TheBlackFox Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 I've just started "Pirates on the Chesapeake" by Don Shomette. The 1600s material is fascinating Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackjohn Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 Very good book, I'll agree. The mid-1700s and beyond stuff is even interesting. What am I reading right now... dunno... I think the last book I read someting from was The Magus of Java. My Home on the Web The Pirate Brethren Gallery Dreams are the glue that holds reality together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainSatan Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 El Club Dumas, one of my favourite books. -CS As we say in Ireland let's drink until the alcohol in our system destroys our liver and kills us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Cat Jenny Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 Trying to finish "Under The Black Flag" have a stack of others to pick through and waiting anxiously for "The Scents of Eden" to arrive. Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help.... Her reputation was her livelihood. I'm a pirate, love. By nature and by choice! My inner voice sometimes has an accent! My wont? A delicious rip in time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacky Tar Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 Trying to finish "Under The Black Flag" have a stack of others to pick through and waiting anxiously for "The Scents of Eden" to arrive. Funny, I have, "Under the Black Flag", sittin' on me nightstand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Cat Jenny Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 Aye 'tis a goode read to be sure..now give it back so I can finish it lol... Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help.... Her reputation was her livelihood. I'm a pirate, love. By nature and by choice! My inner voice sometimes has an accent! My wont? A delicious rip in time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capnwilliam Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Harry Morgan's Way - Dudley PopePort Royal Jamaica, Michael Pawson Port Royal - The Sunken City, Robert F. Marx There's a theme there, I know. But I'm finishing my presentation of PyrateCon. -- Hurricane See you there, Hurricane! I just read some stuff for my talk there, "Cannon crews and their history." Am now reading Frank Sherry's REBELS AND RAIDERS (piratical), and THE BEST OF H.P. LOVECRAFT (non-piratical). Capt. William "The fight's not over while there's a shot in the locker!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capnwilliam Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Just finished Chaffin's Sea of Gray, about the CSS Shenandoah.Have Jim Nelson's Glory in the Name, historical fiction about CSS Navy, on the bed stand. I liked SEA OF GRAY, although his point of view conflicted with my pro-Confederate tendencies. Capt. William "The fight's not over while there's a shot in the locker!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyCholeBlack Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 * "If part of the goods be plundered by a pirate the proprietor or shipmaster is not entitled to any contribution." An introduction to merchandize, Robert Hamilton, 1777Slightly Obsessed, an 18th Century reenacting blog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Richards from Kent Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 "The Secret" Touch somebody you don't know today with a smile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caraccioli Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Finished both Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists and The Thin Man this weekend. I started Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter. This is a huge freaking book, so I think that'll be all until I get bored with it and have to start a 3rd book again. "You're supposed to be dead!" "Am I not?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Kestrel Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 I started Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter. This is a huge freaking book... I tried to read that, a number of years ago, but it defeated me. Maybe one of these days I'll make it all the way to the end. In the meantime, I've just started Jack Absolute, which is the rollicking tale of an American spy, rogue and lover in the late 18th century. I'm only a chapter in, though, so the rollicking hasn't begun yet. Mad Kestrel Privateer #9, IFoRP Captain of the Thanos (Fairhaven, CRF) But why is the rum gone? - Capt Jack Sparrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Hand Posted February 27, 2007 Author Share Posted February 27, 2007 I finished reading Through the Breach by David Drake last night..... I liked Hammer's Slammers much better, but it did have some interesting ideas to steal for a role-playing game... I haven't decided if I'm going to read The Dosadi Experiment by Frank Herbert or Reach by Edward Gibson next.... Maybe I'll just randomly pick one up when I start to read tonight..... I don't think going through the rules for Traveller, Twilight 2000 and Aftermath count as "what I'm reading right now"........ But they are cutting into my reading time......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caraccioli Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 I started Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter. This is a huge freaking book... I tried to read that, a number of years ago, but it defeated me. Maybe one of these days I'll make it all the way to the end. When I first started reading the Preface to the 20th Edition, my eyes started rolling into the back of my head. I remember thinking, "Oh, no. I hope this whole book isn't full of text in the same style as this pretentious eyewash." But then he changed tone in the middle of his preface and adopted a decent story style. He does go on and on (and on and on and on) about his misery of having used the male pronoun in generic sentences, though. Hey, mister...It's your book, if you really feel that badly about it, change it for the 20th edition! Don't try to allay your perceived guilt by diffusing it among new readers and then explain how it shouldn't be changed! Just do it and be satisfied or don't and keep mum. Fortunately, once the book started proper I found I quite liked it. The points are so well ensconced in the text that I keep missing their importance, however. (I always take notes on factually-oriented books. I have scads of notebooks full of notes.) The text just flows along and I float with it, forgetting to look for important points. I think I am now slightly more aware of the reason I like certain kinds of complex instrumental music. (I never really knew what a canon was before I started reading this.) Any book that can help me explain myself to myself is of interest (to me. ) "You're supposed to be dead!" "Am I not?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caraccioli Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 I don't think going through the rules for Traveller, Twilight 2000... Wow! Are they still around? I can remember playing them back in the late 70s or early 80s. AD&D was always my favored game. (Say, where did that RPG thread go? I wonder if it's still around?) "You're supposed to be dead!" "Am I not?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyCholeBlack Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 "If part of the goods be plundered by a pirate the proprietor or shipmaster is not entitled to any contribution." An introduction to merchandize, Robert Hamilton, 1777Slightly Obsessed, an 18th Century reenacting blog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Cat Jenny Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 A year in Provence..loved the series. The book is like a mini vacation.. Starting on O'Brien.. Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help.... Her reputation was her livelihood. I'm a pirate, love. By nature and by choice! My inner voice sometimes has an accent! My wont? A delicious rip in time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salty Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 the coffee house: a cultural history by markman ellis Mud Slinging Pyromanic , Errrrrr Ship's Potter at ye service Vagabond's Rogue Potter Wench First Mate of the Fairge Iolaire Me weapons o choice be lots o mud, sharp pointy sticks, an string Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caraccioli Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 I started Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter. This is a huge freaking book, so I think that'll be all until I get bored with it and have to start a 3rd book again. Well, it happened. Too much factual reading stunts my brain. I started re-reading one of my favorite books, Jurassic Park by Crichton for the umpteenth time. (You would think that would also stunt my brain. Yet I enjoy it every time.) "You're supposed to be dead!" "Am I not?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Kestrel Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 Well, it happened. Too much factual reading stunts my brain. I started re-reading one of my favorite books, Jurassic Park by Crichton for the umpteenth time. (You would think that would also stunt my brain. Yet I enjoy it every time.) I loved that book! It was the first Crichton I ever read, and I fell for him hard. I finished Jack Absolute (it was merely okay) and started a young-adult fantasy, Magic Lessons. I'm not a young adult anymore, just reading like one. Mad Kestrel Privateer #9, IFoRP Captain of the Thanos (Fairhaven, CRF) But why is the rum gone? - Capt Jack Sparrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caraccioli Posted March 26, 2007 Share Posted March 26, 2007 Still muddling through Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. I am in Chapter V [Recursive Structures and Processes] where I came across one of the best descriptions of renormalization of particle physics I've ever seen. I might even be able to understand muons if they were completely explained in this manner! Oh, I finished JP awhile ago. Started Dave Barry's Tricky Business, from which I expect little. (But I love Dave Barry's writing style and I saw it for cheap.) "You're supposed to be dead!" "Am I not?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ransom Posted March 26, 2007 Share Posted March 26, 2007 Just finished an excellent book entitled The Island of Lost Maps - A True Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles Harvey. In an attempt to understand why a man named Gilbert Bland would, under a fake name and credentials, go into famouse libraries across the country, take a razor blade and cut valuable maps from books, Miles Harvey follows in the man's footsteps, talking to the librarians from whom the maps were stolen, to map dealers, map collectors. Interspersed with this biography, he give a history of cartography, famouse cartographers, and how they stole from each other. He also shows how cartography influenced politics, not just exploration. A very good read, indeed. ...schooners, islands, and maroons and buccaneers and buried gold... You can do everything right, strictly according to procedure, on the ocean, and it'll still kill you. But if you're a good navigator, a least you'll know where you were when you died.......From The Ship Killer by Justin Scott. "Well, that's just maddeningly unhelpful."....Captain Jack Sparrow Found in the Ruins — Unique Jewelry Found in the Ruins — Personal Blog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Posted March 26, 2007 Share Posted March 26, 2007 Thats something I need to do when I have time. Pick up a good book, tis good for the mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salty Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Just finished an excellent book entitled The Island of Lost Maps - A True Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles Harvey.In an attempt to understand why a man named Gilbert Bland would, under a fake name and credentials, go into famouse libraries across the country, take a razor blade and cut valuable maps from books, Miles Harvey follows in the man's footsteps, talking to the librarians from whom the maps were stolen, to map dealers, map collectors. Interspersed with this biography, he give a history of cartography, famouse cartographers, and how they stole from each other. He also shows how cartography influenced politics, not just exploration. A very good read, indeed. tis a most excellent book.. fer meself right now between sexpots eroticism in ceramics and the beat book....oh wait few others wading through be scottish love poems, the coffee house, and the last two books of noviks neapolonic (sp) wars with dragons added in fer good measure novels. any other reading suggestions for a bit afore i go back to life and school????? Mud Slinging Pyromanic , Errrrrr Ship's Potter at ye service Vagabond's Rogue Potter Wench First Mate of the Fairge Iolaire Me weapons o choice be lots o mud, sharp pointy sticks, an string Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mission Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 fer meself right now between sexpots eroticism in ceramics and the beat book....oh wait few others wading through be scottish love poems, the coffee house, and the last two books of noviks neapolonic (sp) wars with dragons added in fer good measure novels. any other reading suggestions for a bit afore i go back to life and school????? You seem to have quite a stack already, but I frequently recommend Illusions: Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach to anyone who seems like they might be interested in philosophy and metaphysics. It's does have the added advantage of being a very quick read. (Almost no one I've suggested it to seems to appreciate it as much as I do, however. So take the rec. with a grain of salt.) In fact, I usually pick up extra copies at books sales and whatnot to give away to friends, but my stores are low just now (I only have 2 copies - all the local book sales and resale shops seem to be disappearing! Probably due to Amazon which has cheap (AND searchable) used books aplenty.) Mycroft: "My brother has the brain of a scientist or a philosopher, yet he elects to be a detective. What might we deduce about his heart?" John: "I don't know." Mycroft: "Neither do I. But initially he wanted to be a pirate." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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