Good books to check out

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I just finished One Second After by William R. Forstchen. Very bleak but highly recommended. One of the best fictions I've read in years.

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Same here. Not a whole lot of in-depth character development and the author took some liberty with the effects of a high altitude EMP burst but an excellent read none the less. Very focused on community survival and it picks up on what happens when the small things we take for granted everyday are suddenly gone or limited and the fabric of society disintegrates. Makes you rethink how we rely on our technology. I'd just finished The Road prior to this and it felt similar but with a slightly more hopefull ending.

I then ordered Alas, Babylon; picked up and started rereading Last Aide: The Medical Dimensions of Nuclear War; and started thinking of rereading On the Beach - all inspired by reading One Second After.

(Strangely enough, I was in the process of researching lethal static and pulse charge levels for an aircraft application at work and it led to comparisons of between NEMP waveforms and other rapid rise time high current density pulses I normally deal with. Interesting stuff.)

Also in the middle of King's Duma Key and have Under the Dome, Going Rogue, and several books on electrostatic propulsion waiting in the que.


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Where is John Galt when you need him? Ha ha--If the Dems keep at it, we may just see the "rich" pack up and move on. Anyway, a good book--was seriously considering naming my daugher "Dagney" back in the day.

I'm listening to Moby Dick right now--I somehow got through school w/o reading it. You can get tons of free audio books (public domain works, only) at www.librivox.org.

As far as actual reading and not listening, I just finished Band of Brothers, which was excellent and Bill Bagwell's Bowies and Battle Blades (also excellent). Right now I'm reading the first six Mike Hammer novels by Mickey Spillane. A bit dated, but still amusing if you like the genre.
 
I'm reading the Harry Bosch novels by Michael Connelly - hardboiled LA police procedurals. There's a whole series of them - ought to keep me busy for a while. :)
 
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Dracula, the original by Bram Stoker. Despite being written over 100 years go, I can still see the creepiness in the story. I can just imagine the impact it had on people when it was first published.
Even knowing the story, I'm highly enjoying it, for the story itself (and as a short-story writer myself); for the word choice used. Van Helsing in particular has a way with words "seven o'clock" becomes "seven of the clock." And one sentence was memorable: "If you leave her, and harm befall, you shall not sleep easy, hereafter!"
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Superb reading. Highly recommended :thumbup:

As for me, currently re-reading Tactical Medicine, but I honestly want to get a hold of The Road which seems to be getting a lot of attention from folks here (really hoping the movie gets shown over here too :o ).
 
Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales, and 98.6 Degrees - The Art Of Keeping Your Ass Alive by Cody Lundin.

These two books are extremely well written, by authors whom really understand their subjects, and have the experience and writing skills to entertain and amuse, whilst imparting the specialized nature of the subject in an enjoyable way.

I learned a great deal and had a fine read too!
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Anything by Hunter S. Thompson
 
Just finished The Walking Drum by Louis L'amore and just started 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

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I just finished "The Yiddish Policemans Union," by Michael Chabon, good read. It's about a Jewish detective in early Alaska.
 
Just finished "Drug Lord", by Terrance Poppa. Kinda gives some insight to the shootout yesterday, between the Mexican Navy killing and capturing some the drug Kingpins down in Mexico.
 
I was reading an anthology edited by Dennis Lehane and remembered how great his early books were. He had a series with a man and woman PI team. I don't care as much for his more current stuff like Shutter Island and Mystic River, which I guesss were good but I love those P.I. novels.
 
Read "Atlas Shrugged" several months ago, loved it, Same with "Going Rogue" Also Mark Levins "Liberty and Tyrrany". anything by Clive Cussler is great: "Raise the Titanic", "Vixen 03", "Iceberg". Some of the Stuff he "Co-Authors" is a bit iffy.
Same thing with Clancy, Shouldn't he be coming out with something new.
Right now I am in the middle of "5000 year leap", and Glenn Becks "Argueing with Idiots"
Any one seeing a Pattern in my reading material?
 
verga said:
anything by Clive Cussler is great: "Raise the Titanic", "Vixen 03", "Iceberg". Some of the Stuff he "Co-Authors" is a bit iffy.
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I'll grant you that the Kurt Austin books have some not so good ones, but all of the Oregon Files books that he's co-authored, that I've read have been good so far. The Dirk Pitt books are the best though, except for Raise the Titanic, I didn't like that one.
 
If you like political/CIA adventure you might want to read books by Vince Flynn. I have read his first four and they all have been real page turners. Now I am looking for books explaining the history of knives, about the people who designed them and so on.
 
Reading several books at once right now,

Lame Deer Seeker of Visions by John Fire Lame Deer; HP Lovecraft Complete Fiction and Our Southern Highlanders by Horace Kephart. I put in an order with Barnes and Noble for Who Goes There by John W Campbell, the basis for the movies The Thing and John Carpenters the Thing.

As you can see, my tastes are all over the place. Visits to the Goodwill and library book sales have yielded about 50 books sitting waiting to be read. I am looking for book recommendations again. Any genre, any era, any type.

BTW, figured it was okay to resurrect this thread, I'm the OP :D.
 
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mycroftt said:
I'm reading the Harry Bosch novels by Michael Connelly - hardboiled LA police procedurals. There's a whole series of them - ought to keep me busy for a while. :)
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When you're done with those, check out the Lincoln Lawyer books. Connelly is a master, and the new Mickey Haller movie ain't bad either.
 
These are a 2 books I have recently read.



Book written by a former navy SEAL. Its filed with pictures and first hand accounts. Very cool book.



The last narco. A book written about the most powerful drug lord in the world El Chapo Guzman.
 
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