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Added to the list. Zundefolge in Ordnung
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| Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2022 11:28 am Post subject: Re: Samba Book Club |
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I'm re-reading all of my Ivan Doig books (This House of Sky at present). What a lovely writer.
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kingkarmann
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| Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2022 11:44 am Post subject: Re: Samba Book Club |
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I've been doing a little light reading
Hitler: Ascent 1889 - 1939
By Volker Ullrich
to be followed up with his second Hitler Biography
Hitler: Downfall 1939-1945
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Zundfolge1432 
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| Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2022 8:45 am Post subject: Re: Samba Book Club |
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Well this looks like a classic and it is VW related. I’ve had it for years never bothered to read it. Snow and ice coming my way so I gotta book to read. A quick look this is a first edition from 1971, it came to me from the used book store. It lives on and has been reprinted so it’s not hard to find.
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djkeev
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finster
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| Posted: Thu May 12, 2022 11:54 am Post subject: Re: Samba Book Club |
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a recent book that's getting media reviews is 'nazi billionaires' by david de jong. looks at the businessmen who profited from the third reich and built on that post-war. of interest to us is that porsche (father and son) and piech are featured. it details how porsche company co-founder adolf rosenberger was 'bought out' because he was jewish, the use of slave labour and how ferry porsche employed ex ss officers including joachim peiper perpetrator of the malmedy massacre.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesdigitalcovers/2...74f545458e
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2022 12:18 pm Post subject: Re: Samba Book Club |
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a recent book that's getting media reviews is 'nazi billionaires' by david de jong. looks at the businessmen who profited from the third reich and built on that post-war. of interest to us is that porsche (father and son) and piech are featured. it details how porsche company co-founder adolf rosenberger was 'bought out' because he was jewish, the use of slave labour and how ferry porsche employed ex ss officers including joachim peiper perpetrator of the malmedy massacre.
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There’s a friggen 20 season series that could be made about all that, but the living family and its contradictions will never be known to the common man. Just remember all history is revised. The Venn diagram would shatter collective minds. I’ll guard the wall. https://youtu.be/9FnO3igOkOk
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In other book news
eBay flipped some switches when I presented an author signed copy original first edition Jack London for sale. The owner was less known, by design. He has quite a collection.
The book is now in preservation mode.
Then this homeless guy gives me a book for letting him bend my ear about his VW. Vagabond’s House. 😂
On my shelf.
Then a book I entrusted to a friend , price paid $300 about 10 years ago,
Today is around 50k and I don’t think they took very good care of it. Lolz
Maybe sold it? 😂
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The Deltoid Pumpkinseed
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McPhee is one of my faves.
Anyone read any Mark Helprin? His book A Soldier of the Great War is a masterpiece, at least to me!
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…and the band played on… by Randy Shiltz
Talk about a soul searching and depressing book on how we bungled HIV in the 1970-1980s
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Iceberg Slim is the story of a Pimp turned author. I was hooked after reading the first page of the introduction. Must be something to because the series keeps getting reprinted, folks are buying it. Non fiction history that’s what it is 😀
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I have just enjoyed reading 'the winter soldier' by daniel mason. it's a novel set in ww1 and nothing to do with capt america! even though the setting is a rudimentary field hospital in the carpathians it drew me in and the ending was the right outcome
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Since we turned the T.V. off over a year ago, I've had some time to read in the winter, mostly Tom Clancy stuff 
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Left for Dead; My Journey Home from Everest
By Beck Weathers
I had bought it as a kindle book but just couldn’t get through it as digital media. Much better as hard cover. I usually only read manuals, journals etc. but there is something about mountaineering that I will read. Maybe in my former life I was a mountaineer?
I will try some of the books mentioned above as they seem interesting.
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I read that but could not get past the meme of rich people hiring Sherpas to carry them up a mountain as some sort of bucket list accomplishment.
My Mountain of Fear
The Savage Mountain
Are two of my favourite.
I did base camp at Everest in the 1980s, had no interest in trying to summit. I get bad altitude sickness even in Rockies !
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Got his one for xmas, Really looking forward to digging in.
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Left for Dead; My Journey Home from Everest
By Beck Weathers
I had bought it as a kindle book but just couldn’t get through it as digital media. Much better as hard cover. I usually only read manuals, journals etc. but there is something about mountaineering that I will read. Maybe in my former life I was a mountaineer?
I will try some of the books mentioned above as they seem interesting.
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I haven't read this yet - and based on the other books written, what a nightmare that whole season was, and it's only gotten worse based on Nirmal Purja's photo taken recently ~
Having grown up in a climbing family - I was never interested in the big mountains (never saw the attraction) - just stuck with our PNW peaks and called it good at a young age. My grandfather and his pals were considered assholes back in their day (Seattle Mountaineers) as they weren't really interested in teaching others about mountaineering, they figured it out on their own on many first ascents, so the rest should too 
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My Wife Heide's Uncle's Had a Few fingers & Toes missing from frostbite,She Said it was German & American Expedition to Mt.Everest BITD.
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I'm about halfway through The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien/edited by Christopher Tolkien.
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