Posted on 01/13/2018 11:16:58 AM PST by A Cyrenian
Can you give me some suggestions for a good read (beside FreeRepublic)?
I've always like Tom Clancy's books and Dean Koontz.
I started using Kindle and thought I would ask you what you liked.
Thanks for your help.
Also try Carl Hiassen - who has a sort of Tom Wolfe approach to Florida culture and corrupt politics.
bttt
Some of the best reading I’ve had on Kindle came from-
Infected/ Contagious/ Pandemic trilogy by Scott Sigler. The first two books are just astounding. Never read anything like it ever. Third book was maybe a bit of a let down compared to the first two, but still very good overall IMO.
The Passage trilogy by Justin Cronin. Basically a vampire apocalypse scenario in which a little girl saves the world, written for his daughter. Very, very good, a long read, well worth it.
In Cold Blood. It's a story you may by now know. What I liked about it was the "construction", that is, how Capote put the story together and told the story. When I finished it, I recall saying to myself - That's a damn well written book!
David Weber if you like Sci-Fi.
Larry Correia's Monster Hunter International if you like horror.
Vince Flynn’s Mitch Rapp series.
Daniel Silva’s Gabriel Allon series.
Lee Child’s Jack Reacher.
Those three series ought to keep you entranced for a while.
The Last Panther is $3 on Kindle.
In April 1945, victorious Soviet forces encircled 80,000 men of the German 9th Army in the Halbe area, South of Berlin, together with many thousands of German women and children. The German troops, desperate to avoid Soviet capture, battled furiously to break out towards the West, where they could surrender to the comparative safety of the Americans. For the German civilians trapped in the Kessel, the quest to escape took on frantic dimensions, as the terror of Red Army brutality spread.
The small town of Halbe became the eye of the hurricane for the breakout, as King Tigers of the SS Panzer Corps led the spearhead to the West, supported by Panthers of the battle-hardened 21st Panzer Division.
Panzer by panzer, unit by unit, the breakout forces were cut down – until only a handful of Panthers, other armour, battered infantry units and columns of shattered refugees made a final escape through the rings of fire to the American lines.
This first-hand account by the commander of one of those Panther tanks relates with devastating clarity the conditions inside the Kessel, the ferocity of the breakout attempt through Halbe, and the subsequent running battles between overwhelming Soviet forces and the exhausted Reich troops, who were using their last reserves of fuel, ammunition, strength and hope.
Eloquent German-perspective accounts of World War 2 are surprisingly rare, and the recent reissue of Wolfgang Faust’s 1948 memoir ‘Tiger Tracks’ has fascinated readers around the world with its insight into the Eastern Front. In ‘The Last Panther,’ Faust used his unique knowledge of tank warfare to describe the final collapse of the Third Reich and the murderous combat between the German and Russian armies. He gives us a shocking testament to the cataclysmic final hours of the Reich, and the horrors of this last eruption of violence among the idyllic forests and meadows of Germany.
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card.
As posted by others, all of Matt Bracken’s.(Travis McGee) books are on Kindle.
LS has a good book on how Trump won the election.
There are some good/recent books on the Zodiac Killings.
What are you looking for: Current events, political, mystery, adventure?
Are you at all interested in non-fiction?
I like a lot of science fiction - some book series that I enjoy have been:
Aldenata series - by John Ringo - first book is A Hymn Before Battle
Empire of Man series - by David Weber/John Ringo - first book March Upcountry
The Harrington series - David Weber - first book On Basilsk Station
Into the Looking Glass series - John Ringo - first book Into the Looking Glass
RCN series - David Drake - first book With The Lightnings
Starfire series - david Weber and Steve White - first book Crusade
W2 series - Travis S Taylor - first book The Quantum Connection
Most of these books are available for free at Baen Books online as eBooks in multiple formats for Kindle, PC, etc. If you like the first couple of books, the later books can be purchased from Baen generally for around $6.
Not much to lose when you can read for free :=)
W.E.B. Griffin
Unfortunately, as the series progress and he brings in secondary writers, the quality decreases. But early on in each of the series — not to be beaten.
Mornings on Horseback
Honor Bound. Presidential Agent.
Jasper Fford
“The Big over Easy”
or
“Thursday Next”
Are funny and mind teasers at the same time.
That is his son he brings in...William E. Butterworth IV...
Hence, the W.E.B.
Delta by L. Todd Wood
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes.
I just finished the new Reacher book last night. “The Midnight Line”. Excellent read especially if you served in the military and it puts the opiate situation in a new light. I like almost any novel written by a Spook, especially the British MI6 Spooks. Gerald Seymour is one of them. If you are into military sci-fi, John Ringo is the best although he seems to have gone to ground recently. His “Ghost” and “Kildar” series are my favorites. Since we re-joined the public library a decade or so ago, we have saved five figures in books. Suck it, Barnes & Noble.
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