Read Any Good Books Lately??

[B2Tall]

I'm a voracious reader and I'm always looking for something good. I don't read much fiction (a bit from time to time) but I'll burn through just about anything else (especially history and biographies). Here are 3 good ones I've read lately:

- "The Eichmann Trial". A very interesting look into the motivations and machinations of hunting and trying war criminals. Turns out it has some interesting parallels to some current events (The Demjanjuk verdict and the bin-Laden raid).

- "Empire of the Summer Moon". A study of the Commanches of the old West. A cross between the Mongol hordes and the Imperial Roman army....all in our own backyard.

- "The Forsaken". About the thousands of Americans who relocated to the USSR during the Great Depression seeking a "workers paradise" only to get sucked into a nightmare from which most never returned. The 2nd half of this book is particularly riveting. Makes me appreciate the good old USA all the more.

I'm about to start "Baseball in the Garden of Eden", about the early goings-on of my favorite sport.

 

[slhaynes]

"Empire of the Summer Moon" and "The Forsaken" seem like good reads to me. Hopefully you won't mind me being a little self-serving here, but I have a short story I've published as a Kindle ebook on Amazon. Visit: "Canyon City Cataclysm" - © 2011 to read a preview. I'm a new writer and I am working on a novel to go with it.

 

[Treo]

The Custer Reader by Andrew Hutton Univerisity of Oklahoma Press: Compliation of writings about Custer by himself and his contempararies.

Team Yankee By Harold Coyle Fiction a armor heavy mechanized infantry unit fights the USSR in the late 80's fictional story very accurate depiction of Army life in the field

 

[Lowjiber]

Non-fiction: "All the Devils Are Here" is the complete, documented account of the financial "melt-down". It will truly open your eyes to the thievery that is the banking and stock market industry. You'll never trust a banker again.

Follow it up with "The Big Short". Again, related to the "melt-down", it details the actual workings of hedge funds when they were busy stealing American's money.

From many years ago, no truly independent individualist is complete without reading Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead".

 

[B2Tall]

Team Yankee By Harold Coyle Fiction a armor heavy mechanized infantry unit fights the USSR in the late 80's fictional story very accurate depiction of Army life in the field

Read it when it first came out. Couldn't put it down. Literally. Started reading it one Saturday afternoon and didn't stop until the sun came up Sunday morning.

 

[B2Tall]

Non-fiction: "All the Devils Are Here" is the complete, documented account of the financial "melt-down". It will truly open your eyes to the thievery that is the banking and stock market industry. You'll never trust a banker again.

Again? You gotta trust one in the first place in order to trust one "again"!:biggrin:

I've been tempted to read a couple of books about the financial crisis but I try to avoid anything that makes my say things like "You bleeping bleepity bleep greedy mother-bleeper!" over and over again. Too stressful!

I'll get around to it one day.

 

[Treo]

I must have lost my mind ( or forgot who I was talking to)

The Federalist Papers

 

[scottbland247]

Patriots by James Wesley rawles is pretty good, fiction account of prepping team during a shtf scenario

 

[S&WM&P40]

In the company of hero's. Is an outstanding book. Lone survivor is another outstanding book,Roberts Ridge.

 

[Tucker's Mom]

Decision Points by George W. Bush...I still have to finish it as I still have some photography books to go through too.

 

[willyNH]

Fiction

Just finished Tom Clancy 's Dead or Alive. Fantastic read and I finished the book with it's fantastic climax the same time as the real climax. I'll try not to give any more away.

 

[B2Tall]

Just finished Tom Clancy 's Dead or Alive. Fantastic read and I finished the book with it's fantastic climax the same time as the real climax. I'll try not to give any more away.

I was an avid Clancy reader but I started getting a little annoyed with his writings around the time "Rainbow Six" came out. His good-guy characters are a little too perfect for my tastes - always the absolute best at what they do, never making any sort of real mistake, seemingly without flaws. Where's the good-guy who drinks too much?? Or the one who's "other" head gets him into trouble?? Or the one who's been divorced 4 times because he's just a complete jerk when it comes to women?? How 'bout a compulsive gambler who's deeply in debt to some bookies?? Clancy's protagonists need a few skeltons in their closets.

 

[wooddoctor]

The TIME/LIFE books series on photography was realy good. Admittedly technology is leaps and bounds above what it was in the early 1980's when this series was writen, but the information is still sound.

Gulf, now that make perfect sense to me now, as to your wittyness.

Liberalisim is a Mental Disorder.....Michael Weiner.... I love this guy

One Second After......Fiction takes place in Ashville when am EMP's shut down the usa.

Trickle up Poverty.....Michael Weiner I love this guy

The Manchurian President.......Well documented history of the dictor in the White House/ White hating/anti-Capitolist

 

[Treo]

I was an avid Clancy reader but I started getting a little annoyed with his writings around the time "Rainbow Six" came out. His good-guy characters are a little too perfect for my tastes - always the absolute best at what they do, never making any sort of real mistake, seemingly without flaws. Where's the good-guy who drinks too much?? Or the one who's "other" head gets him into trouble?? Or the one who's been divorced 4 times because he's just a complete jerk when it comes to women?? How 'bout a compulsive gambler who's deeply in debt to some bookies?? Clancy's protagonists need a few skeltons in their closets.

I quit reading about half way through Rainbow 6. The storyline just got ridiculous after Ryan became the President. Clancy does have some interesting nonfiction out there too though

 

[SC Tiger]

I was an avid Clancy reader but I started getting a little annoyed with his writings around the time "Rainbow Six" came out. His good-guy characters are a little too perfect for my tastes - always the absolute best at what they do, never making any sort of real mistake, seemingly without flaws. Where's the good-guy who drinks too much?? Or the one who's "other" head gets him into trouble?? Or the one who's been divorced 4 times because he's just a complete jerk when it comes to women?? How 'bout a compulsive gambler who's deeply in debt to some bookies?? Clancy's protagonists need a few skeltons in their closets.

I liked "Rainbow Six" but haven't read many other Clancy books that he wrote himself. "Without Remorse" is a good one. I read a couple of the "Splinter Cell" series, "Ghost Recon" (I actually had the computer game) and one called "Teeth of the Tiger" - none of which were written by Clancy himself. They were okay but not great.

"The Disciple" by Stephen Coonts is pretty good. "Liars and Thieves" (same author) isn't bad.

I'm trying to read "Atlas Shrugged" but it's a bit of a struggle. Ayn Rand must have been paid by the word for that one.

If I survive Shrugged, either "The Assassin" by Coonts or "The Last of the Mohicans" (never read it but saw the movie) is up next.

 

[mappow]

I'm trying to read "Atlas Shrugged" but it's a bit of a struggle. Ann Rynd must have been paid by the word for that one.QUOTE]

It picks up, but she does get a bit wordy at times.

Just finished Fall of the Giants by Ken Follett. Actually burned through Pillars of the Earth and World without End by Follett as well. Great read if you're into history.

 

[B2Tall]

Actually burned through Pillars of the Earth.....

I've been meaning to read this one for about 20yrs. Probably high time to bump it up near the top of the list

 

[mappow]

I've been meaning to read this one for about 20yrs. Probably high time to bump it up near the top of the list

I said burn through because his writing is so captivating. He and others sourced historical facts to coincide with his story line starting in middle of the 12th century. I now understand why our Founders really wanted TRUE separation of Church & State.

 

[B2Tall]

I said burn through because his writing is so captivating. He and others sourced historical facts to coincide with his story line starting in middle of the 12th century. I now understand why our Founders really wanted TRUE separation of Church & State.

I read "Eye of the Needle" back in the mid-80s and really enjoyed it. I've been remiss in not reading more of his stuff.

 

[tuts40]

"Enemies Foreign and Domestic" by Matthew Bracken. I won it from a GlockTalk raffle, signed my Matthew. Anyway, a compelling novel with several different threads that will keep you turning pages!