Posted: 2/9/2015 1:56:55 AM EDT
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We don't have any good book recommendation threads, so I'm starting one. If possible, please include a link to the books in case any members want to buy them.
Donald R. Burgett: First hand accounts from basic, through D-Day in the 101 Airborne, and their march to Berlin. Hell of a series, and the books have photos he took back then. You can get all 4 for under $10 Book 1 Book 2 Book 3 Book 4 The Compleat Bolo: Classic Scifi by Keith Laumer http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671698796/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A26J6JNN8TGTL9 |
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i'm a huge Brett Easton Ellis fan.. American Psycho, Less than Zero, Rules of Attraction...
love Michael Connolly, the Harry Bosch series is the shit.. recently been reading 'The Last Policeman' series by Ben H Winters, a three part novel about a detective in the last days of earth while a comet hurls towards earth... |
Whole thing felt like it was written by a grounded teenager.|
I recently read the Jumper series, and I enjoyed them. The last book jumped the shark a bit, and was excessive with technical detail, but I still think it's a great series. The books are Jumper, Reflex, Impulse, and Exo. Just about the only thing Jumper the book has in common with the movie are some of the names, and the premise that the main character can teleport.
I also really like The Dresden Files books. |
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I recently read the Jumper series, and I enjoyed them. The last book jumped the shark a bit, and was excessive with technical detail, but I still think it's a great series. The books are Jumper, Reflex, Impulse, and Exo. Just about the only thing Jumper the book has in common with the movie are some of the names, and the premise that the main character can teleport. I also really like The Dresden Files books. Jim Butcher is an awesome author, and I think the last time I read Jumper was back when I was in middle school  Then again, I did the Lord of the Rings in 3rd grade 
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Allan Eckert's "Winning of America" series: The Frontiersmen Wilderness Empire The Conquerors The Wilderness War Gateway to Empire Twilight of Empire That Dark and Bloody River Stephen Ambrose: Undaunted Courage Ted Franlin Belue: The Hunters of Kentucky The Long Hunt The Life of Daniel Boone |
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The Sergeant in the Snow
About a badass Italian NCO on the Eastern Front who attempts to lead his men out of an encirclement despite hopeless odds and incredibly harsh winter conditions. True story...... I knew I was going to like it when he was listing off the items he was carrying when his unit began their escape attempt 6.5mm rifle with as many clips as he could find for it Number of grenades backpack and field gear tripod for the Breda 8mm MMG wooden case of 8mm Breda ammo....... that damn Breda saved his unit's bacon so many times.... |
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Just some of my favs....
NONFICTION "The American Way of Death" by Jessica Mitford "Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy" by Cynthia Kuhn "The Wayfinders" by Wade Davis "Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic" by David Quammen "Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century" by Lauren Slater "No Logo" by Naomi Klein FICTION "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betsy Smith "The End of Mr. Y" by Scarlett Thomas |