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Posted on 12/12/2004 10:33:49 PM PST by atari
Saw a HUGE history of the US NAVY in Costco this afternoon. Almost bought myself a Christmanst present...
Michael Crichton also has a new book out called, "State of Fear." I like his stuff a lot and that book is on my wish list.
Worse comes to worse, go to Barnes & Noble and get a gift card.
I wouldn't buy anything from Costco. The management are all heavy RAT contributors.
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State of Fear, by Michael Crichton, as covered by John Stossel on Fri. night's 20/20: http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=316580&page=1
"The Enemy Within" by Michael Savage
Do any of the people like Alternative history?
The series by Harry Turtledove is very good, starting with "How Few Remain" and going up to WW2....
He also wrote "The Guns of the South", a story in which the CSA gets the AK-47 in 1864.....
Pafko at the Wall by Don Delillo -- a must have for the baseball fan.
Or anything by Michelle Malkin or Ann Coulter.
Just finished reading How to Talk to a Liberal. I laughed all the way through it at some of the things Ann said and mostly how she said them.
From Amazon.com reviews:
"[Author] Natan Sharansky has lived an unusual life, spending nine years as a Soviet political prisoner and nine years as an Israeli politician. ...
"When there is every reason to doubt that freedom will prevail in the Middle East, this book declares unequivocally that the skeptics are wrong. The argument advanced here makes clear why lasting tyranny can be consigned to history's dustbin if the free world stays true to its ideals. The question is not whether we have the power to change the world but whether we have the will. Summoning that will demands that we move beyond Right and Left and start thinking about right and wrong."
Hmmm. Let's see:
Non-Fiction-
The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz
Titan (The Life of JD Rockefeller) by Ron Chernow
Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom by Conrad Black
Hitler's Table Talk
Fiction-
The Necroscope Series by Brian Lumley
The First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Best of H.P. Lovecraft
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Koontz's most recent (last five years or so) has also had a fairly solid conservative and Godly tone. Check out his last (the Taking) as a prime example. I just finished his newest (Life Expectancy) and it was awesome.
Yes, Virginia, there's even a Part 2!
Both "What If" and "What If II" are excellent books with short essays by top historians covering things in history that could have gone another way. Not too dense or academic.
Wish someone would have covered "What if the Russians Won the Russo-Japanese War" though.
That would have completely changed World History in every conceivable way. I'm sure there would have been no Communist Revolution eventually in Russia, and Japan likely would have never attacked the US.
And don't forget the horrific spin-off: Frosty the Hitman!
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