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Truck Shop

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Good for you glad to hear someone cracks a book. A great book to read is {A Nation In Torment by Edward Robb Ellis} it's a in depth chronicle of the Great Depression.
 

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"One of our truck drivers. Every time he was parked, I thought he was sleeping. Head down. One day I delivered a load of sand with his truck. Milk crate full of books, guess he was always reading. Was reading a lot of Pippy Long Stocking, and Judy Blume books...."

You know how your mind kinda jumps ahead when you're reading something?

My mind jumped ahead to thinking the truck driver was a Pippy Long Stocking and Judy Blume fan... :)
 

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More than likely not. Right now is a good time for people to improve their reading skills and collect some knowledge by reading a book, Oh damn I forgot no one buy's books anymore
or cares about history and the like. I guess that was just a silly idea.
We are very poor in this country to take heed of the lessons that history has to teach us. Interestingly, it is the polar opposite of that in the U.K. where history is celebrated, remembered and taught either formally or in passing conversations.
 

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The last series I read was bill o'Reilly's killing series pretty good stuff if your looking into history I mostly read history or current industry information and process
I can't tolerate Bill O'Reily, however you are the second person in my circle that I have heard speak highly of his work. I will have to check it out.
 

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Speaking of reading books, anybody know authors that have yellow iron as a theme ? My normal diet of SCIFI/steam punk/diesel punk books is exhausted and the modern authors are a bit too politically correct for my taste.
 

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I can't tolerate Bill O'Reily, however you are the second person in my circle that I have heard speak highly of his work. I will have to check it out.
Personally I liked it cause it's very detailed and it's not really political or didn't seem to be to me killing Patton's was probably my favorite so far

It will be interesting how 50 years from now there will be books written about right now without all the political emotion and with the benefit of facts and hindsight makes you wonder what we think of ourselves versus how history will judge right now
 

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My bible-American Truck Spotters Guide 1920 to 1970 by Tad Burness, Mine is in tatters, hard to find book around here but it has damn near everything from A to Z.
 

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My bible-American Truck Spotters Guide 1920 to 1970 by Tad Burness, Mine is in tatters, hard to find book around here but it has damn near everything from A to Z.

A quick check showed ABEBooks has several used copies under $10. I use ABEBooks for many old, out of print, or expensive books. I haven't bought one yet with the words read off the pages.
 

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A quick check showed ABEBooks has several used copies under $10. I use ABEBooks for many old, out of print, or expensive books. I haven't bought one yet with the words read off the pages.
Thanks, but I mostly Ebooks read on a Kindle, the fonts in real books are becoming a problem. And shipping to South Africa is going to be more expensive than the books.
 

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Speaking of reading books, anybody know authors that have yellow iron as a theme ? My normal diet of SCIFI/steam punk/diesel punk books is exhausted and the modern authors are a bit too politically correct for my taste.

The ACMOC on line store has a number of "yellow and associated" books listed. At our board meeting Tuesday we discounted the prices to help folks whom are cooped up. Check it out. A cheap and fun read is 'Beer and Diesel Fuel'. It is a well written, humorus life story about a Cat Corporate engineer who was assigned to Central America and traveled all over diagnosing difficult issues with machines. Lots of adventures in crazy places.

EDIT: Just goggle ACMOC and click on the store on the heading at the top.
 

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Personally I liked it cause it's very detailed and it's not really political or didn't seem to be to me killing Patton's was probably my favorite so far

It will be interesting how 50 years from now there will be books written about right now without all the political emotion and with the benefit of facts and hindsight makes you wonder what we think of ourselves versus how history will judge right now
I have some colorful opinions of how things are presently, however Digger would have me shipped to a small deserted island south of Tahiti somewhere if I were to start down that road. I agree with you history is a clear eyed judge without emotion and will pass judgement in 50 years or so... I'll be crowding 120 or so... hopefully I can hang on to read the book! LOL!
 

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If you want to laugh till you hurt, most anything by Patrick McManus is a good choice. He was a humor columnist for Outdoor Life and Field and Stream but also wrote several books.
I met Pat McManus about 1982. Start with a "Fine and Pleasant Misery and other stories" He was the Benchly of the outdoors. Just hysterical!
 

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More than likely not. Right now is a good time for people to improve their reading skills and collect some knowledge by reading a book, Oh damn I forgot no one buy's books anymore
or cares about history and the like. I guess that was just a silly idea.
I guess I'm a bit against the grain then, I'm probably one of the younger in this group (32) but I'm an avid reader.
One of my favourite fiction books at the moment is actually one given to me by an American who came here to work on construction of a new dome, it's called I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes. It's quite a thick novel, but well worth the read, and in these times makes you think a little bit about how vulnerable to infection we really are (the book is about an Islamic terrorist synthesising weaponised smallpox, but the parallels are uncanny)
At the moment I'm reading Dean Koontz.
 
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