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Title: What are you reading?
Post by: VWE on June 17, 2008, 10:36:15 AM
We've done this countless times before so you know what to do.

Currently: George Will - One Man's America
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Post by: ZetaNine on June 17, 2008, 10:38:32 AM
just started: THE POST AMERICAN WORLD..... Fareed Zakaria
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Post by: john9001 on June 17, 2008, 10:39:02 AM
ahh, i'm reading the o'club right now.
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Post by: eskimo2 on June 17, 2008, 11:21:02 AM
ahh, i'm reading the o'club right now.

What he said, and ironically, what he wrote.
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Post by: GtoRA2 on June 17, 2008, 11:25:37 AM
The Biggest Brother, the life of Major Dick Winters, the man who led the Band of Brothers. By larry Alexander. Great read so far.

Link at Amazon (did JB88 figure this out yet?)  (http://www.amazon.com/Biggest-Brother-Major-Winters-Brothers/dp/0451218396/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213719766&sr=8-1)

I need to get Brothers in Battle next.

 

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Post by: Saxman on June 17, 2008, 11:27:04 AM
It'd been a while, so I'm reading through the Lord of the Rings again.

I'm also reading Beowulf (the REAL one, not a modern novel adapation of the utterly horrible movie  :furious).
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Post by: Bodhi on June 17, 2008, 11:32:10 AM
A Time to Clash: Papers from a Provocative Pastor by Doug Giles.

Next up after that is Hillary's Secret War by Richard Poe.
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Post by: Dowding on June 17, 2008, 11:34:23 AM
The Battle for Spain, by Anthony Beevor.
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Post by: JB88 on June 17, 2008, 12:07:39 PM
myths to live by. 

joeseph campbell.

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Post by: Shifty on June 17, 2008, 12:24:29 PM
Samurai by Martin Caiden and Saburo Sakai... For about the 20th time. :rolleyes:
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Post by: Ripsnort on June 17, 2008, 12:41:50 PM
I hate fiction. I think I burned out on fiction in the 80's with Steven King novels.

Anyway, currently reading "SAS Survival handbook" and "Hidden Hawaii" and a handfull of self-improvement Project Management books from time to time (like when I'm taking a crap)
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Post by: Motherland on June 17, 2008, 12:45:30 PM
I'll be reading Hans-Joachim Marseille; Life Story of the Star of Africa by Franz Kurowski once it arrives...
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Post by: Shuckins on June 17, 2008, 12:46:40 PM
Sink the Bismarck

The Golden Warrior;  by Hope Muntz

Point of Impact:  by Stephen Hunter

The Ragged, Rugged, Warriors;  Martin Caidin
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Post by: midnight Target on June 17, 2008, 01:37:12 PM
Sink the Bismarck

The Golden Warrior;  by Hope Muntz

Point of Impact:  by Stephen Hunter

The Ragged, Rugged, Warriors;  Martin Caidin

I reread "Point of Impact" every 5 years or so. Great book, wish the movie could have been a little truer to the character.
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Post by: DYNAMITE on June 17, 2008, 01:49:10 PM
(http://www.longitudebooks.com/images/book_large/CZH11.jpg)


The Good Soldier Sjvek
By Jaroslav Hasek
 :aok
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Post by: lazs2 on June 17, 2008, 02:19:38 PM
I just started reading some zombie books..  I just finished the second in a "morningstar" series that starts with "plague of the dead"... great, fun read.    "city of the dead" is also great but never lets up.. there is no place to put the book down.

Another good read is "house to house" a very intense firsthand look at the falujah fighting in iraq..

lazs
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Post by: Shuckins on June 17, 2008, 02:27:06 PM
It was still a pretty good movie MT.  Some changes had to be made to keep the main character current.  So Bob Lee Swagger couldn't be a Vietnam war veteran.

Man....I would have LOVED to have seen this made ten years earlier with Tommy Lee Jones playing Bob Lee!   ;)
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Post by: texasmom on June 17, 2008, 02:27:50 PM
Been reading a lot of kids books lately, with the boys out for the summer.  Read Escape to Witch Mountain the other day... Jim Bowie: A Texas Legend, as well as a slew of picture/info books on snakes, spiders & any other creepy-crawley things.
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Post by: AKIron on June 17, 2008, 02:31:58 PM
Picked up "The Road To Reality" by Roger Penrose in the bargain bin. The title is a bit arrogant but it's pretty good.
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Post by: AKIron on June 17, 2008, 02:38:11 PM
I just started reading some zombie books..  I just finished the second in a "morningstar" series that starts with "plague of the dead"... great, fun read.    "city of the dead" is also great but never lets up.. there is no place to put the book down.

Another good read is "house to house" a very intense firsthand look at the falujah fighting in iraq..

lazs

You might enjoy these. They are a ripoff of the Romero stories but I enjoyed them.

http://www.djmoody.co.uk/Start2.htm
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Post by: Shuckins on June 17, 2008, 02:40:48 PM
texasmom, the best novel I ever read about Jim Bowie was entitled "The Iron Mistress" by Paul Wellman, and it was later made into a movie starring Alan Ladd.  Bowie's family once owned land within a few miles of my home town.  His brother is buried in a small church cemetery at Halley, Arkansas.
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Post by: SirLoin on June 17, 2008, 02:42:57 PM
I'm reading a Biography of George Orwell by Christopher Hitchens.
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Post by: Reschke on June 17, 2008, 02:45:22 PM
The Biggest Brother, the life of Major Dick Winters, the man who led the Band of Brothers. By larry Alexander. Great read so far.

Link at Amazon (did JB88 figure this out yet?)  (http://www.amazon.com/Biggest-Brother-Major-Winters-Brothers/dp/0451218396/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213719766&sr=8-1)

I need to get Brothers in Battle next.

I picked both of those up in a bookstore in the airport in Atlanta last week on the way to Vancouver and haven't had a chance to start reading them yet.
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Post by: texasmom on June 17, 2008, 02:45:34 PM
texasmom, the best novel I ever read about Jim Bowie was entitled "The Iron Mistress" by Paul Wellman, and it was later made into a movie starring Alan Ladd.  Bowie's family once owned land within a few miles of my home town.  His brother is buried in a small church cemetery at Halley, Arkansas.
Thank you! I'll definitely check that out next trip to the Library!  :)
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Post by: Lusche on June 17, 2008, 02:46:43 PM
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
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Post by: Reschke on June 17, 2008, 02:51:01 PM
I am re-reading a few Star Wars novels and just saw a book last night on my son's bedside table called "Football Genius" (its a kids book but I got hooked into it about midnight when I couldn't sleep). Also reading the SAS Survival guide book since it was my father's day gift to me a few weeks ago.
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Post by: JB88 on June 17, 2008, 08:36:29 PM
did jb88 figure this out yet?
yes sir...i have. (http://www.mensa.org/)

 :cool:




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Post by: Meatwad on June 17, 2008, 09:23:45 PM
Futari H volume 2
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Post by: vorticon on June 17, 2008, 09:37:29 PM
Protector by Larry Niven.

might not spend months reading it this time... :lol
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Post by: 1701E on June 17, 2008, 09:46:11 PM
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: checkmate by David Michaels. :aok
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Post by: 442w30 on June 17, 2008, 09:47:58 PM
The latest Peter F. Hamilton book.  
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Post by: Blooz on June 18, 2008, 06:10:06 AM
American Warrior by General John "Doc" Bahnsen

Personalized and autographed by the General himself!
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Post by: storch on June 18, 2008, 07:15:28 AM
the secret to rule #5ing skuzzy by Nuke.
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Post by: Obie303 on June 18, 2008, 07:45:45 AM
"The Few" by Alex Kershaw.  Story about the American pilots that flew for the RAF in the Battle of Britain.

http://www.thefewbook.com/home.html (http://www.thefewbook.com/home.html)
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Post by: Nefarious on June 18, 2008, 07:55:24 AM
JG 26 Top Guns of the Luftwaffe