What's Currently on Your Reading List?

[jerryd6818]

I see it was released on DVD July 3, 2012. I'll have to pick it up at the rental store.

[MITCH RAPP]

Starting this one Tomorrow!

[MITCH RAPP]

This one comes out September 11!

[coffeecup]

<edit> I would send you my copy, but I got angry and threw it in the garbage. (after I finished it of course)

Is that how you are supposed to do it--wait til AFTER you finish the book? I knew I was doing something wrong . . . . There are books out there that I really preferred in their natural state, as trees.

If you read Grossman, take a look too at some of the commentaries and criticisms of his work. Engman, in particular, wrote an interesting essay challenging some of Grossman's biological/psychological arguments. Grossman is a good starting point in understanding the current theories, but not a good endpoint.

Jim

[jerryd6818]

Mitch -- A Wanted Man is the only one I haven't read yet. I see the library has it now, I think I'll make a pass by the East Branch and pick up a copy.

Just finished Tom Brokaw's "The Greatest Generation" and "Hell In The Pacific" by Jim McEnery with Bill Sloan. Both are very good.

[MITCH RAPP]

Just started my Favorite today! "The Last Man" by Vince Flynn and the story starts out with a Bang!

[jerryd6818]

Counting the new one you just posted, I'm exactly half way through his books. I see I made a note by "Memorial Day" after I finished reading it, "Getting' kinda tired of Mitch Rapp the invincable.".

[MITCH RAPP]

Counting the new one you just posted, I'm exactly half way through his books. I see I made a note by "Memorial Day" after I finished reading it, "Getting' kinda tired of Mitch Rapp the invincable.".

Jerry, of course he's Invincible! You can't Kill the Golden Goose!

[wizrd]

" Into the Fire " by Medal of Honor winner Dakota Meyer w/ Bing West - extraordinairy account of war in Afghanistan.

" Hank Reinhardt's Book of Knive - a Practical & Illustrated Guide ot Knife Fighting " -- In case you ever picture yourself having to use a knife for personal defense.

" The SAS Self-Defense Handbook " -- John 'Lofty' Wiseman -- a well-written guide for when the SHTF - hand to hand combat.

" Fifty-Five Years in the Alaskan Bush - the John Swiss Story ", by Jeff Davis, a re-read of the greates book on Alaskna hunting ever written. It's like having stories told around the campfire.

[jerryd6818]

Counting the new one you just posted, I'm exactly half way through his books. I see I made a note by "Memorial Day" after I finished reading it, "Getting' kinda tired of Mitch Rapp the invincable.".

Jerry, of course he's Invincible! You can't Kill the Golden Goose!

No, of course not but neither does he have to be so "perfect". My fictional heroes don't have to be the most handsome guy in the room, the richest guy in the room, the most intelligent guy in the room, the most popular guy in the room, the toughest guy in the room, the most well respected guy in the room or the guy in the room that can do everything and do it perfectly.

[rangerbluedog]

A buddy just gave me a copy of THE OVERTON WINDOW, by Glenn Beck.
Gonna give it a shot the rest of today.
Anyone read this yet?

[jerryd6818]

Sounds interesting and current.

Plot

The novel is based on the Overton window concept in political theory, in which at any given moment there is a range of policies related to any particular issue that are considered politically acceptable ("in the window"), and other policies that politicians seeking to gain or hold public office do not feel they can recommend without being considered too far outside the mainstream ("outside the window"). Moving the window would make previously radical ideas seem reasonable. Beck has referred to the book as "faction" – fiction based on facts.

The plot revolves around a man named Noah Gardner, a public relations executive who has no interest in politics. He changes his mind when he meets a woman, Molly Ross, who is "consumed by the knowledge that the America we know is about to be lost forever," an idea Gardner dismisses as a conspiracy theory. After America comes under attack, however, he works to expose the conspirators behind the attack.

[FRJ]

English and American tool builders. ........... By Joseph Wickham Roe ..........

[Old Hunter]

Finished reading Never Surrender by LTG (RET) William G. (Jerry) Boykin - fascinating read of General Boykin's career, the beginnings of Delta Force (RDF), and the tarring/feathering of an outspoken Christian General by the press - a co-ordinated attempt at character assassination.

Currently reading Carolina Christmas, a selection of Christmas oriented outdoor tales (selected by Jim Casada) written by the great Southern sports writer of a bygone era; Archibald Rutledge (the poet laureate of South Carolina). Great read if you like the old style outdoor writers (Ruark, Babcock, Hill, Hemingway, O'Connor, etc.)

[TripleF]

When I get the "call" I've been reading my 1980 Scout Handbook I won in a lot on the bay!

[jerryd6818]

Finished reading Never Surrender by LTG (RET) William G. (Jerry) Boykin -

I served with William Boykin (a different one of course). We were stationed together over a period of about a year and a half at three different duty stations. Bill became a career Marine and re-enlisted at Cherry Point NC after I left for SE Asia. I searched for him for several years before finding an individual at the library in New Bern NC that knew him. He had passed away just about the time I started looking for him.

I dug up a guy who had served with him and found out Bill became an officer in the early '70s and ended up flying navigator seat in A-6 Intruders. He made Major but was retired early from the Marine Corps with kidney problems and eventually that's what he died of. The lady at the library told me he was very active in the VFW in North Carolina and ended up serving at the state level. Rest in peace Boing-Boing. You won't have to put up with Arvoy and me harassing you anymore.

[MITCH RAPP]

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Starting this one tonight! Have read everyone of DM's books, the first one being way back around 1972, which was the book "First Blood", which eventually became the movie "Rambo". Had to wait 2 years before they Printed this book because he had an exclusive deal with Kindle only. I guess because I'm an Old Man, I can't stand any of those electronic reading tablets! My Wife and Daughter have been trying to buy me one for years. I love the feel of a good book in my hands and the smell of the paper and the ink. I spend enough time staring at monitor as it is.

[jerryd6818]

Thanks Mitch. Just put him on my reading list as someone to try.

Right now, I'm almost finished with 'Tropical Freeze' by James W. Hall. It's his second book written in 1989. Library didn't have his first.

[coffeecup]

Jerry-

I've got several of Morrell's books in paperback; I'd be happy to send them your way to read and keep, or to pass on.

Jim

[MITCH RAPP]

Jim, That's very Cool of you! Every book I read I pass on to one of my Work Mates. The only books I generally keep usually are History and Biographies. Have you read 2003 The Protector? That was one of my Favorites, I learned about Emerson Knives in that book and now I own a Bunch of them! The new book I have now "The Naked Edge" continues in a sense from "The Protector" with the same character, Cavanaugh.

[jerryd6818]

Jerry-

I've got several of Morrell's books in paperback; I'd be happy to send them your way to read and keep, or to pass on.

Jim

Jim -- Thank you for the offer. Mighty kind of you. What sort of books do you enjoy? Let me know and I'll go through what I have to see what I can send in return.

I don't know about you guys but I never read them a second time (on purpose) and I can't bring myself to throw them away, so they may as well go to someone who will enjoy them.

[coffeecup]

I used to read a lot of science fiction and history, and some metallurgy and engineering stuff. I haven't read much of that since getting the head injury back in 2010. I really enjoy this thread, it reminds me how much fun reading can be.

These days most of what I read relates to trying to finish my studies, with an occasional break. Academically, I'm working my way through Kumin's Early Communication Skills for Children with Down Syndrome and Oelwein's Teaching Reading to Children with Down Syndrome. For relaxation, I'm reading Logan's Fundamentals of Learning and Motivation, and trying to put my thoughts back together on the book I was writing when injured.

[jerryd6818]

Jim, I can guarantee you without even looking, I don't have any of those titles in my library.

[313 Mike]

...I'm currently on a bit of a Civil Wark kick, reading Jeff Shaara's God's & Generals...deals with the leadup to the war and the early battles...Williamsburg, Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville....with focus on Lee, Jackson, Hancock and Chamberain. It was written by the son of the author of Killer Angels, and deals with events that happened prior to that book.
Really liking it. Heard it was a movie as well, haven't seen it though. I always prefer to read the book before seeing a movie version of anything. Don't like to have pre-conceived pictures in my head of the characters looking like movie actors.

Mike

[coffeecup]

Jim, I can guarantee you without even looking, I don't have any of those titles in my library.

I really appreciate the offer, it comes me something to look forward to! Right now, I'm so far behind on my studies that I'm afraid to start a book I might enjoy for fear that I wouldn't put it down. I didn't just lose the time in recovering, I lost chunks of core knowledge and often don't seem aware of the loss until I encounter the need for them. It all makes for some frantic studying.