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General Categories => Non Gun Stuff => Topic started by: thirtydaZe on February 27, 2014, 12:11:14 PM
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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/ (http://scsherman.com/books/mercy-shot/)
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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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+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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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 (http://www.amazon.com/Last-Man-Out-Survivor-Massacre/dp/0786418222)
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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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Bracken's "Enemies Foreign and Domestic" series.
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One Second After by WILLIAM R. FORSTCHEN, It will scare the bajesus out of you, cause it COULD happen.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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At the risk of unabashed self-promotion ... http://www.amazon.com/Union-Creek-Journal-Toby-Asplin-ebook/dp/B008XLJ63K/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1394118506&sr=1-1&keywords=the+union+creek+journal (http://www.amazon.com/Union-Creek-Journal-Toby-Asplin-ebook/dp/B008XLJ63K/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1394118506&sr=1-1&keywords=the+union+creek+journal)
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At the risk of unabashed self-promotion ... http://www.amazon.com/Union-Creek-Journal-Toby-Asplin-ebook/dp/B008XLJ63K/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1394118506&sr=1-1&keywords=the+union+creek+journal (http://www.amazon.com/Union-Creek-Journal-Toby-Asplin-ebook/dp/B008XLJ63K/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1394118506&sr=1-1&keywords=the+union+creek+journal)
right on, added to my wish list.
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+1 on Ringo!
mmm... I've about read out the scifi section at the Walt public library, but I avoided the Ringo books because the covers looked so corny. I'll have to check some out!
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If thre are any folks who like true history in a novel type account check out " The Ladder Of Rivers" by Harry E. Crisman. A very interesting account of the cattle and gold barons of the late 1800's and early 1900's complete with rustlers, hangings and trials in Kearney, Hastings, Loup City and Central City, serious enough for troops to be called from Fort Omaha for secutity
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One Second After by WILLIAM R. FORSTCHEN
Forstchen also wrote a series of at least ten books collectively called The Lost Regiment. They are about a Civil War Union Regiment that is mysteriously transported to an alien planet where they encounter people from Earth who were abducted in other eras and have to engage in a protracted war with a nation of alien barbarians who are pillaging the planet.
Jerry Pournelle wrote a series of thee books, called Janisaries, about a group of CIA contractors who are abducted by aliens and dumped on another planet to raise plants used to make recreational drugs. There was supposed to be a fourth book but it has never been completed.
In today's column on the Backwoods Home web site, Massad Ayoob talks about a future movie called Alexander's Bridge. It is about a Delta Force team that gets transported back through time to the middle of the Civil War. The cast will consist of real life Delta Force operators and Civil War re-enactors. Ayoob says they intend to get the details right about weapons, tactics, clothing, etc.
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Another great scifi author (probably my favorite) is Dan Simmons. His Hyperion series is just awesome, and he has a couple of other books (Ilium and Olympos) that mix scifi with the Trojan war. Yes, it sounds weird, but it really works.
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i just remembered i liked Sal Guntas book. hes a medal of honor winner and i saw him speak at the Sac museum.
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mmm... I've about read out the scifi section at the Walt public library, but I avoided the Ringo books because the covers looked so corny. I'll have to check some out!
Yeah, the covers seem to be aimed at a hormone-laden 15 year old boy. The Troy Rising series is pretty good, though.
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At the risk of unabashed self-promotion ... http://www.amazon.com/Union-Creek-Journal-Toby-Asplin-ebook/dp/B008XLJ63K/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1394118506&sr=1-1&keywords=the+union+creek+journal (http://www.amazon.com/Union-Creek-Journal-Toby-Asplin-ebook/dp/B008XLJ63K/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1394118506&sr=1-1&keywords=the+union+creek+journal)
did you write this? was pretty good, but are you ever going to write a second half and tell us what happened?
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did you write this? was pretty good, but are you ever going to write a second half and tell us what happened?
Yes and yes. :D Not sure when, though. Life has sort of overtaken me.