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I spend an inordinate amount of time on airplanes so I read quite a bit. Mostly Tom Clancy, Michael Crichton, and Dan Brown. There is also a "coffee table" book of stories by Edgar Allen Poe on the table next to my recliner.
Anything technical or military oriented I tend to gravitate towards. Techno-thrillers I guess you could say.
Anything technical or military oriented I tend to gravitate towards. Techno-thrillers I guess you could say.
Thanks, will check Vince Flynn out! I read last year, Gary Berntsen's "Jawbreaker"...awesome! Also I read "Ghost Wars" by Steve Coll, that was a long read!
ZmanM3
The Evil One
I read a lot, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Ann Rice (well the vampire books), David Morrell, Eric Lusterban, Orson Scott Card, Star wars and star trek books. Lots more too.
retfr8flyr
The Old One
If you like Si-FI read John Ringo and SD try Ringo's Series starting with Ghost, I think you would like it.
Earl
Earl
ZmanM3
The Evil One
Tom Clancy, Dan Brown and Michael Crichton are pretty awesome writers too. In addition to reading I also down load books on MP3 to my GPS and listen to them on long trips.
retfr8flyr
The Old One
Try Steve White his SiFi is real SiFi.
Earl
Earl
Dr Wu
Faraway
Sir Richard Burton (the adventurer, not the actor) by Edward Rice was the version I read.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Francis_Burton
Inspiration works in mysterious ways. This following poem was a strike of lightning for Gwendolyn Brooks, it is very different from her body of work. It packs a punch.
We Real Cool
THE POOL PLAYERS.
SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL.
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
by Gwendolyn Brooks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Francis_Burton
Inspiration works in mysterious ways. This following poem was a strike of lightning for Gwendolyn Brooks, it is very different from her body of work. It packs a punch.
We Real Cool
THE POOL PLAYERS.
SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL.
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
by Gwendolyn Brooks
retfr8flyr
The Old One
I just read Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell. Great book and should be required reading for all congressional members.
Earl
Earl
FalconGTHO
The Reporter
Love to read. No time since high school. Reading the net takes up any recreational reading time. LOVE going to book stores since childhood. Love the smell. Someday hope to have time. Perhaps in retirement.
Love sci fi as the only fiction. Otherwise, all I ever read were non fiction, educational, science and tech related shit. Drove my Mom nuts. Shed always try to get me to check out some "childrens fiction" as a kid in the library. There were a FEW fiction books I read as a kid. Scholastic shit, Jack London, the "Big Red" series, some others.
I really liked the Dune series as well. Very deep. I like how he goes into the depths of politics and religion and how they might morph out of the next 10,000 years of human society.
I read all the time. Just like you work out your muscles with weights, you have to work out the muscle between your ears.
Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time epic is one of the most engaging stories I have ever read. True master piece of story telling. Starts with "Eye of the World" and reads like one long 7,000 page story thru the entire 12 book series.
Brandon Sanderson is also another very good writer in the fantasy arena. Very well written stories with unique and well developed characters and settings.
Right now reading non-fiction "The Creature from Jekyll Island" about the creation of the Federal Reserve. This book will make your bloods boil....... whole system was set-up from the get go to promote and protect the "too big to fail" banks.
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Iconoclast107
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Beat me to it! I'm on book 6, Lord of Chaos. Fantastic series! I hear Brandon Sanderson is doing an amazing job finishing the series, as well.
Dr Wu
Faraway
The Motorcycle Diaries
How two medical students on a Norton, one in particular, "Che" Guevara found his calling...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Motorcycle_Diaries_(book)
He was gunned down in Bolivia.
"By the time he and the bedraggled remnants of his guerrilla band arrived here, hundreds of commandos trained by U.S. Green Berets were hot on his trail. He was captured Oct. 8 after being wounded in the foot during a firefight in a dense ravine known as El Churo, about two miles away. He weighed about 100 pounds after months of privations. A bullet had disabled his carbine and punched a hole in his trademark beret."
Bolivia's president is leftist Evo Morales.
How two medical students on a Norton, one in particular, "Che" Guevara found his calling...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Motorcycle_Diaries_(book)
He was gunned down in Bolivia.
"By the time he and the bedraggled remnants of his guerrilla band arrived here, hundreds of commandos trained by U.S. Green Berets were hot on his trail. He was captured Oct. 8 after being wounded in the foot during a firefight in a dense ravine known as El Churo, about two miles away. He weighed about 100 pounds after months of privations. A bullet had disabled his carbine and punched a hole in his trademark beret."
Bolivia's president is leftist Evo Morales.
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Then read "exposing the real Che" and see how his calling lead him on a path of murder and executions of thousands of innocents at his own hands.
http://www.amazon.com/Exposing-Real-Che-Guevara-Idolize/dp/1595230270
Read that a few years back....one of my favorite books of all time. Marcus is the man.
Vince Flynn
Lee Child.....are my current favorites. Have read just about everything by Crighten, Clancy, Jeffery Deaver, Ludlum, Ballducci and others.
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