Currently reading "Dead or Alive" by Tom Clancy.
Scars and Stripes is a great read. Navy Pilot who is shot down over Vietnam, captured and tortured for years and then released.
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Currently reading "Dead or Alive" by Tom Clancy.
Scars and Stripes is a great read. Navy Pilot who is shot down over Vietnam, captured and tortured for years and then released.
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Just finished "Traitor's Kiss", by Gerald Seymour.
It's about a soviet naval captain who is caught giving secrets to the British, and the mission to save him. It's another excellent book by this author.
if you like naval books, get the book "Big Red".Quote:
Originally Posted by Duman
It's a non-fiction book about the Ohio Class Nuke subs.
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Thank you for the recommendation, I'll look for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by CoGirl303
Finished two books in a series "Pandora's Star" and "Judas Unchained", along with a prequel "Misspent Youth". Now reading another related novel "The Abyss Beyond Dreams", all the preceding by Peter F. Hamilton. On deck are "The Sea People" by S. M. Stirling, "Tigana" by Guy Gavriel Kay and some issues of "The Grantville Gazette" which are stories set in the "Ring of Fire" (1632) universe created by Eric Flint.
you're welcome. I also mispoke. It's about the Trident class nuke subs, not Ohio.Quote:
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Trident is the missile system, not the sub class. According to the wiki, Tridents have been carried by three US sub classes including the Ohios, and one or more British sub classes.Quote:
Originally Posted by CoGirl303
I just finished The Midnight Line, a Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child. I 'read' the audio book. It seemed a little overly long and drawn out but that may have been because of the narrator. Eleven CD's. Interesting story though. Reacher investigates what happened to a young woman, a West Point graduate who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and he journeys to the backcountry of Wyoming to deal with dangerous drug dealers to rescue the woman.
https://www.amazon.com/Basics-Resist.../dp/1980673241 looks very very interesting. I think I might just need to pick it up here and check it out.
+1, I like to read Claire Wolfe.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChadAmberg
Most recent of Lee Child's Jack Reacher novels I listened to was Make Me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hummer
Mothers Rest, the town, really is disturbing. It sure puts a double meaning to the term Dark Web
Just finished “Eight Lives Down” by Major Chris Hunter. Excellent read about his tour in Iraq as EOD.
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Turned out to be an interesting read. Enjoyed it.Quote:
Originally Posted by buffalobo
Well, almost six years later... I finally finished it [ROFL1]. I would start it and stop reading for a couple of weeks and have to start over. My GF and I were talking one night and she reminded about audio books. I looked it up on amazon and there it was, narrated by Dave himself. I started it about a month or so ago and finished just now (18 hours 44 minutes long). I would mostly listen to it whenever I was driving. Really, really, beneficial book. I am looking forward to finding more audio books now that I have found a way that I can enjoy them.Quote:
Originally Posted by SouthPaw
Just finished the second book in Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series, Fools Moon. Fun read if you enjoy a twist on detective noir novels like the stuff by Dashiell Hammett.
Sticking with my penchant for dystopia stories, last week I finished reading Founders - A Novel Of The Coming Collapse by James Wesley Rawles.
The premise of this story is a total collapse of American society, not by EMP but by economic collapse. The story follows several individuals located in various parts of the nation and how they survive The book has a heavy religious/Christian theme to it, but as a Christian myself, I didn't find it too distracting.
As with any of the dystopia books I read I need to sit down and go back through a few parts and make notes for myself (ideas for bug out bag contents and lessons learned sort of thing).
Just finished William Forstchen’s “The Final Day” third in the “One Second After” series.
Started Dan Brown’s “Origin”.
Recently read "The Moat in God's Eye" by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournell. Reading The Gripping Hand now.
I've read and re-read that series (many books!) and they just get better and better.Quote:
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Just starting “The Terminal List”, by Jack Carr. It’s a fictional novel, written by a former SEAL, about a SEAL who unleashes vengeance after ending up on the short end of a government conspiracy. It’s the guy’s first book, pretty good so far. It’s nice to read something in which the info about firearms and shooting seems accurate.
Blind Sight and its sequel Echopraxia are probably the two best science fiction novels I've read in the last fifteen years.
The King in Yellow.
Chambers.
Late edit: Inspiration for the first season of True Detective. So happens the 3rd season starts tonight.
Just started reading Trigger Warning by Liam W. Johnstone with J.A. Johnstone.
The writers seem like they'd fit into this site very well.
Finished The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt and working on iGen: The Smartphone Generation by Jean Twenge. Next book on the list is The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure also by Jonathan Haidt.
I am still trying to understand how and why my mindset is so far from the mindset of so many people who are moving our country today. I don't know if understanding will help but trying to understand something is generally where I start any process.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA8kZZS_bzc
Jonathan Haidt was just on Joe Rogan and it's a good podcast.
Just got a box of pre-owned paperback books so I am reading Patterson's "Private" series. Not bad, short chapters so kind of keeps you reading.
No significant books or authors lately, just usual grind of kindle unlimited free/dime store "Post Apocalypse" & "Alternate History" fiction.
Some continuing installments in different series (new S.M. Stirling and Peter F. Hamilton stuff), and started out reading "The Culture" novels by Ian Banks. Still on the library waiting list for the latest "Honorverse" installment.
Alister McClean, "Santorini". Excellent read, nukes, terrorism, suspense. Well written.
Curious George goes to School, Horses and Foals, Click Clack Moo, and any other books my 1,3 or 5 year old bring me.
I know that reading list well. : )Quote:
Originally Posted by encorehunter
Finished "Silent Warrior" by Alex Berenson. Excellent read, the series looks good. Modern day CIA vs. terrorists, etc..
I'm in the middle of the Divergent series (middle of the second book of three, so really the middle). It's good enough, but if you didn't read it, you wouldn't really miss anything.
I saw the movies. Probably saved me a ton of reading.
Hey, when you're 5...Curious George is super badass.Quote:
Originally Posted by encorehunter
One of my bucket list items is to own a monkey.
Easily the worst writing about guns and action in general that I've ever read. I realize that not everyone is a gun person, but it's not like how they work is folklore. If you're an author and you're going to write about guns a lot, it's probably worth an afternoon to learn how they work.Quote:
Originally Posted by ray1970
One of the better books I read took place on a pirate ship and the author came right out in a note and said, "I don't know shit about ships, I asked some people who did to help me write the parts about boats, sorry for the stuff I screwed up." That goes a long way.
My mom had a spider monkey as a kid, in Wheat Ridge. It hated men and would sit on top of the ceiling fan and throw things at people or pull their hair when they walked by.Quote:
Originally Posted by ray1970
Dang. Maybe I need to rewatch the movies. I don?t remember there being much gun stuff.
Perhaps some monkey therapy, even more importantly, some monkey gun laws that would prevent anyone being harmed by a monkey with a weapon.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving