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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Ksail101 on April 03, 2008, 07:49:12 PM
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I have seen and asked questions on Non-Fiction gun books, but now I have read all the Stephen Hunter books, Robert Ludlem, Tom Clancy, ficiton books, so I looking for new Authors and great books that you all can recomend. I love reading and I have read alot of books, but books are not talked about nearly as much as movies so it is hard to hear about good ones out there. So any book as long as it have a gun and is a great read please recomend it. Thanks everyone. And Mr. Michael Bane I have loved almost everybook you have talked about on your podcast so please chime in.
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If you are into US history, you might want to consider John Jakes and The Kent Chronicles.
I am reading the series now for the 4th time, first time was over 20 years ago.
http://johnjakes.com/kentchronicles.htm
Amazon Link (http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FBastard-Kent-Family-Chronicles%2Fdp%2F0451211030&tag=drtv-reloading-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325)
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I love Mark Twain. As well as Robert E. Howard, Larry McMurtry, and everone should read Orwells 1984 at least once.
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I assume you've read Unintended Consequences by John Ross. That's a given, right?
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Ya know......
There's this guy named Michael Bane that has put out some pretty damn readable books. Some fiction, some not, but all entertaining.
http://www.michaelbane.us/all-night-radio.htm
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If you really like to read I would strongly recommend Most books By Louis L'Amour. My personal Favorite Is Last of the Breed
Mke mc
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If you really like to read I would strongly recommend Most books By Louis L'Amour. My personal Favorite Is Last of the Breed
Mke mc
The whole "Sackett" series !
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I just got done reading Marine Sniper by Charles Henderson. It was an interesting true story account of the famous Marine Sniper ... Sergeant Carlos Hathcock. You might like it if you've not read it already.
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The whole "Sackett" series !
thats right.
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Two suggestions:
Westerns: the old Hopalong Cassidy stories by Clarence Mulford, hard to find but good. Also very different from the character portrayed by William Boyd on TV and in the movies. But that's OK, gives us two different story sets.
Spy: John LeCarre (pseudonym), a guy who had been there, done that in British intelligence. Not your usual technology focused spy stories, but focused on the people and the relationships and the psychology of spying. His books, like Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Russia House, Tailor of Panama, etc., are very deep, very thick, and not always positive. After reading The Honourable Schoolboy, I was in a massively foul mood for 3-4 weeks. They are that good. Here's a hint - read 50-100 pages, then start over, much easier to get his pacing and style that way.
LeCarre is the best author IMHO short of Shakespeare.
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Cool thanks I will look for some of these next time I am at the bookstore. I am almost done with a Jonathan Kellerman book rightnow, its the first one I have ever read, so I will be going to the store today or tom.
And I have never read Unintended Consequences by John Ross. And will though now.
Also Marshal Halloway I love US history so I will check out John Jakes and The Kent Chronicles. Thank you to everyone who chimed in.
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After reading The Honourable Schoolboy, I was in a massively foul mood for 3-4 weeks.
This statement is high praise for a writer. It prompted me to pick up the book.
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Check out any of the books by W.E.B.Griiffith,Brad Thor or Vince Flynn if series books are your cup of tea. I just read a novel called Pandoras Legion that was co-authored by Barrett Tillman of American Handgunner that was good & MB did a blog on Prayers for the Assasisin (this is DEFINITELY thought provoking even if not a real gunnie book).
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Nathan Jorgenson, a dentist from Fairmont, MN, has a couple out. "Waiting for White Horses" and I just started "The Mulligan."
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Everything that everyone has said before, and most Robert Heinline books. Especially Farnhams Freehold, Starship Troopers, Friday, Stranger in a strange land and anything with Lazurus Long in it.
Jerry Ahern - The Freeman
All the Mack Bolan books, hundreds, like watching a good B movie.
Non fiction, Elmer Keith, Bill Jordan, Skeeter Skelton, Charles Askins, Rex Applegate, and of course Uncle Jeff Cooper, and Herbert McBride. This list is actually very short, but you will not be disappointed..
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Richard Marcinko's Rogue Warrior series is a blast, the first book is his autobiography but most of the rest are fiction. I just finished the second one Red Cell, I just wish there was a book store for us gaijin so I could get some more of his novels with the insane markup.
A lot of good recommendations here, but I have too much on the too do list right now. :P