About to start Ready, Player One. Then the first Jack Reacher book, then The Name of the Wind.
"There are no finger prints under water."
Stephen R Donaldson
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever
The Real Story and the Gap Trilogy
Herbert
Dune Great all by itself without the sequels
Tolkien
The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings
Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land and just about anything else he wrote will work
Hunter S Thompson
Hells Angels
Asimov
The Robot books
Ursula K Leguin
Tales from Earthsea Trilogy
L. Sprag DeCamp
The Conan novels and stories
Just a few to recommend to the younger members that want a good read
"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
George S. Patton
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
John F. Kennedy
?A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment, and is designed for the special use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics.?
George Fitch. c 1916.
Just finish "World War Z" and just started "We Were Soldiers Once... And Young"
Checkout Blind Man's Bluff , by Sontag and Drew, about the submarine activities during the cold war.
Reads like good fiction but it's all TRUE.
Especially about the part where the U.S. physically tapped into an underwater communications cable just outside the Russkie sub base at Murmansk.
The Hughs/CIA Glomar Explorer
Lost subs, etc.
Great read!
I got sucked into Killing Floor, the first Jack Reacher book, and now I'm almost a third through it.
"There are no finger prints under water."
My father sent me, "Shooter" I'll prob start it tomorrow.
Greetings all, as a new member of the forum, I have really enjoyed reading everyones post and there seem to be tons of great info on here. With that said, I was wondering if anyone has read or even heard of the book "They fired the first shot 2012." It was recommended to me by a friend last night and he swears by this book. The jist of it, from what I gathered, is a book regarding the attack upon the American People by our government and how the government is steadily trying to do away with the so called "middle class." I plan on reading it to gather my own opinion from it, just thought I would see if any of you all have read it. Thanks!
Some quick research on google and amazon shows that apparently it was written by the leader of a fringe religious cult.
Han shot first.
What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? What is my wisdom, if even the fools can dictate to me? What is my freedom, if all creatures, even the botched and impotent, are my masters? What is my life, if I am but to bow, to agree and to obey?
-- Ayn Rand, Anthem (Chapter 11)