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I'm reading a submarine book. Yeah, yeah, I know most of y'all thought I couldn't read.

The book is written by an ex-submariner and it happens to be about the very submarine I was on, the USS Sam Houston. Cool, especially because he writes in the first person as if he's telling his story to another person sitting in the room with him. He describes the boat in great detail and the other person has no clue about such things, so he draws sketches of the layout of the various compartments and pieces of equipment. I like that because it refreshes my own horrible memory - the drawings are of a place I experienced forty years ago and which formed a large part of who I am today.

Wow, pretty cool

Nice!

If you read a submarine book in bed, do you have to read it under the covers?

So do you think that a somewhat uninformed lay person might enjoy it?

Swift wrote:If you read a submarine book in bed, do you have to read it under the covers?

Only if you have cats, although they'll want to get under the covers too.

Thumper wrote:So do you think that a somewhat uninformed lay person might enjoy it?

Funny you asked. After finishing up the book, I wrote up a Goodreads review and stated that non-submariners might not enjoy it. The author really went off on a tangent towards the end.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/711 ... ea-stories

Ooo, tangents, I like math

geonuc wrote:

Thumper wrote:So do you think that a somewhat uninformed lay person might enjoy it?

Funny you asked. After finishing up the book, I wrote up a Goodreads review and stated that non-submariners might not enjoy it. The author really went off on a tangent towards the end.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/711 ... ea-stories

Hmmm.

grapes wrote:Ooo, tangents, I like math

geonuc wrote:

Thumper wrote:So do you think that a somewhat uninformed lay person might enjoy it?

Funny you asked. After finishing up the book, I wrote up a Goodreads review and stated that non-submariners might not enjoy it. The author really went off on a tangent towards the end.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/711 ... ea-stories

geonuc,

Do you have a non-fiction book you would recommend for us non-submariners, on life and experiences on a modern submarine?

Swift wrote:geonuc,

Do you have a non-fiction book you would recommend for us non-submariners, on life and experiences on a modern submarine?

I do, although pickins are slim. Apparently, serving on a nuclear submarine tends to suck out any writing talent you may have.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25615866-watertight

Maybe the best book about serving on a nuclear submarine. The author was a reactor operator like I was but the submarine was an attack boat (and one that did 'special' ops), not a missile sub like I was on.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/230 ... to-nowhere

This one is also an account of serving on a nuclear submarine from the perspective of someone who did a similar job to what I did - a nuke electrician on a missile submarine. I worked side-by-side with the electricians.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/498 ... earch=true

This is a good account of a nuclear attack sub operating against the Soviets, written by an ex-captain. I have no personal knowledge of such operations (my sub avoided the Russkies), but I understand it to be quite accurate. The author also writes better than most ex-sailors. It's semi-fiction in that the author had to change the names and circumstances to avoid getting thrown in jail and it's less informative as to what life was like on the sub.