I Have Decided To Quit Reading

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  1. Hal Pollner

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    I once told a friend that I had never read a Zane Grey novel, and he said: "Zane Grey?...he's like Tolstoy with spurs."

    Anyway, to please my wife, I recently finished reading Volume 1 of Louis L'Amour's Collection of Short Stories, which she gave me as a gift, and I've now had enough Western fiction to last me a lifetime...no more, please!

    What I really like to read is Non-Fiction stories of Military and Scientific engineering and development of weapons: Warships, Planes, Tanks, Artillery, Small Arms, and revolutionary Civil Engineering Structures, such as the Hoover Dam and the Golden Gate Suspension Bridge.

    Years ago I read the book "Manhattan Project", about the development of the Atomic Bomb during WW2. I found it so fascinating that I bought more books and videos on the subject, some movies are authentic documentaries, and some are Hollywoodized versions, but still pretty good!

    As the saying goes:"Truth is stranger than fiction"!

    The accompanying schematic diagram is of the "Little Boy" uranium bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, and with the bombing of Nagasaki 3 days later, brought Japan's surrender ending World War 2.

    I can tell you the function of every component in that device.

    To me, THESE are my most interesting subjects!

    Hal
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