Winter reading???

[piemma]

Reading the Water by Bob Post. I've read every striper book there is and this is the best. IMO

[spence]

Two great books I just finished...neither is about fishing.

"The New American Militarisim : How Americans Are Seduced by War" - Andrew Bacevich

A West Point grad, BU historian and Vietnam Vet studies how the US perception of war has dramatically changed (often for the worse) since the Vietnam War. Extremely well documented and brutally honest, this book places the Bush doctrine and current events into naked context. Not a partisan book, everyone should read this.

"One Bullet Away : The Making of a Marine Officer" - Nathaniel Fick

Amazing first person account of what it takes to become a Recon Marine and what combat in Afghanistan and Iraq was really like. To be honest, every Marine I've ever known was a bit wacky and now I understand why Next time I'm freezing my ass off on a rock, I'll just think of how easy life really is.

I'm going to make my stepson read this for sure.

-spence

[striperman36]

Ten Hours Till Dawn. Excellent local writing regarding a true life hero during the 78 storm.
Truely incredible that a 95' cutter would get WASHED OVER the Glouscter Breakwall!!!

The Founding Fish


Salt

[piemma]

Blizzard of 78. Greatest storm I ever went through. Northern RI had 54" of snow with 14 foot drifts. The wind blew for 6 or 7 hours straight at 70+ MPH. Truly an awe inspiring storm.

[BrianS]

Aside from a few tech books (SQL/Apple/Unix)

Im currently reading Memoirs of a Geisha... its not that bad.

I will probably also end up reading the entire LOTR trilogy for the umpteenth time

That is, untill Striper Wars comes in the mail...

[Stewie]

I just finished "The Terrible Hours" by Peter Maas. It is about the recovery of a sunken sub just before WW2. More importantly it is about a man named Swede Monson. He devised just about all of the underwater recovery systems and was the guy who made the formulas for breathing at great depths and avoiding the bends. A little textbooky, But, you won't be able to put it down during the first half.,

[Raven]

available at Amazon.com

but only on audio cassette

nobody can read clammer code.

[Bass Babe]

Originally Posted by bjs

I will probably also end up reading the entire LOTR trilogy for the umpteenth time

Word, bjs.

For the most part, I'll be reading alot of books, articles, reports, etc. on gillnetting, trawling, scallop fishing, and fish, marine mammal, seabird, and turtle ID...for my new job! Yay!

As for suggestions, if you want to give yourself a striper break, I'd go with The Hungry Ocean by Linda Greenlaw. Not to say I perfectly agree with her viewpoints, but it is a great story about longlining for swordfish.

I'm in the middle of "Why do men have nipples?" -- my sister got it for me for Christmas. It's pretty cool -- it answers all sorts of unanswerables -- why do we yawn when others yawn? are farts really flammable? Funny stuff.

[RIROCKHOUND]

Longshot; thats a good read.
Currently reading: The Bounty (the 2003 book). Very good read on the in depth workings of the crew pre and post mutiny

Besides my usual reading load of a weekly geophyisics journal, and a few articles each month from various other journals, plus reading that focuses on my research, I dont do a ton of 'fun reading'. I read fairly fast though so I try to do 1 book a month. Not sure what next months will be.

As far as Greenlaw's book, I wouldnt buy anything other than Hungry Ocena, the rest were crap IMHO. She should have quit while she was ahead.

[Nebe]

Originally Posted by piemma

Reading the Water by Bob Post. I've read every striper book there is and this is the best. IMO

i agree

[Uncle Matt]

Santa gave me Chapmans safe boating guide book I'm reading now. After that, "On the Run" by Dibenidetto.

[Backbeach Jake]

Originally Posted by piemma

Reading the Water by Bob Post. I've read every striper book there is and this is the best. IMO

That book wouldn't be any better if it played music when you opened it...