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Freeper Reading List (Please add your Suggestions)

Posted on 11/28/2015 10:20:40 AM PST by SamAdams76

I know there have been similar lists in the past but would like to start a new thread with a focus on NEW books but feel free to throw in an old classic as well.

My reading has really increased over the past year since I switched to Kindle and now spend two hours a day commuting to Manhattan by train. I've actually punched through most of my reading list and I'm looking for some more books to add to it.

So I'm looking for Freepers to turn me (and others) on to some good reading.

Currently I'm re-reading Winston Churchill's massive 6-volume series on WW2 (I'm on "Their Finest Hour" volume) but would like to mix some other books in there as I like to read 2-3 books simultaneously, switching from one to the other depending on my mood. Sometimes I want to just read a good novel but love reading non-fiction as well as well as some historical or science fiction. I also like reading business books as well, for instance, I just read "Good to Great to Gone" which is the story of the rise and fall of Circuit City.

I know that Freepers have the best book recommendations and it's been a while since I've seen a thread so I think it would be a good time to start a new one.

One book I might add to my Kindle today is "Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" by Robert Heinlein. I borrowed that from the library a few years back and got just a couple chapters into it before I had to return it but it looked like it was going to be pretty good.

Looking at new books, "The Wright Brothers" by David McCullough and "Dead Wake (Last Crossing of the Lusitania) by Erik Larson look good.


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To: SamAdams76
Killing Reagan by Bill O-Reilly

One Year After (sequel to One Second After).

41 posted on 11/28/2015 11:33:37 AM PST by Marathoner (Cruz or Lose 2016)
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To: SamAdams76

“Watches I Have Known” is a good read for commuting. Stories
of people and their watches. FReeper author!

Americana at its best.


42 posted on 11/28/2015 11:36:34 AM PST by Mrs. B.S. Roberts
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A Conflict of Visions and The Vision of the Anointed by Thomas Sowell


43 posted on 11/28/2015 11:43:28 AM PST by Nuocmam
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To: SamAdams76
New as of this year is Nikolaus Wachsmann's KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps. It isn't simply a must-read for a WWII scholar, it's a meticulous study of a police state gone absolutely toxic. Be prepared for some uneasy conclusions: who knew? Everyone and no one. Were they the same as the Holocaust? No, and then yes. Could they happen again? No, literally, but something very like them, certainly. I'm re-reading it now because it was too much for one gulp. Highly recommended.
44 posted on 11/28/2015 11:47:46 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: SamAdams76

1984 -Orwell
Stonewalled -Atkisson


45 posted on 11/28/2015 11:51:38 AM PST by LakeEffectLad
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To: bigbob
So many great suggestions, I wish I could respond to everybody. But I just downloaded "Conspiracy of Paper" and will likely get a few more of these suggestions before the weekend is over. I read "The Coffee Trader" and "Whiskey Rebels" by Liss a few years back and forgot how good this author was.

It appears that "Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Heinlein is not available on Kindle. That's a bummer.

46 posted on 11/28/2015 11:55:28 AM PST by SamAdams76 (It's time we sent a junkyard dog to Washington to run the low life out)
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To: SamAdams76

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Ringworld by Larry Niven
Rogue Warrior by Dick Marcinko
Ghost by John Ringo


47 posted on 11/28/2015 12:00:13 PM PST by wastedyears (uchikudake - toki michite - ikiru tame - tokihanate)
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To: sauropod
For the great part, my personal library includes non-fiction reference type, heavily dog-eared books relating to Islam - not the kind of book one recommends for leisurely enjoyment, but by far the majority of books populating my bookshelves.

The few fictional books I managed to complete, enjoy and chose to re-read multiple times include:


48 posted on 11/28/2015 12:04:15 PM PST by wtd
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To: SamAdams76

Spinneret by Timothy Zahn Very entertaining and it has a fairly worthwhile ending.
49 posted on 11/28/2015 12:12:26 PM PST by Stegall Tx (How do we get rid of the weirdness?)
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To: SamAdams76

For musicians and people who like them, or wonder about them.

“Another Nightmare Gig From Hell”, musicians’ tales of wonder and woe, by Nick Zelinger and Tammy Bracket

Available on Amazon. Read a chapter a day and get your daily belly laugh.

Big Head Todd and the Monsters and more. Hysterical stories of gigs gone bad.


50 posted on 11/28/2015 12:14:37 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Life is good.)
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To: SamAdams76

Uncle Toms Cabin.

Must read.


51 posted on 11/28/2015 12:17:34 PM PST by Hulka
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Complicity......How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery.” written by Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, and Jenifer Frank, veteran journalists with the Hartford Courant.

The authors provide “the rest of the story of slavery” avoided by historians since the 1800’s.

52 posted on 11/28/2015 12:32:28 PM PST by PeaRidge
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http://www.amazon.com/Caliphate-Tom-Kratman-ebook/dp/B00ARPJDLA/ref=sr_1_5?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1448735725&sr=1-5&keywords=kratman

Got it. Thanks.


53 posted on 11/28/2015 12:41:08 PM PST by Auntie Mame (Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
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To: SamAdams76

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, WW1-postWW2 Russian gulag system history
“Sirat: Through the Fires of Hell”, sci-fi
“America: The Last, Best Hope” by Prager


54 posted on 11/28/2015 12:44:48 PM PST by tbw2
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To: Marathoner

I found ONE SECOND AFTER hard to put down but haven’t had a chance to read the sequel yet.


55 posted on 11/28/2015 12:56:27 PM PST by Dante3
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To: SamAdams76

Recently read The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess. Written 1961 about a dystopian society ruled by homosexuals. The protagonist is pretending to be gay to keep his government job, but comes under suspicion for secretly having an affair with a woman. Burgess is better known for A Clockwork Orange.
Am currently reading Back to Blood by Tom Wolfe. It’s set in Miami, where anti-Castro Cubans rule and white people are fast becoming a minority. But things don’t line up neatly; Wolfe goes deep into the complexities and hypocricies, always with brutal, incisive humor.
Am planning to go back and read all of Wolfe’s books and articles which I somehow missed years ago: Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers; and Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test; and The Right Stuff.
I did read, and LOVED, Bonfire of the Vanities, a viciously hilarious skewering of the unholy alliance between white Manhattan liberals and ghetto black activists, with one character—a shakedown artist— clearly a Rev. Al / Rev. Jesse composite.
Written in the 80s, it deserves a revival now in light of all the BLM noise. Forget the Tom Hanks movie. Read the book.

Also, recently re-read Orwell’s 1984. Understood it better this time than I did when in high school.

An exceptional cookbook is The Catch and The Feast, by Joie and Bill
McGrail. (Pub.1969, still available online.) Big city, high society girl marries a country boy. He teaches her how to shoot, hunt, and field dress the catch!! She then turns the catch into elaborate gourmet meals fit for Henry VIII’s table. Entertaining reading, lots of mouth watering pictures and recipes. I recommend this one for hunters and preppers!

Thanks for this thread, Sam!


56 posted on 11/28/2015 1:31:03 PM PST by mumblypeg (I've seen the future; brother it is murder. -L. Cohen)
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To: PubliusMM

Add Rand’s We The Living


57 posted on 11/28/2015 1:32:14 PM PST by Pirate Ragnar (Libs put feelings first and thought second.)
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To: SamAdams76

Reading 1984 now and for a book that old, it really explains the Leftist insanity going on now. Radical Son was good as well as others have mentioned. The Foundation series by Asimov is great as well.


58 posted on 11/28/2015 1:38:06 PM PST by Crucial (At the heart all leftists is the fear that the truth is bigger than themselves.)
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To: SamAdams76

Oh yeah, forgot to mention: love author Dean Koontz.
Especially the Odd Thomas series, about a clairvoyant minimum wage fry cook with superpowers. Thomas sees evil, calls it what it is, and fights it, while also having acerbic conversations with the ghosts of Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, and Alfred Hitchcock.
Koontz is Catholic, and he lays a lot of Biblical truth in between the lines.


59 posted on 11/28/2015 1:42:52 PM PST by mumblypeg (I've seen the future; brother it is murder. -L. Cohen)
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To: SamAdams76

Nelson DeMille
By the Rivers of Babylon
Cathedral
Mayday
Night Fall
Plum Island
Spencerville
The Book Case
The Charm School
The Gate House
Up Country
Word of Honor

Stephen Hunter
Bob Lee Swagger series
Point of Impact (1993)
Black Light (1996)
Time to Hunt (1998)
The 47th Samurai (2007)

There are more in the Bob Lee Swagger series, but I haven’t gotten to them yet.


60 posted on 11/28/2015 1:47:44 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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