Book Recommendations

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Yep, you are officially a badass when you get shot but still go on to give a speech for 50 minutes.

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[Abby Normal]

In keeping with my love of true outdoor adventure books I just ordered The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey, the story of his exploration of the Amazon River. Teddy was a hard ass no question about it.

https://www.amazon.com/River-Doubt-Theodore-Roosevelts-Darkest/dp/0767913736/ref=sr_1_1?crid=19C1JNTXSNOTX&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.if-uZR8CsGlLazSdQblTC0w-twB_ypQ_898EhVKM7ND5ONlV6f8iEn8O4by1YEJSWuQ-Eh7cT-_CwJMZOer4pBObck6JMJbw3JnBcpPnZAtDGH8ua5Q9EzlNAjrp HVOJoMbAZu5O03nbgwrADWpDmeWOnaRl8k6mBgvBB-6L4pmrn3CmAT8jX3FgN5FKPaKpSK4wDPT_ngtzlT5OC6qA0jAZ oQGWlHqRwjHdxY-kxZA.z9oIptglcfv7DatSPAZDw5atjcV9SyVIV3wjM8vl9xs&d ib_tag=se&keywords=roosevelt+amazon&qid=1744161623 &sprefix=roosevelt+amazon%2Caps%2C203&sr=8-1

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I recently saw a documentary on Teddy and The river of Doubt. amazing!

true american BADASS and one of my heroes. fascinating individual and highly literate and great writer. Ive got a couple of his hunting adventure books and his book on tje spanish american war... his charge up san juan hill.
what a crazy bastard lol.

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I stumbled upon this one but after seeing what it is about and the reviews I knew I had to read it. I mean losing a drunken bet and having to hitchhike around Ireland with a refrigerator sounds like it should be required reading. Ordered it from Amazon. Will let you know how I like it.

Round Ireland with a Fridge

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0312274920...ound%20Ireland

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In keeping with my love of true outdoor adventure books I just ordered The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey, the story of his exploration of the Amazon River. Teddy was a hard ass no question about it.

https://www.amazon.com/River-Doubt-Theodore-Roosevelts-Darkest/dp/0767913736/ref=sr_1_1?crid=19C1JNTXSNOTX&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.if-uZR8CsGlLazSdQblTC0w-twB_ypQ_898EhVKM7ND5ONlV6f8iEn8O4by1YEJSWuQ-Eh7cT-_CwJMZOer4pBObck6JMJbw3JnBcpPnZAtDGH8ua5Q9EzlNAjrp HVOJoMbAZu5O03nbgwrADWpDmeWOnaRl8k6mBgvBB-6L4pmrn3CmAT8jX3FgN5FKPaKpSK4wDPT_ngtzlT5OC6qA0jAZ oQGWlHqRwjHdxY-kxZA.z9oIptglcfv7DatSPAZDw5atjcV9SyVIV3wjM8vl9xs&d ib_tag=se&keywords=roosevelt+amazon&qid=1744161623 &sprefix=roosevelt+amazon%2Caps%2C203&sr=8-1

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Glad to see the responses. It looks like print is not dead but maybe just in need of a priest at this point.

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[Herlock Sholmes]

Yes, it’s definitely gone quiet c.d.

I’m currently reading The Club by Leo Damrosch. It’s about the 18th century London Club that met every Friday evening at the Turk’s Head Tavern in London. I have a photograph somewhere of me standing outside the actual building (which is now a Chinese restaurant) The members were many..Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, Joshua Reynolds. It’s really good so far. I’m becoming more interested in the 18th century of late and Johnson has always held a fascination for me (although I’ve never been in his Gough Square house yet - something that I’ll be remedying in early June) The book really captures the time and the place with all of those fascinating characters.

Damrosch’s biography of Jonathan Swift is also highly recommended. He’s also wrote a book on Blake which I’m still undecided on whether to get or not. I have to admit that my impression of Blake was that he was barking mad but that’s hardly a learned opinion. It’s putting me off though. Maybe if I can get a copy cheap I might go for it but I always struggle to jump in if the subject matter doesn’t ‘grab’ me.

It’s an unimportant point but the former Turk’s Head Tavern isn’t a Chinese restaurant it’s a Chinese supermarket.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Am I the only one who reads books anymore? What happened to this thread?

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Yes, it’s definitely gone quiet c.d.

I’m currently reading The Club by Leo Damrosch. It’s about the 18th century London Club that met every Friday evening at the Turk’s Head Tavern in London. I have a photograph somewhere of me standing outside the actual building (which is now a Chinese restaurant) The members were many..Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, Joshua Reynolds. It’s really good so far. I’m becoming more interested in the 18th century of late and Johnson has always held a fascination for me (although I’ve never been in his Gough Square house yet - something that I’ll be remedying in early June) The book really captures the time and the place with all of those fascinating characters.

Damrosch’s biography of Jonathan Swift is also highly recommended. He’s also wrote a book on Blake which I’m still undecided on whether to get or not. I have to admit that my impression of Blake was that he was barking mad but that’s hardly a learned opinion. It’s putting me off though. Maybe if I can get a copy cheap I might go for it but I always struggle to jump in if the subject matter doesn’t ‘grab’ me.

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Am I the only one who reads books anymore? What happened to this thread?

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lol. hi cd
i am constantly reading. usually two to three books at a time and have a pretty big library. Im now reading, The Elephant in the Universe, about dark matter, Western Wind, a poetry book, Honey From Stone by Chet Raymo and since its the Easter season, im rereading the New Testament.

I highly recommend all of them! : )

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Am I the only one who reads books anymore? What happened to this thread?

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Just finished The Rose Code by Kate Quinn. It's fiction. It tells the story of three young women recruited to work at Bletchley Park to crack the Enigma Code. Great insight into what took place at Bletchley Park. Remarkable characters and story. I read a lot and I have to say that this was extremely good. Highly recommend. Over 56,000 reviews on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/The-Rose-Code...s%2C136&sr=8-1

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[Duran duren]

I just finished reading Carroty Nell by John E. Keefe (revised second edition) (Kindle) I don’t know why I didn’t get this book when it first came out but I saw it by chance recently on Amazon and bought it (on a Christmas Amazon voucher) for £7.63. I wasn’t sure when I first saw it but I was encouraged by positive comments from Paul Begg and good Amazon reviews from How Brown and Tom Wescott. It’s well worth getting. A general re-telling of the other murders followed by a detailed, well-researched view of the Coles murder and the investigation into Thomas Sadler. This is followed by a look at a few of the suspects with no conclusion offered but the author feels that both Mackenzie and Coles were ripper victims though.

Recommended.

I have the book as well, it's just on the waiting list.

[Herlock Sholmes]

I just finished reading Carroty Nell by John E. Keefe (revised second edition) (Kindle) I don’t know why I didn’t get this book when it first came out but I saw it by chance recently on Amazon and bought it (on a Christmas Amazon voucher) for £7.63. I wasn’t sure when I first saw it but I was encouraged by positive comments from Paul Begg and good Amazon reviews from How Brown and Tom Wescott. It’s well worth getting. A general re-telling of the other murders followed by a detailed, well-researched view of the Coles murder and the investigation into Thomas Sadler. This is followed by a look at a few of the suspects with no conclusion offered but the author feels that both Mackenzie and Coles were ripper victims though.

Recommended.

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Just finished Rise to Rebellion by Jeff Shaara (Book 1 of 2). An historical novel about events leading to the Declaration of Independence and the ensuing Revolutionary war against England. Covers all the major characters involved like John Adams, Sam Adams, Franklin, Washington, British General Gage and others. Being a novel you get a sense of their thoughts, feelings, strengths and weaknesses so that they come across not just as historical figures but real flesh and blood people. A really good unfolding of how this all came about.

Shaara is best known for his Civil War Series which is excellent but this was really good as well. Recommend.

https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Rebellio...s%2C139&sr=8-1

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[Lewis C]

I think that it maybe time to stop buying ripper-related books. I saw a book advertised over on JtRForums called Jack the Ripper: Dissecting the Truth by Roger Barber. I recognised his name because many years ago I bought a book called Who Was Jack The Ripper: A Collection of Present Day Theories and Observations from Camille Woolf’s Grey House Books. For those who haven’t seen the book, it was a collection of theories where each writer/researcher had a few pages to propose their theories (with a photo). Lots of well known names, Begg, Fido etc. The first 100 were signed and cost more I believe. I paid for a non-signed one but got sent a signed one by mistake which ended up worth well over £100. Sadly, a few years ago I was really short of cash so I sold three ripper books for around £250-300 (I think) and this one was one of them (the others were a Leonard Matters and a copy of The Killer Who Never Was by Peter Turnbull [worth £150 now]). If only… there’s a signed one on sale at Loretta Lay Books for £425!

Anyway, one of the theories was by a guy called Roger Barber. He’d had his theory in Criminologist (which I don’t have) and it was that the ripper was a marine stores man who committed suicide by almost cutting his own head off called Edward Buchan. Roger Barber, now retired has written a book, and I bought it. Let me say straight of…I’m by no means saying that this is a terrible or badly written book because it isn’t. (The forward is by Stewart Evans btw - who I believe was one of the writers in Who Was JtR) The problem comes because I did what I often find myself doing with ripper books these days. I skim through the first part of the book because, like everyone on here, I don’t need to be told about how terrible London was, or how the murders occurred. I’m not blaming the author by any means because it’s a necessary part of a book but, after paying £12.99, I’ve just found myself skimming past 152 of 173 pages. This means that I’ve only read £1.57 out of a £12.99 book.

And Buchan? My thoughts are the same now as they were then. There’s absolutely nothing to connect him to the murders.

Barber appeared in a recent Youtube video on Richard Jones channel. As I remember it, Barber took an approach he call psychological profiling. The Ripper attacked the wombs of women, the place where birth takes place, and Barber killed himself on his birthday, the anniversary of the day that he emerged from a womb. It was also the day of Mary Kelly's funeral, and the outpouring of grief supposedly might have affected him. The timing of his death fits well with the end of the murders, if Kelly was indeed the last. Also, Lawende thought the man he saw looked like a sailor, and his job or his father's would have given him easy access to sailor's clothing. And Barber believed JtR couldn't have sex and therefore wouldn't have had children, and Buchan didn't.

I don't see any reason to believe that he couldn't have been the Ripper, just not much reason to think that he was.

[Herlock Sholmes]

If she did, please let me know what she thought of it. Thanks.

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Will do.