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General Categories => Non Gun Stuff => Topic started by: altheman2 on March 25, 2013, 09:25:54 PM
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With Grey Geeks post "Why the paperless office is a myth" got me thinking, I need more reading material. With my current gun budget cut pretty slim i need something to do rather than drool over guns i can't afford. Who has read something good?, i haven't read much just some stuff by Jeff Cooper and Massad Ayoob. Who has got some good recommendations, survival and 2nd Amendment oriented of course. Thanks!
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Have you read Enemies Foreign and Domestic?
http://www.amazon.com/Enemies-Foreign-Domestic-Matthew-Bracken/dp/0972831010/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1364265933&sr=8-1&keywords=enemies+foreign+and+domestic+by+matthew+bracken (http://www.amazon.com/Enemies-Foreign-Domestic-Matthew-Bracken/dp/0972831010/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1364265933&sr=8-1&keywords=enemies+foreign+and+domestic+by+matthew+bracken)
Ghost
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Not exactly RKBA-related, but try "We Meant Well" by Peter Van Buren. Here's his blog. http://wemeantwell.com/ (http://wemeantwell.com/) The book is both disturbing (in terms of money spent for questionable gain) and very funny in terms of his writing.
Peter was one of the State Department's Foreign Service Officers, working a "provincial reconstruction team" in Iraq.
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+1 for Enemies Foreign and Domestic. Great read, but don't put your hat on too tight. ;)
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I don't know if you're into SciFi or not, but John Ringo has an entire series about a carnivorous alien race who invades earth, and humankind eventually battling back and kicking the butt of the entire galaxy. They're immensely entertaining, if not terribly highbrow. Plus, Ringo is ex-Army and a gun guy, so it's one of the few series where you'll read about sniping aliens with a .500 Whisper ;D . I want one of those some day.
A Hymn Before Battle is the first book, and there are several spinoffs dealing with other side stories besides the main series.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_of_the_Aldenata (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_of_the_Aldenata)
Another great SciFi author (yes, I'm a geek) is Dan Simmons. Hyperion is the first of a 4 book series and IMO is the best SciFi series ever written, excepting maybe the Dune series by Frank Herbert, and he jumped the shark after the 3rd book or so.
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And I am sure that you have read the "Union Creek Journal" from one of our own famous in house writers. :P
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And I am sure that you have read the "Union Creek Journal" from one of our own famous in house writers. :P
Famous? Hardly. :D
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The Passage, by Justin Cronin. You won't be sorry.
And of course any of the classic TEOTWAWKI books out there, Atlas Shrugged, World War Z, Babylon, I, Robot etc etc etc...
If you were after Non-Fiction, I can't help much yet...
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I don't know if you're into SciFi or not, but John Ringo has an entire series about a carnivorous alien race who invades earth, and humankind eventually battling back and kicking the butt of the entire galaxy. They're immensely entertaining, if not terribly highbrow. Plus, Ringo is ex-Army and a gun guy, so it's one of the few series where you'll read about sniping aliens with a .500 Whisper ;D . I want one of those some day.
A Hymn Before Battle is the first book, and there are several spinoffs dealing with other side stories besides the main series.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_of_the_Aldenata (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_of_the_Aldenata)
Another great SciFi author (yes, I'm a geek) is Dan Simmons. Hyperion is the first of a 4 book series and IMO is the best SciFi series ever written, excepting maybe the Dune series by Frank Herbert, and he jumped the shark after the 3rd book or so.
Great reads as well.
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In the non-fiction category, Col. Dave Grossmans` books "On Combat" an "On Killing" should be required reading for everyone on here.
"The Gift of Fear" by Gavin DeBecker is also very good.
- Shawn
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Enemies Foreign and Domestic?
THAT sounds interesting, and somewhat prophetic as well!
Enemies Foreign And Domestic review in GUNS Magazine, November 2005:
A stadium massacre leads to the banning of all semi-automatic rifles, the teaser on the jacket reads. But who really fired the fatal shots, and why? The answer, we learn, involves nothing less than a modern day Reichstag fire, engineered and instigated by an evil and ambitious ATF supervisor and his squad of violent agency misfits. The political fallout of the stadium shooting is a national ban on assault weapons. With free rein to create more domestic terror incidents, and with unprincipled politicians and a complicit media, gun owners are easily demonized as a manipulated public demands more security. All Brad Fallon wanted to do was restore his vintage sailboat, Guajira, take his savings from three years of working the ANWR oil fields, and cruise the world. He hadn't counted on his interest and proficiency in shooting being used to entrap him, or being ultimately forced into covert rebellion against rogue federal agents. But back a man into a corner with other men -- all proficient in modern weaponry, and all unbending believers in liberty -- make it clear that you mean to destroy them, and a most dangerous type of resistance is born: a competent one. Author Matthew Bracken has written a thrilling first novel (did I mention this is also a passionate love story?), one that engages, grips and doesn t let up. He avoids the proselytizing that can plague the liberty genre, and delivers a solid, exciting tale with deep and believable characters. Bracken's background with UDT and SEAL Teams, and as the designer/builder of a cutter that he soloed from Panama to Guam, adds credibility to the technical and tactical details he weaves into the plot. I can't wait for the sequel, scheduled for release early in 2006.
-David Codrea, GUNS Magazine --GUNS Magazine, November 2005[/url]
"Fast and Furious" anyone? It almost worked.
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It's not gun related, but it is a very interesting and mentally challanging read that exercises the mind. President Lincoln read it by daylight while riding a mule to his next court engagement, and at night by candle light after his roommates had gone to sleep:
It is Euclid's Elements, and it is on Amazon.
(EDIT: I tried to include the URL to that book but SMF, the forum engine, rejected it as a "trojan attack"!)
Three thousand years ago the mind of man was as bright, if not brighter, as it is today. Many people think that Newton derived his three laws using his "fluxions" (calculus) but he did not. He used the Elements. This is amazing because the rules for calculations to the Greeks was a straight edge without marks and a compass. With those two devices one can add, subtract, multiply, divide and find square roots, which is all Newton did. BTW, Newton's Principia is a great read as well.
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(EDIT: I tried to include the URL to that book but SMF, the forum engine, rejected it as a "trojan attack"!
Actually it is our forum firewall that rejected this Request Entity Attack: %27!
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Well most of the BAEN books free cd's are still online at
http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/ (http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/)
These are the Free CD's that were inside select Baen hard cover book releases.
They are Free to all as long as you don't charge anything for them.
you can download them in 2 flavors the Full Cd ISO so you can burn your own CD
or the CD Rip file (a Zip file of the whole CD) containing the directorys, books, and images
These contain lots of books from Webber, Drake, Ringo, Flint and other Baen authors.
Lot's and lot's of good reading all from BAEN books authors.
Titles include: The Honor Harrington series, the Dahak series, Empire of Man series with John Ringo, the Legacy of the Aldenata series by John Ringo, The Paladin of Shadows series by John Ringo, Voyage of the Space Bubble series by John Ringo, the Ring of Fire Series from Eric Flint, the Belisarius Saga by David Drake, and other Books by Travis "Doc" Taylor, Tom Kratman, Keith Laumer and Steve White
If you like them please suport BAEN books and buy some.
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it is our forum firewall that rejected this Request Entity Attack
Interesting. I can't even quote your line and leave that "attack code" in it without triggering the firewall. But, you can, so your firewall rules must reflect IP and/or user name info or you wouldn't be able to post it either.
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Yes, admin IP has a pass through setting...
If I could figure out which ones to remove without compromising the firewall, I would remove some of the request entity settings like %26 and %27
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If I could figure out which ones to remove without compromising the firewall, I would remove some of the request entity settings
I don't know how much spambot patrolling you have to do, but I have yet to see an errant posting in this forum. So, either you or your firewall & SMF are doing a good job! Personally, if it isn't broke I wouldn't fix it!
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I don't know how much spambot patrolling you have to do, but I have yet to see an errant posting in this forum. So, either you or your firewall & SMF are doing a good job! Personally, if it isn't broke I wouldn't fix it!
I cringe though when I see a poster's long post flagged and know it was rejected... I hope at least they had a copy to try and repost
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I cringe though when I see a poster's long post flagged and know it was rejected... I hope at least they had a copy to try and repost
I've had that happen a couple times. I was usually able to back up a page and restore what I wrote and the winnow out the offending characters. That's how I posted that one that was interpreted as escape characters in the Amazon URL link.
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Ringo
Bkoenig, I have to give you a BIG THANK YOU! for turning me on to John Ringo. :)
I checked out his trilogy (which concludes with "The Hot Gate"). I could not put them down! I read through the first one yesterday and finished the second one last night at 4AM. I am into the third right now. Ringo has replaced Sawyer as my favorite SF author!
There are nearly a dozen Ringo books in the library here. Looking forward tor reading them all!
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Yeah, the Troy Rising series is my favorite of his stuff. I haven't read any of his newer series yet, though.