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I just finished reading Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (free with Amazon Prime on Kindle). Great read from the Native American perspective.

FROZEN IN TIME - Mitchell Zuckoff - phenomenal, you will never look down at Greenland from the flightdeck the same way again

ASTORIA - Peter Stark - just, WOW

Anything already mentioned before by LARSON and BRYSON is great, IMHO

Add DEAD WAKE and DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY by Larson.

That about sums up my last five year plus foray into non-fiction, and they have all been great reads.

Storm of Steel. Ernst Junger.

Forget politics. Just a pure warrior. Loves the fight. Any fight. Lived to be over 100. Wouldn’t want to see this man In a trench (WWI) or dark alley.

Even when he was 100. Manly man.

Jack Reacher series
Mitch Rapp series
The trilogy? (follows family lines of characters from 1900-2000) by Ken Follett, and the Pillars series as well
Currently working through Malcolm Gladwell's works, Talking With Strangers was very good
"Call Sign CHAOS" by Jim Mattis and Bing West
"The Undoing Project" by Michael Lewis
"Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline
If you have young kids I think "Raising Lions" by Joe Newman is hands down the best guide for raising young children, especially if they are free spirited and like testing your boundaries.
"A Warning" by Anonymous should be read by everyone who plans on voting in November.

"Nothing Like it in the World", Stephen Ambrose

And for today...
"The Noticer", Andy Andrews

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Originally Posted by LumberJack (Post 3034074)

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Oh wow! Was it cruel that I had to read that in 6th or 7th grade and write a book report? Still it was a good book, we got to watch the movie after which helped. As youngster, didnt like the ending...

Since the shutdown I've read "Green Eggs and Ham" by a noted Dr. Seuss about 800,000 times. Quick read; can't put it down honestly. Lots of highs and lows but it all works out in the end.:D

In seriousness, I've been reading "Midnight in Chernobyl" by Adam Higginbotham. You can probably guess what it's about but more than an account of the disaster, it's an interesting and eye opening (and honestly frustrating) look at how governments handle daunting national crises with lots of obvious parallels that resonate with the current times.

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Originally Posted by JackRanch (Post 3065512)

I had the same experience as well as having to read "Where the Red Fern Grows". Talk about heart breakers!

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Originally Posted by connollc (Post 3062203)

I just bought “Frozen in Time”. Thanks for the recommendation.

I saw it already recommended but I’ll second “Race of Aces”

I also saw Charm School, by Nelson Demille recommended, which was a great book, but everything by Nelson Demille has been great to read.

Ill also second anything by Vince Flynn, Brad Thor, Joseph Finder, and John Grisham.

A newer author out there is a former Navy Seal named Jack Carr. He’s written three fictional books (a trilogy) and they’ve been great reads as well. I can’t find the first one on my kindle app but book 2 is True Believer and book 3 is Savage Son. All fun to read.

I’m reading way too much with all this time off and am getting angry I won’t have any good books left to read on my commutes when things pick up again.

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Originally Posted by sailingfun (Post 3034145)

The Saga of Pappy Gunn

Story of a guy who started as a navy mechanic in WW1. Learned to fly via the enlisted flight program before booted from the navy in the drawdown. Moved to the Philippines and started a airline in the thirties. Drafted into the Army Air Corps along with his airplanes as his wife and family were captured by the Japanese. Quickly rose to the rank of Colonel as he begged, borrowed, stole, rebuilt and redesigned the aircraft the army had in the pacific while flying hundreds of combat missions in many different aircraft. General Kenney commander of the Pacific AAF considered him one of the most important men in the Pacific. The Army ordered him back to the US at one point to go to flight school when they discovered he was not a rated army aviator despite thousands of hours and more combat missions than almost any other pilot. Read the book to see how it turned out!

I just got this book now too. Pappy Gunn was mentioned a lot in “Race of Aces”. Evidently he modified several B25’s with a ton of forward facing machine guns and cannons for strafing Japanese bases in the South Pacific islands.