In an attempt to regain 850 posts I ask this question of my fellow forum members. Current read for myself is Alex Kershaw's The Few The American "Knights of the Air". It about the first 8 Americans to join the RAF and fight the Germans prior to the formation of the Eagle Squadron. Just finished Rick Atkinson An Army At Dawn the first in his trilogy about the Army in the ETO
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Andy Griffith
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Plutarch's Lives.
Have both of them
ArcticFox
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Finishing up "One Second After" by William R. Forstchen. Its' good but might be a tad better if written by Michael Crichton.
GatorFarmer
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I just finished "Hit and Run", presumably the last of the Keller the hitman novels. At night I've been reading "The Third Reich At War" by some Brit historian who wasn't always very thorough with his military history. (He doesn't once mention the Hiwis for example.) I like WW2 books for late at night, that way I'm not compelled to keep reading, since I already know how will it end.
bmcgilvray
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Arthur Conan Doyle's complete "Sherlock Holmes." I read them through about every 2 years and have since I was a kid. That's lots of times by now and I still can't commit each to memory. I'm still occasionally surprised.
I generally keep about three books going at once.
Read Atkinson's "Army at Dawn" early this year. What a great and detailed account of a facet of World War II that I haven't explored as I should.
"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."
Barbara Tuchman
I generally keep about three books going at once.
Read Atkinson's "Army at Dawn" early this year. What a great and detailed account of a facet of World War II that I haven't explored as I should.
"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."
Barbara Tuchman
godlessgael
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Steppenwolf- Hermann Hesse
Pretty good stuff, big fan of Siddhartha.
Pretty good stuff, big fan of Siddhartha.
bkp3gen
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Atlas Shrugged for the 4th time.....it gets better everytime I read it. I get back to it every 5 years or so.
Dennis Lehane crime novels, from the suggested reading list of one of my favorite fiction authors, Elmore Leonard, and sporadically rereading Cristopher Hitchens' "God Is Not Great -- How Religion Poisons Everything".
westcoast362
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"Winter" by Len Deighton, for the third time.
Gun-runner
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Baa Baa Black Sheep the story of Gregory "Pappy" Boyington. Just finished it and it was a great book. Now I just started Ordinary Men. It's about Reserve police battalion101 and the "Final Solution" in Poland during WW2.
Just finished reading "Icarus" by Russell Andrews (aka Peter Gethers). He puts together good reading material under Gethers and the pen name Andrews.
Class III
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USAF385
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Um.. the Smith and Wesson forum....
Also, I'm reading Guns, Germs, and Steel.
Also, I'm reading Guns, Germs, and Steel.
Just finished Atlas Shrugged and am now reading The Worst Hard Time, The untold story of those who survived the Great American dust bowl. An excellent book for anyone who likes to read about American History.
Glock 'em down
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Anything by Robert B. Parker.
He's actually the only guy I ever read. I used to read Dean Koontz and James Patterson every now and then, but Koontz got too weird and Patterson more or less doesn't even write anymore. He throws a story out there to a handful of writers and picks the writer with the best version of HIS idea and puts his/her name on the cover along with his.
I just finished Robert B. Parker's Chasing the Bear. It's one of Parker's new "young adult" novels, which basically takes out most of the bad language and some of the violence. Chasing the Bear is the story of Spenser's life as a kid.
Parker is a gun guy and his books are page turners. If you've never tried him, you really should.
He's actually the only guy I ever read. I used to read Dean Koontz and James Patterson every now and then, but Koontz got too weird and Patterson more or less doesn't even write anymore. He throws a story out there to a handful of writers and picks the writer with the best version of HIS idea and puts his/her name on the cover along with his.
I just finished Robert B. Parker's Chasing the Bear. It's one of Parker's new "young adult" novels, which basically takes out most of the bad language and some of the violence. Chasing the Bear is the story of Spenser's life as a kid.
Parker is a gun guy and his books are page turners. If you've never tried him, you really should.
