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1/3 into this @Doog_de_Jour , easier read (in a good way) than I was expecting. It does come across as a bit of a hagiography to this point.Doog_de_Jour said:Good call on “Retribution” @YellowSnow.
One of my most recent reads...
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had to go look up hagiographyGrundleStiltzkin said:
1/3 into this @Doog_de_Jour , easier read (in a good way) than I was expecting. It does come across as a bit of a hagiography to this point.Doog_de_Jour said:Good call on “Retribution” @YellowSnow.
One of my most recent reads...
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If you're into military history, Rogue Heroes by Ben Macintyre about the founding of the SAS and their service in WWII and Relentless Strike by Sean Naylor about the founding of Delta, SEAL Team 6 and JSOC.
Relentless Strike also has a local tie when discussing Delta Operator Steve Langmack who was killed in Iraq in 2005. He went to Kennedy back in the day.
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Thanks.CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:If you're into military history, Rogue Heroes by Ben Macintyre about the founding of the SAS and their service in WWII and Relentless Strike by Sean Naylor about the founding of Delta, SEAL Team 6 and JSOC.
Relentless Strike also has a local tie when discussing Delta Operator Steve Langmack who was killed in Iraq in 2005. He went to Kennedy back in the day.
#MyLancers
Read one in last year about the SAS team SCUD hunting & caught discovered by shepherds. Entertaining. -
Finished, excellent book, thank you for the suggestion. I learned a lot. The author does really like himself some Mongols, but he backs it up.GrundleStiltzkin said:
1/3 into this @Doog_de_Jour , easier read (in a good way) than I was expecting. It does come across as a bit of a hagiography to this point.Doog_de_Jour said:Good call on “Retribution” @YellowSnow.
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GrundleStiltzkin said:
Finished, excellent book, thank you for the suggestion. I learned a lot. The author does really like himself some Mongols, but he backs it up.GrundleStiltzkin said:
1/3 into this @Doog_de_Jour , easier read (in a good way) than I was expecting. It does come across as a bit of a hagiography to this point.Doog_de_Jour said:Good call on “Retribution” @YellowSnow.
One of my most recent reads...
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You’re most welcome. I’m trying to read up more on non-Chinese/Japanese Asian history, and came across that book. I guess the author did another one on the daughters of Genghis Khan but I haven’t read it yet.GrundleStiltzkin said:
Finished, excellent book, thank you for the suggestion. I learned a lot. The author does really like himself some Mongols, but he backs it up.GrundleStiltzkin said:
1/3 into this @Doog_de_Jour , easier read (in a good way) than I was expecting. It does come across as a bit of a hagiography to this point.Doog_de_Jour said:Good call on “Retribution” @YellowSnow.
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Bravo 2-0 or something like that. Excellent story - those fuckers are Pat Hill TUFF.GrundleStiltzkin said:
Thanks.CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:If you're into military history, Rogue Heroes by Ben Macintyre about the founding of the SAS and their service in WWII and Relentless Strike by Sean Naylor about the founding of Delta, SEAL Team 6 and JSOC.
Relentless Strike also has a local tie when discussing Delta Operator Steve Langmack who was killed in Iraq in 2005. He went to Kennedy back in the day.
#MyLancers
Read one in last year about the SAS team SCUD hunting & caught discovered by shepherds. Entertaining. -
On to this.
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A Man Called Intrepid is an older book about Bill Donovan, head of the OSS in WWII. I recall it being good. When I worked on Encino Man the driver assigned to us was a former WWII pilot whose job was to fly Donovan around in a special C47CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:If you're into military history, Rogue Heroes by Ben Macintyre about the founding of the SAS and their service in WWII and Relentless Strike by Sean Naylor about the founding of Delta, SEAL Team 6 and JSOC.
Relentless Strike also has a local tie when discussing Delta Operator Steve Langmack who was killed in Iraq in 2005. He went to Kennedy back in the day.
#MyLancers
Edit: Intrepid is about William Stephenson, not Bill Donovan, but Donovan played a significant part in the book -
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Finished this. Great source material, solid retelling, relatively concise. Extra points for interviewing some of the tribesman who were actually there. And one of the survivors was a DWAG.GrundleStiltzkin said:On to this.
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One more recommendation from the military history category: Five Years to Freedom.
This man was a badass. He started the SERE school after his time as a POW.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_N._Rowe
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The Throbber has started churning through this - but reading time is limited to long weekends at his palatial inland lake lodge so just getting up to the part where Genghis consolidates the tribes.Doog_de_Jour said:
You’re most welcome. I’m trying to read up more on non-Chinese/Japanese Asian history, and came across that book. I guess the author did another one on the daughters of Genghis Khan but I haven’t read it yet.GrundleStiltzkin said:
Finished, excellent book, thank you for the suggestion. I learned a lot. The author does really like himself some Mongols, but he backs it up.GrundleStiltzkin said:
1/3 into this @Doog_de_Jour , easier read (in a good way) than I was expecting. It does come across as a bit of a hagiography to this point.Doog_de_Jour said:Good call on “Retribution” @YellowSnow.
One of my most recent reads...
I don't necessarily like the author's writing style (not techinically gifted) but good content and information.
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Don't know why it took me so long to get to, but just finished The Blind Side. Outstanding. I have no problem admitting I really liked the movie #NoHomo 75k. The book, of course, is must different. Probably second only to Friday Night Lights as the best sports book I've read.PurpleThrobber said:Anything by Michael Lewis or Timothy Egan.
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Confederacy of Dunces is a brilliant book
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I think I've read four of this guy's book now over the summer, and this was the best. Amazing amount of research. He covers a lot of the standard 9/11 material, but in more depth. And many things I'd never heard before. For instance, an Air Force C-130 tailed the Shanksville plane as best it could.GrundleStiltzkin said:
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Someone wrote a book about Hardcore Husky?Meek said:Confederacy of Dunces is a brilliant book
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This one was pretty good. A little WW2 incident that most probably never heard of.
Second best of Zuckoff ouvre. I didn't know the movie had been based on a book. Good chit.
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Grundle this is the second best sports book I've ever read (after the obvious choice)...GrundleStiltzkin said:
Don't know why it took me so long to get to, but just finished The Blind Side. Outstanding. I have no problem admitting I really liked the movie #NoHomo 75k. The book, of course, is must different. Probably second only to Friday Night Lights as the best sports book I've read.PurpleThrobber said:Anything by Michael Lewis or Timothy Egan.
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Yeah, I should have qualified that as "football book." Boys in the Boat was amazing.YellowSnow said:
Grundle this is the second best sports book I've ever read (after the obvious choice)...GrundleStiltzkin said:
Don't know why it took me so long to get to, but just finished The Blind Side. Outstanding. I have no problem admitting I really liked the movie #NoHomo 75k. The book, of course, is must different. Probably second only to Friday Night Lights as the best sports book I've read.PurpleThrobber said:Anything by Michael Lewis or Timothy Egan.
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Junction Boys better.YellowSnow said:
Grundle this is the second best sports book I've ever read (after the obvious choice)...GrundleStiltzkin said:
Don't know why it took me so long to get to, but just finished The Blind Side. Outstanding. I have no problem admitting I really liked the movie #NoHomo 75k. The book, of course, is must different. Probably second only to Friday Night Lights as the best sports book I've read.PurpleThrobber said:Anything by Michael Lewis or Timothy Egan.
The Bear was a beast.
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People forget that Jim Owens learned at the knee of the Bear as an assistant on that team. It's what changed West Coast football into a rugged Rose Bowl winning team and conference. The end of single platoon doomed this approach but coaches did all sorts of stupid stuff like no water for years after.PurpleThrobber said:
Junction Boys better.YellowSnow said:
Grundle this is the second best sports book I've ever read (after the obvious choice)...GrundleStiltzkin said:
Don't know why it took me so long to get to, but just finished The Blind Side. Outstanding. I have no problem admitting I really liked the movie #NoHomo 75k. The book, of course, is must different. Probably second only to Friday Night Lights as the best sports book I've read.PurpleThrobber said:Anything by Michael Lewis or Timothy Egan.
The Bear was a beast._screensize_45.jpg)
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The Throbber remembers taking salt tablets like that was a good thing. Big ass tubs of salt pills laying around the locker room.RaceBannon said:
People forget that Jim Owens learned at the knee of the Bear as an assistant on that team. It's what changed West Coast football into a rugged Rose Bowl winning team and conference. The end of single platoon doomed this approach but coaches did all sorts of stupid stuff like no water for years after.PurpleThrobber said:
Junction Boys better.YellowSnow said:
Grundle this is the second best sports book I've ever read (after the obvious choice)...GrundleStiltzkin said:
Don't know why it took me so long to get to, but just finished The Blind Side. Outstanding. I have no problem admitting I really liked the movie #NoHomo 75k. The book, of course, is must different. Probably second only to Friday Night Lights as the best sports book I've read.PurpleThrobber said:Anything by Michael Lewis or Timothy Egan.
The Bear was a beast.
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Malazan book of the fallen
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Nobody has more of an eye for the fucked up than Chuck Palahniuk, who's quickly passing Ken Kesey as the most accomplished Quook author.
81% of this message bored would be well served by reading this book, even though it's the least funny book about funny people ever.
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All Sherman Alexie’s books are solid.
The last one about his fractured relationship with his mom made The Throbber cry. Like a bitch.
He’s probably about off his self imposed #metoo exile.
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