Do yall read (Books)

[EddieWalker]

...Oh yes, and Uncle John's bathroom readers of course!

How could I forget these books !!! I have one in the bathroom, one in my truck and another in my deer blind. I'm always surprised at what they write there and just wish I could remember 1/100th of what's in there. It truly is a book that you can read over and over again.

Eddie

 

[Arkaybee]

As you say, their is know excuse four it in a commercial publication, if they won't hold the standards, we are doomed.

Dave.

You are a funny guy and I loved this statement.

Hours of smiles and enjoyment are to be had reading the works of JAMES HERRIOT, the Yorkshire vet who wrote of his experiences in his practice. Notable works are EVERY LIVING THING, ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL and of course the TV series which ran for twelve years, ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL starring Christopher Timothy, Robert Hardy, and Peter Davison. There are several individual titles by Herriot and we have just about all of them. Search Amazon.com and you will find lots. Readers Digest published a "best of" volume of Herriot's stories several years ago and these short stories make for relaxing bedtime reading. I have read them multiple times and they are always entertaining. We even bought the complete set of DVDs of the TV series and they are great stories and well worth the money for wholesome entertainment and for reminiscing times long gone when values were different than today. James Herriot's son (also a vet in Yorkshire) has written a volume called THE REAL JAMES HERRIOT in which he tells the stories behind the stories and the man himself.

Arkaybee

 

[texbaylea]

For Science Fiction fans, go to the Baen Free Library.

Baen Books Science Fiction & Fantasy - Home Page

You can download free books by many of their authors in many reader formats
as well as rtf and html. A good way to sample an author. I prefer a physical book but this is great when none is available.

Vernon

 

[rubicon]

I read 2-3 books a week and Patrick O'Brien's aubrey maturin series are the best by far. I reread the entire series at least once a year and still am amazed a single person could write so well.The battle scenes still get my pulse racing.

 

[czechsonofagun]

You are a funny guy and I loved this statement.

Hours of smiles and enjoyment are to be had reading the works of JAMES HERRIOT, the Yorkshire vet who wrote of his experiences in his practice. \

I love those books and the show too. Our farrier actually came from Dale and when he was a kid, Herriot - or the real guy - was their vet. All of it is very homie and friendly and nice and great to read or watch.

 

[Taylortractornut]

I read almost any tractor or equipment book i can find. Especially anything about RG Le Tourneau. My year wait on Eric C Orelman's book R.G. LeTourneau Heavy Equipment the Electric drive Years. I got the first edition the Mec hanical drive years last year. Ive also read Mover of Men and Mountains and found a rare copy of Moving Heaven and Earth. I collect alot of old books mostly technical books on welding and machining an equipment. Lots of good information in te old books of outdated but hany tips and techniques. I also read alot on gardening and organic farming to.

 

[EddieWalker]

I read almost any tractor or equipment book i can find. Especially anything about RG Le Tourneau. ...

I came across his autobiography at a garage sale. All I knew about him before that was that Le Toureau University is in the area, and in the news from time to time. His life story is one of invention, overcoming obsticles and achievement through VERY HARD work. Truly one of the most inspirational people that I've ever read about!!!

I didn't know that he wrote any other books. Now I'm going to have to look for them. I'm also wondering about Holt. Is there a book on him and Catepilar?

Allot of the early years of heavy equipmemt development by those two took place where I'm from. I know the roads that they built and love to hear about how they accomplished these tasks with what they had available. Best of all is when they came up with a solution to a problem and change machinery forever. Le Tournea came up with adding a blade to the front of the tracked crawler to push dirt while building the road through Crow Canyon in the East Bay of CA.

Eddie

 

[Taylortractornut]

Eddie theres several Cat books out there. Caterpillar Chronicles is a good one but they dont go deep into either of the 2 companies. Randy Leffingwell has a few Cat books out and one has a section in it about RG Letourneau. Holt is still around they make Stumpers blades, buckets, and several rakes, and other things around. When I was real young a friend of the family Had a borrowed copy of Moving Heaven and Earth. I saw his Tournalayer the machine that built precast housing units. A friend of mine has actually been to the Tournavista town in Peru that RG built and lived in such a precasted house. His logstackes from the 60's are still used in the local paper mill and they have a new one to. The last 2 books Eric C Orelman published were more photo galleries but they have company explanations to.

 

[dmccarty]

I started really reading in fourth grade. By the sixth grade I was put into suspension because I did not leave the class room for recess since I was reading this really cool book on the Civil War. It was a huge book with these great painting showing the lines of march and lines of battle. Much more interesting than playing on the monkey bars.

From sixth grade until well into high school I was reading a book every day or two. There is alot of wasted time in school where one can read. Course maybe I should have been doing school work and not reading history books or Big Red.

I used to read quite a bit of Science Fiction but history is stranger than fiction so I just stopped reading SciFi.

Heisenberg of the Heisenberg Uncertainly Principal was major figure in Physics in during the 20's-30's. When WWII started an obvious concern was would Germany build an atomic bomb before the Allies. With Heisenberg still in Germany this was a big problem. The OSS had a agent who was sent to Switzerland to either persuade Heisenberg to leave Germany and if that failed to kill him. The agent was a Jewish professional baseball player fluent in six or more languages. There is more to the story than this but if I wrote novel whose hero was a Jewish professional baseball player sent to assassinate or kidnap a **** scientist would it be believable? It was reality!

But the agent never did get Heisenberg. And what was Heisenberg up to during the **** era is still a mystery. Heisenberg had several opportunities to escape Germany but he did not do so. He said he stayed to save German Science and he did manage to keep many of his students from being sent to fight. And it appears that he gave realistic but gloomy estimates on the time and resources required to build a fission weapon which may have slowed down the German drive to build a device However I just watched a documentary where they seemed to have uncovered evidence that in late 1944 or early 1945 the Germans did set off a fission device of some type.

Long way of saying truth is stranger than fiction.

I still read when I can but I do not have as much time as I would like. And the Internet is a fabulous source of information.

Later,
Dan

 

[dave1949]

Dan,

Thanks for that interesting history nugget. Truth is stranger than fiction - unless the fiction was written by Kafka

I think you should write the novel.
Dave.