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SVcummins

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Whats everybody else reading to pass the time this winter
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Just read. How to fail at almost everything and still win big. by Scott Adams. ( Author of. Dilbert)
Will provide copies to my kids and grandkids.
Also rec'd. Win Bigly. By same author
 

Patrick O'Brian and the onto CS Forrester. Great old "age of sail" fighting warship stories.
 
Re-reading complete collection of Sherlock Holmes stories. Been years since the last time and still a good read.
 
I stopped subscribing to Farm Show. Never have been able to log in online, and can't get them to reply when I try to ask why.

Otherwise, always did like the magazine.
 
I got Jon Kinzenbaw's (SP?) Book for Christmas, and I really enjoyed reading it. I had to pace myself. Does anyone know of any books that tell a story from the eyes of a farmer? Those would be worth the read.
 
For Christmas my wife goes to library and gets 2' or 3' of books off the for-sale shelf, wraps them up, and there's many unusual books I would not think of. A few months reading. Totally unpredictable.
 
"The Odyssey" by Homer. I read it once for a class in college, but this is a different interpretation.

I always thought Agamemnon was the ultimate hard luck story. He led the Greek army through 10 years of the Trojan war, and after he won the war and returned home to Greece his wife and her boyfriend whacked him with an axe while he slept. They weren't ready for him to come home.
 
"Endurance", The story of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Expedition to the south pole. Everyone made it back alive after the ship was destroyed by ice. Long Walk
"The Accidental President" about Harry Truman's road to the Presidency and his actions to end World War 2 I would have voted for him in his second term.
"The Rooster Bar" by John Gresham, my first book by this author, I will read another.
Read another about 8 whaling ships that were frozen in the ocean near Point Barrow Alaska, and the rescue mission sent 1500 miles to rescue over 500 men by McKinley before they starved or froze to death. Another excellent book with lots of pictures
 
"Slide Rule" in particular.

Though the name on that is Neville Shute Norway which was his full one. He was an aeronautical engineer by profession. I can recommend it for some very caustic descriptions.
 
'The Glory and the Dream' by Wm. Manchester, a history of Presidents from 1930's to 1976. I lived it from the 1960s on but still learned a lot I didn't know. A history of the times as well as the presidents, most interesting is how alike the bitter in-fighting has been from Roosevelt to nnalert! Everything nnalert has gone thru,all the other presidents went thru also. During Eisenhowers first week in office the nnalert tried to impeach him. Truly there is nothing new under the sun. Warning; its 1300 pages long. Should do you till summer.
 
'The Glory and the Dream' by Wm. Manchester, a history of Presidents from 1930's to 1976. I lived it from the 1960s on but still learned a lot I didn't know. A history of the times as well as the presidents, most interesting is how alike the bitter in-fighting has been from Roosevelt to nnalert! Everything T. has gone thru,all the other presidents went thru also. During Eisenhowers first week in office the nnalert tried to impeach him. Truly there is nothing new under the sun. Warning; its 1300 pages long. Should do you till summer.
 
If you're into things historical have a look at this bloke

http://www.bernardcornwell.net/books/

I'm up to date with the Last Kingdom series written around Alfred the Great - where you get a good idea of how Alfred started the unification that became England. And how bloody close we came to speaking Danish.

The Sharp series, which is built around the Duke of Wellington from his start in India through to Waterloo. There is a separate historical one on Waterloo.

IMO the series ones are written to an overall pattern which he varies enough that you don't feel you're reading a carbon copy.

"The Fort" might give you a facet of the War of Independence which you may not have met - particularly if you are from Masachucetts
 
I highly recommend all of the John Grisham books. Someone wanted something told through a farmer's eyes- read "A Painted House" by Grisham- a cotton harvest in the early 50's as told by a farm kid- an excellent portrayal of rural life in those days.
 
I got the new book for Xmas "Providing Power for a New Age" the Root & Vandervoort story. Finished that one and our daughter got me another engine book for my birthday two weeks ago. It's the "Fairbanks Morse 100 Years of Engine Technology". Both are interesting reading and by reading them you can see why some companies today are in the shape they're in.
 
That's a good book I have read a few of his books and that one is very different than most of his lawyer stories. James Paterson books are also good reading.
 
The local library has a lot of the John Sandford books on CD - I've listened to all they have while making trips to and from Tulsa. With about 10 hours driving you can listen to most books in a single trip. I used to listen to talk radio and sports radio on those drives - after a while you almost lose the will to live after 3-4 hours of that stuff.
 
Twilley's seed catalog and Baker Creek Heirloom seed catalog,actually except for the one cold spell its been nice outside weather.Been hauling hay got about 2 weeks of that to do.
 
I am not a reader.
I just goggle a topic like cutting firewood. Hours of video of homemade and commercial equipment info there.
Farm Show mag. is on there also.
Loren
 
Driving with the Devil-- a book about very early stock car racing. Just ordered Fields of Fire by James Webb a Vietnam book.
 
Probably be to busy wondering when the engine is going to quit and looking for a safe place to land, to have time to read. Thanks, going to need all the luck I can get especially since I am scared to death of heights.
 
Just read "Hillbilly Elegy", by J.D. Vance, a great perspective of life growing up as a poor boy from Kentucky, moving to Ohio's rustbelt, then growing into a man in modern times. Non-fiction, a great read. Get the large print copy.
 
Wife recently inherited roughly 60 years of American Heritage magazines, I had not seen one since I was a kid and used to read them at the library on rainy winter saturday afternoons, I read them cover to cover.
 

Reading is not only a good past-time, it also richens your world and enables you to know more about the world around you. Perhaps the biggest bonus is that a lot of recent research has been showing that reading as opposed to watching movies or videos helps you to avoid getting Alzheimers and dementia.
 
I just finished "The Birth of Plenty" by Wm. Bernstein, about when, where, and how mankind began to create real wealth. Explained a lot for me. gm
 
I enjoy literature on history:

As I'm a Snow bird visiting the USA, I try to learn about the History of the USA.

Thanks for letting my wife and I visit and purchase a winter residence:

Bob...Wintering in Florence Arizona:
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I don?t read many novels per say but I read lots of things like farm show books tractor books western horseman books and tractor parts catalogs anything that isn?t to long my memory makes it hard to read anything that is more than a few pages
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"Old Farm" by Jerry Apps. Also watched one of his Wisconsin Public TV hour long programs called "A Farm Story" These are so good that I thought I was reading about my own life.

Also read various topics related to religion and also (almost daily) something from the Bible.
 
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