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pyonir

pyonir

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Originally posted by: ergeorge


I've read the Greatest Generation book by Brokaw ... it was good, but not great.
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The Greatest Generation or The Greatest Generation Speaks? I didn't read the first one, only Speaks which has letters veterans wrote to Brokaw after he wrote the first book. It is more of a collection of letters rather than a second book.
 
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Mannkind

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Another vote for Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy ... best book of his I've ever read, I've got about 7 (IIRC) of his books, in hardback ;) hehe ... got them for 5 bucks a piece.
 
GTaudiophile

GTaudiophile

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Thanks for the recommendations. I'm going to look into these:

Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

Ender's Game

Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills

The Rommel Papers
 
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MaxDSP

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Another recommendation for Rainbow Six <---best book ever

Right now, Im about 70 pages into I Was Saddam's Son by Latif Yahia. It details the story of Uday Hussein's body double and what he experienced. Cant put this book down, and stayed up till 3 am reading it.
 
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BatmanNate

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Human, All too Human - Friedrich Nietzsche

(not really sure if it classifies as a book, much less one in said genres, but that's what I was reading last night so I figured I'd spread the wealth, if you could call it that)

;)
 
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WhiteKnight

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Originally posted by: calvinbiss
Rainbow Six - Tom Clancy, best book i have ever read, 1000+ pages a good long read
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I thought that Rainbow Six was way too much "coolness factor" and not enough plot. Clancy has some much better books IMO, like Hunt for Red October, Red Storm Rising, and Patriot Games just to name a few. Don't get me wrong, I loved Rainbow Six, but I would definitely put it lower on my list of Clancy books.
 
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BatmanNate

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Originally posted by: CastorTr0y
BatmanNate - are Nietzsche's works readable, or is it all like pseudo-intellectual babble?
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I haven't read Nietzsche extensively, but IMHO it is not so much pretentious as it is fecicious and somewhat scatterbrained. Then again I've never really understood the premises of existentialists thouroughly enough to sympathize so that's why I'm reading it. :)
 
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CastorTr0y

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Ok, thanks. Cuz I always wanted to read some of his stuff, but wasn't sure if it would be worth it. I might pick up the gay science, w/e. And by the way, its facetious
 
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BatmanNate

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Originally posted by: CastorTr0y
Ok, thanks. Cuz I always wanted to read some of his stuff, but wasn't sure if it would be worth it. I might pick up the gay science, w/e. And by the way, its facetious
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I'm becoming a true coder, I can't spell anymore. :D He has a thing for maxims too, it's kind of bizzare.
 
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Kenazo

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I just finished reading "The Great Escape" by Paul Brickhill. Simply an amazing account of one of the largest POW breaks of WWII. A couple hundred ppl worked on tunneling out of a german POW camp, and that's all I'll say about that. If you've seen the movie (filmed in the 60's i believe) then you have an idea of the story line, but the book is 50x better than the movie. Chicken Run was based on this book (and murdered the story)
 
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GTaudiophile

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Originally posted by: Kenazo
I just finished reading "The Great Escape" by Paul Brickhill. Simply an amazing account of one of the largest POW breaks of WWII. A couple hundred ppl worked on tunneling out of a german POW camp, and that's all I'll say about that. If you've seen the movie (filmed in the 60's i believe) then you have an idea of the story line, but the book is 50x better than the movie. Chicken Run was based on this book (and murdered the story)
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There's a fabulous movie called The Great Escape. I suggest you see it.

I honestly don't want a book that's been remade into a movie I've seen.
 
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Kenazo

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Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Originally posted by: Kenazo
I just finished reading "The Great Escape" by Paul Brickhill. Simply an amazing account of one of the largest POW breaks of WWII. A couple hundred ppl worked on tunneling out of a german POW camp, and that's all I'll say about that. If you've seen the movie (filmed in the 60's i believe) then you have an idea of the story line, but the book is 50x better than the movie. Chicken Run was based on this book (and murdered the story)
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There's a fabulous movie called The Great Escape. I suggest you see it.

I honestly don't want a book that's been remade into a movie I've seen.
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Was it made in the 60's and had Steve McQueen in it? I loved that movie, but the book that it was based on is so much better the movie barely scratched the surface of the book.
 
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Armitage

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Originally posted by: pyonir
Originally posted by: ergeorge


I've read the Greatest Generation book by Brokaw ... it was good, but not great.
Click to expand...

The Greatest Generation or The Greatest Generation Speaks? I didn't read the first one, only Speaks which has letters veterans wrote to Brokaw after he wrote the first book. It is more of a collection of letters rather than a second book.
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The first. Actually, I didn't know there was a second. I might look into it.
 
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tm37

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Damn paperback huh?

The only paperback I have bought in a while was Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do : The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country

Very good read,

I recently have read,
Bias : A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News - bernard goldberg. paperback - good read very interesting. basically a really long essay. I read this on my plane flight out of cali in to MN (about 3 hours) good but a little light (short) at times he would lead you somewhere and leave you hanging like there was more to say but he never said it.

What color is a conservative - JC Watts. - Good book really interesting look at the life and values of a very interesting man.

Leadership - Rudy Giuliani - Decent to good. very interesting to see the way he ran things. He dances around alot of "issues" but overall enjoyable.

Basic Economics a citizens guide to the economy - thomas sowell - EXCELLENT READ breaks down the fundimentals of a free market society and gives examples of why price fixing and the like don't work. One of my favorite books ever.

INSIDE AMERICAN EDUCATION - thomas sowell- Still going on this one. It sometimes reads very fast but it has a tendancy to bog down. Provides alot of statistics and sources. Overall pretty good.

Also see if you have any used book stores around it's good to save!
 
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Armitage

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Another suggestion in your genres... Richard Feynman's semi-biographical books:

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character

If you don't know, Feynman is a Nobel Laureate in Physics and was involved in the Manhattan Project. These books are not hardcore biographies, but rather a look into a fascinating personality ... I've been meaning to pick up one of the true biographies one day.

If you're bent that way, collections of his various lectures on physics, computation, and science in general, are very interesting. I particularly like The Character of Physical Law
 
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MattCo

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Originally posted by: ergeorge
Another suggestion in your genres... Richard Feynman's semi-biographical books: "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character If you don't know, Feynman is a Nobel Laureate in Physics and was involved in the Manhattan Project. These books are not hardcore biographies, but rather a look into a fascinating personality ... I've been meaning to pick up one of the true biographies one day. If you're bent that way, collections of his various lectures on physics, computation, and science in general, are very interesting. I particularly like The Character of Physical Law
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The Feynman books are really good reads. I have read the Blind Man's Bluff one also and you definitely won't be dissapointed.

-MC
 
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