Your reading list

[Roguish Lawyer]

What are you currently reading and what's on deck? Here are mine:

Currently:

John Plaster, SOG: A Photo History of the Secret Wars
Che Guevara, On Guerrilla Warfare
James Bamford, Body of Secrets
Charles Barkley, I may be wrong, but I doubt it

On Deck:

Jon Andersen, Che: A Revolutionary Life
Nick Rowe, Five Years to Freedom
Anonymous, Terrorist Hunter
William McRaven, Spec Ops : Case Studies in Special Operations
Warfare: Theory and Practice
Mao Zedong, On Guerrilla Warfare
Derrick Harrison, These Men Are Dangerous

[D9 (RIP)]

Currently:

A Strenous Life, biography of T. Roosevelt, Kathleen Dalton (just started)
The Arab Peoples in History, Bernard Lewis (almost through)
The Tristan Betrayal, Robert Ludlum (halfway)

On Deck:

Uncertain as of yet, but it will be on the history of Just War Theory

[Jimbo]

Now
The Shadow of the Sun Ryszard Kapuscinski
Mapping Human History Steve Olson
Terror in the Name of God Jessica Stern

Just Finished
Pepperdogs Bing West
DaVinci Code Some Guy

On Deck
The Oath Khassan Baiev
La Historia de ETA Antonio Elorza
Culture and Imperialism Edward Said
Pensimientos Jose Marti

[Jimbo]

Originally posted by D9
Uncertain as of yet, but it will be on the history of Just War Theory

I reccommend Just and Unjust Wars by Michael Walzer. Used in one of my college classes. Very readable.

[CPTAUSRET]

Current:

Theodore Rex, author Edmund Morris:

[DDD]

Current:
SOG A Photo History
The Complete Far Side (2 volumes/18lbs of fun)

On Deck
Nada I'm going to Pattaya for 3 months!!

[lrd]

Currently:

The Merger, Jeffrey Robinson
Jackson's Way, John Buchanan

Just Finished:

Seabiscuit, Laura Hillenbrand
Sailors to the End, Gregory A. Freeman

On Deck:

Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand (for D9)
Into The Rising Sun, Patrick K. O'Donnell
Roosevelt's Secret War, Joseph E. Persico

[Roguish Lawyer]

Originally posted by lrd
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand (for D9) [/B]

You won't regret it. Truly a great one.

[brownapple]

Leadership, The Challenge

[Valhal]

Currently,

Be an expert with Map and Compass:
The complete Orienteering Handbook by Bjorn Hjellstrom

Get Tough: The U.S. Special Forces Physical Conditioning Program
by Tom Fitzgerald

Navy Seal Nutrition by Patricia A. Duester

Guerrillas In The Mist: A Battlefield Guide to Clandestine Warfare
by Bob Newman

Microeconomics by Colander

The Iraq War Reader Edited by Micah Sifry and Christopher Cerf



On Deck,

Warrior Soul by Chuck Pfarrer

Tactical Tracking Operations by David Scott-Donelan

Army Officer's Guide by LTC eith E. Bonn, USA (ret)

The SAS Survival Handbook by John Wiseman

Barron's Firefighter Exams

Kodokan Judo by Jigoro Kano

[HQ6]

Now:
Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand
Me Against My Brother Scott Peterson
Special Forces Tom Clancy
Conversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1 Neale Donald Walsch
From a Buick 8 Stephen King - To keep my head from exploding!

Recently:
In the Company of Heroes Michael J. Durant
The Five People You Meet in Heaven Mitch Albom
Memories of a Geisha Arthur S. Golden
The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Middle-East Conflict M. Bard

On Deck:
Tuesday's with Morrie Mitch Albom
Killing Pablo Mark Bowden
Conversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 2 Neale Donald Walsch
Conversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 3 Neale Donald Walsch
Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror Bernard Lewis
Africa Unchained: Blueprint for Africa's Future George B. N. Ayittey

[Martinez]

On Deck:

Across The Fence: The Secret War In Vietnam by John "Tilt" Stryker Meyer

Jennifer Martinez sends

[D9 (RIP)]

Originally posted by HQ6
Killing Pablo Mark Bowden

Recently did this one on audiobook as well (it was a long road trip, LOL). I'm sure some on this site could speak better to the veracity of Bowden's account, but from my uninitiated perspective it was a good story which raises many interesting questions about what the government is morally justified in doing when the rule of law deteriorates beyond a certain point. I thought it was worthwhile and interesting.

[Roguish Lawyer]

Originally posted by D9
Recently did this one on audiobook as well (it was a long road trip, LOL). I'm sure some on this site could speak better to the veracity of Bowden's account, but from my uninitiated perspective it was a good story which raises many interesting questions about what the government is morally justified in doing when the rule of law deteriorates beyond a certain point. I thought it was worthwhile and interesting.

I liked it, but I didn't get much philosophy or anything out of it. I just thought it was a good tale of what Pablo Escobar was all about and how he was taken down. I don't know whether the book is accurate, but I liked it. My wife liked it too.

[lrd]

Additions to my list.

On Deck:

Terrorists, Victims and Society: Psychological Perspectives on Terrorism and its Consequences, Edited by Andrew Silke

The Age of Terrorism and the International Political System, by Adrian Guelke

The one I'm reading tonight:

Deterrence & Influence in Counterterrorism: A Component in the War on al Qaeda, by Paul K. Davis and Brian Michael Jenkins

[Eagle5US]

Originally posted by DDD
Current:
SOG A Photo History
The Complete Far Side (2 volumes/18lbs of fun)

On Deck
Nada I'm going to Pattaya for 3 months!!
Go to TQ2, one of my "SF Paramedic" T-shirts is framed above the Bar :D

The Eagle

[D9 (RIP)]

A new one just popped onto the radar:

Anti-Americanism, by Jean François Revel.

Here is the summary:

"Angered by the assault against a nation he knows and admires, the distinguished French intellectual Jean-Francois Revel has come to America's defense in "Anti-Americanism," a biting and erudite book that (paradoxically, given his country's specially vehement attacks on the U.S. and its policies) spent several weeks on top of France's best-seller list. Revel believes that what he calls the "anti-American obsession" is based on a willful disregard of the most obvious facts of American political and social life, its economic freedom and democratic traditions. He sees much anti-Americanism simply as anti-capitalism in disguise on the part of those--in Europe and the rest of the world--who are still committed to doctrines that are at heart illiberal and even totalitarian. In probing the origins of the notion that America is the source of all evil--imperialistic, greedy and ruthlessly competitive--he shows how these charges ultimately stem from weakness and envy on the part of those who make them and are a neurotic effort to find an easy explanation for Europe's own loss of status in the postwar era. As far as America's 'unilateralism' is concerned, Revel asserts that the U.S. is forced to act alone because Europe has repeatedly failed to act in the cause of collective security. As far as America's sins of "globalization" are concerned, Revel shows that the developing countries of the world want more, not less access to rich markets and corporate investment. Jean-Francois Revel explores the strengths of America and exposes the agendas of the anti-Americans in his own country, in Europe and around the world. Revel's clearheaded analysis of the protestors' motives shows what they're really marching for and what the world will lose if their anti-Americanism should ever take hold."

[Roguish Lawyer]

I know Revel's name but can't put my finger on why. What else has he written?

[HQ6]

By Jean-Francois Revel:

Without Marx or Jesus
The Flight from Truth : The Reign of Deceit in the Age of Information
On Proust
The Totalitarian Temptation
How Democracies Perish


Collaborations:

The Monk and the Philosopher : A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life
by Jean-Francois Revel & Matthieu Ricard

Vanished Civilizations
by Jean Paul Barbier & Jean-Francois Revel

[Roguish Lawyer]

Originally posted by HQ6
By Jean-Francois Revel:

How Democracies Perish



I think I either read this or read a second-hand description of it a long time ago. Don't remember anything specific about it, though.

[CRad]

I have trouble sitting down and reading books start to finish sometimes so books that are a series of essays work very well for me. Some that I have liked are: The Rehnquist Court: Judicial Activism on the Right editted by Herman Schwartz (2002), How Did This Happen? Terrorism and the New War editted by James F. Hoge, Jr and Gideon Rose, (2001), and the one I am currently reading is Defining a Nation editted by David Halberstam, (2003). It has an essay by Hal Moore that is particularly good.

I am also reading Sex & Power by Susan Estrich. So far I think it's pretty good, but it's not one that many men would care much for. The other three are ones that everyone might enjoy, however.

[AngelsSix]

Currently reading Body of Secrets by James Bamford

Next on the list Puzzle Palace by the same author.

[CRad]

Originally posted by AngelsSix
Currently reading Body of Secrets by James Bamford

Next on the list Puzzle Palace by the same author.

Bamford has a new one coming out in April called A Pretext for War
9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies

[AngelsSix]

Thanks! I am going to check that one out too......as soon as someone let's me know if it's worth reading!!:D

[Roguish Lawyer]

Originally posted by CRad
I am also reading Sex & Power by Susan Estrich. So far I think it's pretty good, but it's not one that many men would care much for.

Had her for crim in law school. I HATE her. Change the channel every time I see her ugly face.

[CRad]

Originally posted by Roguish Lawyer
Had her for crim in law school. I HATE her. Change the channel every time I see her ugly face.

Aside from that, did you learn anything from her?

I had a Modern European Political Thought Prof that I felt exactly that same way about. The difference was he didn't show up on tv, Thank God. I took American Political Thought from him as well. Why? Because regardless of how I felt about him he taught the subject in a way that it stuck with you. I still hate him though. Too strong of a word, but a South Carolina drawl makes me twinge even now.

[Roguish Lawyer]

Originally posted by CRad
Aside from that, did you learn anything from her?

I had a Modern European Political Thought Prof that I felt exactly that same way about. The difference was he didn't show up on tv, Thank God. I took American Political Thought from him as well. Why? Because regardless of how I felt about him he taught the subject in a way that it stuck with you. I still hate him though. Too strong of a word, but a South Carolina drawl makes me twinge even now.

If she was a good teacher, I wouldn't dislike her so much.

[The Reaper]

Originally posted by Roguish Lawyer
Had her for crim in law school. I HATE her. Change the channel every time I see her ugly face.

Reading her stuff has got to be better than listening to her.

I change the channel every time I hear her whiny, high-pitched, bitching, Yankee voice.

Like Carol Channing with PMS and huffing helium.

TR

[CRad]

Originally posted by The Reaper


Like Carol Channing with PMS and huffing helium.

TR

Nice Audio Image! I don't recall ever listening to her, but then my sister has a yappy pomeranian so maybe I have and didn't know it.

The book isn't too bad. I don't agree with everything she says but then why would I? She and I have nothing in common except being female. I don't even like her politics much. She worked for the Dukakis Campaign. Losing propositions may be romantic to some people; I think they are boring.

[lrd]

Originally posted by The Reaper

Like Carol Channing with PMS and huffing helium.

TR I feel a nightmare coming on.

So, CRad: do I really want to go out and find this book?

What's her thesis? ;)

[CRad]

That Harvard sucks, men are standing on the necks of us poor women, and any gains we've made in terms of wage equality over the last decade or so was 1. Illusionary and 2. has disappeared.

We take it lying down by opting for early retirement, or job switching to avoid confrontation, that sort of thing. I agree with her on some of those. I get really irked by women who bitch about the "system" and how it's run by men, then turn around and either are shocked when men don't go to bat for them with the same vigor they would if the women were doing for themselves OR worse, they expect men to create the workplace equality for them.

If you can do as good as a man in your chosen field then By God, step out with purpose and do it. I'll loan you the book when I'm done, 'kay? I have to warn you though I write in the margins of books. I talk to the TV too. <shrug>

[Roguish Lawyer]

Originally posted by CRad
I have to warn you though I write in the margins of books. I talk to the TV too. <shrug>

Why doesn't this surprise me? LOL

[lrd]

Originally posted by CRad
I'll loan you the book when I'm done, 'kay? I have to warn you though I write in the margins of books. I talk to the TV too. <shrug> Thanks. I like to scribble in my books, too. Besides, some of the greatest treasures STC left us were his marginalia. Someday you'll be famous for yours. ;)

((RL - notice how C put in her smilie? ))

[Solid]

Just Finished:
McRaven, Spec Ops
Swofford, Jarhead
McCauley, The Khruschev Era
Tom Clancy, Shadow Warriors and Airborne
Arthur Edwards, The Cold War (researching NSC68 alt. views)

Reading:
Bard E. O'Neill, Insurgency and Terrorism,
Caesar, The Conquest of Gaul
Kate Gilliver, Caesar's Gallic Wars
Carl von Clausewitz, On War
Martin McCauley, Russia, America, and the Cold War

On Deck:
Robert Young Pelton, Dangerous Places, The Adventurist
Stephen Ambrose, Pegasus Bridge
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
Gaddis, We Now Know- Rethinking Cold War History, The US and the Origins of the Cold War
John Keegan, Intelligence in War
Clausewitz, On Strategy

[Maas]

Just Finished:

The Invasion Before Normandy: The Secret Battle of Slapton Sands by Edwin Palmer Hoyt

Reading:

Eyes Over Mog, by MI Mikey

A Ranger Born by Col. Bob Black

On the deck:

Something about the Civil War.


Solid,
Pegasus Bridge is a good book. I watched The Longest Day right after reading it and one of the guys from the movie was actually a Brit Glidermen who took that bridge.

[goat]

Reading:

Inside Al Queda, by Rohan Gunaratna

Tracks, by Louise Erdrich

On Deck:

Soldier under Three Flags, by H. A. Gill

[ut3]

Currently:

"Captain Blackman"- John A. Williams
"Son of the Revolution" - Liang Heng & Judith Shapiro
"The Soul of the Law" - Benjamin Sells

On Deck:

"The Reason Why - The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade" - Cecil Woodham-Smith
"Disappointment with God" - Philip Yancey
"One L" - Scott Turow

[CommoGeek]

Read: Bridges of Battle by Donald Featherstone

Reading: The Silent War by John Pina Craven
Windows NT 4.0 Upgrade Guide by Microsoft
DNS and Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 White paper by the folks at Redmond, WA

Next: Some book about gunfights in the old west. I forget the title and author.

[DunbarFC]

Just Finished - " Charlie Wilson's War "


Reading - " Six Days of War " by Michael Oren


Next up - ask me after Saturdays trip to Borders

[Ghostrider]

Recently Completed:
In the Company of Heroes - CW4 (ret.) Michael Durant

Currently:

The Hunt for Bin Laden - Robin Moore

On Deck:

One Perfect OP - Command Master Chief (ret.) Dennis Chalker

Six Days of War - Michael Oren (any input on this one DunbarFC?)

[CommoGeek]

GR,

I read Six Days of War a few months ago. Good book, but it delves into the political side and causes of the war quite a bit. Oren's a pretty good writer.

Oh, your bro from 3/124 should be back in town. His BN lost 2 KIA in Iraq. The unit's home now.

[Ghostrider]

Originally posted by CommoGeek
GR,

I read Six Days of War a few months ago. Good book, but it delves into the political side and causes of the war quite a bit. Oren's a pretty good writer.

Oh, your bro from 3/124 should be back in town. His BN lost 2 KIA in Iraq. The unit's home now.

Thanks CG for the info on the book. I got an e-mail from my bud, last week. He's going to be in Vegas for the next couple weeks so I'll get to see him at our drill......he's just a "little" glad to be back.

[Roguish Lawyer]

Originally posted by Ghostrider
Six Days of War - Michael Oren (any input on this one DunbarFC?)

I posted this a while ago somewhere else:

I just finished it. Very good book.

Oren is a dual Israeli-American citizen who was born here and emigrated to Israel. Went to Princeton, now affiliated with the Shalem Center, a conservative Israeli think tank. He admits in an interview appended to the end of the text that his challenge was writing an objective history in the face of his natural bias. I think he has done an excellent job of being objective, although there are a couple of places where I think his bias peeks out a little. Impressive bibliography including public archives, oral interviews and many books and articles in several languages.

I think that anyone interested in the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the Palestinian problem in particular, should read this book. His thesis is that the '67 war really changed the entire landscape of the conflict, forcing the Arabs to accept that Israel cannot be defeated militarily but rather must be dealt with -- Israel's '67 gains really forced the settlements with Egypt and Jordan even though the Yom Kippur war happened in between. The book also is a reminder that anti-American sentiment in the Arab world did not begin with Osama bin Laden.

The book very briefly touches on the USS Liberty incident; many of you will recall the threads on this board regarding that issue, which include links to longer articles by Oren on the subject.

Great book. I highly recommend it.

[Ghostrider]

Originally posted by Roguish Lawyer
I posted this a while ago somewhere else:

Thanks RL...uh, that advice isn't going to cost me a billable hour is it?;)

[Roguish Lawyer]

Originally posted by Ghostrider
Thanks RL...uh, that advice isn't going to cost me a billable hour is it?;)

Anybody have a spare LAW lying around?

[Ghostrider]

Originally posted by Roguish Lawyer
Anybody have a spare LAW lying around?

Too bad you didn't get to go to the SHOT show either...probably could have picked one up.......sounds like everyone is having fun.:(

[NousDefionsDoc]

The spent ones are no good.

Fear Me Tank Boy!

[Roguish Lawyer]

Originally posted by NousDefionsDoc
The spent ones are no good.

Fear Me Tank Boy!

Probably comes in handy on field trips, eh?

[DunbarFC]

Originally posted by Roguish Lawyer
I posted this a while ago somewhere else:

I highly agree with RL's take on this book

The 67 war was indeed a seminal event in the shaping of the Middle East

[Ghostrider]

Originally posted by Ghostrider

Currently:

The Hunt for Bin Laden - Robin Moore



Just finished this one and even though you are all "Quiet Professionals" let me personally say thanks. If we ever cross paths the beers on me.....seriously.:)

[Valhal]

These are the books I have read since posting the list on 28 Jan.

Be an expert with Map and Compass:

A good beginner course, good as a refresher, learned very little.

Get Tough: The U.S. Special Forces Physical Conditioning Program

A kick ass work out schedule. I had reservations at first, but after reading and doing I am glad I found this book.

Navy Seal Nutrition by Patricia A. Duester

Written before the carb starving craze, which is a good thing. Important info for a combat soldier.

Guerrillas In The Mist: A Battlefield Guide to Clandestine Warfare

Good survey but left me wanting more in depth info.

Warrior Soul by Chuck Pfarrer

Great book, his account of Lebanon gave me an increased understaning of that quagmire.

Mao Tse-Tung On Guerrila Warfare

After reading Guerrillas in the Mist I thought this was a great place to start my education. Not what I expected; it was better. 'Uproar in the East; Strike in the West'

The Coveted Black and Gold: A Daily Journey Through the U.S. Army Ranger School Experience

Amazing account of ranger school, I wish there was an SFAS version.



Currently reading

Insurgency & Terrorism: Inside Modern Revolutionary Warfare By: Bard E. O'Neill, Edward C. Meyer

The Hunt for Bin Laden - Robin Moore



On Deck

Sun Tsu Art of War
Read it about 15 years ago want a refresher.


Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Mark

[BMT (RIP)]

I am about to finish:

Project ALPHA
Sedgwick Tourison

If only half true it's enough to make a preacher curse.

BMT

[William Hazen]

Shobu Genzo (Zen Texts)

Sparks of Genius Michelle and Robert Root Bernstein

The Social Life of Information Brown & Duguild

Critical Thinking Franchis Watanabe Dauer

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon.

William Hazen

[18C/GS 0602]

Originally posted by Valhal

The Coveted Black and Gold: A Daily Journey Through the U.S. Army Ranger School Experience

Amazing account of ranger school, I wish there was an SFAS version.

Valhal- I finally got around to reading Danger Close by Michael Yon. It is a very good book and has a great section on SFAS/SFQC. You can get it used on Amazon for like 6$.



http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/offering/list/-/0967512301/all/ref=pd_ka_1a/104-8187385-4299145

[Valhal]

Thanks bdonham, I have already read that one, but thank you for the time you took to give me a recommendation.
Mark

[FILO]

Most recent: "An Army at Dawn" by Rick Atkinson. Highly recommended.

Currently Reading: "Roosevelt's Secret War" by Joseph Persico; "Blood and Fire" by Mary Roldan; "Death Ground:Todays American Infantry in Battle" by Daniel Bolger.

Not sure about the on-deck.

[Camilo]

Reading:
Knowledge and Decisions, Thomas Sowell
Immediate Action, Andy McNabb
The Red Queen, Matt Ridley

[shootandloot]

Currently

The whole Jack Ryan series by Tom Clancy (currently on Hunt for Red October)
On America by Stephen Ambrose
The History of England, VOL 2 (a college text, has about 10 authors)

On Deck

The Da Vinci Code
Steal My Soldiers Heart by COL David Hackworth
The Raven and other poems and short stories by Poe

Just finished

D-Day by Stephen Ambrose (strongly recommended)
The History of England VOL 1
Collected Short Stories by Hemingway
A Moveable Feast by Hemingway

[The Reaper]

You gents need to add some Kipling.

TR

[Gypsy]

Just starting: Hill 488 by Ray Hildreth (survivor) and Charles W. Sasser (author of One Shot-One Kill)

"On June 13, 1966, men of the 1st Recon Battalion, 1st Marine Division were stationed on Hill 488. Before the week was over, they would fight the battle that would make them the most highly decorated small unit in the entire history of the US Military, 1 Congressional MOH, 4 Navy Crosses, 13 Silver Stars, and 18 Purple Hearts-some of them posthumously." A battalion of North Vietnamese regulars and VC outnumbered 16 Marines and 2 Navy Corpsmen 25-1 and every man who held the hill was either killed or wounded.

On deck: The Da Vinci Code

[ktek01]

Just picked up To America by Stephen Ambrose. They had a book fair at work today and it was the only book that looked at all interesting.

[DunbarFC]

I just bought

An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson

and

The Yom Kippur War : The Epic Encounter That Transformed the Middle East by Abraham Rabinovich

[goat]

Reading

Hazardous Duty by John K. Singlaub

On Deck

Medal of Honor by Roy Benavidez

Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides

[JGarcia]

I cant say enough good things about Atlas Shrugged. Kipling.... hmm.

[molsen]

The last 2 good books I read were:

"Unscathed" by Royal Marine Major Phil Ashby
"The Real Bravo Two Zero" by Michael Asher

[pulque]

I am 3/4 through reading Five Years to Freedom, which I picked up partially because of the MoH thread regarding Rocky Versace, partially because I wanted to learn more about James N Rowe and his famous SERE school, and then lastly to fill in my knowledge about the Vietnam war.

Well, this is a great book, but very intense. It is written in a repetetive manner that stresses the inhumanity of the LNFs "lenient policy". Lots of good lessons in there, about overcoming hypocricy with passive resistance. Most of all, it is the story of an amazing hero, and the heros who he knew.

[Roycroft201]

NG_M4_Shooter,

If you liked Atlas Shrugged, pick up Fountainhead, when you have a chance.

Roycroft201

[Roguish Lawyer]

Originally posted by Roycroft201
NG_M4_Shooter,

If you liked Atlas Shrugged, pick up Fountainhead, when you have a chance.

Roycroft201

Oh, I like this teacher! D9, you see this? :)

[Air.177]

I currently have quite a few books that I intend to read, but haven't yet gotten to/finished.
Here goes:
Uhuru, Robert Ruark
Fear and Loathing in America, Hunter S Thompson
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe
and an old favorite;
Been Down so Long It Looks Like Up to Me, Richard Farina

Yes; I know heavy on the 60's/ 70's counter culture. It's just that I keep seeing references to these authors and Titles in other books(especially Thompson's) and, as I have not read them, I feel that I cannot fully understand the points that the author is trying to present.

[Roguish Lawyer]

Originally posted by Air.177
Yes; I know heavy on the 60's/ 70's counter culture. It's just that I keep seeing references to these authors and Titles in other books(especially Thompson's) and, as I have not read them, I feel that I cannot fully understand the points that the author is trying to present.

Uh huh. Sure. ;)

[Air.177]

OK Fine, I am trying to find out why so many of the folks who survived that time period are so F*&ked up:p

[Roguish Lawyer]

Originally posted by Air.177
OK Fine, I am trying to find out why so many of the folks who survived that time period are so F*&ked up

NDD has offered some very good advice which I am going to share with you:

When you're in a hole, stop digging. :p

[The Reaper]

I recommended that he add a copy of Thompson's classic "Hell's Angels" to the list.

Just trying to help.

TR

[Valhal]

Recent reads.

Angels and Demons Don Brown

Conan the Freebooter Robert E. Howard
Classic sword & sorcery

[Air.177]

Originally posted by Roguish Lawyer
NDD has offered some very good advice which I am going to share with you:

When you're in a hole, stop digging.

Hell no I won't stop digging, It's Not just a hole, It's a defensive position:p

[ghuinness]

Just finished "Cry of the Panther", James R McMullen.

On deck:
- The Third Terrorist, Davis
- SOG, Plaster (just picked it up).

Also struggling through (some of the comm guys may find these useful) :
Third Generation Systems and Intelligent Wireless Networking: Smart Antenna's and Adaptive Modulation - Blogh & Hanzo
and
Multi-antenna Transceiver Techniques for 3G and Beyond - Hottinen, Trikkonen & Wichma

[mffjm8509]

kind of late to join this thread but I'd like to include whats currently sitting on my shelf:

Finished:

Gates of Fire, Steven Pressfield
Winning Every Day, Lou Holtz
Art of War, Sun Tzu (Clavell)
To ride, shoot straight, and speak the truth, Jeff Cooper
Principles of personal defense, Jeff Cooper
Farnam method of defensive handgunning, John Farnam
The bear went over the mountain, Lester Grau
The other side of the mountain, Jalali and Grau

Currently reading:

Beyond Terror, Ralph Peters

On Deck:

Once and Eagle, Anton Myrer
Fireworks, Jeff Cooper

[pulque]

Today for Veteran's Day I made it a point to finally read Our Finest Day by Mark Bowden, which I had previously purchased. Besides that I enjoy the writing of Bowden, there are some interesting inserts, for those of us kids who miss "pop-up" books.

on deck: Race: The Reality of Human Differences by Vincent Sarich and Frank Miele, and The Trouble with Islam: A Muslim's Call For Reform in Her Faith by Irshad Manji

[Roguish Lawyer]

This was a good thread, I think, so I'm closing it and starting a new one.