandson of Theodore. He was in the CIA and ran project AJAX to restore the Shah in 1953. Found it very interesting.
      The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
      Richard Ewell, CSA General
    • Quintin Tarantino's screen play "the h8teful eight" saw the movie the other day...pretty good, if your a Tarantino fan, if not, still pretty good but with lots a blood, cussin' and general bad behavior with the "N" word thrown around a lot...a lot. As always Morgan Freeman is awesome, along with the usual suspects you'd see in a Tarantino flick, Kurt Russell, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, just to name a few.
    • I don't watch violent movies.
      Never seen a Tarantino movie. Only unavoidable trailers. Never want to.
      I watch movies for entertainment. Violence doesn't entertain me.
      Shot lots of roos and other things in my time. Have stood knee deep in blood and guts dressing 20 at a time. Nothing enjoyable in it whatever species.
      Resident Australian, proving being a grumpy old man is not just an American trait.
    • TrafficJam wrote:

      Walter Mosley, the Leonid McGill series, book 2. For some reason, I think about Socks when I'm reading this. Maybe because the characters are soul brutha gangsta types. 8)
      A fellow teacher told me of finding one of her students reading a Mosley book for an in-class book report. She had to redirect him to a written report when she reviewed the first chapter and read the author's description of the antagonist's usage of a bright red prophylactic.

      Lest we forget.....



      SSgt Ray Rangel - USAF
      SrA Elizabeth Loncki - USAF
      PFC Adam Harris - USA
      MSgt Eden Pearl - USMC
    • OzJacko wrote:

      I don't watch violent movies.
      Never seen a Tarantino movie. Only unavoidable trailers. Never want to.
      I watch movies for entertainment. Violence doesn't entertain me.
      Shot lots of roos and other things in my time. Have stood knee deep in blood and guts dressing 20 at a time. Nothing enjoyable in it whatever species.
      you could do like many I see in theaters and close one eye ;) peeking periodically with the other...but I hear ya, kinda the way I feel about porno, knee deep ya seen one ya seen em all :D
    • Well I finally finished Undaunted Courage. Should've stopped shortly after they left the Nez Perce. It seemed as if the writer, Mr. Ambrose, was merely looking for things to write so he could finish the book after they reached St. Louis. Pretty boring and lacking depth and desire there at the end.
      If your Doctor is a tree, you're on acid.
    • Astro wrote:

      max.patch wrote:

      i'm reading one of those monthly freebies from amazon but i'm not into it and about to pull the plug. almost picked up "the martian" last nite...buts its at the dollar theater. cheaper and quicker. :)
      But is it better?
      based on past history, i'd say there is a 95% probability that the book is better than the movie. but if i don't read the book i won't be disappointed in the movie! :)
      2,000 miler
    • max.patch wrote:

      almost picked up "the martian" last nite...buts its at the dollar theater. cheaper and quicker. :)
      saw "the martian" at what i now have to call the "two dollar theater" (except tuesdays). full house and it had already been there several weeks. better than interstellar. i'm not a fan of SF -- except for time travel -- so i don't know if the book would have held my interest the whole way thru.
      2,000 miler
    • Drybones wrote:

      A new one for me, just finished reading directions to something...illumination on a new 3 x 12 rifle scope didn't work...wasted my time, directions didn't help....but my wife is proud of me for reading them.
      Consider rechecking battery polarity or ensuring the plastic battery shield is pulled allowing current to flow.

      Lest we forget.....



      SSgt Ray Rangel - USAF
      SrA Elizabeth Loncki - USAF
      PFC Adam Harris - USA
      MSgt Eden Pearl - USMC
    • read 'Bridge of Spies' prior to viewing the film. Film missed several pertinent interesting details. Accompanied by a friend whom is not US history oriented. At the film's conclusion she said 'Bet the novel is worth reading.'

      Lest we forget.....



      SSgt Ray Rangel - USAF
      SrA Elizabeth Loncki - USAF
      PFC Adam Harris - USA
      MSgt Eden Pearl - USMC
    • Flicking through some of my reading material the other day. As well as the National Geographic from 1948 with the story of Earl Shaffer's hike I have a 1987 one with an article on it too. Quotes Warren Doyle, 7 time thruhiker, at one point.
      :D
      Resident Australian, proving being a grumpy old man is not just an American trait.
    • OzJacko wrote:

      Flicking through some of my reading material the other day. As well as the National Geographic from 1948 with the story of Earl Shaffer's hike I have a 1987 one with an article on it too. Quotes Warren Doyle, 7 time thruhiker, at one point.
      :D
      He was just a young pup back then. ;)
      The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
      Richard Ewell, CSA General
    • I read the first two books in a fantasy series and put the third on hold at the library two(?) months ago. I checked my acct the other day and the hold was taken off and the book is no longer available. :(

      Currently reading Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekback, a dark mystery set in the harsh, winter landscape of Swedish Lapland in 1717. Not sure if I'll finish this one.
      Lost in the right direction.
    • TrafficJam wrote:

      I read the first two books in a fantasy series and put the third on hold at the library two(?) months ago. I checked my acct the other day and the hold was taken off and the book is no longer available. :(

      Currently reading Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekback, a dark mystery set in the harsh, winter landscape of Swedish Lapland in 1717. Not sure if I'll finish this one.
      I'm really enjoying this book now...not so much the plot, but the author's description and prose related to winter homesteading in the mountains.
      Lost in the right direction.
    • WanderingStovie wrote:

      Many of Terry Brooks' books. Maybe I will finish The Gypsy Morph sometime.

      I have not been able to get into the television version of Shannara.
      I looked this author up and saw the criticism for the similarities of his books to those of J.R.R. Tolkien. I like fantasy but not sure I can read these, I'll constantly be comparing. :)

      I'm a die hard Tolkien fan and have my first book of The Hobbit printed in 1977. I read it for the first time when I was 10 and reread it many times. The pages are dry and yellow and I'm afraid to open it up for fear it'll fall apart. I have my first LOTR books too but they're not as old.
      Lost in the right direction.
    • Sharing a few paragraphs from Wolf Winter...

      "In November it became yet colder, though that had hardly seemed possible. The air was so cold that their nostrils stuck together when they inhaled. They had frost spots on cheeks and earlobes, and the hair on the goats’ necks grew thick and long as a dog’s. The days were still shortening. Every morning night lingered, loitered by the steps of the porch, stuck to the icy branches of the spruce trees. Every evening it returned earlier. "

      "The paths from the house to the sheds and the barns were cleared of snow. The animal bins were stuffed with dried grass. There was still frozen food in the storage place, enough for another couple of weeks, maybe three if they rationed. They had managed to snare two pheasants. And now, with the plates of frozen sawdust thawing in the kitchen, their home smelled of summer—chopped wood and cool water."
      Lost in the right direction.
    • Foresight wrote:

      Well I finally finished Undaunted Courage. Should've stopped shortly after they left the Nez Perce. It seemed as if the writer, Mr. Ambrose, was merely looking for things to write so he could finish the book after they reached St. Louis. Pretty boring and lacking depth and desire there at the end.
      The more I think about it the more I believe the author was influenced by his own subject. The writing mirrors the story of Lewis. Gung ho and full of fervor until the end of the expedition was upon him and then he never really even got started on the conclusion which was his journals. Lewis pretty much just went through the motions of life until he finally ended his own.
      If your Doctor is a tree, you're on acid.
    • Foresight wrote:

      Foresight wrote:

      Well I finally finished Undaunted Courage. Should've stopped shortly after they left the Nez Perce. It seemed as if the writer, Mr. Ambrose, was merely looking for things to write so he could finish the book after they reached St. Louis. Pretty boring and lacking depth and desire there at the end.
      The more I think about it the more I believe the author was influenced by his own subject. The writing mirrors the story of Lewis. Gung ho and full of fervor until the end of the expedition was upon him and then he never really even got started on the conclusion which was his journals. Lewis pretty much just went through the motions of life until he finally ended his own.
      There is some evidence that Lewis was murdered.
      --
      "What do you mean its sunrise already ?!", me.