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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:00:27 AM EDT
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Great Expectations is an easy and exciting book to read. It’s a real page turner.
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:00:30 AM EDT
[#2]
Man’s Search for Meaning.
Crime and Punishment |
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:02:33 AM EDT
[#3]
Matt Bracken's documentary trilogy.
Enemies : Foreign and Domestic Domestic Enemies : The Reconquista Foreign Enemies and Traitors |
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:02:39 AM EDT
[#4]
Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors
Red Storm Rising Hunt for Red October Once an Eagle The Green Berets Marine Sniper |
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:06:40 AM EDT
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I'm actually gonna consider the fact you've never read a book in my recommendations and not make any assumptions about the style, length and genre except that you are asking on ARFCOM
Anthem -Ayn Rand Much shorter and accessible and enjoyable version of Atlas shrugged. The classic political novel according to much of ARFCOM American Gun - By Chris Kyle (ghost written to be sure) An easy to read romp through American history as told by the guns we carrier. You're on ARF, so I figure you like guns and each chapter is kinda its own mini book. After that I kinda need to know what you'd be interested in. What kinda movies do you like? |
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:08:41 AM EDT
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I'm similar. Not sure if it fits your taste but Dean Koontz The Bad Place pulled me in and kept me.
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:09:51 AM EDT
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Enemies Foreign and Domestic
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:18:27 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Atlas shrugged. It's an quick short story packed full of action and I am a sadistic bastard. It is an amazing book though. ETA: if you are looking for fun easy reads that are fiction I would consider the Dirk Pitt books. Cliche pulp that is just fun. |
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:19:34 AM EDT
[#9]
Count of Monte Christo by Dumas
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:19:40 AM EDT
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Fiction - A Drink Before The War by Dennis Lehane
Nonfiction - The Way Of Men by Jack Donovan |
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:20:37 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:21:13 AM EDT
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The Devils’ Teeth
It’s a true story about the great white sharks surrounding the Farrallon Islands For fiction? Without Remorse Tom Clancy novel that has a little of everything and is a great and easy read ETA James Patterson writes some great and easy reads too. Check out Night Fall- it’s about TWA Flight 800 |
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:22:03 AM EDT
[#13]
Count of Monte Cristo.
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:22:05 AM EDT
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If you've never read anything by Ted Kaczynski, man, he's the bomb
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:22:52 AM EDT
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what are you into? I really enjoyed Michael Golembeskys books about his time with MARSOC in afghanistan, very cool story lots of action.
he has several books 
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:23:41 AM EDT
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Brothers Karamazov. Go big or go home.
Multiple votes here for Dostoyevsky. |
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:24:22 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Matt Bracken's documentary trilogy. Enemies : Foreign and Domestic Domestic Enemies : The Reconquista Foreign Enemies and Traitors This is good. |
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:25:32 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If you've never read anything by Ted Kaczynski, man, he's the bomb  He is a mad genius. Very enlightening besides the hurting people stuff. |
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:25:59 AM EDT
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Lad A Dog, by APT. Was the start of my reading, 5th grade. Ive found that people who can see things far off like to be outside and have a harder time focusing on books inside. Especially annoying, sitting, when one could be shooting a BB gun while exploring the world.
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:26:32 AM EDT
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I'm currently reading The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry. There's a part where a bunch of high school boys gang bang a blind heifer.
I read Sophie's Choice before that. It was a real mental workout. Very draining, but worth it. |
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:28:17 AM EDT
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Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter. It's the book the movie "Shooter" was based on. Bob Lee Swagger books are fantastic, but Point of Impact is the best imo and a very easy read. Kept me turning page after page.
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:28:32 AM EDT
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Unintended Consequences
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Uploads/129/Media/Unintended_Consequences.pdf |
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:29:22 AM EDT
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I did not read this thread but I’m going to reply by saying you should really read The art of racing in the rain.
It is a quick read. You will not put down. And when I got from a recommendation here. |
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:31:47 AM EDT
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My very first novel was Condor by Graham Masterson. It flashes back and forth from the past to the present and I couldn’t put it down even though I was on a beach in Cancun
A preview: “In 1944 A German plane crash-landed in Concorde, New Hampshire. It remained buried until ten year old Bernie decided to go riding. In uncovering the plane he unleashed upon the world a deadly laboratory engineered virus, powerful enough to threaten the life of every man, woman and child on mainland America” |
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:31:51 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Sounds like you would enjoy Dan brown novels ( da Vinci code). They are fast pace and an easy read. |
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:34:06 AM EDT
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I don't even know what to say. Why would you willingly do that?
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:34:29 AM EDT
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A Soldier of the great war
Mark Helprin |
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:37:13 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: One Second After 
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:42:10 AM EDT
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Ayn Rand:
We the Living Anthem The Fountainhead Atlas Shrugged |
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:42:12 AM EDT
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For a light, quick, outdoorsy read, anything by Patrick F McManus.
A Fine and Pleasant Misery (1978)They Shoot Canoes, Don't They? (1981) Never Sniff a Gift Fish (1983) The Grasshopper Trap (1985) Rubber Legs and White Tail-Hairs (1987) The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw (1989) Real Ponies Don't Go Oink! (1991) The Good Samaritan Strikes Again (1992) How I Got This Way (1994) Never Cry "Arp!" and Other Great Adventures (1996) Into the Twilight, Endlessly Grousing (1997) The Bear in the Attic (2002) Kerplunk!: Stories (2007) The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories (2012) |
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:44:46 AM EDT
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The Katha Upanishad
The Prophet The razor's edge Ordinary People 100 years of solitude A clockwork orange Tender is the night For whom the bell tolls VALIS |
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:48:21 AM EDT
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Serious reading:
Leon Uris Battle Cry I would often reread selected parts instead of the entire novel  Attached FileExodus I am seriously considering reading one of the side-stories that make up one of THE best novels I've ever read.  Attached File |
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:53:26 AM EDT
[#33]
Why not start with a book that spawned a movie? What’s are your favorite movies? See if they were taken from novels.
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:53:42 AM EDT
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Well first off re-read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Its not long and you should be a lifetime student of it. Federalist Papers too for that matter.
B.H. Liddell Hart's "Strategy" and "Why Don't We Learn from History" are good. "Gulag Archipelago" should be required reading for all people. "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius There are several good quotes out of "The Rape of The Mind". I have not read it yet but seem to come across quotes from there that make me believe I need to give it a read so I recently purchased a copy. To better understand the incessant attacks you are exposed to daily I recommend to read books written by Edward Bernays. What he wrote is dated now but the strategies are still used by many. Perhaps a more contemporary look on the topic would be "Trust Me I'm Lying: Confessions of A Media Manipulator" think the author is Ryan Holiday. If you are a father "52 Things Kids Need from a Dad" is an easy read that won't teach you anything profound but it will sort of recharge that dad drive in you so I recommend reading the 2 or 3 page chapter each week and make it a point to let that chapter spark an idea or remind you to do something you should be doing and hold yourself accountable to incorporating your flavor or your take on that chapter into the time you spend with your kids. Easy read but it makes you slow down from the crazy world and think about what you could do better for them by showing you ideas of what you could do. 1984 Last but certainly not least, the Bible. There is plenty of good that can be learned even if you dont believe. I'm pretty sure even the devil has read the bible. There is no pause button in life; you are either growing or rotting. Books help you grow. |
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:56:14 AM EDT
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With the Old Breed.
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:56:40 AM EDT
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Tourist Season
Fun read, kind of like GD. |
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:57:12 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Devil in the White City Good suggestion |
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:57:18 AM EDT
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https://mca-marines.org/commandants-professional-reading-list/
See if any of these look interesting to you. |
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Posted: 1/13/2022 12:59:32 AM EDT
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November’s Fury by Michael Schumacher
It’s about the November 1913 “white hurricane” that sank many boats (freighters) on the Great Lakes. About 8 went to the bottom just on Lake Huron. Excellent book. |
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Posted: 1/13/2022 1:02:50 AM EDT
[#40]
 BOOKS ARE JERKS |
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Posted: 1/13/2022 1:05:58 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Serious reading: Leon Uris Battle Cry I would often reread selected parts instead of the entire novel https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/40561/Battle_Cry_png-2238605.JPG Exodus I am seriously considering reading one of the side-stories that make up one of THE best novels I've ever read. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/40561/Exodus_jpg-2238606.JPG Someone needs to slap the back of the artist's head for their choice of weaponry on that Exodus cover. Shoulda been SMLEs or Mausers. |
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Posted: 1/13/2022 1:11:30 AM EDT
[#42]
 I'll Never Forget The Day I Read A Book |
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Posted: 1/13/2022 1:16:10 AM EDT
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Could this really be true? I have a hard time believing it.
 Tom Clancy “No Remorse”. Or something short like “The Hobbit”. |
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Posted: 1/13/2022 1:18:26 AM EDT
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Flight of the Old Dog. - Highly modified B-52 does cool shit during cold war. I first read it in 4th grade. I think my English and Grammar has only gotten worse since then.
The Giver - Not too long nor difficult to read. You may have seen the movie. |
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Posted: 1/13/2022 1:19:37 AM EDT
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Another vote for dan brown. I would go with angels and demons first, then da vinci code.
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Posted: 1/13/2022 1:29:21 AM EDT
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Calvin and Hobbes
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Posted: 1/13/2022 1:40:35 AM EDT
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Quote History[b] I read Sophie's Choice before that. It was a real mental workout. Very draining, but worth it. I've actually read that one, it was assigned reading in a college class. It felt like a cleverly disguised textbook. ETA probable not the same book, can't remember the name. Somebody's choice though. |
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Posted: 1/13/2022 1:43:59 AM EDT
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Check out 299 days series by Glen Tate.
Very good books, it is a 10-11 book series about the collapse of this country and patriots trying to survive the aftermath and rebuild. Better then most the books in that genre. A good mix of gear discussion and ideas that one might learn from, and enjoyable fiction. |
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Posted: 1/13/2022 1:45:38 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Horse is Dead by Robert Klane. Good luck if you can find a paper copy.. $$$$ Chickenhawk by Robert Mason Howard: The Amazing Mr. Hughes by Noah Dietrich Quick reads, but darn good books to name a few. That is a good book. Also anything Vietnam era regarding SOG. Plasters book SOG is a good read. |
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Posted: 1/13/2022 1:47:29 AM EDT
[#50]
Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville
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