I asked this question a few months ago and figure I’d ask every few months because it was great to see the large response and it was nice to get book recommendations to add to my ever expanding pile to read. The book I most recently finished was The Cat Who Walked Through Walls by Heinlein and I’m currently reading The Strong Shall Live which is a series of short stories by Louis L’Amour. I have found a ton of his books at yard sales and they are usually sold for a quarter or 50 cents a piece so I have quite a few and this is the first one I’m reading. Also found the book Lonesome Dove along with L’Amour’s stuff. Anyway, what are yall reading?
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I'm obsessed with polar exploration, so don't get me wrong, South is a classic.
But as any other Shackleton expedition, it can be summed up as the "pipe in the bicycle wheel" meme.
Shackleton has amazing problem solving skills, that he spends mostly solving problems that he created himself.
All that suffering was utterly unnecessary (as demonstrated by Amundsen), but the Brits of the Edwardian era were really into noble sacrifices and heroic failures.
It's amazing no one died on the Shackleton expedition.
I get it confused with the Franklin one to the Northwest Passage where everyone did.