What are you reading?

Just finished
Extreme Leadership-Jocko Willink

On to
One Mission-Chris Fussell
 
CITY OF GOD by Augustine
BASIC ELECTRICITY GK WILLEKE
FOR A NEW LIBERTY - Rothbard
THE FOUNTAINHEAD - Ayn Rand
THE SKEPTICAL ENVIRONMENTALIST - Bjornstadt
THE ECONOMICS OF FREEDOM (random works) Bastiat
THE EYE OF THE WORLD - Jordan
THE NEW TESTAMENT
SOME WILL NOT DIE -Budrys

Some of these I cycle around on as they become boring after a while. The language is stilted and some issues uninteresting. I used to read a lot more than I do now. Internet takes up time I used to spend plopped in a chair reading.
 
JustKeepSwimming said:
One of my favorite books ever. Hope you enjoy it. I followed it up with One Year After and then The Final Day. Absolutely great series.

And don't forget his book Day of Wrath if you haven't read it. Eye opening book to say the least.
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I finished One Second After, and was impressed with the story. I would've liked his characters to have had a bit more...something. Dimension, perhaps.

I'll still probably try the next in that series.
 
For anyone who still hasn't gotten the new Bracken novel, and especially if you're short on funds, and even more especially if you know someone in Europe, where they can't buy this book (because it's deemed "hate-speech"), but they CAN read it via Kindle, go get it for free next week:

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In the middle of Grace under fire, book 2 of the locker 9 series. Good stuff
 
Stout said:
The old Heinleins were great when I was a kid....40 years ago... Not sure how well they've aged.
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Loved most of them. "Rocketship Galileo" aged quite well, I think. M1 Garands on the moon - what's not to like?

I just finished re-reading "The Lost Fleet" series by Jack Campbell. Those are great.

Working through "Field of Dishonor" by David Weber.

Also working on "Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat" by Dan Hampton.

Then there's all the technical crap I'm reading...mostly a couple of electromagnetics texts, and a Python book.
 
RFMan said:
Loved most of them. "Rocketship Galileo" aged quite well, I think. M1 Garands on the moon - what's not to like?

I just finished re-reading "The Lost Fleet" series by Jack Campbell. Those are great.

Working through "Field of Dishonor" by David Weber.

Also working on "Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat" by Dan Hampton.

Then there's all the technical crap I'm reading...mostly a couple of electromagnetics texts, and a Python book.
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I haven't read it, but I remember seeing this a couple of months ago...

http://www.castaliahouse.com/just-released-young-mans-war-by-rod-walker/

Rod Walker is the New New Heinlein, and The Thousand Worlds marks the return of science fiction to its classical form and historical heights. Written in the style and tradition of Robert Heinlein’s 12 classic juvenile novels published by Scribner, YOUNG MAN’S WAR is an exciting tale of survival, courage, independence, and the indomitable spirit of Man.
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Fly By Wire. A Jammer Davis story. 3 books in the series so far. Read the third one first because my wife didn't realize it was the third. Then I went back and got 1&2.
It is interesting reading a novel involving a plane crash, sitting in a commercial plane :D

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Stout said:
The old Heinleins were great when I was a kid....40 years ago... Not sure how well they've aged.
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I liked Heinlein's books, but also the work of his contemporary, Frank Herbert, who wrote the Dune series.

Strangely enough, 40-50 years later I am reading a new Dune-related book, Navigators of Dune, written by Frank Herbert's son, Brian Herbert.
 
I find it interesting that on every gun forum, I've been a part of, there is a very large Sci-Fi following....I've always wondered why. Most interesting.
 
SLM said:
I find it interesting that on every gun forum, I've been a part of, there is a very large Sci-Fi following....I've always wondered why. Most interesting.
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Interesting observation. Offhand, I can't think of any science-fiction books I have read that did not embrace armed self defense.
 
I'm reading the Fortress Farm Trilogy by GR Carter. First book has been like Tony the Tiger (Grrrrrrrreat)
 
Spent Shell Casings by David Rose


Former MARSOC operator turned LE turned convict, turned scholar, this book is sometimes visceral, sometimes gut checkingly honest, and for most who have “never”, it will seem like it’s written by an outsider FOR outsiders.
 
OverMountainMan said:
Meant to include a link: Amazondotcom ...& get their free kindle reader. Download each book as it becomes available to your own device(s).
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I should've clarified. I meant info as to where you got that? I don't see any mention on Amazon of it being free next week, and didn't see anything on MB's website.

Curious as to the source (and hoping it's a legit deal). There are several Kindles in my house plus several iPads/iPhones with the app...actually taking advantage of the offer won't be an issue. :D
 
BigWaylon said:
I should've clarified. I meant info as to where you got that? I don't see any mention on Amazon of it being free next week, and didn't see anything on MB's website.

Curious as to the source (and hoping it's a legit deal). There are several Kindles in my house plus several iPads/iPhones with the app...actually taking advantage of the offer won't be an issue. :D
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Oh, yeah. Matt announced it on twitter yesterday. Here it is again, as tweeted this morning.
 
Just finished
Smoke gets in your eyes & other lessons from the crematory - Caitlin Doughty

Getting ready to start
The Krampus and the Old, Dark Christmas: Roots and Rebirth of the Folkloric Devil - Al Ridenour



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Good links about the classic stuff, and much bashing of the new Star Wars that I'm glad I skipped.

https://jeffro.wordpress.com/2017/1...-moral-complexity-and-patriarchal-constructs/

Don’t Read Anything After 1940 (Kairos) A Simple List — “The insidious attitude that not only are there no heroes; there’s no such thing as heroism is rampant in American pop culture. The point of fiction is escapism. If you won’t give the reader something to dream about and aspire to, GTFO.”

Words Have Meaning (Burroughs Bibliophiles) Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Development of Science Fiction — “Some hard-core fans of science fiction might deny that Burroughs’ adventure oriented stories had much to do with the development of the genre. One must admit, after all, that the science in Burroughs’ books is nearly always subordinate to the adventure itself. However, I do not balk at including Burroughs as one of the founding fathers. I’m fairly catholic in my attitude toward science fiction. If it takes place on another planet or is set in the future or has some interesting and scientific element in it, and especially if it’s called ‘science fiction,’ I accept it as science fiction. There’s good science fiction and bad, but I don’t exclude stories mostly on the basis of theme.”
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Scalia Speaks: Reflections On Law, Faith And Life Well Lived
 
I mainly read CFF, diagnostic flow charts (we LOVE these, ask any tech), wiring diagrams and repair procedures. That’s about it.
 
I finished rereading the North and South rtilogy a little while back. First two are great, reminded myself I didnt like the last on lol.

Moved on to The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. Historical fiction covering about 50 years or so from the early to late 12th century England centering around a Mason (stoneworker, not the secret group lol), his family, politics of the Church and the Monarchy, civil war, and construction of a Cathedral. If you havent read it, I highly recommend it.

Now, I'm reading In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson.
 
D Day Through German Eyes.
 
Finished the scrapyard ship series.

Started and finished conflicted home. Actually wasn’t that great of a book

Just finished the first book of Jernigan’s War and now on to book 2 called Porter’s run
 
The End of the Empire, by Alexix A. Gilliland.

A 1983 SciFi book I picked up in a used book store a few months ago.
 
Just finished the last Jack Reacher novel. Some of you may be interested that it's about the opiate crisis.
 
Started Bracken's "Enemies Foreign and Domestic" today sitting in the car line waiting for my 6 yr old at school.

Damn...is print getting smaller or am I getting older :rolleyes:
 
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Just starrted El Paso by Winston Groom. He wrote Forest Gump. Historical fiction from around 1916 involving Pancho Villa, Pershing and Patton. I read the non fiction story a few years ago.
 
About to start on the 2 newest Clive Cussler novels...Got every last one of his books on the shelf.
 
I'm currently reading this thread......

Lol

Seriously though, I'm reading the Gray Man books by Mark Greaney.
Awesome books.
R rated due to language.

(Adventures of ex CIA operative)


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