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I'm enjoying reading through Donna Leon's Brunetti series.
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I just finished Larry Correia's Monster Hunter series for the second time in anticipation of ordering the newest book in the series.

Really good stuff if you're into fantasy and realistic gun play. Well, as realistic as it gets when the hero is shooting monsters, but you know...

Also been going back through a lot of Capstick's stuff on Africa and hunting.

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Just read Stanley Mcrystal "My share of the task".Well worth the read.Going to start with the second book by Arn Durand about Koevoet.
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Bobby wrote:Just read Stanley Mcrystal "My share of the task".Well worth the read.Going to start with the second book by Arn Durand about Koevoet.

You might like "One Tribe at a Time, the paper that changed the war in Afghanistan" by Major Jim Gant.
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Bob Wildes wrote:
Bobby wrote:Just read Stanley Mcrystal "My share of the task".Well worth the read.Going to start with the second book by Arn Durand about Koevoet.

You might like "One Tribe at a Time, the paper that changed the war in Afghanistan" by Major Jim Gant.
Thanks Bob! I`ll order it this weekend.Looks interesting (checked it on amazon).
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Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard

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Read

Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undaunted_Courage

Highly recommend it. No revisionist shit, very honest picture of the various Indians they came across and a lot of them were thieving little scumbags, warlike assholes but also some real good people in there too.

Just re-read:

Sharpe's Sword
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe%27s ... 28novel%29
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Waterloo, both by Bernard Cornwell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe%27s ... 28novel%29

Great historical fiction!


The Price of Admiralty by John Keegan


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Just opened a book on the expediences of a Confederate soldier under Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.

One Of Jackson's Foot Cavalry by John H. Worsham

So far it's pretty good.

http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/worsham/menu.html




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Pevear/Volokhonsky translation of Chekhov's short stories. First time reading Chekhov since the shitty Garnett translations of high school/college and such a wild change after year of contemporary short fiction where everything has a hard/twist ending and most are set in run-down mill towns/rural areas/meth capitals to provide flavor.


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I remember was crying when i read "Vanka" (when i was a little boy)
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Buncha "thug lit" stuff.

Matthew McBrides "Swollen Red Sun" and "Crimes in Southern Indiana" were very good.


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Donnybrook by Frank Bill bareknuckles methheads and lots of doublecrossing

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Yeah, I want to read that one


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started this https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/339 ... n-thousand
The Ten Thousand (The Macht #1) by Paul Kearney

Nod bad. Reminds Gemmel in some way.


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Wild Bill wrote:started this https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/339 ... n-thousand
The Ten Thousand (The Macht #1) by Paul Kearney

Nod bad. Reminds Gemmel in some way.
Stopped. Started good, but then became boring.

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Turdacious wrote:I'm enjoying reading through Donna Leon's Brunetti series.
I was unfamiliar with this series. Do you recommend reading them in order, or is one so good I should start with that one?
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seeahill wrote:
Turdacious wrote:I'm enjoying reading through Donna Leon's Brunetti series.
I was unfamiliar with this series. Do you recommend reading them in order, or is one so good I should start with that one?
He gets older in the series. I haven't read the more recent books, so I can't say whether or not it would make sense to start with the more recent books-- my sense is that it wouldn't (I would want to know how he got the perspective he ends up with). I started kind of in the middle with A Noble Radiance, and it's the one that got me hooked. Death and Judgement is also great.
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Was at arailway station and needed something to read,got "Rogue warrior of the SAS,the Blair Mayne legend" by Martin Dillon and the late Roy Bradford.
The book is about Paddy Mayne,who served in the SAS during the second world war.Good read.
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Just read Steven Pressfields book "The warrior ethos".
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In honor of the passing of Mary Stewart earlier this year, I am re-reading (for the 10th time? since junior high) the Merlin series telling the story Merlin's life and his role in bringing King Arthur to the crown.

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Just read Niall Ferguson's "The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die", kind of weak, which surprised me. Though, he was mentioning "Why Nations Fail" by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson. Just finishing up, fairly interesting and refutes a lot of crap Jared Diamond has put out.
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Just finished a swedish book called "Jihad".About swedes in the different extremist islamic terror networks.Interesting,unfortunately only available in swedish.
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Right now I'm working my way through the Nancy Drew mystery books. That little hooker is always getting into some shit.

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Shapecharge wrote:Right now I'm working my way through the Nancy Drew mystery books. That little hooker is always getting into some shit.
Don`t read those books to late in the day,might give you nightmares.
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DARTH wrote: The Price of Admiralty by John Keegan
Great book. I've never been able to really get into naval history, but loved that one.
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