All About Pocket Knives

About a third of the way through ---► Waiting in the wings ---► Received for Valentines Day ---►

Re-reading a Patrick O'Brien sea yarn titled "Blue at the Mizzen". A great series to read if the age of sail and the Napoleonic wars are your cup of tea.

Just finished this Sci-Fi thriller. I'm not sure if I liked it or not - even for the weird stuff I normally read, this one was WEIRD. There were parts that I thought were interesting concepts and twists, and other parts that I thought were over the top and just left me saying "huh?" Also had some bloody parts that made me cringe a little.
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I just started PHANTOM WARRIORS, by Gary A. Linderer. https://www.amazon.com/Phantom-Warriors ... m+warriors

rangerbluedog wrote:I just started PHANTOM WARRIORS, by Gary A. Linderer.
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https://www.amazon.com/Phantom-Warriors ... m+warriors

My daughter has Amazon Prime so I just sent a text to her asking her to have it sent to me and I'll pay her back.

Edit: Also getting book 2. I hope they're good.

First book is pretty exciting. Unfortunately, the stories are mostly all about the times when things went wrong. The teams weren't supposed to be discovered by the enemy, but in the first six chapters, they always are. A lot of brave men...

Mumbleypeg wrote:I'm just getting into The Templars by Dan Jones. First couple of chapters were a little dry but it picked up and now I can hardly put it down. It's history but written so it's very readable. If you ever wanted to know the story of the Crusades and the Christian/Muslim conflict this is a good place to get a perspective, starting with a few "warrior monks" protecting Christian pilgrims in Jerusalem from the Saracens, eventually becoming the Knights of the Temple in 1119, their rise to power across Europe and the Middle East, their fall during the Inquisition in 1307 and rapid disappearance.

Ken

Just finished that one a couple of weeks ago. Found it very interesting. Sure are a lot of untrue myths about the Templars.
I like to mix it up, alternating reading fiction and then something historic or educational. Lately have been reading a few by a guy called C.J.Box. He has a series about a Wyoming game warden by the name of Joe Pickett. Kind of like reading an old western, but modern, usually ending up with quite a bit of FBI involvement. Joe's best friend is a renegade falconer who usually ends up involved in the plot sometime in the novel.
Dan

danno50 wrote:

Mumbleypeg wrote:I'm just getting into The Templars by Dan Jones. First couple of chapters were a little dry but it picked up and now I can hardly put it down. It's history but written so it's very readable. If you ever wanted to know the story of the Crusades and the Christian/Muslim conflict this is a good place to get a perspective, starting with a few "warrior monks" protecting Christian pilgrims in Jerusalem from the Saracens, eventually becoming the Knights of the Temple in 1119, their rise to power across Europe and the Middle East, their fall during the Inquisition in 1307 and rapid disappearance.

Ken

Just finished that one a couple of weeks ago. Found it very interesting. Sure are a lot of untrue myths about the Templars.
I like to mix it up, alternating reading fiction and then something historic or educational. Lately have been reading a few by a guy called C.J.Box. He has a series about a Wyoming game warden by the name of Joe Pickett. Kind of like reading an old western, but modern, usually ending up with quite a bit of FBI involvement. Joe's best friend is a renegade falconer who usually ends up involved in the plot sometime in the novel.
Dan

I've read quite a few of the Joe Picket series. Great reads by C. J. Box.

danno50 wrote: I like to mix it up, alternating reading fiction and then something historic or educational. Lately have been reading a few by a guy called C.J.Box. He has a series about a Wyoming game warden by the name of Joe Pickett. Kind of like reading an old western, but modern, usually ending up with quite a bit of FBI involvement. Joe's best friend is a renegade falconer who usually ends up involved in the plot sometime in the novel.
Dan

I'm pretty much the same. Well written history, historical fiction, and fiction. I've already pre-ordered C.J. Box's forthcoming novel The Disappeared which is the next in the Joe Pickett series. Scheduled to be released the end of March.

Ken

I'm going to have to give one of the Joe Picket series a try again. It didn't latch on the first time around. (I read three)

Just finished his one by James Rollins. A real page-turner - read it in two days while it was pouring down rain here. I've read all his Sigma Force novels. Sort of a cross of Michael Crichton and Clive Cussler with some David Baldacci mixed in.

Ken

Got started of the first of these two.

Picked this up at the thrift store ole Dewey is a little bit on the mean side makes Mitch and Cotton seem mild.

Given the SF patch on the cover of Book One, I assume the writer has included some stories from SOG, the Studies and Observation Group that ran cross-border operations into Cambodia, Laos and North Viet Nam.

Of the men that actually ran on-the-ground ops, the casualty rate was 100%. Not a single man without a wound. The guys that flew "Chase" also had high casualty rates incurred during extraction operations.

There were whole teams, consisting of three Americans and nine to twelve indigenous strikers that were completely wiped out and bodies still not recovered.

If you like those two books, you should read the two written by John Plaster, a former SOG commander. Someone is writing or has written a "complete" history of SOG, but I cannot recall his name at the moment.

You might also check Amazon for Tales From The TeamHouse. There are, I think, three books. There are a lot of funny, as well as tragic, stories in them.

Charlie

I'm currently reading Bonhoeffer; Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, by Eric Metaxas; the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, A German Christian minister that opposed Adolf Hitler leading up to and during WWII.

Not light reading.

Charlie Noyes

RobesonsRme.com wrote:Given the SF patch on the cover of Book One, I assume the writer has included some stories from SOG, the Studies and Observation Group that ran cross-border operations into Cambodia, Laos and North Viet Nam.

Of the men that actually ran on-the-ground ops, the casualty rate was 100%. Not a single man without a wound. The guys that flew "Chase" also had high casualty rates incurred during extraction operations.

There were whole teams, consisting of three Americans and nine to twelve indigenous strikers that were completely wiped out and bodies still not recovered.

If you like those two books, you should read the two written by John Plaster, a former SOG commander. Someone is writing or has written a "complete" history of SOG, but I cannot recall his name at the moment.

You might also check Amazon for Tales From The TeamHouse. There are, I think, three books. There are a lot of funny, as well as tragic, stories in them.

Charlie

Those two by John Plaster are tremendous books. Amazing men.

The guy writing the history has endeavored to make contact with and collect information from every living SOG veteran he can possibly locate. It's either going to be great or exhaustingly tedious.

While searching the internet Sunday evening, trying to determine whether or not a particular SOG soldier's remains had been recovered, I came across a book re' all the actions that took place in the A Shau Valley. Title was A Shau Valor, by Thomas R Yarborough. What little I read sounded like an interesting book.

Charlie

RobesonsRme.com wrote:The guy writing the history has endeavored to make contact with and collect information from every living SOG veteran he can possibly locate. It's either going to be great or exhaustingly tedious.

While searching the internet Sunday evening, trying to determine whether or not a particular SOG soldier's remains had been recovered, I came across a book re' all the actions that took place in the A Shau Valley. Title was A Shau Valor, by Thomas R Yarborough. What little I read sounded like an interesting book.

Charlie

I will have to check that out.

RobesonsRme.com wrote:Given the SF patch on the cover of Book One, I assume the writer has included some stories from SOG, the Studies and Observation Group that ran cross-border operations into Cambodia, Laos and North Viet Nam.

Of the men that actually ran on-the-ground ops, the casualty rate was 100%. Not a single man without a wound. The guys that flew "Chase" also had high casualty rates incurred during extraction operations.

There were whole teams, consisting of three Americans and nine to twelve indigenous strikers that were completely wiped out and bodies still not recovered.

If you like those two books, you should read the two written by John Plaster, a former SOG commander. Someone is writing or has written a "complete" history of SOG, but I cannot recall his name at the moment.

You might also check Amazon for Tales From The TeamHouse. There are, I think, three books. There are a lot of funny, as well as tragic, stories in them.

Charlie

You're right Charlie,
He credits the 5th SF Group (Project Delta) with creating the standard operating procedures used by the LRPs, LRRPs, and Ranger teams in Viet Nam -
Along with the "RECONDO" training.

ANYTHING written by Major John Plaster is going to be great reading!

RobesonsRme.com wrote:The guy writing the history has endeavored to make contact with and collect information from every living SOG veteran he can possibly locate. It's either going to be great or exhaustingly tedious.

While searching the internet Sunday evening, trying to determine whether or not a particular SOG soldier's remains had been recovered, I came across a book re' all the actions that took place in the A Shau Valley. Title was A Shau Valor, by Thomas R Yarborough. What little I read sounded like an interesting book.

Charlie

Speaking of the A Shau Valley, I am now reading DEATH IN THE A SHAU VALLEY, by Larry Chambers. It is an older book, written in 1998.

RobesonsRme.com wrote:I'm currently reading Bonhoeffer; Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, by Eric Metaxas; the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, A German Christian minister that opposed Adolf Hitler leading up to and during WWII.

Not light reading.

Charlie Noyes

I read this one a couple of years ago Charlie.
You are right in your statement. Pretty deep - even in places it shouldn't have been. I actually put it down for about six months while trying to work my way through the chapters on his childhood! It does get better in the later chapters.

Petty good so far.

bighomer wrote:Petty good so far.

I enjoyed this one!

Ray

Everything Vince Flynn wrote was great. I've also read two of the Mitch Rapp series written by Flynn's successor. They're good too. Not Vince Flynn, but pretty good.

Ken