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Offline JunkyII

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Re: Need a book recommendation
« Reply #60 on: July 18, 2016, 07:47:34 AM »
Quote from: wil3ur on July 16, 2016, 08:39:38 AM
It's worth reading the books, the series leaves out a lot or tries to cover it all in a 5 minute lesbian sex scene with introspective dialogue.  I haven't watched the last two seasons of the show... but apparently it starts to stray even further from the books.
Season 6 is an emotional roller coaster....so much death.
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Re: Need a book recommendation
« Reply #61 on: July 21, 2016, 09:56:38 AM »
Kind of, sort of related.. Just saw an article "If you like Harry Potter you're less likely to vote for this presidential candidate" or something like that. And as I scrolled by it the hilarity of what the headline was suggesting struck me and I was like. "Whoa.. stop the bus! You're old enough to vote and you're reading Harry Potter?!"

And don't get political with your replies please.
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Re: Need a book recommendation
« Reply #62 on: July 21, 2016, 11:57:15 AM »
I would not say that it's the finest literature in the world, but I enjoyed the Harry Potter books.
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Re: Need a book recommendation
« Reply #63 on: July 21, 2016, 12:36:26 PM »
No one mentioned Play Boy magazines? :devil
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Re: Need a book recommendation
« Reply #64 on: July 21, 2016, 03:21:53 PM »
Quote from: hgtonyvi on July 21, 2016, 12:36:26 PM
No one mentioned Play Boy magazines? :devil

My real life would put playboy magazines to shame...
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Re: Need a book recommendation
« Reply #65 on: July 25, 2016, 08:16:22 AM »
Quote from: Brooke on July 21, 2016, 11:57:15 AM
I would not say that it's the finest literature in the world, but I enjoyed the Harry Potter books.
Yeah but then you got your period.
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Re: Need a book recommendation
« Reply #66 on: July 25, 2016, 06:05:00 PM »
Quote from: FLOOB on July 25, 2016, 08:16:22 AM
Yeah but then you got your period.

Oh, snap!

OK, let me try one:  says you!
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Re: Need a book recommendation
« Reply #67 on: July 26, 2016, 08:19:42 AM »
Haha!  :aok
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Re: Need a book recommendation
« Reply #68 on: August 03, 2016, 01:59:11 AM »
Starship Troopers by Heinlein  Way better than the movie and something usually recommended for military leaders.

https://www.amazon.com/Starship-Troopers-Robert-Heinlein/dp/0441783589/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1470205428&sr=8-1&keywords=starship+troopers


The Sixth Battle by Barrett Tillman  (Yes the one who does some military aircraft books and was involved with the Tailhook society)
This is one of my all time favorite books, I am on my second copy having bought one when it first came out years ago.  Modern Naval Aviation
strategy is examined inside of a novel setting.  Very well written.

https://www.amazon.com/Sixth-Battle-Barrett-Tillman/dp/0553294628/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1470205518&sr=8-1&keywords=the+sixth+battle


Ready Player One by Ernst Kline

https://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/0307887448/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1470205681&sr=8-1&keywords=ready+player+one


One Day in a Long War: May 10, 1972 Air War North Vietnam by Jeff Ethell and Alfred Price
Just amazing.

https://www.amazon.com/One-Day-Long-War-Vietnam/dp/0394576225/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1470205969&sr=8-1&keywords=one+day+in+a+long+war


The First Men In: U.S. Paratroopers and the Fight to Save D-Day by Ed Ruggero
82nd Airborne's all but forgotten fight to secure the area behind Utah.  Freaking awesome book.  Ruggero writes great fiction too.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060731281/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1


Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
The aliens come and start blowing the crap out of us.  However the monkey boys know how to fight.  Best seller when it came out.

https://www.amazon.com/Footfall-Larry-Niven-ebook/dp/B01EKJ4PQ6/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1470206507&sr=1-4&keywords=jerry+pournelle#navbar


The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle  * Anything by either of these two and you won't go to far wrong
One of the best sci-fi books ever written.

https://www.amazon.com/Mote-Gods-Eye-Book-ebook/dp/B004YDL2CY/ref=pd_sim_351_7?ie=UTF8&dpID=51mmJThI5yL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_OU01__BG0%2C0%2C0%2C0_FMpng_AC_UL160_SR108%2C160_&psc=1&refRID=T2NDQ3H004N5029C450M#navbar

Anything by Douglas Reeman is a great read if you are into Naval Combat.  Especially "Winged Escort" and "The Destroyers".

Grey Eagles by Duane Unkefer
This is what we all dream about to some extent... the Luftwaffe comes back, in 1976... in Arizona and the only people that can stop them seemingly are the CAF, their warbirds, and a bunch of old WWII fighter pilots.  Ignore the crap about Marta she is not central to the story.

https://www.amazon.com/Gray-Eagles-Duane-Unkefer/dp/0688049729/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1470207142&sr=1-1&keywords=grey+eagles


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Re: Need a book recommendation
« Reply #69 on: August 03, 2016, 04:37:07 PM »
Funny you mention the 6th Battle, one of my favorite books too which I just finished re reading again, Tillman also wrote another great book called "Warriors", featuring the F20 Tigershark.  The 6th Battle is probably my favorite naval combat novel, better than Red Storm Rising was even back then.  It can be tough to find, no epub version was ever created of it that I've ever found, it's for sale on Amazon in the used paperback 1 cent section often, but that's it.
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Re: Need a book recommendation
« Reply #70 on: August 26, 2016, 10:36:11 PM »
Quote from: Serenity on July 12, 2016, 02:29:58 PM
Well, I'm on a warpath of self improvement, and one of the things I wanted to work on was becoming more well read... goal to simply being more "cultured" and "well read", what books would you all recommend?

read the classics by Mark Twain, Henry David Thoreau ("On Walden Pond"), Herman Melville ("Moby Dick")

The 10 Greatest Books of all Time:
http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1578073,00.html





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