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Offline thirtydaZe

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In need of a good Read
« on: February 27, 2014, 12:11:14 PM »
Kindle edition, because i like to have my phone with me for my visit to the water closet.....

Anyhow, i like to think of myself as conservative, right wing, tea party-esque. 

Just finished "Control" by Glenn Beck, which btw ended a bit abruptly and unexpectedly.  If you know anything about kindle, it tells you how much book you have read by percentage, and estimates how long it will be, in hours and minutes until you finish it.  This book at 64% was the end of the book leaving the rest filled with citation, reference, credits, etc.  Needless to say i was  bit PO'd, and now have nothing on the horizon.

Anyone in the middle of anything they'd like to recommend?
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Re: In need of a good Read
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2014, 01:12:29 PM »
I'm a scifi nerd.  If you're into that you might look into Larry Correia, John Ringo, and Michael Z. Williamson.  They all write scifi from a conservative and/or libertarian perspective.  Correia is more of fantasy author than scifi.
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Re: In need of a good Read
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2014, 01:24:54 PM »
If factual history interests you, anything by Stephen Ambrose is worth looking into.  Works by Michael Shaara and his son Jeff are good Civil War works..
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Re: In need of a good Read
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2014, 01:58:54 PM »
I'm in the middle of "On Combat" by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, it's been an interesting read so far
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Re: In need of a good Read
« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2014, 02:13:44 PM »
No idea if they are on kindle, but these are some reads I recommend to people interested in the topic:

The Bear went over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan
The Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War
Jungle of Snakes: A Century of Counter-Insurgency Warfare from the Philippines to Iraq
Seeds of Terror: How Drugs, Thugs, and Crime are Reshaping the Afghan War

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Re: In need of a good Read
« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2014, 02:38:46 PM »
Unbroken by Lauren Hillenbrand was a good read.  It's the true story of an Olympic athlete who joined the Army Air Corps in WWII and was captured by the Japanese.
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Re: In need of a good Read
« Reply #6 on: February 27, 2014, 05:38:02 PM »
I recently finished Mercy Shot  by S.C. Sherman. 
The author is from Iowa and contacted me about reviewing his work.  And I must say I was impressed for the most part.  (I still need to get that review written)  He takes the basis of stories from today's headlines- Active Shootings, Self Defense events and the politics that erupt around them and works them into a fictional, albeit absolutely believable story.  It'll scare the Hell outta ya.  If there was a concern, it also ended somewhat quickly (Or maybe it was that I actually was able to sit down for a long enough time to finish the ending in one shot.  Reading books on 30min lunch hours lends to a choppy read)
I'm not sure if it has went digital yet, but here is a link http://scsherman.com/books/mercy-shot/
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Re: In need of a good Read
« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2014, 08:04:58 PM »
Quote from: bkoenig on February 27, 2014, 01:12:29 PM
I'm a scifi nerd.  If you're into that you might look into Larry Correia, John Ringo, and Michael Z. Williamson.  They all write scifi from a conservative and/or libertarian perspective.  Correia is more of fantasy author than scifi.

+1 on Ringo! 
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Re: In need of a good Read
« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2014, 08:36:03 PM »
Quote from: Ronvandyn on February 27, 2014, 08:04:58 PM
+1 on Ringo! 

Ringo also has written some...ahem..."alternative" stuff.  Apparently he needed to get some bad thoughts out of his head so he put them down on paper :)

Larry Correia is a gun dork like the rest of us.  He used to be an NFA dealer and is an avid 3 gun competitor, so his books have stuff like the hero carrying a custom pair of STI 2011's.

Another suggestion - Death in the Long Grass: A Big Game Hunter's Adventures in the African Bush by Peter Hathaway Capstick.  I just finished this and it was very entertaining.
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Re: In need of a good Read
« Reply #9 on: February 27, 2014, 10:58:16 PM »
My father still hasn't lent me his copy of "Last Man Out" by Glen McDole, one of the few survivors of the Palawan Massacre at the hands of the Japanese in WWII. He was a POW for 3 years. Glen, who passed away in 2009, was my grandfather's first cousin. He was born in Nebraska and moved to Iowa before the war. I never got the chance to meet him, but my dad told me stories about him. If I'm connecting the right family tree branches, Glen's mother lived in Ashland.

http://www.amazon.com/Last-Man-Out-Survivor-Massacre/dp/0786418222
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Re: In need of a good Read
« Reply #10 on: February 27, 2014, 11:33:37 PM »
 First , what a kindle?

  for hard cover, I have all the books written by Patrick F McManus, once you read one you will have to have them all,
 most of his books pretty well cover my childhood
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Re: In need of a good Read
« Reply #11 on: February 28, 2014, 05:00:54 AM »
Bracken's "Enemies Foreign and Domestic" series. 
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Re: In need of a good Read
« Reply #12 on: February 28, 2014, 08:15:23 AM »
One Second After by WILLIAM R. FORSTCHEN,  It will scare the bajesus out of you, cause it COULD happen.
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Re: In need of a good Read
« Reply #13 on: February 28, 2014, 08:36:09 AM »
I prefer historical non-fiction and am just wrapping up Death in the City of Light. It's the true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed a reign of terror in Nazi-Occupied Paris. This is my first read by the author, David King.....I will definitely look for more from him.
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Re: In need of a good Read
« Reply #14 on: February 28, 2014, 09:57:40 AM »
Awick reminded me of one, and I would loan it to ya IF I could remember where I put it, or who I loaned it to last.
 It's "A Few Survived" by Bob Dowding of Seward NE. 
About his time in WWII in Japanese POW camps, including Bataan Death March .  Quite the story.
I am saddened I cannot find my copy, as I /we got it from the family when I stood in a PGR flag line for his funeral.  An HONOR Indeed! :(
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Re: In need of a good Read
« Reply #15 on: February 28, 2014, 10:06:57 AM »
thanks for the response everyone, gives me handfuls of future lineups!

i'm honestly not much of a reader, but about 2 years ago or so i started doing some light reading in "leisure times", takes me generally 4-6 mos. to finish a book.

going to have to think this one through over the weekend i guess, i don't have a solid go to genre so i'm going to have to do some thumbing through everyones suggestions and some stuff i've sought out on my own.

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Re: In need of a good Read
« Reply #16 on: February 28, 2014, 10:17:57 AM »
im a little late to this party, but i have these (and a few others) on hardcover:

No Easy Day - Mark Owen
Sniper: A Novel - Nicolai Lilin (Russian sniper/saboteur book fighting Afghans, etc.  good book covering the other side, and quite different views on USA)
American Sniper - Chris Kyle

i prefer real books, so i have no idea if they are on kindle or not.
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Re: In need of a good Read
« Reply #17 on: February 28, 2014, 05:48:21 PM »
Quote from: bkoenig on February 27, 2014, 08:36:03 PM
Ringo also has written some...ahem..."alternative" stuff.  Apparently he needed to get some bad thoughts out of his head so he put them down on paper :)

Larry Correia is a gun dork like the rest of us.  He used to be an NFA dealer and is an avid 3 gun competitor, so his books have stuff like the hero carrying a custom pair of STI 2011's.

Another suggestion - Death in the Long Grass: A Big Game Hunter's Adventures in the African Bush by Peter Hathaway Capstick.  I just finished this and it was very entertaining.

If you like  John Ringo, then Tom Kratman is a must read. Start with A State of Disobedience, bearing in mind it was written in 2003 before anyone outside of Chicago had heard of B. Obama. Real spooky.... Then try Caliphate.  Those two books should give enough of a taste to get you following his other works. 

I'll have to give Correia a look...always looking for that next author to follow
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Re: In need of a good Read
« Reply #18 on: March 05, 2014, 10:06:06 PM »
One Second After. 

Story of the aftermath of an EMP attack. Scary and thought provoking. A bit slow to start but fantastic overall. Read in two days. Loaned out to several people and they all finished quickly as well. 
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Re: In need of a good Read
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