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Offline Giland

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« on: March 23, 2006, 09:22:57 PM »
Since we were getting the other thread a little off topic with different book titles, I made a new post.
One book I really enjoyed was
Spec Ops : Case Studies in Special Operations Warfare: Theory and Practice
Most missions are WW2, but they are broken down really well to tell why they worked or why they failed.
The author was a commander of a SEAL Platoon and is now a Rear Admiral I believe, so he knows that of which he writes.
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« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2006, 10:01:01 PM »
Masters of Chaos "the secret history of special forces"
:Still reading it, I love this book. Gives some history on the Green Beret and works its way for there to every major encounter up to Iraq.

Black hawk down everyone knows this one!!!

Art of War: I only recommend this book to people who have studyed Eastern Civ. Setup alot of chinese history,  phiolosophy.

Seven Roads to hell "A screming eagle at bastogne" Good book in my opinion first hand account from A screming eagle that was there.
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« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2006, 10:39:47 PM »
Who the hell reads books??? Seriously...

Born on the fourth of july. One of my favorites.
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« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2006, 11:58:48 PM »
Romanov Prophecy by Steve Berry was good.
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« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2006, 10:20:48 PM »
The hitch-hikers guide to the universe.

the entire series is awesome, and the movie comes nothing close to the book.

i am in the process of reading the catcher in the rye, romeo and juiliet and Deception point.

romeo and juiliet is for school and the others are for pleasure.
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« Reply #5 on: March 25, 2006, 11:05:23 PM »
Catcher in the Rye is good, I liked things fall apart better.
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« Reply #6 on: March 25, 2006, 11:41:40 PM »
Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code

The Harry Potter series, w00t.

And my two favourite books:

Tough Calls by Dick Irvin

Calling the Shots by Bruce Hood
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« Reply #7 on: March 26, 2006, 01:16:24 AM »
The Book of Five Rings(Go Rin No Sho)...Miyamoto Musashi
Rogue Warrior...Richard Marcinko
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« Reply #8 on: March 26, 2006, 12:03:27 PM »
Forever War, by Joe Haldeman - my favorite book.  For Hard SciFi fan.

Forever Peace, same author is also good.  Not a sequel to the first.

Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein is also very good (although don't expect it to be like the movie which was based on it).

Armor, by John Steakly.

All of the above are military SciFi.

In the non-fiction area, I liked Inside Delta Force, Eric Haney; Hunt for bin Laden, Robin Moore; Robert's Ridge, Malcom MacPherson, and a whole bunch of others.
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« Reply #9 on: March 26, 2006, 10:46:23 PM »
Has anyone ever read "Enders Game" and the subsequent series that followed written by Orson Scott Card? if not, I'd check it out - great reads that'll keep you busy for a few months. (space soldiers theme)

other than that, I'm not a big fan of all of King's writes, but I was hooked the moment I picked up "The dark tower" and didn't stop until I had read the last of the 7 books
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« Reply #10 on: March 26, 2006, 10:59:01 PM »
Enders Game was fucking legit.

The sequel (the first sequel, anyway) was like Orson Scott Card after a 3-month long hiatus in Tibet with Deepak Chopra.

I'm sorry, but you can't expect me to read some BS about one's "quaint sibling's" after describing some pre-pubescent kid beating the living shit out of a bully in the shower room.

Sequels should be more of what was good about the first in the series, presented in new ways.  Too often, authors try to reinvent their style - and it ends up quite shitty indeed.
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« Reply #11 on: March 26, 2006, 11:12:51 PM »
yah, It does get a little hard to concentrate after the 2nd and 3rd, but getting " first meetings" is good, and "speaker for the dead" aint bad.
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« Reply #12 on: March 26, 2006, 11:13:38 PM »
I've always wanted to read Ender's game. I hear it's awesome, in Sci Fi a few I've read are:

2001 a space oddessey
Fantastic Voyage
I Robot (well half of it)

In every case the books are better than the movies. But I liked the movies also. Asimov is a good Sci Fi author, and the stuff isn't too hard to read at all usually pretty short books.
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« Reply #13 on: March 26, 2006, 11:32:54 PM »
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2001 a space oddessey...

...In every case the books are better than the movies.


I don't agree.  Arthur C. Clarke is cool, but Stanley Kubrick is awesome.

And 2001 is one of the few examples of where the book came after the movie. 2001 was adapted from a Clarke short story called "The Sentinel" and written as a screenplay.

The last book I read was "The Bible Code"  It was alright.
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« Reply #14 on: March 27, 2006, 04:23:29 PM »
Dead in 5 Heartbeats by Ralph "Sonny" Barger. Excellent 1%er (if you have to ask its not a book for you) biker fiction
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