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Vanity: looking for book recomendations

Posted on 09/27/2013 12:03:41 PM PDT by Hugin

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41 posted on 09/27/2013 12:27:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Hugin

I just started the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. First book is “Killing Floor”. I am about half way through book 2. They are very entertaining.
You also can’t go wrong with the series by-
Vince Flynn
Brad Thor
Alex Berenson

All are good thrillers based on the CIA type stuff.


42 posted on 09/27/2013 12:27:30 PM PDT by Big Red Clay (Greetings from the Big Red State)
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To: Hugin

Citizen Soldiers. (Killer Angels was already mentioned)


43 posted on 09/27/2013 12:28:00 PM PDT by reagandemocrat
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To: DuncanWaring
Lucifer’s Hammer(Niven & Pournelle). Last of the Breed (l’Amour). Both excellent choices.
44 posted on 09/27/2013 12:28:18 PM PDT by verga (Lasciante ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate.)
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To: Travis McGee

If you’re looking for a complete change of pace, a friend recommended this: http://www.amazon.com/Puccinis-Road-ebook/dp/B0082TQOWO/ref=sr_1_2/189-3578645-8360900?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1380309801&sr=1-2&keywords=puccini%27s+road


45 posted on 09/27/2013 12:28:24 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Hugin

No one’s said the ‘Bible’????


46 posted on 09/27/2013 12:30:30 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (If Americans were as concerned for their country as Egyptians are, Obama would be ousted!)
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To: Hugin
John Jakes: I read his Bicentennial Series, "The Kent Family Chronicles", in the mid-70s, and he's written many more since then.

I also recommend "Once an Eagle" by Anton Myrer.

47 posted on 09/27/2013 12:30:31 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (The Tea Party was the earthquake, and Chick Fil A the tsunami...100's of aftershocks to come.)
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To: Roccus

I second the Patrick O’Brian suggestion - will keep you happy and busy for a long, long time. And when someone brings up ‘mizzen mast’ in conversation, you’ll be all over it....


48 posted on 09/27/2013 12:30:44 PM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

Oooops. I just realized you wanted fiction. My apologies. Why bother with fiction though?


49 posted on 09/27/2013 12:31:44 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (If Americans were as concerned for their country as Egyptians are, Obama would be ousted!)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

Barack 0bama’s “Audacity of Hope” or “Dreams From My Father”. THAT’S fiction.


50 posted on 09/27/2013 12:32:56 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (If Americans were as concerned for their country as Egyptians are, Obama would be ousted!)
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To: SMARTY

Excellent book - I own a copy. But the Freeper said he was looking for escapist fiction.


51 posted on 09/27/2013 12:35:26 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Roccus
If you want to have some real fun, read the accounts, bio’s, memoirs, histories, journals... etc. of the 26 fire brands and absolute wild men (albeit world-class soldiers) who made up the officers of the Legion of Honor appointed by Napoleon I.

You will not be able to put down anything written about/by them. It is too fantastic and all based on fact.

Others(officers and lower ranks) not themselves Marshals of the Empire, also wrote their accounts... and that stuff is positively dynamite!

The personalities are on fire and live again on every page!They soldiered for decades all over Europe, Russia, Spain, Dominican Repubublic, etc. There are some real outstanding people and events there.

I guess Spielberg is making a ‘Napoleon’ movie... I will see how far from the fcts he goes.

52 posted on 09/27/2013 12:35:52 PM PDT by SMARTY ("The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms." H. Amiel)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

“Why bother with fiction though?”


Oooh,a reading elitist.

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53 posted on 09/27/2013 12:36:04 PM PDT by Mears (Liberalism is the art ot being easily offended.)
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To: yarddog
“Ashes of Honor” is a well written and interesting book. Unfortunately only about the first 25% recounts the writers experiences in the Charlemagne Division of the Waffen SS. The rest deals with his trial as a war criminal and experiences in the French penal system (not very harsh considering he was former SS). It is interesting but doesn't quite deliver on the ‘Frenchman in the Waffen SS’ theme. A better read and apparently not faker is Peter Neuman “Black march’. Neuman was an enthusiastic young Nazi who went from HJ to NAPOLA to SS officer school to the 5th Waffen SS Division “Vikings’ and served until being captured at Vienna in April ‘45. How he made it out of the Soviet's hands is not told. I understand he escaped from a big poorly controlled pow pen before his unit identity was found out. (He switched tunics with a dead Whermact soldier) and then hid out in Alpenland and Bavaria for a couple years. His home was in the Soviet Zone so it was a long while before he linked up with his older sister. It is an interesting book. The first part obviously based on a detailed diary which Neuman gave to some family member who kept it. The second part on some sort of diary like impressionistic letters again held by someone back in Germany.
54 posted on 09/27/2013 12:36:29 PM PDT by robowombat
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To: Hugin
Harold Coyle's Civil War duology, "Look Away" and "Until the End", is an excellent read.

P.T. Deutermann has a number of excellent mysteries on the market, but his two latest works are historical fiction dealing with the Second World War. In "Pacific Glory" he tells the story of two friends, one a naval aviator and the other a destroyer officer, from Guadalcanal through Leyte Gulf. The most recent is "Ghosts of Bungo Suido", which deals with submarine warfare against Japan and also the ordeal that Allied POW's faced at the hands of the Japanese. Mr. Deutermann takes actual historical events and weaves them into some wonderful books that are hard to put down once you get started.

55 posted on 09/27/2013 12:36:43 PM PDT by Stonewall Jackson (I aim to misbehave.)
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To: Cincinatus

I’ll second Flashman. Reasonably good history, bawdy, and featuring a top of the line anti-hero.

For really light fare, you can’t go wrong with the Horatio Hornblower series by C. S. Forester. Napoleonic era swashbuckling.

If you want more of the same, but the very grown up version, the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian had fans in the Naval War College and Charlton Heston.

One great novel that few today know about is The Long Ships, by the Swedish writer Frans G. Bengtsson. Total Viking-era romance, and a hypnotically good read.


56 posted on 09/27/2013 12:37:10 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (The best War on Terror News is at rantburg.com)
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To: Hugin

Ender Wiggin series by Orson Scott Card....fun and easy read, have read several times :D


57 posted on 09/27/2013 12:37:31 PM PDT by Amigo04
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To: Hugin

“Turner Diaries”—Andrew Macdonald


58 posted on 09/27/2013 12:37:31 PM PDT by Renegade
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To: Hugin
Perhaps you can lay your hands on an old pulp fiction paperback called PORTRAIT OF A MOBSTER about Dutch Schultz by Harry Grey.

The author was something of a mobster himself and has a gift for lively prose. Even his descriptions of saxophone players in Speakeasies and cleaning a little pearl-handled 38 with three-in-one oil are somehow interesting and memorable. Some of the book is scurrilous eroticism but not without a certain amount of quality.

59 posted on 09/27/2013 12:38:14 PM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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To: oh8eleven

True... but I couldn’t put the thing down!

It’s very absorbing.


60 posted on 09/27/2013 12:38:48 PM PDT by SMARTY ("The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms." H. Amiel)
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