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Posted: 5/24/2017 6:33:26 PM EDT

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Have to agree with Stump70, unless you're good at skim reading
I agreed with the general ideas of the book and wanted to read it and still struggled to get through it. Parts of it really drag on and on with no real advancement after multiple pages of the same stuff being repeated

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The message of the book is interesting, the actual prose of it is horrible.

Ayn Rand was a great theorist, but unfortunately she was also a shitty novelist.

Posted: 5/24/2017 6:34:18 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/24/2017 6:35:23 PM EDT

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The Old Man and the Sea

Death of a Salesman

The Keys of the Kingdom

Bonfire of the Vanities

Posted: 5/24/2017 6:53:16 PM EDT

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Free To Choose- Milton Friedman
Earth Abides- George Stewart
Stiff- Mary Roach
Interior Ballistics- E. D. Lowry

Posted: 5/24/2017 6:55:45 PM EDT

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Lucifer's Hammer

Posted: 5/24/2017 7:02:13 PM EDT

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Undaunted Courage
One Second After
Trainspotting
A Frozen Hell

Posted: 5/24/2017 7:09:22 PM EDT

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"The Golem, What Everyone Should Know About Science."

It will change your perspective about what is known and what is not.

Posted: 5/24/2017 7:09:30 PM EDT

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Forgot about that one. Definitely add to the list!

Posted: 5/24/2017 7:22:25 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/24/2017 7:26:59 PM EDT

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I can't believe no one yet has posted

the art of racing in the rain.

Phenomenal book and a quick read.

Also if you have never read it, the catcher in the Rye.

Posted: 5/24/2017 8:21:56 PM EDT

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Fearless. The story of Navy Seal Adam Brown. If his story doesn't inspire to strive to be your best no matter the hardship than nothing will.

Posted: 5/24/2017 8:26:28 PM EDT

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When I was a kid I never really enjoyed reading all that much, and as aresult I didn't read all that many books. In contrast, I've read about 50 in the last two years and I'm always looking for more.

For those like me that have somewhat missed out, what are the books that every person should read?

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If not already posted A Message to Garcia.

Posted: 5/24/2017 8:30:46 PM EDT

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Red Storm Rising

The Hunt for Red October

Once An Eagle

Pale Horse Coming

The Green Berets

Marine Sniper

Guadalcanal Diary

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It's testimony to the wierdness of my childhood that I'd read both Guadalcanal Diary and Once An Eagle by the time I was ten or eleven. I had little choice, my father wasn't going to read Tiger Beat.

I might add another of my childhood readings: The Raft, the story of a TBD crew's month+ adrift after crash landing following fuel exhaustion. I had a surreal moment in my mid-forties when I spied a small yellow raft on display at the Naval Academy museum, thought "Couldn't be", walked over, and saw that it was.

Posted: 5/24/2017 8:34:34 PM EDT

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Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft

Collected Short Stories by Hemingway

Complete Short Story Omnibus by H.G. Wells

The Collected Stories by Arthur C. Clarke

If you have a preferred subject or genre I could suggest more, I have a bit of a collection

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Posted: 5/24/2017 8:37:16 PM EDT

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Lucifer's Hammer

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I loved that book.
The surfer was my favorite character, but short lived.

Posted: 5/24/2017 8:40:58 PM EDT

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

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BOOM

Posted: 5/24/2017 8:43:11 PM EDT

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"Sum Of All Fears" -- Tom Clancy

Any collection of Edgar Allen Poe's works

"Beowulf"

"Victory" -- Peter Schweizer (Events leadin up to the collapse of the USSR)

"Bias" --Bernard Goldberg (Early expose' of Liberal bias at CBS and other networks)

"Up Front" Bill Mauldin -- collection of his WWII cartoons from Stars and Stripes.

Posted: 5/24/2017 8:54:12 PM EDT

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The Richest Man in Babylon. Something they don't teach you in school - how to make $.
The Creature From Jekyll Island. Something else they don't teach you in school - the fraud that is our monetary system
George Washington's The Rules of Civility.

Posted: 5/24/2017 8:54:19 PM EDT

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Red Strom Rising

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A contra-factual biography of South Carolina Senator, Strom Thurmond

Posted: 5/24/2017 9:01:30 PM EDT

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Not gonna lie I love me a good Star Wars book, if on doubt check out Shatterpoint it's about Mace Windu and it's like Heart Of Darkness/Appocolypse Now meets Star Wars very brutal and gritty.

Lord Of The Tings is good.

A Song Of Ice And Fire series is good (Game Of Thrones is based off them).

I like me some sci-fi/Fantasy genre.

Posted: 5/24/2017 9:07:22 PM EDT

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Economic Facts and Fallacies by Thomas Sowell
The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek
Start With Why by Simon Sinek
Free to Choose by Milton Friedman
Common Sense by Thomas Paine

Posted: 5/24/2017 9:09:32 PM EDT

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Poor Charlies Alamanac -- Money advice by Charle Munger (Billionaire / Warren Buffet's Right-Hand Man)

The Fourth Turning -- Written in the 90s -- A look at the cycles of American History and How they repeat. Some predictions have come to pass & others are playing out at the present time

Posted: 5/24/2017 9:11:15 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/24/2017 9:26:11 PM EDT

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The message of the book is interesting, the actual prose of it is horrible.

Ayn Rand was a great theorist, but unfortunately she was also a shitty novelist.

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Read this in a college economics class a few years ago. I was probably the only one who actually read the whole thing. It is easily one my favorite books.

Posted: 5/24/2017 9:28:11 PM EDT

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The world we live in today was shaped by events in the 19th century followed by two world wars. I like to start with the civil war which was the first modern war using train based logistics, rifled cannon and arms, and ironclads. also events started that were the result of wwI, the eventual creation of israel after the turks lost the middle east, and the creation of most middle eastern countries after wwI and wwII are the foundation of what is going on today

most of the books are a great read. the last churchill book was finished after William Manchester died so its a bit soft. the middle civil war book is also a bit slow

Civil War a Narrative; 3 Volumes: Fort Sumter to Perryville; Fredericksburg to Meridian; Red River to Appomattox by Shelby Foote

Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War by Robert K. Massie
Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea by Robert K. Massie

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 by William Manchester
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940 by William Manchester
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 by William Manchester

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt Edmund Morris
Colonel Roosevelt Edmund Morris
Theodore Rex Edmund Morris

The Guns of August Barbarra Tuchman

Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East Scott Anderson and Malcolm Hillgartner

i also read a lot of science fiction and fantasy. in that area i recommend anything by joe abercrombie

modern science fiction red rising, golden son, morning star by pierce brown are also good and are going to be made into a movie(s)

Posted: 5/24/2017 9:30:20 PM EDT

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Beyond Good and Evil : Nietzsche
Lord of the Flies
1984
Fountainhead

Posted: 5/24/2017 9:50:04 PM EDT

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Me too!!! Lol

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This is what I'm reading at the moment....... every effing night......
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Me too!!! Lol

You both need to stop spreading dreary wearies all over the place.

Posted: 5/24/2017 9:50:17 PM EDT

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Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics

Wholeness and the Implicate Order

Posted: 5/24/2017 9:54:29 PM EDT

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Tom Sawyer

Huckleberry Finn

Get them now before they are either banned or re-written in PC-speak.

Posted: 5/24/2017 9:58:05 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/24/2017 10:11:29 PM EDT

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Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War by Robert K. Massie
Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea by Robert K. Massie

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Now that you've read these, you might as well go whole hog: The Rules of the Game, by Andrew Gordon.

Posted: 5/24/2017 10:13:36 PM EDT

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Tom Sawyer

Huckleberry Finn

Get them now before they are either banned or re-written in PC-speak.

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If you like Twain, check out Twain in His Own Time. An old acquaintance of mine has dedicated a significant chunk of his own life to write about the man and his writing. Entertaining stuff (if you're into that sorta thing).

Posted: 5/24/2017 10:21:36 PM EDT

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If you're a father or grandfather, or if you like great stories about hunting, dogs, fishing, mentoring, or a look back into a different era, I highly recommend this one. I've read it several times. The kids still like hearing chapters out of it, too.

I can say, I believe it made me a better father.

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The forward: Anyone who reads this book will know I had a real fine time as a boy.

First line: Now, the Old Man knows pretty near about everything but mostly, he ain't painful with it.

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Doesn't matter if you're a father or a grandfather, order a copy and read it anyways. My dad gave it to me for Christmas when I was 15. Definitely my favorite book. Didn't take me long to buy the 2nd one as well. Also a damn good book.

Posted: 5/24/2017 10:22:32 PM EDT

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Red Sky at Morning by Richard Bradford

Me and Caleb.

Posted: 5/24/2017 10:27:29 PM EDT

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Charlie Wilson's War - It teaches so much about how our government really works.

Dangerous River by R.M. Patterson - It reminds you that you're a huge pussy.

Delivered from Evil: The Saga of World War II - It teaches you how wars are won and that evil is real and must be fought.

Posted: 5/24/2017 10:29:20 PM EDT

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If you lead men, in any sort of endeavor, you need to read this book. I was an "experienced" leader when I read it but there were several light bulb moments.

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Posted: 5/24/2017 10:30:01 PM EDT

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Atlas Shrugged

...That should keep you busy about a month or so. Get back to me when you're caught up.

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FIFY

I read about 300 pages and gave up on that book. Two thumbs down from me

Posted: 5/24/2017 10:41:46 PM EDT

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if you like zombies, Day by Day Armageddon

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Dune
Starship Troopers
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Gates of Fire
Clancy or Bob Lee Swagger books.

Posted: 5/24/2017 10:44:34 PM EDT

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An American in the Gulag.

Posted: 5/24/2017 10:45:38 PM EDT

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The classics are worth reading if you want to a greater appreciation of Western Art, culture and civilization.

Illiad - Homer
Oddessey - Homer. Perhaps the earliest examples of Western literature
The Persian Wars - Herodotus. Father of History (in the west) recounts the story of the Greek city states against the Persian Empire
The Peloponnesian War - Thucydides. Athenian League v. The Lacadaemonians and their Allies (Athens v. Sparta)
Anabasis - Xenophon. March of the 10,000 through the Persian Empire
Parallel Lives. Plutarch
Aeneid - Virgil. Rome's response to Homer's Illiad/Oddessey. Poem that links the (purported) ancestry of Romans to Troy.

Modern literature:

White Fang - Jack London

Posted: 5/24/2017 10:55:18 PM EDT

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Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine De Saint-Exupery. Probably my favorite book ever, best adventure book ever written.

Posted: 5/24/2017 10:58:00 PM EDT

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The man who would be king.

Posted: 5/24/2017 10:59:21 PM EDT

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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein

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Read Dune. Wanted more sci fi and this book was on a recent Amazon order. If its not good, I am going to @yourname until I get banned.

Posted: 5/24/2017 10:59:38 PM EDT

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The Fountainhead
Atlas Shrugged
We the Living
Anthem
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
1984
Animal Farm
Brave New World
To Have and Have Not
For Whom the Bell Tolls
A Farewell to Arms
Fahrenheit 451
The Great Gatsby
The Grapes of Wrath
The Winter of our Discontent
Of Mice and Men
Cannery Row
On the Road
To Kill a Mockingbird
Starship Troopers

...That should keep you busy about a month or so. Get back to me when you're caught up.

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That's the reading list for any respectable college American Lit course

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You guys almost got em all.

Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burrows, read the whole series.
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Treasure Island by RL Stevenson

Posted: 5/24/2017 11:14:28 PM EDT

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The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

April Morning by Howard Fast

Oh yeah just for kicks

John D Macdonald's Travis McGee series. Cuz Travis was cool as fuck and makes a mean Martini.

Posted: 5/25/2017 12:14:50 AM EDT

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Haven't seen Don Quixote mentioned...

Posted: 5/25/2017 7:37:04 AM EDT

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If you lead men, in any sort of endeavor, you need to read this book. I was an "experienced" leader when I read it but there were several light bulb moments.

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That's a good one!