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Need Help With Picking Out Books
9-1-2012 | Self

Posted on 09/01/2012 1:21:23 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich

I need help...I am a Vincy Flynn and Brad Thor addict...my wife has brought home from the library, and like Dale Brown books, I see right through their liberal crap...it is hard to find anything to fill the void while Vince and Brad ginn up the next ones...help me if you will with some authors who can hold my interest.

Silva is ok, but I don't care about stealing a Rembrant painting...I like conspiracy, spy, etc.


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Chit/Chat; Hobbies
KEYWORDS: authors; books; duplicate; flynn; thor; vanity
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To: CincyRichieRich

nelson demille


21 posted on 09/01/2012 1:46:27 PM PDT by will of the people
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To: Mad Dawgg

I should probably offer to mail it to someone but I am lazy


22 posted on 09/01/2012 1:48:14 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: Humal

I didn’t think David Baldacci was a conservative after I read “The Collectors”, his main character struck me as somewhat liberal for a retired assassin.


23 posted on 09/01/2012 1:51:08 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: GeronL
Was “The Collectors” in his Camel Club series? I don't recall reading it. Maybe there is a Baldacci book I haven't read??? :-)
24 posted on 09/01/2012 1:57:13 PM PDT by Humal
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To: Lucas McCain

Tom Cruise is playing Reacher? Who on earth thought that was a good idea? Dang.....

I love the Reacher books....but will not go to any Cruise movie.


25 posted on 09/01/2012 1:57:24 PM PDT by conservaKate (My vote will be against the One...not FOR Mittens.)
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To: CincyRichieRich

If you ever were interested in mord highminded fare there’s always Joseph Conrad, who’s one of if not the originators. Try “The Secret Agent” or “Under Western Eyes.” One of them has a plot to disrupt British culture by blowing up the Royal Observatory in Greenwich to kill Greenwich Mean Time.


26 posted on 09/01/2012 2:03:09 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: CincyRichieRich

Get that one....and that one.


27 posted on 09/01/2012 2:06:04 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious that they are trying hard to ignore)
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To: CincyRichieRich

Thanks for the thread. I too, am looking for non-liberal, leftwing crap books. The more conservative and patriotic, the better.


28 posted on 09/01/2012 2:09:16 PM PDT by max americana (Make the world a better place by punching a liberal in the face)
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To: Humal
I second (or third if necessary) the suggestion of Baldacci. He's definitely a winner for suspense and no nonsense. I also admire Lee Child's "Jack Reacher" to fill in between Vince Flynn's.

As a female, I have no time at all for the so-called "women's novels."

Had a friend suggest one to me in the eighties and threw it out after less than the first chapter. Friend inquired what I thought of it and I told her Tom Clancy and Len Deighton, and their kindred were more my type.

29 posted on 09/01/2012 2:09:48 PM PDT by zerosix (Native sunflower)
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To: CincyRichieRich

Stephen Hunter


30 posted on 09/01/2012 2:16:30 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: CincyRichieRich

I feel awkward pushing myself on Freerepublic, but I have a military sci-fi book out. My pen name is Wilson Harp and the name of the book is “Bright Horizons”. It’s available on amazon and you can download a sample.


31 posted on 09/01/2012 2:26:15 PM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008BAL1OK/)
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To: CincyRichieRich

I had difficulty putting down “Foreign Enemies and Traitors” by Matthew Bracken. What an exciting read!


32 posted on 09/01/2012 2:29:40 PM PDT by Jane Austen (Boycott the Philadelphia Eagles!)
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To: jocon307
I second Joel Rosenberg....anything he writes is excellent! My other favs are David McCullough and anything by David Barton!
33 posted on 09/01/2012 2:35:06 PM PDT by 4everontheRight (And the story began with..."Once there was a great nation......")
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To: knarf

Big ones!


34 posted on 09/01/2012 2:41:24 PM PDT by Chickensoup (STOP The Great O-ppression)
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To: CincyRichieRich

Helen MacInnes’s mysteries & spy thrillers. Alistair MacLean (you’ve seen a few of the movies—Guns of Navarrone, Ice Station Zebra, but so many of the books are better. John D. MacDonald. Dashiel Hammet. For a similar Vince Flynn-level, Harlan Corben (a liberal friend of Chris Christie). Martin Cruz Smith (Gorky’s a better book than a movie). Colin Dexter, Elizabeth George. And with very few exceptions, Allen Drury wrote a string of political thrillers—starting with Advise & Consent and improving book by book until Throne of Saturn. Missing many, but these should be a good start..


35 posted on 09/01/2012 3:01:55 PM PDT by Mach9
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To: CincyRichieRich

The Color Of Lightning, excellent, about Indian raids in Texas civil-war era, also Stormy Weather, same area, Depression times, oil booms.


36 posted on 09/01/2012 3:07:32 PM PDT by squarebarb ( Fairy tales are basically true.)
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To: CincyRichieRich

Frederick Forsyth:

The Avenger
The Afghan
The Cobra
The Veteran (collection so short stories plus the title novella)


37 posted on 09/01/2012 3:13:52 PM PDT by BwanaNdege (Man has often lost his way, but modern man has lost his address - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
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To: Humal

Kinda surprised you like Baldacci...I found him to be a conservative-hating liberal in his writings.


38 posted on 09/01/2012 3:19:16 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Keep your head up and keep moving forward!)
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To: Lucas McCain

Yep,thanks...I forgot to mention I was done w/ Ben Coes and waiting on his next one, too.


39 posted on 09/01/2012 3:20:39 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Keep your head up and keep moving forward!)
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To: CincyRichieRich

I saw a couple of mentions of Nelson DeMille, but I think you should be forewarned that DeMille has become a vitriolic leftist bigot in his old age, so his newer novels are filled full of hate spewing towards anything to the right of Fidel Castro.

But I enjoyed The Gold Coast, Plum Island and The Lion’s Game. Just stay away from the newer stuff.


40 posted on 09/01/2012 3:21:00 PM PDT by RatSlayer
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