What are you reading?

[Rafiki]

I’ve read all the usual suspects just looking for something new.

"No Beast So Fierce"?

 

[Sideshow]

"No Beast So Fierce"?

Thanks I’ll get that take it you mean the one about Jimmy C tiger

 

[Sideshow]

Any of the comprehensive books on the life of George Mallory.

Mallory & Irvine. The Ghosts of Everest

His early life in England, he was in the battle at the Somme. Englands best climber and many believe the actual first man to summit Everest. Not Hillary

Dosent count if you don’t come back there just saw that a Kiwi and a Sherpas got there first piff

 

[RSL]

I have just started "Mahohboh", by Ron Thomson on Kindle. Looking forward to reading it.

 

[Russ16]

I have just started "Mahohboh", by Ron Thomson on Kindle. Looking forward to reading it.

Great book! I’m now halfway through his 6 book series about his life. Incredible life and incredible story teller.

 

[eyedok]

John Mcnab, we tried for a central texas “Mcnab” this year but was unsuccessful, buck, bass, brace of ducks/quail, our bass wouldnt cooperate

 

[DieJager]

I have just started "Mahohboh", by Ron Thomson on Kindle. Looking forward to reading it.

Great book! I’m now halfway through his 6 book series about his life. Incredible life and incredible story teller.

You both will love them, he is my favorite author one the subject of hunting. I only need to read book six and then I've completed the series.

Mahohboh is not really part of the series but it s standalone book that is related to it.

 

[Sideshow]

Thanks guys downloaded those and have one on the way any others!

 

[MS 9x56]

Now reading Jim Zumbo’s Hunt Elk.

 

[Brent in Az]

Jim Corbett- Man eaters of Kumaon. E Book.

 

[tomahawker]

Wolf By Jim Harrison

 

[baxterb]

I’ve recently just added this to my ebook offerings. From John F. Burger who wrote Horned Death.

Amazon.com: African Adventures eBook : Burger, John F.: Kindle Store

Buy African Adventures: Read Kindle Store Reviews - Amazon.com

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[Datchew]

Gulag Archipelago. Should be required reading globally for all high schoolers IMO.

(You can get rid of lots of the flies while you're at it.)

 

[Datchew]

Gulag Archipelago. Should be required reading globally for all high schoolers IMO.

(You can get rid of lots of the flies while you're at it.)

Meant to type Lord of the flies. Oops.

 

[atrious]

11/22/63 by Stephen King. A very different book from most of his past work, highly detailed, well written and thought provoking. It's also a good work-out for the hands and forearms at 800+ pages.

 

[DieJager]

11/22/63 by Stephen King. A very different book from most of his past work, highly detailed, well written and thought provoking. It's also a good work-out for the hands and forearms at 800+ pages.

Didn't read that one but the ones that I've read by King were decent. I've heard the Dark Tower series are really good too.

 

[Altitude sickness]

I seem to be following a pattern recently. Instead of buying more books I don’t need. I’m digging through old ones and rereading them.

 

[Sideshow]

"No Beast So Fierce"?

I really tried to read No Beasts So Fierce, but I only managed to get through the first two chapters before putting it down in disgust. The author seems determined to frame the entire tragedy through a single, heavy-handed lens, going out of his way to blame colonialism almost exclusively for the tiger’s behavior. Rather than offering insight, this approach felt forced and simplistic, as if the conclusion had been decided before the evidence was examined.
What made it worse was the unnecessary swipe at Jim Corbett. Corbett’s stories were read to me by my father when I was a child, and they scared me witless in the best possible way. Re-reading them years later, I found them thoughtful, conflicted, and deeply respectful of both people and animals. This book dismisses that complexity, treating Corbett less as a nuanced historical figure and more as a convenient symbol to attack. I’m not opposed to a fresh or modern perspective, but this one felt more like an ideological lecture than an honest re-examination. The book may improve later on, but I couldn’t stomach its point of view long enough to find out.
Just my point of view. Enjoying the other books though.

 

[Sideshow]

You both will love them, he is my favorite author one the subject of hunting. I only need to read book six and then I've completed the series.

Mahohboh is not really part of the series but it s standalone book that is related to it.

I’m reading Mahohboh at the moment, and I can’t help wishing I’d known about this book when I was working as an overland safari guide from the late 1990s to 2003. It’s exactly the kind of book I would have kept on the truck, both for my own and passenger reading and as a reference. It would have sparked some genuinely thought provoking conversations around the campfires at night.
With well over 400 passengers over the years, most of whom were not hunters, this book would have provided a valuable bridge between wildlife, history, and human experience as well as an insight on park management that needs to be told. Reading it now feels a bit like discovering a missed companion from an earlier chapter of my life. As well as a missed opportunity.
Cheers for heads up on this one it’s worth it and I’ll look into his others.

 

[Russ16]

I really tried to read No Beasts So Fierce, but I only managed to get through the first two chapters before putting it down in disgust. The author seems determined to frame the entire tragedy through a single, heavy-handed lens, going out of his way to blame colonialism almost exclusively for the tiger’s behavior. Rather than offering insight, this approach felt forced and simplistic, as if the conclusion had been decided before the evidence was examined.
What made it worse was the unnecessary swipe at Jim Corbett. Corbett’s stories were read to me by my father when I was a child, and they scared me witless in the best possible way. Re-reading them years later, I found them thoughtful, conflicted, and deeply respectful of both people and animals. This book dismisses that complexity, treating Corbett less as a nuanced historical figure and more as a convenient symbol to attack. I’m not opposed to a fresh or modern perspective, but this one felt more like an ideological lecture than an honest re-examination. The book may improve later on, but I couldn’t stomach its point of view long enough to find out.
Just my point of view. Enjoying the other books though.

I thought it was fantastic and didn’t find it attacking colonialism at all. And I thought it was actually quite complimentary to Corbett.