Apes with Guns
Footballguy
Pump Six and Other Stories ebook is on sale at amazon today for $2.
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mad sweeney
Footballguy
Oooof. Horrible. It's like they took all the worse parts of Dan Brown and Twilight into one craptastic waste of brain cells. Yet it's still better than the Ambercrombie books...
avoiding injuries
Footballguy
Yup. Best I've read, although the sample isn't huge. Any recommendations since I liked this one so much?
Apes with Guns
Footballguy
18 Hours: The True Story of an SAS War Hero - this book is about an Australian who fought in Operation Anaconda. I really liked the guy, and the story was crazy.
Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood - not SpecOps, but a really interesting story of an average Marine infantry officer in Iraq.
Roughneck Nine-One: The Extraordinary Story of a Special Forces A-team at War - Green Beret in Iraq. Dude is a trip...doesn't give a flip.
And one fiction book. The author was the co-author of American Sniper, which is the story of "the most lethal sniper in us history" Chris Kyle. This one was really action-packed, and high on realism. Or so I think.
Sniper Elite: One-Way Trip: A Novel
avoiding injuries
Footballguy
Thank you.
Did you read American Sniper? Any good?
Did you read American Sniper? Any good?
Foosball God
Foos
Started reading The Windup Girl based on a couple of comments from this thread. I like it so far, very interesting world.
Apes with Guns
Footballguy
E Street Brat
Footballguy
I read it and liked it better then "Lone Survivor"
Chris Kyle and Marcus were very good friends,
American Sniper leaves out pretty much all of the Seal training that Marcus did such a good job telling that story, so your not reading the same the same ole poop, and I don't remember many political rants that Marcus went off on.
The one thing I really liked about Chris's story is the passages that his wife writes, She talks about the difficulties of raising children while her husband is gone and the cold distance she feels from him on his return home.
It's pretty chilling to hear him speak of killing so many people, and having absolutely no remorse at all.
The men that do these jobs are truly of a different breed.
Apes with Guns
Footballguy
For Gaiman fans, the new edition of the first volume of The Sandman graphic novel is on sale at Amazon today for $2.99.
Most likely, you will spend more on the rest of them, but it is a wonderful series and well worth the price of admission.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0064W67IM/ref=amb_link_386016582_13?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0BXSBCZTWHZ60NE5GSQZ&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_p=1646388142&pf_rd_i=1000677541
Most likely, you will spend more on the rest of them, but it is a wonderful series and well worth the price of admission.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0064W67IM/ref=amb_link_386016582_13?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0BXSBCZTWHZ60NE5GSQZ&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_p=1646388142&pf_rd_i=1000677541
beer 302
Footballguy
LOL, I call bull#### on that spoiler. Didn't realize Dust was out but I'll have to download err, pick it up.
Read it, thought it was pretty cool, not great, not bad. Dude was a pretty solid badass.
Notorious T.R.E.
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Apes with Guns
Footballguy
Spin was great. I really enjoy Robert Charles Wilson. He's not afraid to tackle some really far out concepts. Sort of like vinge.
Notorious T.R.E.
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Hmm, just happened to start this one the other day...looking forward to it. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009NF6YLM/ref=s9_simh_bw_p351_d0_i2?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=1N2K8D8YGRRVAMW7E0F9&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1560405482&pf_rd_i=154606011
Notorious T.R.E.
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That's one series I wish I could unread. It started off so good and then meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh.
Enjoy the 11,916 pages!
Notorious T.R.E.
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Just finished Red Seas -- a little too boaty for me, but I liked it. Turns out my wife went to school with the author. She ran into him at a wedding and afterwards she asked if I'd heard of his books; I just happened to be halfway through Red Seas. Weird.
prosopis
Arizona Chupacabra
I did and I did not care for it much. It was to much bravado for me. Lone Survivor was much better.
Sand
Footballguy
FYI, at least right now Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings is on sale for Kindle for $1.26. Great book.
Edited to add: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is on sale, as well. Another really good book.
Edited to add: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is on sale, as well. Another really good book.
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Apes with Guns
Footballguy
Finished listening to SEAL Target Geronimo on the way to work today. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12727473-seal-target-geronimo
I think this book more than any other had more information about the backgroup of OBL and the lead up to the raid than any other. There is no doubt which way the author leans, but it was a really good listen, and pretty affordable to boot.
I think this book more than any other had more information about the backgroup of OBL and the lead up to the raid than any other. There is no doubt which way the author leans, but it was a really good listen, and pretty affordable to boot.
Notorious T.R.E.
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I liked this much more than his work in the Jordan series, but it's hard to blame him for that since I don't know how much say he had. Is the second one of those out yet?
Notorious T.R.E.
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Only about 6 chapters in. The bouncing around in the timeline early kind of pissed me off, but the guy can write. I'm glad we got into some violence early.
Apes with Guns
Footballguy
179 fantasy, scifi, horror, etc ebooks $3.99 or less on amazon.
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FUBAR
Footballguy
Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzalez.
Pretty good read about those who survive disaster, getting lost in the woods, 9/11, etc. Why they survive while others with better training may not, why young kids are more likely to survive than older ones. Why rule followers often don't survive but those who think for themselves do.
Pretty good read about those who survive disaster, getting lost in the woods, 9/11, etc. Why they survive while others with better training may not, why young kids are more likely to survive than older ones. Why rule followers often don't survive but those who think for themselves do.
flysack
Footballguy
I just finished Salinger by David Shields and Shane Salerno.
While it covers his life and works quite well, and integrates all the interviews and public comments into a seamless narrative (the entire book is composed of fragments from a multitude of people), after I was done I wanted to reach out and punch David Shields in the face.
What a colossal a-hole.
And I used to like Shields. I loved Reality Hunger. But his persistent, snide, dismissive, and even somewhat angry attacks on Salinger were both tiresome, and at times even disgusting (such as suggesting that Salinger liked young women because they reminded him of the emaciated concentration camp survivors he found in WWII - a grotesque and troubling psuedo-psychoanalytical leap).
At one point Shields adroitly notes how Salinger was all too aware of how writers can be vampires of other writers. All I could think was, yea, no shit David.
Part of Shields' intent was to demythologize the man and show you how incredibly flawed and even reprehensible he could be, but frankly I came away from the book losing more respect for Shields than I did for Salinger.
While it covers his life and works quite well, and integrates all the interviews and public comments into a seamless narrative (the entire book is composed of fragments from a multitude of people), after I was done I wanted to reach out and punch David Shields in the face.
What a colossal a-hole.
And I used to like Shields. I loved Reality Hunger. But his persistent, snide, dismissive, and even somewhat angry attacks on Salinger were both tiresome, and at times even disgusting (such as suggesting that Salinger liked young women because they reminded him of the emaciated concentration camp survivors he found in WWII - a grotesque and troubling psuedo-psychoanalytical leap).
At one point Shields adroitly notes how Salinger was all too aware of how writers can be vampires of other writers. All I could think was, yea, no shit David.
Part of Shields' intent was to demythologize the man and show you how incredibly flawed and even reprehensible he could be, but frankly I came away from the book losing more respect for Shields than I did for Salinger.
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flysack
Footballguy
BTW - at the end they reveal the contents of the famous "vault" Salinger kept of all the writing he refused to publish over the past 50something years.
- There's a few more Glass stories, mostly focusing on Seymour Glass' life before he killed himself in Bananafish. They'll be eventually published together in a collection about the Glass family (eta: though I wouldn't be surprised to see a couple pop up in The New Yorker, which was Salinger's favorite venue).
- There's a novel about Sergeant X, the shellshocked soldier from the short story To Esme - With Love and Squalor. It's about his experiences in WWII, including his discovery of the Holocaust.
- There's another collection of stories meant to illustrate and popularize Vendata Hinduism, a religion Salinger was committed to for most of his life.
I think that's it. Publication is slated to begin in 2015 and 2020 and be released in "irregular" installments. It's controlled by the J.D. Salinger Trust, which was set up by Salinger himself in 2008 and has only two members: his widow Colleen and his son Mathew.
- There's a few more Glass stories, mostly focusing on Seymour Glass' life before he killed himself in Bananafish. They'll be eventually published together in a collection about the Glass family (eta: though I wouldn't be surprised to see a couple pop up in The New Yorker, which was Salinger's favorite venue).
- There's a novel about Sergeant X, the shellshocked soldier from the short story To Esme - With Love and Squalor. It's about his experiences in WWII, including his discovery of the Holocaust.
- There's another collection of stories meant to illustrate and popularize Vendata Hinduism, a religion Salinger was committed to for most of his life.
I think that's it. Publication is slated to begin in 2015 and 2020 and be released in "irregular" installments. It's controlled by the J.D. Salinger Trust, which was set up by Salinger himself in 2008 and has only two members: his widow Colleen and his son Mathew.
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ragincajun
Footballguy
Reading Alter of Bones and Listening to Inferno by Brown.
Brony
Footballguy
Just finished:
Into the wild - krakauer. I'm obviously late to the party on this. It's a decent read. Better than Thin Air
David and Goliaths- Malcolm Gladwell. If you like past Gladwell books ( i do), then you'll like this one. The usual mix of anecdote with counter-intuitive facts presented in thought provoking way. It hit on a couple of angles that I'd been thinking about so timely for me.
I'm also reading random first hand memoirs of Holocaust survivors online. Makes one want to cry.
Into the wild - krakauer. I'm obviously late to the party on this. It's a decent read. Better than Thin Air
David and Goliaths- Malcolm Gladwell. If you like past Gladwell books ( i do), then you'll like this one. The usual mix of anecdote with counter-intuitive facts presented in thought provoking way. It hit on a couple of angles that I'd been thinking about so timely for me.
I'm also reading random first hand memoirs of Holocaust survivors online. Makes one want to cry.
Apes with Guns
Footballguy
100 more sci fi, fantasy, horror kindle ebooks under 3.99.
interesting to see Game of Thrones on this list. Pretty good deal to get someone started on the series.
http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2013/11/100-more-science-fiction-fantasy-and-horror-kindle-ebook-deals-3-99-or-less/
interesting to see Game of Thrones on this list. Pretty good deal to get someone started on the series.
http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2013/11/100-more-science-fiction-fantasy-and-horror-kindle-ebook-deals-3-99-or-less/
SmoovySmoov
The Way of the Samurai
Currently reading House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.
It's fantastic.
It's fantastic.
timschochet
Footballguy
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan about racism in Mississippi right after World War Ii. Excellent!
Lehigh98
Footballguy
krista4
Footballguy
villa
Footballguy
I have to agree, it was fine but a little to easy for everything to work out in the end. For King it was a bit disappointing.
Sand
Footballguy
krista4
Footballguy
FUBAR
Footballguy
Just started the Sports Gene, by David Epstein. Looks promising.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1591845114/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1384340290&sr=8-1π=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1591845114/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1384340290&sr=8-1π=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70
Don Quixote
Footballguy
Recently started Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch. Her "The Secret History" is one of my favorite novels. So far, I'm liking The Goldfinch even more.
flysack
Footballguy
Enjoy it, but don't bother with anything else he's done. Danielewski is a literature one-hit wonder.
Notorious T.R.E.
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Finished The Son last weekend. I liked it quite a bit. The comanche stuff was fantastic. I found I heavily disliked the main characters though, so there's basically no rooting interest. I also felt that he wasn't at his best providing the female perspective for J.A. -- definitely was the weakest part for me.
As far as wrapping it all up
I took it as no one owns the land in the end. Also enjoyed the bit of Garcia revenge there.
timschochet
Footballguy
Double Down, by John Heilmann and Mark Halprin. It's the sequel to Game Change- this time around they tell the story of the 2012 election. The suspense is lacking since we all know the outcome, but there's some great stories in there. For instance that the Bush family, led by matriarch Barbara, hates Rick Perry's guts and were determined to do anything they could to destroy his chances. Or that Huntsman and Romney come from two long competing Mormon families and have very little love for each other.
Good stuff.
Good stuff.
timschochet
Footballguy
Next up: The Death of Santini by one of my all time favorite authors, Pat Conroy.
