If you look at my pics. you'll notice that I have an interest in Civil War Reenacting. More than a passion-closer to an obsession. I have been wearing the wool, eating poorly cooked food, sleeping outdoors, and shooting black powder for over 25 years. I am the author of CHIN MUSIC FROM A GREYHOUND, Vol. One, 1978-1987 (available on Amazon) and CHIN MUSIC FROM A GREYHOUND, VOL.Two, 1988-1997 (available at civilwarbooklady.com) . Both books are a behind the scenes look at Civil War Reenacting (as I saw it).
Joe Kubert, DC comic book artist of ENEMY ACE and OUR ARMY AT WAR featuring SGT.Rock. Dee Snyder.THE RAT PACK. John Wayne. W.C. Fields.
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I'm a sucker for war movies. Put John Wayne in fatigues and I'm there. Flags of our Fathers and Flyboys were two I recently viewed. I'm also a fan of Hong Kong Cinema. Hard Boiled, Full Contact, Better Tomorrow, Bullet in the Head are a few of the best and most feature Chow Yun Fat. I'm a fan of the Transporter, I and II. I like Hellboy, Hudson Hawk, and the Punisher (John Travolta, Tom Jane movie). I ADORE 300!
I grew up in the sixties, so I watched a lot of television. I don't care for today's sitcom's. In the 21st Century, I watch LOST, PRISON BREAK, JERICHO, CSI, and CSI, MIAMI.
I enjoy a good Civil War History, but mostly look for material that covers the war in the West, Tennesse,Mississippi, and Kentucky, as well as topics on the war in the Trans-Mississippi (Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas). The Battle of Athens, Missouri, August 5, 1861 By Jonathan K. Cooper-Wiele It had it all: Cemetery Hill, the Cornfield, a cannonade, ignominious skedaddles, valorous stands, backs to a river, a numerically inferior force triumphing, neighbors firing upon neighbors, refugees, a bayonet charge, an arms differential, entrenching, casualties, death, bloated corpses, and the wonder and terror of volunteers “seeing the elephant.†Evoking such epic engagements as Shiloh, Antietam, or Gettysburg, these characteristics belong to the nearly unknown Trans-Mississippi Civil War Battle of Athens (pronounced “Aythensâ€), Missouri. Commencing around 5:30 a.m. on the sultry morning of August 5, 1861, in Clark County, in the far northeast corner of Missouri near the Iowa border, it was over in a couple of hours. Speaking of detective novels, I do enjoy dabling in the hard-boiled genre as well as thrilling adventure stories that were popular in the 30's and 40's. Known as PULP FICTION, many of these thrilling tales of yesteryear can be found on a website called the Vintage Library or you might try Hard Case Crime.A favorite old pulp is G-8 and his Battle Aces. These action/adventure yarns take place during WWI and pits the flying squadron against fiendish devices and evil schemes of mad doctors who create weapons in an attempt to defeat the allies and turn the war in favor of the Germans. Many of these fiendish weapons that the mad doctors create in their laboratories include death rays, zombies, giant bats, werewolves, robots, ghosts, etc. It's all nonsense of course, but great escapist reading. I've also read the LOST REGIMENT series. This is the series about the civil war regiment that gets lost at sea, during a trip aboard gunboats from Virginia to South Carolina. Once storm is over, the regiment finds itself on another planet. Despite the fantastic premise, it is good reading. I have all 8 paperbacks of this series. I also enjoy historical fiction. I've read Newt Gingrich's stuff and some Harry Turtledove. I've found Jeff Shaara's work well worth reading. I like the SHARPE series, as well as Horatio Hornblower. My fav is Harry Flashman. He is a creation of George MacDonald Fraser. Flashman is a soldier during the Victorian Age. Much like Jack Crabb, of Little Big Man fame, Flashman finds himself in the middle of many historical episodes, mostly as a reluctant participant. You see, Harry Flashman is a cad,a womanizer,a cheat, and dispite his manly appearence, claims to be a coward. The books are written as if they were a memoir written by the old soldier himself in his twilight years; as if to get the record straight as it were. Flashman claims to have been in India during the Sepoy Rebellion, at the Crimea during the Charge of the Light Brigade, at Harper's Ferry with John Brown, served with both the Union and Confederate forces during the Civil War, and was with Custer on the Little Big Horn. And that is merely a sample of deeds he claims to. As you can see, I have a variety of reading interests. It helps me with my own creative writing.