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Post by executioner on May 17, 2011 11:43:12 GMT -4
I regularly read Don Pendleton's Executioner series. Reading one of the older ones right now. I really enjoy books by Lee Child, Brad Thor and Alex Berenson.
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Post by wildfire on May 17, 2011 13:50:17 GMT -4
I've read a bunch of the Jack Reacher Novels (Lee Child) , they're pretty fun. I've often wondered about whether you really COULD go 'off the grid' in real life like he does.
I think I've read a Brad Thor one, too... he tends to work in some digs at the liberals in his books, doesn't he? (I seem to recall him being on Glen Beck's show before he turned into Rush Limbaugh)
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Post by executioner on May 17, 2011 15:47:53 GMT -4
I've read a bunch of the Jack Reacher Novels (Lee Child) , they're pretty fun. I've often wondered about whether you really COULD go 'off the grid' in real life like he does. I think I've read a Brad Thor one, too... he tends to work in some digs at the liberals in his books, doesn't he? (I seem to recall him being on Glen Beck's show before he turned into Rush Limbaugh) Lee Child books are very good. I am curious too if you could live a drifter life like he does. My guess is probably not to that extent. Brad Thor is very conservative, very supportive of the Armed Forces. Which does put him at odds with the half-wits (including their ENTIRE evening lineup and the regular cast of Morning Joe) on MSNBC. While his books have a bit of politics in it, it is much more an action thriller than anything. I really enjoy his books and much like a Reacher book, when I pick it up I can't put it down.
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Post by ljacone on May 17, 2011 16:34:26 GMT -4
I've read a bunch of the Jack Reacher Novels (Lee Child) , they're pretty fun. I've often wondered about whether you really COULD go 'off the grid' in real life like he does. I think I've read a Brad Thor one, too... he tends to work in some digs at the liberals in his books, doesn't he? (I seem to recall him being on Glen Beck's show before he turned into Rush Limbaugh) Before who turned into Rush Limbaugh? Beck? Beck is no Rush Limbaugh. Beck started out as a good commentator and then he went off the deep end ala Glorious Godfrey from Jack Kirby's Fourth World. Rush has been the "Big Voice on the Right" for as long as he has because he preaches true conservatism. Glen Beck wishes he was Rush Limbaugh.
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Post by wildfire on May 17, 2011 20:10:49 GMT -4
See, I think Glen Beck from a couple years ago (when he was still on CNN) is much like Rush when Rush first hit his stride nationally. Sure, he was conservative, but he did so in a way that made sense, and presented his views in a way such that you didn't have to be a bible thumping whack job to agree with him.
Now, Beck is on Fox and has go WAY to the right, and Rush is just a drug addled loony.
Back on topic... it's funny about the Lee Child books... I'd never heard of hi, when someone left a copy on the book table at a conference I was selling stuff at. I just happened to have overestimated the amount of pages I had left in the book I brought to read myself, so I started it, then went and found a few others.
I'll probably go back and see which ones I don't have and try to read them in order at some point.
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Post by ljacone on May 17, 2011 22:05:26 GMT -4
Well, like I said. Beck has gone Glorious Godfrey and is out there. Rush still hits it out of the park.
Me, I like the Destroyer books better than the Executioner or Mack Bolan. The Destroyer ones have a great sense of humor.
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Post by executioner on May 17, 2011 22:27:39 GMT -4
Back on topic... it's funny about the Lee Child books... I'd never heard of hi, when someone left a copy on the book table at a conference I was selling stuff at. I just happened to have overestimated the amount of pages I had left in the book I brought to read myself, so I started it, then went and found a few others. I'll probably go back and see which ones I don't have and try to read them in order at some point. The nice thing about the Reacher books is you can read them in any order you want. The Enemy is the prequal, but Lee Child intentionally wrote them so you can read them in any order.
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Post by wildfire on May 17, 2011 23:05:46 GMT -4
Yeah, I didn't feel confused or anything, but reading them in order is always better.
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Post by tyguy on Jun 23, 2011 16:06:18 GMT -4
Added a few baseball books to my site today. The 19th century baseball encyclopedia, the 1916 pennant races, and biography of HOF catcher Ray Schalk. www.mediafire.com/tystates
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Post by tyguy on Jun 24, 2011 11:37:42 GMT -4
Chief Bender's Burden: The Silent Struggle of a Baseball Star
Baseball's Offensive Greats of the Deadball Era: Best producers rated by position 1901-1919
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Post by tyguy on Jun 29, 2011 23:43:42 GMT -4
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Post by jasonjaconetti on Jun 30, 2011 7:33:23 GMT -4
I just finished the book The WWE Championship by Kevin Sullivan (no, not the Task Master)
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Post by Dustin on Jun 30, 2011 18:40:37 GMT -4
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Post by todd on Aug 9, 2012 23:00:26 GMT -4
Just started reading book one of the Earth Chronicles by Zacharia Stichin called The 12th Planet. I usually dont pay much attention to all of the alien astronaut stuff but this book is well written and makes a good story regardless of whether you believe in this sort of thing or not. The closet thing I can compare it to is chariots of the gods. Here's some info on the author and the book
Zecharia Sitchin is an internationally acclaimed author and researcher whose books offer evidence that we are not alone in our own solar system. One of a handful of scholars able to read the Sumerian cuneiform tablets, he has combined archaeology, ancient texts, and the Bible with the latest scientific discoveries to retell the history and prehistory of mankind and planet Earth
Over the years, startling evidence has been uncovered, challenging established notions of the origins of life on Earth—evidence that suggests the existence of an advanced group of extraterrestrials who once inhabited our world.
The first book of the revolutionary Earth Chronicles series offers indisputable documentary evidence of the existence of the mysterious planet Nibiru and tells why its astronauts came to Earth eons ago to fashion mankind in their image.
The product of more than thirty years of meticulous research, The 12th Planet treats as fact, not myth, the tales of Creation, the Deluge, the Tower of Babel, and the Nefilim who married the daughters of man. By weaving together the biblical narrative with Sumerian and Babylonian clay-tablet texts, it challenges the established notions of the origins of Earth and mankind, and offers a compelling alternative history and prehistory of both.
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Post by maddog1981 on Aug 17, 2012 14:46:40 GMT -4
I've found myself back in Discworld. Reading Small Gods currently and doing the audiobook to Carpe Jugulum at work. I also picked up Going Postal and plan to read it and Making Money soon. I love Discworld.
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