Author Topic: Flyboys (Read 292 times)

Eagler · « **on:** October 11, 2003, 09:16:04 AM »

Anyone read this book yet?

DiabloTX · « **Reply #1 on:** October 11, 2003, 09:28:17 AM »

Read a review of it in last week's Zest magazine in the Houston Chronicle. Its on my list to read.

Drunky · « **Reply #2 on:** October 11, 2003, 10:26:15 AM »

Sorry, but it sounds like a gay pilots thing.

DiabloTX · « **Reply #3 on:** October 11, 2003, 01:37:01 PM »

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Originally posted by Drunky
Sorry, but it sounds like a gay pilots thing.

Totally wrong. It's about really hip and popular artists that are very attractive to women in the urban culture. Its from the female perspective.

Dnil · « **Reply #4 on:** October 11, 2003, 01:44:16 PM »

just started it. Only about 20-30 pages in.

Eagler · « **Reply #5 on:** October 11, 2003, 04:22:38 PM »

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Originally posted by Dnil
just started it. Only about 20-30 pages in.

same here, isn't our military history very sobering?

the idians and mexicans sure got the ****e end of the stick for sure

sounds like the chinese didnt fare any better by the jap "spirit warriors" either ...

interesting so far, author just laying ground work for actual story about navy pilots shot down and the cover up which followed of their fate from both the US and Jap side

Dnil · « **Reply #6 on:** October 11, 2003, 05:00:33 PM »

only thing that worries me is he might be laying the groundwork to justify what happened to these guys.

Also he makes it sound like what happened is some super secret scandal. I have a book from the 50s that talks about the commander of the island eating the liver of a captured pilot.

Eagler · « **Reply #7 on:** October 11, 2003, 06:19:48 PM »

kinda got that feeling too ...

this on his website :

The James Bradley Peace Foundation, (Federal ID 39-2008597) is a non-profit foundation which fosters understanding between America and Asia. The foundation sends American students to Japan and China to study.

In each of the last two years, James Bradley Peace Foundation scholarship winners from America have studied in the Far East.

As a historian, I have written about the slaughter between yellow and white people. Philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote, “With men the normal state of nature is not peace but war.” I think only people experiencing other countries’ cultures can change this nature. To that end, proceeds from my books will fund scholarships for American students to attend High School and University in Japan and China.