Posts from ShortGrub in thread „What was the last book you read or are currently reading?“

Quote from The Ringo Kid

Oh and yeah, I KNOW I have a one-tracked-mind. Can't help it ;-)) this stuff is THAT interesting to me.

Ringo Kid it is what is important to you. I also enjoy reading German literature. I read more theology than war now, and my favorite book on Martin Luther was written by an east German under communism. It is the best I have read and I have five books of various centuries.
The same with my Russian literature.
Both give me a view point that our American writers do not have. I learned this first hand when my relative from England told me about Monty who he survived under in WWII. Monty was not magic, the only thing in the beginning he did was get the troops organized, up early, and equipped. These facts you will not find in our history books.

Quote from Stumpy

C'mon, Jeff, fiction is more accurate than "alternative history".

Stumpy,
I just enjoy the way Turltedove writes. He has written just about everything and I imagine sooner or later he will do a book about Stonewall Jackson. Now that will be a good alternative history. I always like to think about what if he survived?
Some of his books are pure entertainment, and some make you think.

The Man with the Iron Heart, by Harry Turtledove. Alternative history about WWII and Reinhard Heydrich having survived the assassination attempt.

I am reading The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury.

Quote from Stumpy

I'm currently reading a biography of Steve McQueen by some guy named Terrill. Steve has always been a favorite actor of mine but if this bio is to be believed, he was one sorry SOB, particularly early in his career. He was constantly cheating on his spouses and treated other people in the movie industry like dirt, including fellow performers, directors and even producers.

Once he started to make it in large amounts, he spent money like there was no tomorrow. But before he became popular with the movie-going public ("The Magnificent Seven" was his breakthrough film.), he spent his wife's money like a drunken sailor.

Does the writer mention Billy Graham? Graham met with McQueen in the last days of his life. Apparently McQueen did repent of his ways before he died.

My friends Father hated him for leaving the Marines at Inchon and taking his Army boys home. He was one of the few Marines who stood against the many Chinese and Koreans. That is why I asked my Dad if he was there since he was a Marine and would not say anything.
I firmly believe if Truman had not done what he did in relieving Mac, some future events would have been different. Only God knows.

Viper, my Dad rarely talked about his war experiences. I was in my twenties when he finally talked about his time there. I asked him if he was at Inchon since he never talked about it, but he said no. My friends Father was there and he hated MacArthur until he died.
You may think this odd, but I still have the navy blanket they but on my Dad when he was bought home on the hospital ship. My Wife saw it when we got married and said 'is that blood stains'?

Quote from Duke's Duchess

i am reading a book for my english class that, for the first time, is actually pretty decent, fahrenheit 451.

That is a great book. I have lost count the amount of times I read the book or watched the movie.

Hunter by James Byron Huggins.
An illicit medical experiment has gone wrong, and the attempt to combine the recovered DNA of one of our more violent and predatory predecessors with that of modern man has resulted in a creature whose amazing powers of brain and muscle are matched only by its survival instincts. Only a .50 cal Barrett will hurt the creature.