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I am a huge fan of reading and am always looking for a new book. I love anything that is based on real life and especially military topics. I am also a huge fan of biographies about influential people of the past. Looking for a few suggestions from my friends here. What are you guys reading?

Thanks
Joshua
 
I just finished the tomorrow series by john marsden. Very well written and an interesting subject, not a biography but very good. The first book is Tomorrow when the war began.
 
I am reading Innocent when you dream, it's a collection of Tom Waits interviews and it's a really entertaining book if you like Tom's dry humor.
 
This book is fiction but "The Forgotten" by David Baldacci. I just read it and it is amazing :thumbup: You can borrow it if you'd like!
 
Last book I read was Frank Herbert's DUNE. Simply awesome. I read it years ago and was blown away by it then, and was blown away by it again.
 
Stalingrad by Antony Beevor is amazing.

Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer is good, but fiction, in case that's not your bag.
 
If you're interested in real life military that had an impact on politics/etc I'd recommend "Friendly Fire: The Untold Story of the US Bombing that Killed Four Canadian Soldiers in Afghanistan" by Mike Friscolanti. Interesting, very well written account of everything that led to a significant international incident between the US and Canada.
 
Two good books you can't put down. I just finished "lone survivor" by Marcus Luttrell. I just started "Inside Delta Force" by Eric Haney.
 
One of my favorite books is "North Into the Night" by Alva Simon - Guy sails into the artic with a reinforced steel hulled sailboat to get "iced in" for a season. Really awesome account of his true adventure.

Fiction: You have to read the Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy(if you haven't already) - It is a collection of three books around a central character set in TX and Mexico. Really, really well written trilogy. "The Crossing" - "Cities of the Plain" - and "All the Pretty Horses". I have yet to find someone that doesn't appreciate the skill of McCarthy's writing. All of his books are interesting reads..

Take care,

E
 
high desert said:
Two good books you can't put down. I just finished "lone survivor" by Marcus Luttrell. I just started "Inside Delta Force" by Eric Haney.
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High Desert is right...what an awesome read "lone survivor" is

E
 
Hindsight said:
I am a huge fan of reading and am always looking for a new book. I love anything that is based on real life and especially military topics. I am also a huge fan of biographies about influential people of the past. Looking for a few suggestions from my friends here. What are you guys reading?

Thanks
Joshua
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I haven't read them yet, but they are on my list for a more personal reason... Angels, Bulldogs, & Dragons by Bill Marshall and An Ace of the Eighth: An American Fighter Pilot's Air War in Europe by Norman J. Fortier.

Both books are on the P-47 & P-51 pilots of the Eighth Air Force in England during WWII, in which my uncle, Lt. Col Robert E. "Bob" Woody served and was an Ace credited with 11 downed enemy aircraft in 58 flown combat missions escorting bombers. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for the five kills above Munich on April 24, 1944.

I believe that these 2 books were written by other pilots serving in the same squadron.
 
EDawg said:
One of my favorite books is "North Into the Night" by Alva Simon - Guy sails into the artic with a reinforced steel hulled sailboat to get "iced in" for a season. Really awesome account of his true adventure.

Fiction: You have to read the Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy(if you haven't already) - It is a collection of three books around a central character set in TX and Mexico. Really, really well written trilogy. "The Crossing" - "Cities of the Plain" - and "All the Pretty Horses". I have yet to find someone that doesn't appreciate the skill of McCarthy's writing. All of his books are interesting reads..

Take care,

E
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So "All the Pretty Horses" is considered the last of a trilolgy?? Guess I have to go to the beginning then...
 
"One Second After" William Forstchen. Post-apocolytic fiction about an EMP attack on the USA, seen through the lens of a small town in North Carolina.

"The Last Centurion" John Ringo. Post-apolyptic fiction about a flu pandemic sweeping the world, and one Army Captain and his unit.

If you like military SciFi, then look for most anything by John Ringo.
 
resinguy said:
So "All the Pretty Horses" is considered the last of a trilolgy?? Guess I have to go to the beginning then...
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No, it is the first. I wrote them in exactly the wrong order in my hurry, sorry....All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, and Cities of the Plain, but I guess you might have already known that.

If you are feeling it, then read Blood Meridian too....amazing! His books are hard to put down.

E
 
I really like anything by Allan W. Eckert. He is a historian that covers early American history. Being from Ohio alot of his stuff has to do with the settling of Ohio. Really some amazing battles in Ohio history.

Garth
 
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