Books - What Are You Reading / What Do You Recommend?

[GilpinGuy]

The next installment of the D.J Molles "the Remaining" series is out, called "Fractured". I love the series. I'm about 30% through this one and it's not as good as the others so far but there's less zombie action. Actually, no zombie action yet. Just threats of zombies that don't appear. Hopefully, it'll pick up soon.

It picks up. I always forget how good this series is and then he releases another book and I'm sucked back in.

You were right on. It picked up a lot and is really good. Not finished yet, but it rocks.

[duke_39a]

I read The Oupost by Jack Tapper. It is about the lead up to and Battle of COP Keating which is now responsible for 2 living MOHs from Fort Carson. This was a good book that shows the dynamics of the area, the politics of the Afghan Area of Operations and the friction between the White House, the Pentagon, and the commander's in the field. All the while showing the work and sacrifice of the soldiers that were tasked to make that a better place. It took me about 3 months to finish the book, not because of how it was written but because I would get so pissed off at the bureaucratic, higher level, political bullshit and poor decisions and in some cases leadership by commanders at all levels that cost so many lives throughout the time in the Kamdesh valley. Having met and talked to some of the guys involved in this area, it was a no win from the get go and a disaster waiting to happen. The troops tasked with their mission did their best, just like Americans always have, but were given a task too big to handle without the required resources to accomplish it.

[cstone]

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Cadevers
Mary Roach

http://www.amazon.com/Stiff-Curious-.../dp/0393324826

I like her writing style. This is the third of her books I've read and enjoyed.

Packing for Mars
http://www.amazon.com/Packing-Mars-C.../dp/B00AR2BCLW

and

Gulp
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0393081575

[DSB OUTDOORS]

OK. This is a good read and it will make everyone think about what you have, and what your friends may have!!! And who you talk to, and what you brag about!!

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8...rty_White_Boys

A friend of mine let me borrow this book years back. And I referred it to a friend to a friend tonight. So it sparked my brain to share it! I don't read books!!!! BUT This opened my eye's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Enjoy!!

[scratchy]

The Liberation trilogy by Rick Atkinson. It's an extraordinarily well written history of WWII in Europe from North Africa to Berlin.

http://liberationtrilogy.com/

[45XD]

Got into a new author while on vacation visiting my wife's family....
Adam Hall- he wrote "The Quiller Memorandum" and several other espionage books starting after WWII. Light, easy reads, but with 3 kids it's all I have time for...
Going to try to read "Killing Lincoln" by B. O'Reilly next- based off my dad's recommendation.

[cstone]

Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces - Radley Balko
http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Warrior-C.../dp/1610392116

I just finished this book. Balko seems to be a left leaning libertarian, and many of his points are made by a stretch of the imagination and inference without good substantiation. Even with that weakness, he provides a simple origin of the Castle Doctrine in English Common Law, and then lays out how the past 100 years have been eroding this simple protection for citizens within their homes. Knock and announce is becoming a thing of the past and most judges and prosecutors pay lip service to their duties of checking the police in the routine use of exigent circumstances in violently entering people's homes. Sometimes the crimes the police are investigating and using these dynamic entry tactics are just preposterous. The case of Steven Seagal driving a tank into a man's living room for a "cock fighting" raid sound almost too bizarre to be true. The almost routine killing of family dogs during police activities is something most of us have seen right here in Colorado, and it is happening all too frequently around the country.

The book is easy to read and I recommend it if you are looking for information on the steady mission creep of what used to be a public service. I really recommend this book to anyone in the LE community. It isn't the end all be all, and there are faults in the book, but it gives us an interesting perspective on the career we have chosen and how it is drifting into something that, left unchecked could be seriously unhealthy for the republic and the people we are sworn to serve.

Be safe.

[Mazin]

Got into a new author while on vacation visiting my wife's family....
Adam Hall- he wrote "The Quiller Memorandum" and several other espionage books starting after WWII. Light, easy reads, but with 3 kids it's all I have time for...
Going to try to read "Killing Lincoln" by B. O'Reilly next- based off my dad's recommendation.

Starting it soon, if it's anything like killing Kennedy it should be good.

[Sawin]

A friend of mine just lent me his copy of Lone Survivor. I'm only about 60 pages in, but it's good so far. I figured I should read it before seeing the movie (for which I cannot wait!)

[nikolatesla19]

Now I need a damn uplifting book after reading one second after...... Jerks