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Anyone reading a good book right now?

oddball7465oddball7465 Member Posts: 766 ✭✭✭✭
edited January 2012 in General Discussion
Or has a good book to recommend? I need something to read.
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  • searcher5searcher5 Member Posts: 13,511 ✭
    edited November -1
    Probably not what you're looking for, but I am nearly through the complete works of O. Henry. Pretty good reading.
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  • coledigger4coledigger4 Member Posts: 826 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    "Unbroken", by Laura Hillenbrand! World War 2, true story, very addictive reading.
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  • NOSLEEPNOSLEEP Member Posts: 4,526
    edited November -1
    I'm reading... Hottest Woman of all time. By Leeroy Jenkins.
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  • CSI21CSI21 Member Posts: 1,206 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The Passage by Justin Cronin, excellent book, caught me off guard for sure.
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  • TrinityScrimshawTrinityScrimshaw Member Posts: 9,350 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    American Sniper.

    Trinity +++
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  • 11BravoCrunchie11BravoCrunchie Member Posts: 33,423 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    A Game of Thrones. It's the first book in the series A Song of Ice and Fire.
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  • buffalobobuffalobo Member Posts: 2,348 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by TrinityScrimshaw
    American Sniper.

    Trinity +++


    +1
    Got it for Christmas, looking forward to it. Gotta finish Lone Survivor for the second time first.
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  • timinpatiminpa Member Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The fifth proffesion by David Morrell
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  • yoshmysteryoshmyster Member Posts: 22,052 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Charcuterie by Micheal Ruhlman & Brian Polcyn. Gots to learn how to cure meats for the end of the world ya know. I mean how else am I going to snack on the long pig? Smoking them will get boring after a while.
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  • catpealer111catpealer111 Member Posts: 10,695
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Zulu7
    A Game of Thrones. It's the first book in the series A Song of Ice and Fire.


    I'm on the third book in the series, A Clash of Swords. The second and third books are better than the first. All told, there should be seven in total, so far George Martin has published five.
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  • Henry0ReillyHenry0Reilly Member Posts: 10,892 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Man Enough, Fathers, Sons and the Search for Masculinity by Frank Pittman, M.D.
    I used to recruit for the NRA until they sold us down the river (again!) in Heller v. DC. See my auctions (if any) under username henryreilly
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  • Night StalkerNight Stalker Member Posts: 11,967
    edited November -1
    One for enjoyment: an oldie, but The Revolt of Mamie Stover

    One for school: Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: choosing among the five traditions
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  • bigboy12bigboy12 Member Posts: 1,767 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    One of my ALL-TIME favs is the Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. It is a series of seven books that begins with The Gunslinger.
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  • StingSting Member Posts: 629 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    "Survive the Savage Sea," by Dougal Robertson. A story about a family that is lost at sea for 37 days. My favorite part, (this is my 2nd reading in 10 years), is when they are rescued by a Japanese commercial fishing boat. Mr. Dougal goes into great detail about their feelings while their salt water boils are treated with salve, trying to walk after being in a dingy for so long, and eating the first few meals.
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  • bartman45bartman45 Member Posts: 3,008 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ex LAPD's Joe Wambaugh's "Hollywood Hills"; however, all of his stuff is well written and enjoyable.
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  • cce1302cce1302 Member Posts: 9,555 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Robinson Crusoe -Daniel Defoe
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  • texdottexdot Member Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The Texas Rangers. By Walter Prescott Webb. It's a history of the Rangers.
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  • Cornflk1Cornflk1 Member Posts: 3,715 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just finished The Childrens War, by Peter Gawenda. True story of a mother and her four children at the end of WW2 trying to survive as non combatants.
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  • llamallama Member Posts: 2,637 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Check out "Little Brother" - available Free online

    http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/
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  • Blade SlingerBlade Slinger Member Posts: 5,891
    edited November -1
    Obdurate Odyessey.....book about a 59 year old dude that paddled his way to Florida in a home made canoe, then hiked the Appalachian Trail back to Livonia New York. His name is Joe Yantachka.

    Now reading Steve Jobs
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  • rogue_robrogue_rob Member Posts: 7,033 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just finished Stephen Kings new one; "11/22/63"

    It's about a dude that goes back in time to stop the Kennedy assassination.

    Of course I liked "Guns of the South" by Harry Turtledove so this one is kinda similar.

    It's an easy read with a few twists in it. One of the few that I've read for enjoyment lately.
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  • bartman45bartman45 Member Posts: 3,008 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by yoshmyster
    Charcuterie by Micheal Ruhlman & Brian Polcyn. Gots to learn how to cure meats for the end of the world ya know. I mean how else am I going to snack on the long pig? Smoking them will get boring after a while.


    A Grateful Dead record should help...........
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  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,496 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I am dead center in the 21-book series of British naval warfare in a Napoleonic years by Patrick O'Brien. I re-read it annually. It may be the finest prose ever written in English, and is page-turningly exciting, to boot. Begin with "Master and Commander" and you will be hooked.

    O'Brien died midway through the 21st book, but if he had continued to 30 or even 40 books, there are legions of readers who would have anticipated each and every one of them with greater dedication than those any fan of Harry Potter drivel.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    "In The Garden of Beasts", by Erik Larson

    Interesting account of watching night fall in Hilter's "New Germany" from the point of view of the US ambassador and his family.
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  • GuvamintCheeseGuvamintCheese Member Posts: 38,932 ✭
    edited November -1
    I just read killing Lincoln. Its a great read, hard to put down.
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The Three Musketeers by Dumas. Read The Count of Monte Cristo and The Man in the Iron Mask, but never got around to this one.
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  • drobsdrobs Member Posts: 22,620 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just finished The Outlaws by WEB Griffin.
    Looking for a copy of Soft Target by Steven Hunter.
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  • coledigger4coledigger4 Member Posts: 826 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Any of the Sheriff Walt Longmire series by Craig Johnson.
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  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    I just read "the boy who sailed around the world alone"...It was good and only took about 5 hrs. to read...lol
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  • Alan RushingAlan Rushing Member Posts: 8,805 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Recently completed this book, which is a quick, easy and thought provoking read:
    All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
    Stephen Kinzer

    Afterwards I read another book of his:
    Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds
    Stephen Kinzer

    Historic, easy reads, well footnoted, rather provocative and give a broader and knowledgeable background for current events in the Middle East and elsewhere.

    Previous to those two above:
    Rifle Bullets for the Hunter: A Definitive Study
    Dave Campbell, et al

    If you do acquire and read any of the above I'd appreciate hearing back from you on them, if not, "C'est la vie".

    Best of all.
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  • Night StalkerNight Stalker Member Posts: 11,967
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by drobs
    Just finished The Outlaws by WEB Griffin.
    Looking for a copy of Soft Target by Steven Hunter.
    Drobs:

    Thanks for everything you did for my team while I was in Iraq back in 2009-2010.... I just picked up a copy of Soft Target by Steven Hunter for you.

    I just need a mailing address.

    NS
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  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,496 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Of course, there are always the ebook or print versions by some guy who posts here...
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
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  • Wyatt EarpWyatt Earp Member Posts: 5,871
    edited November -1
    I'm just about finished with American Sniper. It's a great read, truly not a single dull page yet. It's almost like reading a magazine because, for gun guys, there's a lot of stuff we can relate to.

    I did find it unusual the arguments he and his wife had when he said his priorities in life are: God, country, then family. His wife thought family should come before country and I agree with her.
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  • savage170savage170 Member Posts: 37,569 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Dumb but Lucky By Ricard Curtis first hand account of a P-51 Pilot
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  • tapwatertapwater Member Posts: 10,336 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ...My older son works for Bosch. He gave me a copy of "Bosch, 125 Years, Invented For Life". Pretty interesting with lots of pictures. One whole page has pics of sparkplugs from each year, from 1902 to 2011. Robert Bosch was the father of the magneto. (as we know it)
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  • xstuntmanxstuntman Member Posts: 678 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter.
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  • whiteclouderwhiteclouder Member Posts: 10,574 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm well into "A Matter of Respect." It will be interesting to see how the end fits with the beginning.

    Clouder..
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  • CapnMidnightCapnMidnight Member Posts: 8,038 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Got Killing Lincoln for Christmas, it's a good read. Just got done with Life of Tom Horn, Government Scout and Interpreter by Tom Horn. Second time I've read it. I'm a little ways into The Original Argument, The Federalist by Glenn Beck, it is a 21 centery adaptation of the Federalist papers.
    W.D.
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  • searcher5searcher5 Member Posts: 13,511 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by CapnMidnight
    Got Killing Lincoln for Christmas, it's a good read. Just got done with Life of Tom Horn, Government Scout and Interpreter by Tom Horn. Second time I've read it. I'm a little ways into The Original Argument, The Federalist by Glenn Beck, it is a 21 centery adaptation of the Federalist papers.
    W.D.


    The Horn book was very interesting, even if taken from a very biased point of view. For some real good reading on Tom Horn, check out "Blood on the Moon" by Chip Carleson, who is largely regarded as the best living source of information on Horn.
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  • FrancFFrancF Member Posts: 35,279 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    "Angels Still Don't Play this HAARP" Dr. Nick Begich
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