Author Topic: Book Recomendations (Read 1579 times)

Skydancer · « **Reply #75 on:** March 08, 2005, 06:25:06 PM »

Bomber by Len Deighton. An absolutely fantastic book. Riveting and deeply sad too.

midnight Target · « **Reply #76 on:** March 08, 2005, 06:56:14 PM »

Some of my favorite light reading recently have been this guy's books. Can't believe lazs and his gun totin kin haven't been reading them:

Stephen Hunter

JB88 · « **Reply #77 on:** March 08, 2005, 07:06:11 PM »

all quiet on the western front.

lazs2 · « **Reply #78 on:** March 09, 2005, 08:45:40 AM »

MT.. I never heard of the guy but..

What about those books do you think would be so irresistable to me that you can't believe I am not reading em?

lazs

midnight Target · « **Reply #79 on:** March 09, 2005, 01:45:56 PM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
MT.. I never heard of the guy but..

What about those books do you think would be so irresistable to me that you can't believe I am not reading em?

lazs

All about shooting, heros with guns, long range match type guys and Marine snipers. Very good books lazs.. I would recommend them to anyone.... even you.

Also like the guys writing style.

Bob Lee Swagger .... American hero.

Boroda · « **Reply #80 on:** March 09, 2005, 02:13:28 PM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
Some of my favorite light reading recently have been this guy's books. Can't believe lazs and his gun totin kin haven't been reading them:

Stephen Hunter

Are there any more books about Swager? Read all three you mentioned, in Russian translation, great adventure books. Depends on how fast you read, it's 1000+ pages in Russian

I read about 100 pages daily, so it took me about a week and some sleepless nights

midnight Target · « **Reply #81 on:** March 09, 2005, 05:28:00 PM »

There are some with his father as the main character.

Just as good IMHO.

Aubrey · « **Reply #82 on:** March 09, 2005, 05:49:36 PM »

Master and Commander series Patrick O'Brien.
This a series of a ships captain n the Royal Navy during the early 1800s and his friend

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin

For a rollicking good time read

John Ringo
A Hymn before battle , Gust Front, When the Devil Dances and Helles Faire.

Boroda · « **Reply #83 on:** March 10, 2005, 08:35:44 AM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
There are some with his father as the main character.

Just as good IMHO.

Not the second one when Bob Lee finds a general who killed his father with a night scope?

BTW, what was the name of a Soviet sniper in a third book? Solaratov?

Skydancer · « **Reply #84 on:** March 10, 2005, 08:40:14 AM »

Boroda try Enemy at the gates.

Boroda · « **Reply #85 on:** March 10, 2005, 09:09:18 AM »

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Originally posted by Skydancer
Boroda try Enemy at the gates.

Are we talking about good books to read or about idiotic pseudohistorical movies?

Sikboy · « **Reply #86 on:** March 14, 2005, 10:47:25 AM »

Well, Spring Break is over.

I read "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" as well as Steinbeck's "The Moon is Down" (a short novel that was written as propaganda for Nazi Occupied Europe during WWII). Both were well worth reading, and definately gave me what I was hoping for out of my Spring Break (withough quitting my job, and leaving my Family for a week's worth of screwing drunk co-eds in Mexico).

Anyhow, thanks for all of the recomendations. I'm sure that some of them will wind up on my Summer Reading list.

-Sik