Book recommendations
04-17-2020 | 07:22 AM
#101
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From: Narrow/Left Wide/Right
Undaunted Courage is a no brainer if you haven't read it.
Bill Bryson - Short History of Everything
Alas, Babylon: dystopian account of aftermath of nuclear war set in Florida in a smaller town unaffected by radiation but isolated from the rest of the war ravaged U.S. Written 50 years ago, which actually makes it better somehow. I listened on audible.
Bill Bryson - Short History of Everything
Alas, Babylon: dystopian account of aftermath of nuclear war set in Florida in a smaller town unaffected by radiation but isolated from the rest of the war ravaged U.S. Written 50 years ago, which actually makes it better somehow. I listened on audible.
04-17-2020 | 09:11 AM
#102
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From: Airbus
Some other Bryson must reads...
One Summer - 1927
A series of intertwined events from that year.
Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Bryson's childhood memoir, LOL warning for reading in public.
The Body
A short history of nearly everything for the human body.
The Civil War: A Narrative - Shelby Foote
A three volume account of every detail of that war. 110 hours of listening in the audiobook form.
Open - Andre Agassi
His autobiography.
One Summer - 1927
A series of intertwined events from that year.
Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Bryson's childhood memoir, LOL warning for reading in public.
The Body
A short history of nearly everything for the human body.
The Civil War: A Narrative - Shelby Foote
A three volume account of every detail of that war. 110 hours of listening in the audiobook form.
Open - Andre Agassi
His autobiography.
04-17-2020 | 12:58 PM
#103
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04-17-2020 | 01:00 PM
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I'm currently listening to The Stand by Stephen King. I don't really like horror, so I have never read King, but I got it due to Covid.
I'm into it by a half dozen chapters and now I know why King is regarded as a great author.
I'm into it by a half dozen chapters and now I know why King is regarded as a great author.
04-18-2020 | 06:20 AM
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As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me...Josef Bauer
A story about a captured German officer at the end of WW2 that’s sent to a Siberian labor camp, escapes and walks back to Germany...like a 5 year journey if I remember!!! They made a movie out of it, but the book was way better...
“Like Unbroken and The Long Walk, an intense and remarkable tale of survival against the odds that reveals the strength of the human spirit. Translated into 15 languages! 12 million copies sold”
A story about a captured German officer at the end of WW2 that’s sent to a Siberian labor camp, escapes and walks back to Germany...like a 5 year journey if I remember!!! They made a movie out of it, but the book was way better...
“Like Unbroken and The Long Walk, an intense and remarkable tale of survival against the odds that reveals the strength of the human spirit. Translated into 15 languages! 12 million copies sold”
04-18-2020 | 08:23 AM
#106
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A few were mentioned above, by James Hornfischer (these three are all WW2 Pacific theater, in chronological order)
Neptune's Inferno (Solomon Islands Naval engagements)
Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors (Leyte Gulf)
The Fleet at Flood Tide (Final stages of Pacific Campaign)
Neptune's Inferno (Solomon Islands Naval engagements)
Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors (Leyte Gulf)
The Fleet at Flood Tide (Final stages of Pacific Campaign)
05-22-2020 | 03:43 PM
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From: 320A
A few were mentioned above, by James Hornfischer (these three are all WW2 Pacific theater, in chronological order)
Neptune's Inferno (Solomon Islands Naval engagements)
Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors (Leyte Gulf)
The Fleet at Flood Tide (Final stages of Pacific Campaign)
Neptune's Inferno (Solomon Islands Naval engagements)
Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors (Leyte Gulf)
The Fleet at Flood Tide (Final stages of Pacific Campaign)
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