{"id":13578,"date":"2021-08-10T03:32:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T10:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=13578"},"modified":"2021-08-10T03:32:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T10:32:29","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/08\/10\/books\/","title":{"rendered":"Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

That photo above?\u00a0 My good buddy JBFLA posted it on the Chinariders.net forum a few years ago along with the following comments:<\/p>\n

I finally received Moto Baja. Another good read by Joe Berk. At 116 pages of light reading with lots of photos, it can probably be read in one sitting. It took me 3 sittings, with time spent perusing the excellent photos, and my mind wandering\u2026imagining a ride to Baja\u2026..and being chased by wild dogs.<\/em><\/p>\n

Seeing that comment again got me to thinking about what the next book might be.\u00a0 I have the urge to write.\u00a0 I just have to decide about what.<\/p>\n

My two favorite topics?\u00a0 Motorcycles and guns.\u00a0 I’m thinking about a gun book, as I’m about tapped out on riding books.\u00a0 Maybe a photo book featuring fancy walnut gunstocks. The problem with a photo book, though, is that it cries out for color and books printed in color get expensive fast.\u00a0 And expensive books don’t sell.<\/p>\n

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Fancy walnut on a .257 Weatherby Ruger No. 1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We’ve done a lot of stories on gun stuff here on the blog; maybe a collection of favorite stories with just a few photos might work as a gun book.\u00a0 It would be easy to put together.\u00a0 Another thought is a Mini 14 book.\u00a0 There are a few Mini 14 books out there, but none of them look interesting to me.\u00a0 When we blog about the Mini 14 blog we get a ton of hits.\u00a0 There might be a market for a Mini 14 book.<\/p>\n

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My Ruger Mini 14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve been trying to talk Gresh into writing a book.\u00a0 He’s got a ton of good stuff that would work well as a set of collected works.\u00a0 I mean, the man can make a 50-year-old air compressor story interesting.\u00a0 Joe is that rarest of human beings:\u00a0 A writer who sees things most of us miss.\u00a0 And Gresh can describe these things so they become visible to us (and then make us wonder how we missed what Joe makes seem obvious).<\/p>\n

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Gobi Gresh, in (of course) the Gobi Desert. The Gobi Desert, man!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve been after Gresh to write a book for years.\u00a0 Help me out here, folks.<\/p>\n

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That photo above?\u00a0 My good buddy JBFLA posted it on the Chinariders.net forum a few years ago along with the following comments: I finally received Moto Baja. Another good read by Joe Berk. At 116 pages of light reading with lots of photos, it can probably be read in one sitting. It took me 3 … Continue reading “Books”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[235,64,84,66],"tags":[767,12,2149,2148,497],"class_list":["post-13578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amazon","category-gear","category-guns","category-joe-gresh","tag-fancy-walnut","tag-joe-gresh","tag-new-book-ideas","tag-new-books","tag-ruger-mini-14"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Moto_Baja-900.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13578"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14125,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13578\/revisions\/14125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}