Posted: 10/7/2016 10:10:49 PM EDT
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Based on some of the responses around here to linked articles I swear 87% of the members are illiterate and use text to speech and vice versa; however, I need some new books to read, and many of us share interests outside of evil black rifles.
ITT we recommend and discuss books. This summer, I re-read Walden, and read "A Confederacy of Dunces". Help me out GD, my brain needs to get back into reading regularly. |
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Waitin' on Grisham's new book out the 24th called "The Whistler", and a new harry bosch novel is out in a month or two as well. Just finished the I Will Bear Witness books. I've never read any Grisham. My ex's dad loved him and we had similar tastes in books. Which one should I start with? |
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"Escape from Camp 14". It's the true story of a man born and raised in a North Korean concentration camp who escaped to the South, and "The Forgotten Soldier", the true story of a German soldier fighting on the Eastern front.
Imagine seeing your own mother tied to a post and hanged, and not feeling a thing about it because you were too hungry. Imagine being lost behind Russian lines and coming across a camp where soldiers from your own side were skinned and hanging upside down from trees, with the word REVENGE written in blood in the snow. This stuff makes your skin crawl. |
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"Escape from Camp 14". It's the true story of a man born and raised in a North Korean concentration camp who escaped to the South, and "The Forgotten Soldier", the true story of a German soldier fighting on the Eastern front. Imagine seeing your own mother tied to a post and hanged, and not feeling a thing about it because you were too hungry. Imagine being lost behind Russian lines and coming across a camp where your own soldiers were skinned and hanging upside down from trees, with the word REVENGE written in blood in the snow. This stuff makes your skin crawl. Woah. Thanks. I really liked Unbroken; but I felt it was missing something being written by a woman. |
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Do you like historical narrative? Lafayette by Harlow Giles Unger is excellent, highly recommended. And The Minute Men by John Galvin will completely open your eyes to the myth of the "citizen soldier" during the Am Rev. I do. Man this thread is gonna keep me busy for a while |
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I found a massive collection of HP Lovecraft stories for a buck in the Kindle store. There's a lot there, and it's pretty much all creepy.
Just finished Post-Apocalyptic Nomadic Warrior by Benjamin Wallace. Think "The Road Warrior" as s comedy. It's not bad for what it is. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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If you're into historical fiction mixed in with porn, check out AZTEC, by Gary Jennings. The book is funny, sad, tragic, erotic, horrid, violent, and melancholy all in one, and you are really, really sad when the book ends and the emotional bond you've built with the main character ends. The book is very very well researched and contains a lot of historical facts about life in the pre-Columbian Aztec period and the transition to Spanish colonial rule. Plus, it has a hell of a lot of erotic moments.
It's possibly the best novel I've ever read. |
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I'm in the middle of 1F-16CG-2-28GS-00-1 It's a little dry though. I had 1F-16A-1 as a kid. Still around somewhere. One of the best books I ever read was Arnold's Total Recall, my Unbelievably True Life Story. 
I'm listening to Will Durant, The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time right now. Just finished The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch. This is a must read or listen. I'm also listening to The 5 Laws that Determine All of Life's Outcomes, by Brett Harward. I read The Man-Eating Tigers of Kumaon, by Jim Corbitt, this summer. Very suspenseful and a page-turner if you like hunting. I also just re-read Carnegie's How Enjoy Your Life and Your Job. Wonderful book. |