Kappa13 From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 163 posts, RR: 3 Reply 1, posted (11 years 10 months 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 674 times:
In the last few months:
Headwind by John Nance
Blackout by John Nance
Pandora's Clock by John Nance
And right now I'm working on Phoenix Rising by John Nance and a book about Airport Planning and Management. As you can tell John Nance is my favorite author.
PanAm747 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 4242 posts, RR: 10 Reply 2, posted (11 years 10 months 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 669 times:
"My Life & The Principles for Success" by Ross Perot
"All The Best, My Life in Letters and Other Writings" by George Bush
"Success Is A Choice" by Rick Pitino
Pan Am:The World's Most Experienced Airline - P(oor) S(ailor's) A(irline): San Diego's Hometown Airline-Catch Our Smile!
CstarU From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 3, posted (11 years 10 months 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 666 times:
I just finished reading (for the second time) We Were Soldiers Once...And Young by Lt. Gen. Hal Moore (ret.) and Joe Galloway.
It's about the first major battle between ground forces of the U.S. Army and the North Vietnamese Army (NVA, and not VC) in the Ia Drang Valley, Vietnam (1965).
Trickijedi From United States of America, joined May 2001, 3266 posts, RR: 5 Reply 4, posted (11 years 10 months 3 days 17 hours ago) and read 665 times:
I'm currently reading "From Worst to First." The story of Continental Airlines. It's a good break from all the textbooks I read for school.
Its better to be on the ground wishing you were in the air than be in the air wishing you were on the ground. Fly safe!
LufthansaUSA From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 188 posts, RR: 3 Reply 6, posted (11 years 10 months 3 days 17 hours ago) and read 657 times:
I've just finished Frank Herbert's "Dune"-a fantastic book. Currently, I'm reading John Keegan's "The Face of Battle"
Trvlr From United States of America, joined Feb 2000, 4430 posts, RR: 24 Reply 7, posted (11 years 10 months 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 656 times:
Recently I have finished:
"By the Rivers of Babylon" by Nelson DeMille...a very good book. DeMille sets up and develops the characters well.
"The Brethren" by John Grisham...it was gripping for a while, but I disliked the ending. And I'm beggining to dislike Grisham's writing.
I'm in the process of reading:
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey...a classic, an excellent book. However, I don't really enjoy reading it that much, as it is assigned for school .
"Hong Kong" by Stephen Coonts...it's getting really good.
I plan on reading "From Worst to First" after I finish the latter two.
Klmfan From Austria, joined Jun 2001, 445 posts, RR: 4 Reply 9, posted (11 years 10 months 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 646 times:
I'm reading "Love and War" by John Jakes, the second volume of a trilogy consisting of "North and South", "Love and War" and "Heaven and Hell".
When I'm finished I'll read "Q-strike" the third part of "The Q-Continuum" by Greg Cox. I just love Star Trek TNG and especially Q.
One of my all time favorites is Hemingway's "A Farewell To Arms". It's a partly autobiographical story which takes place during WWI. It's about love and war...
The ending is, as you may expect, a tragic one...
Aloha 737-200 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 11, posted (11 years 10 months 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 647 times:
Within the last 8 months....
James Michener's Hawaii
James Michener's Tales of the South Pacific
James Michener's Return to Paradise (only got Half-way before I had to take it back)
Then I got on the Angel Kick and read
"The Messengers"
"Meetings with Angels"
"Miracles and Other Wonders"
"Talking to Heaven, a Mediums message of life after death"
And then I read...
Several National geographics on Hawaii and the south Pacific,
"Blue Horizons, Paradise Isles of the Pacific"
And my latest book was "Antigua and Barbuda, a pictorial tour"
Yep, that's what I read. Ahhhh......good stuff.
But I also like "Airport", which I read about a year ago.
Aloha 737-200!!
Oh yeah, I also read "The mystery of TWA flight 500" My God that was a scary book. I am SO GLAD that I was not on the flight.
KLMBlue From United States of America, joined Nov 2000, 267 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (11 years 10 months 3 days 7 hours ago) and read 641 times:
I have read alot of books recently
Hard Landing- T. Petzinger
Mayday-Nelson DeMille
Sole Survivor-Koontz(I think)
The Brethren- J. Grisham
Nothing But the Truth-Avi
Terminal Event- James Thayer
Survivor-C. Palahniuk
Most of the books have been really good.
KLM
Braniff747 From United States of America, joined Apr 2001, 107 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (11 years 10 months 3 days 7 hours ago) and read 638 times:
Has anyone read "Beyond Lion Rock", the story of Cathay Pacific? I can't seem to find it anywhere.
SSTjumbo From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 18, posted (11 years 10 months 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 626 times:
I cannot believe that anyone here hasn't read Paul McElroy's TRACON. That is about the most realistic aviation book I have ever read, with some thrown in for good measure. I am now reading William Buhlman's Secret of the Soul, a book about OBEs.
GDB From United Kingdom, joined May 2001, 12713 posts, RR: 80 Reply 19, posted (11 years 10 months 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 627 times:
Currently ploughing through 'Hitler and Stalin, Parallel Lives' by Alan Bullock.
This year I've also read 'Pavane' by Keith Roberts, an alternative history where the Catholic Church still rules Britain with a rod of iron in the 20th century, where the industrial revolution has never properly happened.
'Resurrection Day' by Brendan DuBois, set in a USA 10 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis escalated into war, good start, poor ending.
'Starman', a biography of Yuri Gagarin.
'Journey Beyond Selene', an account of probes sent to the solar system's Moons.
'Flying' by Henry Sutton, (I think, a friend is borrowing it), the complex private lives of flight and cabin crew on a LHR-JFK, JFK-LHR sectors, on a British owned B747-400.
Next will be 'The Cold Six Thousand' by James Ellory, I'll have to re-read the prequel 'American Tabloid' first. Great book!
Deltaflyertoo From United States of America, joined Nov 2000, 1589 posts, RR: 1 Reply 20, posted (11 years 10 months 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 617 times:
EIPremier From United States of America, joined Sep 2000, 1533 posts, RR: 2 Reply 21, posted (11 years 10 months 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 615 times:
Most of what I read is in the form of National Geographic, Newsweek, Airways, Car & Driver, and the posts on airliners.net
However, I have managed two books so far this summer:
--Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
--a refreshingly concise and fun-to-read book on Freudian theories.
Miguel From Portugal, joined May 2001, 101 posts, RR: 0 Reply 24, posted (11 years 10 months 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 606 times:
In the last 2/3 months I read the following:
Albert Einstein - Leopold Infeld (1950)
History of Church - Philippe Tourault (1996)
The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie (1989)
Fiasko - Stanislau Lem (1986)
And the best of all:
Lion, The African (1986) and
The Periple of Baldassare (2000) both of Amin Maalouf, by far, my writer of election!
I also like Saramago, the Nobel of Literature in 1998, and Isaac Azimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins. I also like the portuguese classics and also the new ones, at least some of them.
Did I mention already Amim Maalouf? He sure is the best
Miguel
25 Notar520AC: The Kill Box The Hunt for Red October, Tom Clancy The Last Spy, John Griffiths Real good ones! -Notar520AC
26 OH-LZA: The last one i read was: Harry Potter and The Goblet Of Fire Zulu Alpha
27 Tbar220: The last books I read was: "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" - Douglas Adams "Montana 1948" - Larry Watson Both are really, REALLY good books. Tzv
28 SSTjumbo: Yeah, Hitchhikers Guide is extremely funny. A must-read for sci-fi fans.
29 Redngold: Under the Mask which is a book for patients about anesthesia. Thunderhead by Douglas Preston and Larry Child. I am rereading it and photocopying some
30 N400QX: >I cannot believe that anyone here hasn't read Paul McElroy's TRACON I HAVE!!! Good book! I loved it! The love "triangle" thing was kinda strange, but
31 AerLingus: Right now, I'm in the middle of reading "The Rise and Fall of the British Empire," by Lawrence James.
32 Astrojet: The last was "the case for Mars" by Robert Zubrin
33 TWAneedsNOhelp: Recently finnished "Israel's Secret Wars" by Benny Morris and Ian Black. Also, I highly recomend "Up in the Air" Walter Kirn, a novel about a biz trav
34 Twotterwrench: Yellow Rushing River by I.P. Freely Man Overboard by Hugo First
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thrown in for good measure. I am now reading William Buhlman's Secret of the Soul, a book about OBEs.
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