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Old 12-28-2011 | 05:56 PM
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Thanks for the suggestions. I read "Lone Survivor". Excellant book. I also read "Unbroken". That is in my top 5 books I have ever read. The author did an excellant job so I figured "Seabiscuit" would be good. Maybe I'll pick up that book.

A few books I would recommend would be "The Garden of Beast", "1776", "With the Old Breed", "Odessa Files", "Night Falls", any book by Matt Haig and "Fast Food Nation".

If you have come into flying by the civillian route, read "Moondogs flight academy and other air disasters." Really funny.
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Old 12-28-2011 | 07:46 PM
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Second for Flyboys.




Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand... Or the Fountainhead by Rand... Both excellent.

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Old 12-29-2011 | 04:55 AM
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"Too Fat To Fish" by Artie Lange. If you guys are in to humor at all. This dude has nine lives.
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Old 12-29-2011 | 05:31 AM
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"The Shack" by William P. Young.

It took me two weeks to read the first 88 pages; then 2-3 days for the rest of the book! That's about 170 pages I think.




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Old 12-29-2011 | 07:29 AM
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Currently reading Killing Lincoln; Bill O'Reilly.

It's like being there.
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Old 12-29-2011 | 09:57 AM
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excellent book by Vassily Grossman: "Life and Fate"
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Old 12-29-2011 | 10:06 AM
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The Jack Reacher series by Lee Child is excellent!
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Old 12-29-2011 | 06:14 PM
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+1 Gates of Fire
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Old 12-29-2011 | 07:06 PM
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+1 The Shack. Wonderful book. A bit of an emotional roller coaster though. Especially if you have kids.
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Old 12-29-2011 | 07:29 PM
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Just read "Iron Coffins" by Werner a U-Boat captain in WWII. Excellent history read, now reading "Shooting the War" by Geise another good historical U-boat/Naval action read.

If you like blood and guts, shoot em up fiction I can highly recomend the "Monster Hunter" series by Larry Corriea.
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