Quote about books

From the Lanai in the Treetops, Honolulu
Watching the submarines dive and surface
1241 hrs

Thumbing through the pile of used books I picked up in LA last week, I am reminded of an old saying.

"Books are like wine: the good ones age well, the bad ones are vinegar."

One book that remains excellent is Robert Mason's Chickenhawk, which was arguably the first book to give a helicopter-pilot's eye view of the Vietnam war. I had lost my old copy so I picked up a used edition to slide into the library. I've read probably a half-dozen memoirs by pilots from Vietnam, and Mason's remains the best so far.