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Gods middle finger was a great read. Up yours!
I'm reading http://www.amazon.com/Give-Me-Tomorr.../dp/0306818019
Unbelievable courage about some Marines in the Korean War.
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Gods middle finger was a great read. Up yours!
I'm reading http://www.amazon.com/Give-Me-Tomorr.../dp/0306818019
Unbelievable courage about some Marines in the Korean War.
I liked God's Middle Finger but the ending really was a let down.
Has anyone made it through Atlas Shrugged?
Has anyone made it through Atlas Shrugged?
One of my favorite books ever. Had a high school math teacher that turned some of us on to it...too early for us to appreciate it probably. I've reread it every few years since. To me, this one should be required reading.
I'm on about month 4 of moby dick... still haven't seen the freakin whale.
Just read all 3 of the Hunger Games books. Pretty good!
White Trash of the Elwood Chapter, TORC4x4.org, Cottonland Cruisers.
White Trash of the Elwood Chapter, TORC4x4.org, Cottonland Cruisers.
I'm just getting around to reading The Big Short...been in my stack for a while now.
Not quite as easy to read as The Blind Side, but it's absolutely fascinating.
Not quite as easy to read as The Blind Side, but it's absolutely fascinating.
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Read these three while on the beach this week.
Killing Lincoln was ok. I read some things about the conspiracy theories I hadn't read before. My mom bought it for me last Christmas and had asked me 100 times if I'd read it.
Against All Enemies by Tom Clancy's ghost writer was a great MW3 harlequin novel. Fun of cool guns and terrorist. Clancy's work is gotten like a high school reunion. It ain't what it once was. Atleast in this book you didn't have to suffer through 400 pages of politico bs.
Good beach read.
American Patriot The Life and Wars of Colonel Bud Day by Robert Coram is just Bad Ass. Kid on wrong side of street raised up hard becomes marine then becomes lawyer then becomes fighter pilot that ends up being a POW. Like Unbroken It's account of torture is horrific and finding that place inside oneself to survive is astounding.
If you like military and flying its a good read.
Killing Lincoln was ok. I read some things about the conspiracy theories I hadn't read before. My mom bought it for me last Christmas and had asked me 100 times if I'd read it.
Against All Enemies by Tom Clancy's ghost writer was a great MW3 harlequin novel. Fun of cool guns and terrorist. Clancy's work is gotten like a high school reunion. It ain't what it once was. Atleast in this book you didn't have to suffer through 400 pages of politico bs.
Good beach read.
American Patriot The Life and Wars of Colonel Bud Day by Robert Coram is just Bad Ass. Kid on wrong side of street raised up hard becomes marine then becomes lawyer then becomes fighter pilot that ends up being a POW. Like Unbroken It's account of torture is horrific and finding that place inside oneself to survive is astounding.
If you like military and flying its a good read.
Hook me up with that American Patriot. I will return it.
I have to read the Clancy novels too....I am unfortunately hooked. I never did all the gay gamer books, but all those big ones....I liked that one OK. Pretty good angle on the terrorism thing.
I am reading SEAL Target Geronimo right now. I am 1/2 way through and it is a real good history lesson on radical Islam.
I have to read the Clancy novels too....I am unfortunately hooked. I never did all the gay gamer books, but all those big ones....I liked that one OK. Pretty good angle on the terrorism thing.
I am reading SEAL Target Geronimo right now. I am 1/2 way through and it is a real good history lesson on radical Islam.
I've had this book on my bedside table for a while now and finally made the time to read it this weekend. I lost count of the times my adrenaline started pumping while reading of his 'hunts'.
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I will not do you wrong paduan.
50 shades of s#!t
I wasn't going to mention this, but since this thread was nearing the bottom of page two I figured it deserved to be bumped up.
After several recommendations from fellow readers (all females who almost always put me on decent reads), I bit the bullet and decided to read this trilogy of porn. I got halfway through the first book and just about put it down - cursing all who recommended it for the waste of time that it produced. I can't stand to start a book and not finish it, though, so I flew through the next 250 pages just so I could say I gave it a shot. Needless to say I won't be reading the other two.
Today brought a much better read - The Virtues of War.
I wasn't going to mention this, but since this thread was nearing the bottom of page two I figured it deserved to be bumped up.
After several recommendations from fellow readers (all females who almost always put me on decent reads), I bit the bullet and decided to read this trilogy of porn. I got halfway through the first book and just about put it down - cursing all who recommended it for the waste of time that it produced. I can't stand to start a book and not finish it, though, so I flew through the next 250 pages just so I could say I gave it a shot. Needless to say I won't be reading the other two.
Today brought a much better read - The Virtues of War.
Yeah, it's not a good book. I tried. Julie read the first one. Doubt she will read 2/3
Full Black by Brad Thor
Hidden Order by Brad Thor
Hidden Order by Brad Thor
I liked God's Middle Finger but the ending really was a let down.
Has anyone made it through Atlas Shrugged?
I read Atlas about 20 years back, then again a couple years later because once through didn't seem to do it justice. Rand's Fountainhead is excellent also.
Thomas Sowell - Conflict of Visions or Barbarians Inside the Gates - his ability to speak on economics, politics and the questionable impact of intellectuals on society is neat stuff. Most any of Bill Buckley's books, God and Man at Yale is an early one or some of his fiction pieces fro the Blackford Oakes series - Saving the Queen or Tucker's Last Stand
Has anyone made it through Atlas Shrugged?
I read Atlas about 20 years back, then again a couple years later because once through didn't seem to do it justice. Rand's Fountainhead is excellent also.
Thomas Sowell - Conflict of Visions or Barbarians Inside the Gates - his ability to speak on economics, politics and the questionable impact of intellectuals on society is neat stuff. Most any of Bill Buckley's books, God and Man at Yale is an early one or some of his fiction pieces fro the Blackford Oakes series - Saving the Queen or Tucker's Last Stand
I read constantly, and I've been unable to stay interested in Atlas on 2 separate occasions. Just can't get invested...
Just started in on The Source by James Michener after being pointed toward him by a friend. Solid read so far, hard to put down. Supposedly most of his stuff is that way.
Just started in on The Source by James Michener after being pointed toward him by a friend. Solid read so far, hard to put down. Supposedly most of his stuff is that way.
Agree. Altas.....yuck.
I'm gutting out Hemmingway right now.
If you can hang n a Michener you are not a light weight.
We'll see if I can stick it out...so far so good though.
Atlas and Fountainhead have, over time, become more and more awful in my mind.
I thought the ideas in them were cool when I was 15-25 yrs old, but now I just think they sophomoric and rather banal. They are poorly developed and are so utterly unfounded in reality.
I thought the ideas in them were cool when I was 15-25 yrs old, but now I just think they sophomoric and rather banal. They are poorly developed and are so utterly unfounded in reality.
