What are you reading?

[Cbear]

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

Do you realize I can BAN YOU! Mother****er.....

[Cbear]

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

Im familiar with the stories of several of those listed. Im sure they recount Jim Bowies sandbar fight where he won his rep by getting all shot up and still gutting 2 or 3 attackers with his knife. Sgt York and his sniping. Audie Murphey was a total WWII badass who later became the ultimate babyface in Hollywood westerns. Ill definitely get this book.

And here is one of my fav old west badasses who was cool as ice, Elfuego Baca.

Elfego Baca, legendary defender of southwestern Hispanos, manages to hold off a gang of 80 cowboys who are determined to kill him.


The trouble began the previous day, when Baca arrested Charles McCarthy, a cowboy who fired five shots at him in a Frisco (now Reserve), New Mexico, saloon. For months, a vicious band of Texan cowboys had terrorized the Hispanos of Frisco, brutally castrating one young Mexican man and using another for target practice. Outraged by these abuses, Baca gained a commission as deputy sheriff to try to end the terror. His arrest of McCarthy served notice to other Anglo cowboys that further abuses of the Hispanos would not be tolerated.


The Texans, however, were not easily intimidated. The morning after McCarthy's arrest, a group of about 80 cowboys rode into town to free McCarthy and make an example of Baca for all Mexicans. Baca gathered the women and children of the town in a church for their safety and prepared to make a stand. When he saw how outnumbered he was, Baca retreated to an adobe house, where he killed one attacker and wounded several others. The irate cowboys peppered Baca's tiny hideout with bullets, firing about 400 rounds into the flimsy structure. As night fell, they assumed they had killed the defiant deputy sheriff, but the next morning they awoke to the smell of beef stew and tortillas--Baca was fixing his breakfast.


A short while later, two lawmen and several of Baca's friends came to his aid, and the cowboys retreated. Baca turned himself over to the officers, and he was charged with the murder of one of the cowboys. In his trial in Albuquerque, the jury found Baca not guilty because he had acted in self-defense, and he was released to a hero's welcome among the Hispanos of New Mexico. Baca was adored because he had taken a stand against the abusive and racist Anglo newcomers. Hugely popular, Baca later enjoyed a successful career as a lawyer, private detective, and politician in Albuquerque.


Baca officially became the sheriff of Socorro County and secured indictments for the arrest of the area's lawbreakers. Instead of ordering his deputies to pursue the wanted men, he sent each of the accused a letter. It said, "I have a warrant here for your arrest. Please come in by March 15 and give yourself up. If you don’t, I’ll know you intend to resist arrest, and I will feel justified in shooting you on sight when I come after you." Most of the offenders turned themselves in voluntarily.




Metz, his biographer, wrote: “Elfego was, and is, controversial. He drank too much; talked too much ... he had a weakness for wild women. He was often arrogant and, of course, he showed no compunction about killing people.”

[dhk1980]

Do you realize I can BAN YOU! Mother****er.....

if earl swagger was your dad, he would be ashamed of u for being such a racist hillbilly.

[wK78]

Do you realize I can BAN YOU! Mother****er.....

hahahahahaha!!!

[Greezy]

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

Damn i need to check this one out. I read one recently called master's in command with Alexander, Hannibal and ceaser.. same kind of read.

[telerion]

Last week on my audio/reading tour I listened to Faulkner. I began with The Sound and the Fury. That book is impossible to understand. I'd been told that reading it is confusing, but on audiobook there is no chance. The first section is narrated from the view of a thirty-something mentally handicapped guy. You know how annoying it is to hear, "The gate smelled cold . . . I saw Caddie, she smelled like trees . . . I saw it in the mirror and then it was gone and then it was back in the mirror and then it was gone." Excruciating. The next section is from the point of view of a crazy person so that halfway through I still have no ****ing clue what is going on or supposed to happen. The next two sections are much clearer though not exactly light reading.

The hardest thing about the audiobook is all the "stream of consciousness." You have narrators telling you what's happening, what happened, what they think happened, what they imagine happened, what they know didn't happen but fantasize could have, and and they lace it all with random self-reflective interjections like "Oh what have I done!?" and "Father, I have committed incest!" In the book apparently, Faulkner at least used italics to separate stream of consciousness from other narration, but an audio-book has nothing to tell you. Add to this that Faulkner jumps around in time in the story as well, and I swear . . .

During my Spanish major in college, I read some hard books. 100 Years of Solitude has got nothing on The Sound and the Fury.

Next week, Crime and Punishment.

[dhk1980]

just finished reading "Black Light".

[Cbear]

just finished reading "Black Light".

A decent read.

[dhk1980]

A decent read.

i really liked this one and point of impact. now, i'm starting the 3rd book in the series, Time to Hunt. so old cB, was your dad alot like bob lee's dad? did he teach u how to shoot and take good care of guns?

[Cbear]

i really liked this one and point of impact. now, i'm starting the 3rd book in the series, Time to Hunt. so old cB, was your dad alot like bob lee's dad? did he teach u how to shoot and take good care of guns?

Oh yeah. We spent tons of time hunting, fishing, camping.