Last three books you've read?

[Diamondback]

Reflections of a Warrior, by MOH recipient CSM Ret. Franklin D. Miller, Vietnam war

The Lost Classics of Jack O'Connor

 

[BowTrout]

I'm still reading through the Joe Pickett series and I just started book 23. I started Undaunted Courage but I was having a hard time getting into it. I will finish it but it may just take a while.

 

[Yooper]

I'm still reading through the Joe Pickett series and I just started book 23. I started Undaunted Courage but I was having a hard time getting into it. I will finish it but it may just take a while.

Undaunted Courage starts out slooooooowwwww....but stick with it, it definitely gets better.

 

[HighUintas]

The Arctic: A History, by Richard Vaughn

Black Robes Enter Coyote's World: Chief Charlo & Father de Smet in the Rocky Mountains, by Sally Thompson

My Life as an Indian, by J W Schultz

 

[Customweld]

Undaunted Courage starts out slooooooowwwww....but stick with it, it definitely gets better.

Slow start for sure, but it takes a while to paint the details involved in putting a trip like that together. It's still amazing to me that 2 centuries ago, we really had no idea what lay west of the Great Plains.

 

[TreeDog]

Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C Gwynne

Alaska's Wolf Man by Jim Rearden

If audio books count, just finished Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobosen. That one is pretty dark.

 

[Dos Perros]

Been on an McCarthy kick.

All the Pretty Horses
Blood Meridian
The Crossing

Next Up:

Hemingway on Fishing (compilation of Hemingway works)
The Last 11 Days of Earl Durand, by Jerred Metz
The Land Breakers, by John Ehle

 

[Yooper]

Next Up:

Hemingway on Fishing (compilation of Hemingway works)

I've read that one a few times now. I was really into his work for a while in my early 30's. Great book. Helps that I'm a stones throw away from where he spent a lot of time fishing in the Upper Peninsula.

 

[Dos Perros]

I've read that one a few times now. I was really into his work for a while in my early 30's. Great book. Helps that I'm a stones throw away from where he spent a lot of time fishing in the Upper Peninsula.

That's cool. I got inspired as we are heading to Key West this winter.

I haven't read John Geirach since my early or mid 20's and thinking about trying that again as I'm getting back into fishing. I have found that an older man's perspectives are different than a younger man's, and sometimes revisiting something reveals new meanings not previously noticed or understood. Like McCarthy's The Road for example...I don't think I'd recommend that to anyone that hasn't had children yet.

 

[akcabin]

Fur Fish n Game. Fur Fish n Game. Fur Fish n Game FFG.

 

[3forks]

That's cool. I got inspired as we are heading to Key West this winter.

I haven't read John Geirach since my early or mid 20's and thinking about trying that again as I'm getting back into fishing. I have found that an older man's perspectives are different than a younger man's, and sometimes revisiting something reveals new meanings not previously noticed or understood. Like McCarthy's The Road for example...I don't think I'd recommend that to anyone that hasn't had children yet.

For you and @Yooper, I’m guessing you’ve both read Thomas McGuane’s book, The Longest Silence. But, if you haven’t you ought to read that. Also, @Dos Perros - Ninety-two in the Shade since you’re going to Key West to fish (I assume).

One other recommendation for you on an author you may like…Ian Frazier.

The Fish’s Eye is a collection of fishing and outdoor essays by Frazier that you may want to check out. However, one of the best portrayals of the life of a fishing guide that I’ve ever read is “The Last Days of Steelhead Joe”. The essay isn’t in a book form, but I believe can be found online and is great.

*I apologize in advance if you’re already familiar with McGuane and Frazier, but I occasionally find someone who likes fishing that doesn’t know about these guys and their work.

 

[Dos Perros]

For you @Yooper, I’m guessing you’ve both read Thomas McGuane’s book, The Longest Silence. But, if you haven’t you ought to read that. Also, @Dos Perros - Ninety-two in the Shade since you’re going to Key West to fish (I assume).

One other recommendation for you on an author you may like…Ian Frazier.

The Fish’s Eye is a collection of fishing and outdoor essays by Frazier that you may want to check out. However, one of the best portrayals of the life of a fishing guide that I’ve ever read is “The Last Days of Steelhead Joe”. The essay isn’t in a book form, but I believe can be found online and is great.

*I apologize in advance if you’re already familiar with McGuane and Frazier, but I occasionally find someone who likes fishing that doesn’t know about these guys and their work.

I tried to read McGuane in my 20's and I couldn't get into it. I don't think I had the vocabulary for it at the time? A few years ago I tried to read Barry Lopez's Arctic Dreams and I was clearly too retarded for that one.

I find myself into books that cover life and death, wisdom hard earned by age, unique perspectives on the mundane, etc. I'll look into Ian Frazier, thank you.

 

[Sandhills]

The last two joe Pickett books and the first on of the series which I've read before. Need to start reading the others. I've skipped through a lot of em

 

[3forks]

I tried to read McGuane in my 20's and I couldn't get into it. I don't think I had the vocabulary for it at the time? A few years ago I tried to read Barry Lopez's Arctic Dreams and I was clearly too retarded for that one.

I find myself into books that cover life and death, wisdom hard earned by age, unique perspectives on the mundane, etc. I'll look into Ian Frazier, thank you.

I know where you’re coming from on McGuane, and The Longest Silence is nothing like his other his other works. If you don’t thoroughly enjoy The Longest Silence, I’d be surprised.

 

[Yooper]

For you and @Yooper, I’m guessing you’ve both read Thomas McGuane’s book, The Longest Silence. But, if you haven’t you ought to read that. Also, @Dos Perros - Ninety-two in the Shade since you’re going to Key West to fish (I assume).

Appreciate the suggestion...I'll add that one to the list.

I just finished Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat. He's a bit anti-hunting in some of his writings, but not too over bearing with it. I like his style of writing, though. Makes me look at wolves in a different light.

 

[Riff]

Appreciate the suggestion...I'll add that one to the list.

I just finished Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat. He's a bit anti-hunting in some of his writings, but not too over bearing with it. I like his style of writing, though. Makes me look at wolves in a different light.

Really enjoyed Lost in the Barrens as a kid, will have to look into more of his books.

Last three books:

That Wild Country: An Epic Journey into the Past, Present, and Future of America's Public Lands by Mark Kenyon

The Witcher: Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski

Lion of Liberty: Patrick Henry and the call to a new nation by Harlow Giles Unger

 

[Cmb213]

The Hunting Rifle by Jack O'Connor

Death in the Long Grass by Peter Hathaway Capstick

Like Wolves on the Fold: The defense of Rorke's Drift by Lt Col Mike Snook