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I'm finishing up "The Fleet At Flood Tide" by James Hornfischer. This covers the last two years of the Navy in the Pacific during WWII. This is the best description I've read on why the war descended into mass fire bombing raids, the atomic bomb use, and a wide spread reluctance to take Japanese prisoners. The Japanese were running a literal death cult and the leadership was actually looking forward to ending their people in a mass suicide against an invasion. At the time the Japanese people and leadership were in a mass fantasy world of death. |
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The Mad Trapper of Rat River: A True Story of Canada's Biggest Manhunt By: Dick North The Movie Death Hunt with Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin was based on this. Do recommend. Attached File  Death Hunt (1981) Trailer | Charles Bronson | Lee Marvin |
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An old collection of "Best of" from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Good stuff so far, many from classic authors like Bester, Pohl, and others. I used to love the short story Sci Fi mags like Asimovs and Analog before the blue haired gender studies editors ran them into the ground. |
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Originally Posted By Pogo55: An old classic that I'm sure has been mentioned, but Two Years Before the Mast. Thanks for mentioning this. I'm about halfway through the audio book and enjoying it. |
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The Bleed, by Cronin. Really quite a good read. The author went through the Vietnam War as mustang in Force Recon, then went to Rhodesia as an officer in RLI, then went Selous Scout. Once that ended he went to Lebanon to continue his MA, then to London for a PhD. He does an excellent job of describing not just the situation on the ground, but the causes behind the conflicts. I think he became a prof in international politics. Anyway, highly recommended if you're into history. Now reading Visual Mantracking, by Moreira |
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Originally Posted By DaGoose: Just finished Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America. Pretty good history of the interaction of humans and animals in North America. Only downside is that the author is definitely on the humans are bad side from his writing at least. Technically speaking, humans have killed more non-human animals than themselves, and have even killed each other in greater numbers and at higher frequencies than any other mammalia intraclass rivalry ever known. And that's not counting other bipedal hominoids typified before homo sapien. Having not read the book, I would assume those parameters alone are what the author probably referenced in some way or another for his writing to be interpreted as "humans are bad." I enjoy those kind of books though. I'll check it out. Currently reading Executive Orders by Clancy. |
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Originally Posted By ColdBeerHere: Technically speaking, humans have killed more non-human animals than themselves, and have even killed each other in greater numbers and at higher frequencies than any other mammalia intraclass rivalry ever known. And that's not counting other bipedal hominoids typified before homo sapien. Having not read the book, I would assume those parameters alone are what the author probably referenced in some way or another for his writing to be interpreted as "humans are bad." I enjoy those kind of books though. I'll check it out. Currently reading Executive Orders by Clancy. The parameters wouldn't bother me. It was more him describing people as soulless or demon possessed (from memory, not going to go back through the book to find the exact wording). |
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Originally Posted By gamboolman: The Mad Trapper of Rat River: A True Story of Canada's Biggest Manhunt By: Dick North The Movie Death Hunt with Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin was based on this. Do recommend. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/135217/Mad-Trapper-of-Rat-River-A-True-Story-Of-3672579.JPG  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHGHcqZ0RdIJust ordered this for my brother for Christmas |
Just finished this, 25 years late, after picking up a copy in a thrift store recently. Some of it was familiar to me from my brief time in the industry, but much was not...and what a ride between the pages. Given how much he admits (and appears) to be an asshole in the telling, I was surprised at how much more I liked him by the end, especially after reading the postscript in this 2007 edition, and how much more sadly I now feel about his early demise. Anyway, definitely a good read for anyone who's ever worked in a kitchen... or perhaps enjoyed watching one of his television series, which, I'll admit, I have not ever seen. |
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Wolfpack by Roger Moorhouse was a pretty good read on the German viewpoint/stories in regards to the U-Boat battles of WW2. |
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The Last Stand of Fox Company by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin November 1950, the Korean Peninsula: After General MacArthur ignores Mao's warnings and pushes his UN forces deep into North Korea, his 10,000 First Division Marines find themselves surrounded and hopelessly outnumbered by 100,000 Chinese soldiers near the Chosin Reservoir. Their only chance for survival is to fight their way south through the Toktong Pass, a narrow gorge that will need to be held open at all costs |
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Running Deep: Bravery, Survival, and the True Story of the Deadliest Submarine in World War II Pretty good book on the submarine Tang during WW2. |
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Just finished my second reading of Back to Frank Black, inspired by Chris Carter’s late 1990s series Millennium, starring my favorite actor Lance Henriksen.  I’m about to start Henriksen’s autobiography, Not Bad for a Human. It was released in a much more affordable revised edition and costs about $35.00 on Amazon. (First print editions are running about $200-$250 for a hardback). This book covers his life and his many, many character roles in both movies and TV series. 
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| Just finished Samuel Adams: Father of the American Revolution by Mark Puls and started Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 by Fred Anderson |
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Originally Posted By Nick_Adams: Just finished my second reading of Back to Frank Black, inspired by Chris Carter’s late 1990s series Millennium, starring my favorite actor Lance Henriksen. https://i.imgur.com/BynWHyR.jpeg I’m about to start Henriksen’s autobiography, Not Bad for a Human. It was released in a much more affordable revised edition and costs about $35.00 on Amazon. (First print editions are running about $200-$250 for a hardback). This book covers his life and his many, many character roles in both movies and TV series. https://i.imgur.com/5wEu91f.jpeg I never watched the show. Would i be lost if i started reading this series? |
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Originally Posted By Ramsey118: I never watched the show. Would i be lost if i started reading this series? Originally Posted By Ramsey118: Originally Posted By Nick_Adams: Just finished my second reading of Back to Frank Black, inspired by Chris Carter’s late 1990s series Millennium, starring my favorite actor Lance Henriksen. https://i.imgur.com/BynWHyR.jpeg I’m about to start Henriksen’s autobiography, Not Bad for a Human. It was released in a much more affordable revised edition and costs about $35.00 on Amazon. (First print editions are running about $200-$250 for a hardback). This book covers his life and his many, many character roles in both movies and TV series. https://i.imgur.com/5wEu91f.jpeg Most are written at an almost academic level of analysis by professional writers who cite to various episodes and scenes, and even quote dialogue, as if you were reading a term paper. Other essays in the book are easier to follow, like those written by the actors in the series. So, bottom line, you’ll be able to understand and follow the oblique references in the book if you watch the Millennium 3-Season DVD box set first. |
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Attached File NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “The greatest World War II story never told” (Esquire)—an enthralling account of the heroic mission to rescue the last survivors of the Bataan Death March—from the author of Blood and Thunder. |
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Was in my tank, on the firing range in Germany, when this happened. We went on full alert and had no idea what all happened until they (NCO's) told us later at 3 days after. Attached File |
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Just finished How to Retire Happy, Will & Free by Ernie Zelinski: Retirement Wisdom That You Won't Get from Your Financial Advisor Starting Legend by Eric Blehm: The Incredible Story of Green Beret Sergeant Roy Benavidez's Heroic Mission to Rescue a Special Forces Team Caught Behind Enemy Lines |
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Originally Posted By Taboot: I haven't read any books in 20 years or so. Freakonomics was the last one. Until Project Hail Mary. Almost done. Fantastic. Looking forward to the movie! Project Hail Mary was good. With audiobooks, the reader/narrator can make or break a novel. The latest novels I'm listening to is the "The Captive's War series" by James S. A. Corey of "The Expanse" novels. Corey is blessed, he has one of the best narrators in the business for his novels, Jefferson Mays. |
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| Reading the Brad Thor books in order, I'm at The Apostle. Started it last week & should finish it tonight. |
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Crime and Punishment. I read quite a bit. Mostly fiction, in particular detective/murder mystery type stuff. The John Sanford Prey series is my favorite. I realized I haven’t read any of the “classics.” So I decided to start with this one. I’m not terribly far into it but so far I really dig it. |
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Originally Posted By denverdan: Crime and Punishment. I read quite a bit. Mostly fiction, in particular detective/murder mystery type stuff. The John Sanford Prey series is my favorite. I realized I haven’t read any of the “classics.” So I decided to start with this one. I’m not terribly far into it but so far I really dig it. There were two required reading in my freshman year that I clearly remember the experince. One was 'Crime and Punishment'. It was painful to read, as I had no real interest in what the novel was saying. The other was "All the King's Men" by Robert Penn Warren. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but also had little interest in politics at the time. |
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Attached File Finished this trilogy, very good writing, no woke nonsense, a small bit of guns and hunting, neither of which are portrayed in a negative manner. A long story, great characters. |
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Just finished The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle; not my typical genre and it didn’t do much to change that. Starting Outlaw Platoon by Sean Parnell, I’ll probably enjoy this one a bit more. |
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