What are you reading?

[Cbear]

it was the 10 most rare rifles, model 70 .300 H & H Magnum. whatever that means

Well, thats just a cartridge designation. For instance, the .300 H & H magnum cartridge would be in the family of cartrides along with the .300 Winchester Magnum and .300 Weatherby Magnum and when you get into cartridges like that, its often for big game. Now, the model 70 was/is a famous Winchester bolt action rifle design that was the most famous used for accuracy and snipers especially in the 60's. Today we have super accurate rifles of all makes and models but back in the day if you wanted a nail driver, that was the choice. So, what I believe the book may be alluding to is that a Winchester model 70 bolt action rifle chambered in the .300 H & H Magnum cartridge is extremely rare.

[Cbear]

Just finished China Road. If you're going to read one book about China, make it this one. It's highly informative AND very entertaining at the same time. An easy read. It's a road trip by an English author on a highway from Shanghai to the western mountains.

Does it mention that they are a very loud people?

[Cbear]

My Wicked, Wicked Ways by Errol Flynn - Errol Flynn's notorious autobiography. It's been good so far. You really get a sense of what a self-aware womanising scoundrel Errol was. I'm only a hundred or so pages in but so far he has been expelled from every school he has been to for fighting ( or having affairs with laundry women), gone to New Guinea where had an affair with the British consulates wife, been party of a posse hunting down murderers in the jungle, gone on slave trading journeys, mined for gold, run a coconut farm, run a tabacco plantation, slept with a borderline under age girl, killed a cannibal, been on trial for murder, got malaria, got the clap before finally returning to to Australia.

I never thought of Errol as a tough man but dudes back in the day really packed a lot living into theirs lives back in the day.

Oh yeah, he was something else. Interesting wartime work too. There is a fiction comedy movie loosely based on Flynns later life as a wild, womanizing, swashbuckling character starring Peter O'Toole, called "My Favorite Year." Fun little movie. Errol was the quintessential Robin Hood.

[don king]

yup. .

[dhk1980]

Does it mention that they are a very loud people?

u don't need to read to a book to know that if u live here in nyc. chinos are mad loud

[Cbear]

Picked up two new books today.

Odd Interlude by Dean Koontz. Its a paperback that was originally an ebook or web download or some such stuff. I like Odd Thomas so it was an easy buy.

The Third Bullet by Stephen Hunter. Bob (the Nailer) Lee Swagger, Hunters sniper protagonist, investigates the Kennedy assassination from his unique perspective as a sniper. A novelist is murdered by a Russian hitman made to look like an accident. His wife tracks down Swagger to look at some very thin evidence of an additional sniper in the Kennedy assassination that her husband may have been looking in to.

[wK78]

Picked up two new books today.

Odd Interlude by Dean Koontz. Its a paperback that was originally an ebook or web download or some such stuff. I like Odd Thomas so it was an easy buy.

The Third Bullet by Stephen Hunter. Bob (the Nailer) Lee Swagger, Hunters sniper protagonist, investigates the Kennedy assassination from his unique perspective as a sniper. A novelist is murdered by a Russian hitman made to look like an accident. His wife tracks down Swagger to look at some very thin evidence of an additional sniper in the Kennedy assassination that her husband may have been looking in to.

You know who would make a great Lee Swagger?? Tom Cruise!!

[dhk1980]

You know who would make a great Lee Swagger?? Tom Cruise!!

that would just about finish old CB and send him on his way to the land of his hillbilly forefathers.

[Oeshon]

started the first chapter of storm of swords in A song of ice and fire.

I have had the book for a few months and have been trying not to read it as i wanted to ideally wait for the tv show to air first. The temptation to read is juts getting too intense. I ****ing love this book/show.

[WEREWOLF]

Hey Cbear, I think you would dig this one;



It's kind of like Badass without the lame analogies.

Here's a list of the subjects:

Alexander the Great
Tom Allen
James Bowie
Gregory "Pappy" Boyington
Delf A. "Jelly" Bryce
Lloyd L. Burke
Ned Christie
Winston S. Churchill
Ty Cobb
Hannah Duston
Egil (Skallagrimsson)
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Peter Francisco
Geronimo
Gurkhas: Jitbahadur Rai, Dwansing Basnet, Lachhiman
Gurung
Frank Hamer
Nancy Hart
Erich Hartmann & Hans-Joachim Marseille
Wild Bill Hickok
Andrew Jackson
Jean-Louis
"Turkey Creek" Jack Johnson
Charles E. "Commando" Kelly
José "Pepe" Llulla
Frank Luke
Donald McBane
Bat Masterson & Luke Short
La Maupin
Mgobozi
Audie Murphy
Miyamoto Musashi
Charles Nungesser
Francisco Pizarro
Robert the Bruce & the Black Douglas
Ronald Rosser
Hans Ulrich Rudel
Shaka (Zulu)
Sokaku Takeda
Lance Thomas
Usamah ibn-Munqidh
Nancy Wake
Lewis Wetzel
Sam Whittemore
Alvin C. York