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[Brewdude]

8)


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[Brewdude]

A new author. Pretty interesting.


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[Brewdude]

8)


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[Brewdude]

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[kxg]

I worked for one of the Post break-up companies, Standard Oil of Indiana, when I got out of college. Rockefeller was an interesting and amazing man; complex yet down to earth.

 

[phinz]

 

[Brewdude]

Great story but the ending kind of sucked.


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[Brewdude]

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[Brewdude]

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[kxg]

I continue to read Titan - the Rockefeller book is proving difficult to finish, the man lived a very long time!

 

[WTHall]

Just finishing Ian Toll's Pacific War Trilogy. Total history of WWII in the Pacific. Terrific read, albiet long.

 

[Aussiemike]

"With The Old Breed" by E.B.Sledge. I have wanted to read it after seeing the "Pacific" series years ago.
"Quartered Safe Out Here" by Fraser George Macdonald. A memoir of his experiences in Burma during World War II

 

[Brewdude]

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[Brewdude]

I had high expectations for this factual account of the Lewis & Clark expedition but sadly it was not to be. While I've read and enjoyed several Stephen Ambrose books this bogged down in too much minute detail and I found it cumbersome reading. Never made it past the first few chapters and those were a chore.


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[Brewdude]

Not his best work but still interesting.


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[Brewdude]

Good stuff. This novel in particular introduces some things that are now more apparent in other later works since I've been reading these out of order.


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[Brewdude]

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[Brewdude]

One of the best in the series and fills in a lot of gaps in the others I've read out of sequence.


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[Brewdude]

Very gripping, and all the more poignant knowing it was based on a true story!


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[smoker13]

Brewdude - Couldn't agree with you more re: the Ambrose book. I bought that about a decade ago and the same thing happened to me.

Oh, to get back to the post; I'm currently reading WESTERING MAN by Bil Gilbert. It's an attempt at a biography of "mountain man" Joseph Walker. It's ok, but you can tell that the author is out of his element as he doesn't have a truly informed feel for the fur trade history.