Good book for deadheading / reserve

[Metro752]

I heard "The Audacity of Hope" is a great fiction novel.

 

[Soverytired]

I heard "The Audacity of Hope" is a great fiction novel.

Isn't that the one written by Bill Ayers?

(It's on the internet, it must be true!)

 

[ePilot22]

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.












eP.

 

[Amish RakeFight]

Reading now:

"Michael Kohlhaas"

By Heinrich Von Kleist

Great classical German literature. Google the title if you're curious ofthe plot. Very good book about a honest and principled man whose virtues hurt him in the end.

 

[cfi_greg]

I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL freakin hilarious

 

[Soverytired]

I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL freakin hilarious

Hah hah! I second that!

Tucker Max -- I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL

(Chapter xx: "Tucker has butt sex, hilarity does NOT ensue)

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also good: "The Alphabet in of Manliness" -- by Maddox

(So manly some of it's sentences don't
end in periods)

 

[TNHillbilly]

I just finished Diving Into Darkness by Phillip Finch, really good book. It's nonfiction about deep cave diving, the main guy was a Cathay Captain.

Any of Robert Parkers westerns, "Appaloosa", "Resolution."

"Uncommon Carriers" by John McPhee, interesting look at several different ways of shipping stuff and the people that do it.

 

[flyboyike]

"The Elegant Universe" by Brian Greene, but only if you're a geek like me.

 

[Sandhawk]

Anything recommended by Oprah

 

[fareview]

In order of merit, these all time greats should not be read if you have a check-ride pending. You wont be able to put them down.

Non fiction of course:

"Legionnaire" by Simon Murray

"Stalingrad" Anthony Beaver

"Mao" Chang & Halliday.

Respectfully.

fv

 

[NoJoy]

When your done with all of those read The Stand, one of Stephen King's better novels.

 

[Soverytired]

In order of merit, these all time greats should not be read if you have a check-ride pending. You wont be able to put them down.



"Stalingrad" Anthony Beaver

fv

Correct spelling of author is "Antony Beevor".

I'm not nit-picking . . this is an excellent book that every student of the eastern front of WWII shouldn't miss. . . .

 

[johnpeace]

+1 for Atlas Shrugged. It's (increasingly) a 'must read' for people who want to understand the world we presently live in.

'The Fountainhead' is also really worth your time.

I'm listening to 'Pillars of the Earth' audiobook now, it's terrific!

'Revolution: A Manifesto' - Ron Paul
'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress' - Robert Heinlein
'1984' -George Orwell
'Unintended Consequences' -John Ross (excellent novel telling the story of America's 'gun culture')
'The Making of the Atomic Bomb' -Richard Rhodes (definitive history text of the Manhattan Project)

 

[johnpeace]

North star over my shoulder, Bob Buck (TWA ret) capt reflects back on his start and contributions to aviation. Pretty impressive and doesnt require much thinking.

uke:

Bob Buck's memoir was the most self-aggrandizing, vain, conceited, pompous, self-absorbed, self-important garbage I have ever tried to read.

I got a third of the way through it and threw it down in disgust at his utter lack of humility.

Ernie Gann has the genre of 'early days of airline industry' completely covered.

Bob Buck would do well to stick to writing about the weather.

 

[bigshooter107]

Dont stop the Carnival, or Theres a hole in texas by Herwman Wouk

Any book by Jim Buffet
any book by David Mcoullough

Brief history of time or Black holes and baby universes by Stephen Hawking

and Lone Survivor is almost impossible to put down once they get out of the helicopter, tough to imagine any better narrative of a firefight.