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Offline ChickenHawk

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« Reply #30 on: September 21, 2007, 05:33:43 PM »
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ChickenHawk,

It's one of my favorite series, but I'm feeling the itch to try something new in the same vein. Any recommendations? The only other Royal Navy novels I've heard of are the Horatio Hornblower ones.


C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower series is a must read for anyone interested in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic era.  Though I rate O'Brien's series a tiny, tiny bit better, I highly recommend them and own them all.

Edit:  A&E also did a Hornblower miniseries for TV that you can find on seven DVD's.  Though they don't follow the books, they are quite enjoyable and everyone I show them to gets hooked.
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« Reply #31 on: September 21, 2007, 05:38:09 PM »
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I'm waiting for the next book in the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. That jerk really needs to speed up the rate at which he kicks those books out. One every 3 years just doesnt cut it!! :furious


I guess you haven't heard the sad news.
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« Reply #32 on: September 21, 2007, 05:48:09 PM »
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I'm waiting for the next book in the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. That jerk really needs to speed up the rate at which he kicks those books out. One every 3 years just doesnt cut it!! :furious


hate to say this but robert jordan is KIA
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« Reply #33 on: September 21, 2007, 05:54:25 PM »
i read the bible

  but other than that Robert E Howard, is my fav.


ive read so many books i cant begin to list the authors mostly fantasy and sword and sorcery type works.
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« Reply #34 on: September 21, 2007, 06:06:08 PM »
you have some cool tattoos.
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« Reply #35 on: September 21, 2007, 06:20:15 PM »
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C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower series is a must read for anyone interested in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic era.  Though I rate O'Brien's series a tiny, tiny bit better, I highly recommend them and own them all.

Edit:  A&E also did a Hornblower miniseries for TV that you can find on seven DVD's.  Though they don't follow the books, they are quite enjoyable and everyone I show them to gets hooked.


I didn't read the books. My Mom did, and she loved them.  I bought the mini-series, which was wonderful.
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« Reply #36 on: September 21, 2007, 06:23:44 PM »
I'm about half way through "World War: Turning the balance" by Harry Turtledove. it's good read for anybody into sci-fi/ alternative history. He does alot of Alternative history books.
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« Reply #37 on: September 21, 2007, 07:00:46 PM »
Just finished "In the Company of Soldiers" by Rick Atkinson.

All of Atkinson's stuff I've read is top notch.

Now reading "MacArthur's Victory, the war in New Guinea 1943-1944" by Harry Gailey

The normal dry, war history read. The only thing that keeps me reading is that I know little of this campaign.
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« Reply #38 on: September 21, 2007, 07:21:58 PM »
about to start the da-da-de-da-da code.

finished the carpet people by terry pratchet a few days ago.
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« Reply #39 on: September 21, 2007, 07:36:54 PM »
Catch-22, one of best ever. I've read it more times than I can count already and I never get tired of it. It still makes me laugh and stop to ponder. Absurdity that is completely true to life than any logic, absurdly.

Alice in woderland & Through the looking glass. If ever there was a book not for children, but pretending to be - this is it. Lewis Carrol is a linguistic juggler.

I recently finished "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins. I picked it up at an airport to kill some time since all the other books were friggin' Dan Brown or Harry Potter. Interesting read.
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« Reply #40 on: September 21, 2007, 07:47:48 PM »
Ai Yori Aoshi volume 8
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« Reply #41 on: September 21, 2007, 08:05:51 PM »
FINAL ACCOUNTING
Ambition, greed, and the fall of Arthur Andersen (lol)
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« Reply #42 on: September 21, 2007, 08:26:23 PM »
"The Forgotten Soldier" by Guy Sajer
"Samurai! by Saburo Sakai
"Last Stand Of The Tin Can Sailors" by James Hornfischer
"The Blond Knight Of Germany" by By Raymond F. Toliver, Trevor J. Constable
The Ringworld series by Larry Niven
anything else by Larry Niven
anything by David Gemmell
anything with Calvin and Hobbs :)
The real Clive Cussler books (before he had the audacity to get too old)
old stuff by Gordon R. Dickson
The Stainless Steel Rat series by Keith Laumer
The Deathworld series by Keith Laumer
various woodworking and handloading books

and in a class by itself: "Armor" by John Steakly

...and someday, "Where Troy Once Stood" by Iman Wilkens, which currently sells for as little as $190 and up to $500, used.
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« Reply #43 on: September 21, 2007, 09:10:19 PM »
Varieties of Religous Experience by William James
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« Reply #44 on: September 21, 2007, 09:55:13 PM »
This year I read

Six Frigates  (The epic history of the Founding of the US navy) Ian Toll
Stalingrad, Antony Beevor
One Sqaure mile of Hell (The Battle for Tarawa) John Wukovits
Given up For Dead (America's heroic stand at Wake Island) Bill Sloan
Charlie Wilson's War, George Crile
Blind Man's Bluff (The untold Story of American Subarine Espionage) Chris Drew
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