Good Books.... Well, there are a few.

[om21braz]

I live just west of Fort Bragg, soon to be renamed? We hear stuff constantly, the other nite i went outside to see what side of my roof he was gonna land on. They also fly blackhawks.

Years ago there was a c130 group here and you would see them fly in 3 groups of 3 planes each. My air force buddy called it a ballgame because of 9 innings.

And the when they start bombing, that's something.

I have always enjoyed seeing some of their air shows from the skeet range in Spring Lake - other than you call for a target and here comes a F18 zooming across!

 

[dmccarty]

I was still looking forward to the I Robot movie when it came out even after I saw who was in it but it was just about the most disappointing movie I致e ever seen. About the only thing it has in common with the book is the character names.

... Most really are terrible though.

Starship Troopers was another book destroyed by a movie. Thankfully, I read the reviews, did not pay to see the movie nor would I watch it for free. They just took the action part of the book and left out the more important, but I would suppose, not PC stuff.

Decades ago I mentioned how good Starship Troopers is to a coworker and he stated that the book was about supporting fascism. :thumbdown::shocked: Kinda like saying Huck Finn is a book that supports racism because of the use of a politically incorrect word.

Later,
Dan

 

[dmccarty]

Were you in a known "Robin Sage" area?

I don't think so since I did not think Robin Sage was done that far east. But it could have been. Since it was a Cobra it was more likely the Marines were out and about. I think the army had gotten rid of their Cobras by then and moved to Apaches.

Robin Sage is in the area we live. Pretty sure we have seen aircraft that had to be in a exercise and likely Robin Sage. One night I heard some aircraft coming in fast, low and loud. Got outside just in time to see two or three aircraft flying tree top height and hauling a...s. They were flying in train, and while I could not really see details, based on the size, what I could see, and engine sound, I think they were Osprey's.

For those that do not know, Robin Sage is a capstone exercise for soldiers training to be in the Army Special Forces, aka, Green Berets. The exercise takes place over quite a few counties around Fort Bragg. There have been at least two this year including one that is going right now.

I have recent heard/seen some copters flying a route that is unusual so maybe they are in Robin Sage. I heard some more copters in the wee hours of the morning but I was not getting out of bed to check on them.

The army announces the exercise so people, and especially law enforcement, know what is going on. Years back a deputy rolled up on a pick up truck with Robin Sage participants, who were armed. The participants thought the deputy was part of the exercise and two soldiers ended up getting shot by the deputy. One died.

Later,
Dan

 

[dmccarty]

Asimov was in the science business? Was he a physics prof for something? I read that many of his contemporaries came to him to ask if their newest scifi idea was technically feasible?

He wrote a 3 volume series, introduction to physics. Best text book i've ever seen. Very readable and it was obvious, he was not trying to impress you with how smart he was. He could explain things in a manner that was just different than most. I read those books to this day. Outdated but basically, better than most!

Yep, I have the Understanding Physics, three volumes in one, that Asimov wrote in 1966. I had to go find the book and take a look at it. :laughing:

Later,
Dan

 

[sandman2234]

They sell a lot of new and used books on Amazon. I was thinking I heard that is how Amazon got its start. My wife has gotten books that were not as advertised. Like it came as a paperback instead of a hardback. She got her money back and they always said keep the book. I never could get into the E books.

Dodge Man, I do quite a bit of ebooks, simply because I am an OTR truck driver and when I get tired or bored I need something to keep my brain going. The Forty Autumns is one book I can't imagine reading, but it was a good listen. It was about 40 years behind the Iron Curtain with a lot of strange names and words, that trying to read would just get me disillusioned to a point of not enjoying the story.
David from jax

 

[Frankenkubota]

Based on comments made by a member, i bought Brave New World. Someone said the movie Solent Green was based on that Book?

I'm 1/2 way thru but........

It's old news really. We already have alphas and epsilon's.

 

[dodge man]

I started on on the Jack Reacher books. I’ve made it through the first one, pretty decent reading. I guess they are making a series on Netflix. They found an actor taller than 5’7” for it.

 

[Oaktree]

I started on on the Jack Reacher books. I致e made it through the first one, pretty decent reading. I guess they are making a series on Netflix. They found an actor taller than 5? for it.

My wife gave me several of the earlier ones in the series for Christmas, I'd only previously read some of the later ones and it's interesting how the character and plots have evolved as time went on.

I'm sure this book is long OOP, but one I found very interesting is "Nine Nations Of North America" by Joel Garreau. Some of it is a bit dated today, but the basic premise is that the political boundaries in North America are mostly BS, and his theory is that culturally there are 9 separate "nations" and goes into the why of it. The only boundaries he left more or less intact are Quebec and New England (though he includes Canada's maritime provinces and excludes SW Conn which has more in common with NYC).
As someone who traveled quite a bit for business in the 70s & 80s, a lot of what he wrote rang true...I guess I'd noticed it before but it didn't register 'til I read the book.

 

[/pine]

A couple of new books in a couple of series I read showed up on the best seller's list this week...
One is 'THE SCORPION'S TAIL' by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child...( some may have seen the movie 'Relic' that was taken from one of their earlier novels)...The Official Website of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child - Books

The other is 'SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME' which is a "Spenser for Hire" tale...although Robert B. Parker is no longer with us RIP...however Ace Atkins has done a great job continuing the series including the typical very witty dialog and fast paced yarns...

Ace Atkins - Wikipedia

 

[Jstpssng]

The other is 'SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME' which is a "Spenser for Hire" tale...although Robert B. Parker is no longer with us RIP

That's good to know, I haven't read any "Spenser" novels in quite some time, and may have to catch up a bit.