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Book Thread - Good Reads - Recommendations.
Jun 3, 2013, 6:12 PM
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Need some recommendations for some good reads.
Naturally military reads are great as are fantasy (already read the Game of Thrones books.)
But any and all genres are welcome.
Thanks for the tips! Let's hear 'em!
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Re: Book Thread - Good Reads - Recommendations.
Jun 3, 2013, 6:18 PM
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The dark tower series of books by Stephen king is pretty awesome imo.
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Re: Book Thread - Good Reads - Recommendations.
Jun 3, 2013, 6:20 PM
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Steven King: great stories, crappy writing style.
He should have simply been a screenwriter, IMO.
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Re: Book Thread - Good Reads - Recommendations.
Jun 3, 2013, 6:19 PM
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The Outlaw Chronicles by Angus Donald. Great writer!! The series loosly follows Robin Hood.(who starts as an outlaw because of his support for King Richard, but that is where the typical Robin Hood fable ends) But it actually follows Alan Dale and his rise and relationship with Robert Loxley and the King of England. He starts as a lowly cutpurse thief and fatefully rises to a knightd noble. Great, great series!! The 4th book(Warlord) is worth getting for the cover art alone.
http://www.angus-donald.com/us-editions/
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1. Enemy at the Gates by William Craig.
Jun 3, 2013, 6:30 PM
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2. Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning
3. The Crusades by Payne
4. The Peloponnesian War by Kagan (The first half especially)
5. Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden
6. The Boxer Rebellion by Diana Preston
7. The Birth of the Nazi's by Nigel Jones
All non-fiction.
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blackhawk down
Jun 4, 2013, 1:21 AM
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great book, but a bad writing style....hard to follow at times
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Cormac McCarthy
Jun 3, 2013, 6:38 PM
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No Country for Old Men
The Road
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Orange Blooded [4774]
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Jurrasic Park is long, but really good.***
Jun 3, 2013, 6:42 PM
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Re: Jurrasic Park is long, but really good.***
Jun 3, 2013, 10:22 PM
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I would recommend any book by Michael Crichton!
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The Saxon Stories - by Bernard Cornwell. If you enjoyed the
Jun 3, 2013, 6:59 PM
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recent "Vikings" tv series, then you will love these. Well written, with great characters and graphic, detailed battle scenes as well as a great look at life in those days. Good historical fiction written around real events and characters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saxon_Stories
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I've Been Reading Those Also!!!
Jun 3, 2013, 7:12 PM
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Good Stuff!!
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Legend [19590]
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I've read the Saxon series. Very good.
Jun 3, 2013, 7:41 PM
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Though I prefer Thomas Hookton and the Grail Quest books of Cornwell's.
I'm currently reading 1356.
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Le Card...The Smiley Series
Jun 3, 2013, 7:08 PM
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy, The Honorable School Boy, and Smiley's People are all excellent, and hit on some interesting cold war stuff.
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I'm currently about 1/3 of the way through Treat Vector by
Jun 3, 2013, 7:15 PM
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Tom Clancy. It's 835 pages long.
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james ellroy
Jun 3, 2013, 7:20 PM
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#### good reads I have read most of his stuff.....love the American underground series.
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Greg Keyes, "THe Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone"
Jun 3, 2013, 7:22 PM
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Series. Similar to GoT, a bit more fantasy.
"when the Poor BOys Dance" G.F BOrden. Marine perspectives through several wars.
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Inherent Vice was a good read
Jun 3, 2013, 7:29 PM
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Thomas Pynchon is excellent as always.
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The Association of the U.S. Army in Alexandria, Virginia,
Jun 3, 2013, 7:38 PM
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maintains excellent references on military histories and invites reviews for their magazine. Check out their website:
http://www.ausa.org
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A great book for all T-Netters and Tiger fans.....
Jun 3, 2013, 7:47 PM
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"The Power of Positive Thinking" - Norman Vincent Peale
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Any David Baldacci, John Sandford, Lee Child***
Jun 3, 2013, 8:43 PM
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Book recommendation
Jun 3, 2013, 8:48 PM
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Once an Eagle by Anton Myer. Awesome military read.
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Re: Book recommendation
Jun 3, 2013, 8:51 PM
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Also any Jeff Shaara historical fiction from basically all US wars. World War II and Revolutionary stuff is especially good.
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anything by W. E. B. Griffin.***
Jun 3, 2013, 8:54 PM
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Vince Flynn ~~~ Clive Cussler
Jun 3, 2013, 9:09 PM
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Flynn is based on American 'super-spy' Mitch Rapp who is ex-Seal & works dark off the books for USA. (Read series in order though.)
Cussler is based on Dirk Pitt & his adventures that amazing ties together a treasure hunter type story that links historical events over several centuries.
Also, David Baldacci, Jeffery Deaver, James Grippando, Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child, Michael Palmer, Stephen James, Jeffrey Archer, William Bernhardt, Michael Connelley
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Re: Book Thread - Good Reads - Recommendations.
Jun 3, 2013, 9:17 PM
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Joe ledger series off books by jonathon maberry have been great for me...
Also liked justin cronin's the passage and the twelve...
In a current kick with alot of robert ludlum's stuff (the bournes, covert one, prometheus deception etc)
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Re: Book Thread - Good Reads - Recommendations.
Jun 3, 2013, 9:19 PM
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Frozen In Time is an amazing WW II read about a C 53 Cargo plain that crashes on the Greenland ice cap. Then a B 17 crashes while searching for the C 53 and then a Duck Plane crashes looking for the B 17. Incredible story of survival and loss.
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Atlas Shrugged
Jun 3, 2013, 9:34 PM
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Everyone should read this novel. I'm in the middle of it now and plan on reading her other works when finished.
GO TIGERS!!!!!
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FROZEN IN TIME (2013) by Mitchell Zuckoff.
Jun 3, 2013, 10:20 PM
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He also wrote LOST IN SHANGRI-LA in 2011, which I would also recommend. Both are narrative nonfiction accounts of actual rescue missions for American soldiers during during WWII. You'll never believe that everything in these books actually happened.
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Re: Book Thread - Good Reads - Recommendations.
Jun 3, 2013, 10:59 PM
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I don't usually read nonfiction, but The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor by Jake Tapper was an interesting read. It details from the reason the US military decided to put a Combat Outpost in Kamdesh through the time we left. It shares the battles fought there and the counter insurgency that was going on. This is where Daniel Rodriguez was, and he is mentioned some during descriptions of the final battle there. His being there is what got me interested in the book. I was upset that we put an outpost in such a defenseless position and other things that happened there but also amazed at the bravery of our troops there.
I'm currently re-reading The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum and agree with a previous poster about his books being good. I don't normally read books again, but the Bourne ones were some of my favorites from 20+ years ago.
Daniel Silva is one of my favorite authors. He's written several books following a Mossad agent named Gabrial Allon, and I'm waiting for the new on in the series to come out in July. The first book in the series is the Kill Artist. His first book is called the Unlikely Spy which is a standalone fiction tale about the Allied deception to confuse the Nazis where we would attack on D-Day.
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Liberation trilogy
Jun 3, 2013, 11:08 PM
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Starts with Army at Dawn, which is about the war in North Africa from 1942-1943. Each book is about a different phase of the liberation of Europe. the author won the Pulitzer
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Anything by Steven Ambrose! (History)
Jun 3, 2013, 11:53 PM
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Band of Brothers, D-Day and Citizen Soldiers at the top of the list.
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great author
Jun 4, 2013, 1:25 AM
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casual readers dont like him much but if you read a lot of non-fiction then they are good reads. I have cited him several times in my papers
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Re: Book Thread
Jun 3, 2013, 11:55 PM
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Nonfiction
Lone Survivor - Marcus Luttrell
Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand (Seabiscuit by her is also good)
John Adams - David McCullough
Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
Historical Fiction
Fall of Giants - Ken Follett (World War I)
Winter of the World - Ken Follett (World War II)
Fiction
Game of Thrones would be my highest recommendation but you've already read the series.
Anything by Chuck Palahniuk - Weird but brilliant - Fight Club, Rant, Choke
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Re: Book Thread
Jun 4, 2013, 1:01 AM
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Unbroken- great book
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Re: Book Thread
Jun 4, 2013, 6:47 AM
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I've read that one, too. Good read and great (true) story.
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where to start.....
Jun 4, 2013, 1:33 AM
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1. Killing Kennedy, and Killing Lincoln
2. Band of Brothers
3. The Pacific
4. Battered ######## of Bastogne
5. Life of Pi
6. Dan Brown books
7. Hemlock Grove
8. The Swords of Rome series
9. and last but not least you cant go wrong with classic American authors like Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Twain etc.
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Former Seal Team 6. http://hamptonroads.com/node/679441***
Jun 4, 2013, 3:42 AM
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I am now finishing up 11/22/63.
Jun 4, 2013, 6:12 AM
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Not too bad.
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reacher said nothing***
Jun 4, 2013, 6:20 AM
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clemson grad and author with new novel
Jun 4, 2013, 7:30 AM
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My wife who is a Clemson grad and loyal fan just published Keowee Valley... looks like a chick book but is getting good praise from men and women.
Check it out. It is historical fiction.
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nything by Randy Wayne White******
Jun 4, 2013, 7:32 AM
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