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A week ago, finished that book on the history of the Mexican people. Read it, understand their story, and you'll know why they want to not just come here, but leave where they are now.

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Yesterday, finished First Across The Continent: Sir Alexander Mackenzie, by Barry Gough, the life story of the first European to cross the North American continent, which Mackenzie accomplished ten years before Lewis and Clark. A good tale, but his missions (the first in which he discovered the river outlet to the Arctic Ocean, the second, his journey to the Pacific in British Columbia) were strictly for commercial reasons. A native Scot, he was seeking British trade dominance in furs and better business intercourse with Russia, Japan and China. Yes, Lewis and Clark were looking for the same sort of thing, but it was a secondary plot and differs in that Mackenzie did very little, if anything, scientific on his way. Lewis and Clark get The Cap'ns nod for a greater effort. As well, the author was a little too jingoistic and "Maple Leaf-y" about his subject.

2.5 stars out of four.

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Read the first 57 pages tonight of Showdown: The Lithuanian Rebellion and the Breakup of the Soviet Empire, by Richard J. Krickus. The author purports that Lithuanian Rebellion of March 1990, well before the final breakup of the Soviet Union on Christmas Day, 1991, was, indeed, the seminal event in that dissolution. The Soviets failed to crush the standoff and it lead to Gorbachev's and his country's demise. Very early at this point in a thumbail sketch of Lithuania's unfortunate history of invasion, occupation, reinvasion and reoccupation

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"Hmmmmm. 'Cunnilingus is an oral sex act performed on a female. It involves the use by a sex partner of the mouth, lips and tongue to stimulate the female's clitoris and vulva.' "

Finishing up Simon Winchester's Atlantic: a social, political, and natural history of the world's most important ocean.

Reading the chapter on overfishing now.

Nearly finished with Carl Sagan's Billions and Billions. Surprisingly, it deals a lot with his perspectives on global warming and even abortion. Interesting read, and I think his last book before he passed away. In the queue are Sagan's Pale Blue Dot and Ron Paul's End the Fed.

Almost finished with Stephen Ambroses' D-Day. I have a 3 hr flight today, so I should be able to finish the last 90 pages.

Those look like cool reads, men.

Next in line for me: In Praise Of Indecency: The Leading Investigative Satirist Sounds Off on Hypocrisy, Censorship and Free Expression, by Paul Krassner. Tilte says it all.

Cap'n Cat wrote:Those look like cool reads, men.

Next in line for me: In Praise Of Indecency: The Leading Investigative Satirist Sounds Off on Hypocrisy, Censorship and Free Expression, by Paul Krassner. Tilte says it all.

Spelled Title dummy.

D1B wrote:

Cap'n Cat wrote:Those look like cool reads, men.

Next in line for me: In Praise Of Indecency: The Leading Investigative Satirist Sounds Off on Hypocrisy, Censorship and Free Expression, by Paul Krassner. Tilte says it all.

Spelled Title dummy.

He's a better reader than writer.

Still slogging through McCullough's biography of Truman. Enjoying it thoroughly, though.

Grizalltheway wrote:Still slogging through McCullough's biography of Truman. Enjoying it thoroughly, though.

Probably my favorite biography of all time. Super read on a real interesting subject.

Grizalltheway wrote:Still slogging through McCullough's biography of Truman. Enjoying it thoroughly, though.

How are his other books? I've avoided jumping on his bandwagon.

Starting a HIstory of New York City tonight.

Ibanez wrote:

Grizalltheway wrote:Still slogging through McCullough's biography of Truman. Enjoying it thoroughly, though.

How are his other books? I've avoided jumping on his bandwagon.

Starting a HIstory of New York City tonight.

First one of his I've read. He's a damn good writer, so I could definitley see myself reading more of his stuff.

Grizalltheway wrote:

Ibanez wrote:
How are his other books? I've avoided jumping on his bandwagon.

Starting a HIstory of New York City tonight.

First one of his I've read. He's a damn good writer, so I could definitley see myself reading more of his stuff.

Hmm. I think I'll pick one of his up.

I would suggest a read and swap, but I hold onto my books. If anyone here ever gets rid of a book, let me know. Perhaps we can work out a deal.

Ibanez wrote:

Grizalltheway wrote:
First one of his I've read. He's a damn good writer, so I could definitley see myself reading more of his stuff.

Hmm. I think I'll pick one of his up.

I would suggest a read and swap, but I hold onto my books. If anyone here ever gets rid of a book, let me know. Perhaps we can work out a deal.

Ditto. I rarely re-read any of them, but they're pretty much the only thing I collect. Gets to be a major pain in the ass when moving around frequently.

Grizalltheway wrote:

Ibanez wrote:
Hmm. I think I'll pick one of his up.

I would suggest a read and swap, but I hold onto my books. If anyone here ever gets rid of a book, let me know. Perhaps we can work out a deal.

Ditto. I rarely re-read any of them, but they're pretty much the only thing I collect. Gets to be a major pain in the ass when moving around frequently.

I intend to build a home one day with a library to showcase all of my books.

Ibanez wrote:

Grizalltheway wrote:Still slogging through McCullough's biography of Truman. Enjoying it thoroughly, though.

How are his other books? I've avoided jumping on his bandwagon.

Starting a HIstory of New York City tonight.

He's really a good read. 1776, John Adams, and even the one he did on pre-presidential Teddy Roosevelt were just great books. But if you just one of his books I'd recommend the Truman one - granted I'm a Truman fan anyway, but the book was just the best he's done.

GannonFan wrote:

Ibanez wrote:
How are his other books? I've avoided jumping on his bandwagon.

Starting a HIstory of New York City tonight.

He's really a good read. 1776, John Adams, and even the one he did on pre-presidential Teddy Roosevelt were just great books. But if you just one of his books I'd recommend the Truman one - granted I'm a Truman fan anyway, but the book was just the best he's done.

Mccullough is a good non-academic historian, better than Stephan Ambrose.

Ivytalk wrote:Finishing up Simon Winchester's Atlantic: a social, political, and natural history of the world's most important ocean.

Reading the chapter on overfishing now.

Does the book discuss hypoxia (ie. lack of oxygen)? Some food for thought, from ScienceDaily Dec 23, 2010:

"The hypoxic zone off West Africa, which covers virtually all the equatorial waters in the Atlantic Ocean, is roughly the size of the continental United States, and it's growing," said Dr. Eric D. Prince, NOAA's Fisheries Service research fishery biologist. "With the current cycle of climate change and accelerated global warming, we expect the size of this zone to increase, further reducing the available habitat for these fish."

Less available habitat can lead to more fish being caught since the fish are concentrated near the surface. Higher catch rates from these areas may give the false appearance of more abundant fish stocks. The shrinking availability of habitat and resulting increases to catch rates are important factors for scientists to consider when doing population assessments.

Researchers forecast that climate change and its associated rise in ocean temperatures will further increase the expansion of hypoxic zones in the world's oceans. As water temperature increases, the amount of oxygen dissolved in water decreases, further squeezing billfish into dwindling available habitat and exposing them to even higher levels of exploitation.

GannonFan wrote:

Ibanez wrote:
How are his other books? I've avoided jumping on his bandwagon.

Starting a HIstory of New York City tonight.

He's really a good read. 1776, John Adams, and even the one he did on pre-presidential Teddy Roosevelt were just great books. But if you just one of his books I'd recommend the Truman one - granted I'm a Truman fan anyway, but the book was just the best he's done.

I'm about half way through 1776. Great read so far.

I got The Post American World by Fareed Zakaria in the queue now on recommendation from someone on here (maybe GATW???)

ASUG8 wrote:I got The Post American World by Fareed Zakaria in the queue now on recommendation from someone on here (maybe GATW???)

It's a pretty good (and quick) read.

Just finished "The Complete History of Guys Full of Shit" by IP Freely. A lot of insight to the psyche of message board posters.

Ibanez wrote:

Grizalltheway wrote:
Ditto. I rarely re-read any of them, but they're pretty much the only thing I collect. Gets to be a major pain in the ass when moving around frequently.

I intend to build a home one day with a library to showcase all of my books.

Does Merlin Olsen visit your house? Will it smell of rich mahogany?

Ibanez wrote:

Grizalltheway wrote:
Ditto. I rarely re-read any of them, but they're pretty much the only thing I collect. Gets to be a major pain in the ass when moving around frequently.

I intend to build a home one day with a library to showcase all of my books.

Both of them?

Ivytalk wrote:

Ibanez wrote:
I intend to build a home one day with a library to showcase all of my books.

Both of them?

In some of them he colored within the lines all by himself.

AZGrizFan wrote:

Ibanez wrote:
I intend to build a home one day with a library to showcase all of my books.

Does Merlin Olsen visit your house? Will it smell of rich mahogany?

I have many leatherbound books.

I have a good library ranging from obscure, rare books, old Sears and Roebuck catalogs( oldest is 1902), books on history, real estate, war, religion, politics, very few fiction, reference, relationships, fitness, etc....Last time I took a count, I was close to 500. That was last year.


And no, none of them are coloring books or pop up books

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Correction: There is the pop up Kama Sutra

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