01-29-2011, 11:24
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Nevada
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Laura Hillenbrand "Unbroken: A World War ll Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption. Very moving account of Louis Zamperini. If you liked "Five Years to Freedom" you'll love this.
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02-01-2011, 19:34
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Ft. Bragg,NC
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Book on the LRDG
Sting of the Scorpion by Mike Morgan. For anyone who has read Killing Rommel, this is a good book that goes into more detail about actual missions,raids, recces, and just general info about the LRDG. It is a collection of memoirs and recounts by various members of the LRDG.
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02-02-2011, 00:30
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Denver, Colorado
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There's a novel from the 70's called "Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Kassler, J.S.P.S.
JSPS stands for Just Some Poor Schmuck. Fun, funny novel that makes huge fun of the Freud fraud. I'm re-reading this book. Good, dirty fun.
Another recommendation is Handling Sin, by Michael Malone. If you can get through the first fifty pages, you'll have a great read. Otherwise, the thing burns well and cooks marshmallows just right.
We all have our tolerances.
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02-06-2011, 14:32
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Denver, Colorado
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The Wave, by Susan Casey, is a must-read. Non-fiction about proving the existence of so-called Rogue Waves, about planetary changes in ocean dynamics and water levels, and all mixed in with a narrative about extreme surfers. Going in I thought "oh please" ut was immediately swept away (pardon the pun) by the prose and the story. Just be glad I didn't use the "food for thought about the drink" pun.
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For true predators, civilization is just a cover.
There's no such thing as too much, but there is such a thing as more than you can handle at a given time.
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02-06-2011, 15:29
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Originally Posted by craigepo
Finished Decision Points by George W. Bush. Pretty damned interesting. I see why presidents leave office with lots of grey hair and more wrinkles.
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Started the read a few days ago. Just finished the chapter on Bush's stem cell decision. Great read to this point! I'm impressed how well read Pres. George W. Bush is.
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02-06-2011, 17:44
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"The difference is that back then, we had the intestinal fortitude to do what we needed to in order to preserve our territorial sovereignty and to protect the citizens of this great country, and today, we do not." TR
"I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits." John Locke
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02-06-2011, 20:14
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Great Stories From History Every Day Of The Year by WB Marsh and Bruce Carrick.
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
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02-09-2011, 01:53
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Like many here, I have a few books I read at a time. Currently:
The Modern Mercenary, Peter Tickler
Japanese Slang, Anne Kasschau and Susumu Eguchi
The Spirit of Aikido, Kisshomaru Ueshiba
and leafing through Cooking the Russian Way, Gregory and Rita Plotkin
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02-16-2011, 10:57
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: France
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"Les hommes de Dien Bien Phu" by Roger Bruge.
Solid book so far, especially since it was written after some files were declassified.
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02-16-2011, 12:22
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Kansas
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finished Team Sergeant by William T. Craig.
waiting for Give Me Tomorrow by Patrick O'Donnell
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02-16-2011, 18:35
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Guerrilla Chief
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Alaska
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I'm always open to recommendations and have followed up with many of the books listed in this thread.
Currently reading:
Code-Name Bright Light, The Untold Story of U.S. POW Rescue Efforts During the Vietnam War, by George Veith.
In The Company of Heroes, Michael Durant.
Up next:
Shoot the Moon, The Story of America's Clandestine War in Laos, by Roger Warner.
SOG Medic, Joseph Parnar
Just finished:
In Pharaoh's Army, Memories of the Lost War, by Tobias Wolff
Anatomy of Story, John Truby
Wish List:
Not a Gentleman's War: An Inside View of Junior Officers in the Vietnam War, Jon Milam
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02-21-2011, 15:58
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Midwest
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Pity the Nation
I just finished Pity the Nation; the Abduction of Lebanon by Robert Fisk. It's the product of a journalist who spent 25 years living in Lebanon from 1976-2001 and it is incredible.
A word of warning, you will become very familiar with what the aftermath of artillery strikes on densely populated civilian areas looks like if you read the whole 700 pages.
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02-21-2011, 16:48
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Biography of Allen Dulles. Pretty interesting so far.
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"nobody understands Thomas except Thomas," Rudyard Kipling, Soldiers Three
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02-21-2011, 17:33
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BANNED USER
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Night by Elie Wiesel
Move over Anne Frank. You have nothing on this 15 YO.
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02-21-2011, 18:22
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Area Commander
Join Date: May 2007
Location: IL
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Re-reading the Anti-Christ.
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