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Westerns by Louis L'Amour
The current one is Kiowa Trail Read them all years ago, need to read them again
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My last book was American Sniper by Chris Kyle. A buddy recommended it and loaned his copy to me.
He was right, it's pretty good. Fugg the movie.
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Campfire Savant
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Kinda caught in the middle of two that are very interesting.
“Shattered Sword”, about the Battle Of Midway.
“An Army At Dawn”, the first of Richard Atkinson’s trilogy about the US Army’s role in WW2 in Europe and Africa.
To be honest, both of these books have been recommended here on the ‘fire, and I got in a little over my head reading both!
I had been planning on reading the transcripts of the “Reno Court Of Inquiry”, which has long been on my radar, but these two great books have put other stuff on hold for a while.
7mm I read shattered sword, very good. Ian Tolls Trilogy is extremely good ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/13TQMJ6Q/93-FB1-CCB-80-B8-4246-81-E4-5033296-C5-B3-C.png)
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Campfire Regular
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Romans 5:1
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I’ve been slowly reading The Green Hills of Africa. I used to be a huge book reader. I probably still read as much as ever but since Al Gore invented the internet I read a lot less books and more online articles.
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Campfire Greenhorn
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The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn I've been wanting to read The Gulag Archipelago. Currently reading Stud Terkel's Hard Times, an oral history of the Great Depression. I consider it preparation for the next one. Shouldn't be too long now.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Old stuff again. Shogun by James Clavell and short stories by Franz Kafka. Love James Clavell books. Never a bad thing to reread.
Slaves get what they need. Free men get what they want. Rehabilitation is way overrated. Orwell wasn't wrong. GOA member disappointed NRA member 24HCF SEARCH
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Campfire 'Bwana
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American Marxism by Mark Levin.
Slaves get what they need. Free men get what they want. Rehabilitation is way overrated. Orwell wasn't wrong. GOA member disappointed NRA member 24HCF SEARCH
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Campfire Ranger
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The History of Greece, by Will Durant.
Our western civilization came from the Greeks.
L.W. Durant is a good read
MAGA
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Campfire Ranger
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Campfire Ranger
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Been reading Crossing the Rubicon by Michael Rupert. I don’t buy into his peak oil theory but it’s an interesting read covering a lot of evils perpetrated on the American public by a corrupt govt.
also reading “the Sovereign Individual” and an old book called “living the good life, how to live sanely in a troubled world” by Scott Nearing about a couple who left corporate life in the 30’s (?) and decided to live sustainably in New England.
I like political satire and read Heller, Vonnegut, Robbins, etc.
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Campfire Ranger
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Two books by Dennis Covington are extremely interesting and keep your attention are “Salvation on Sand Mountain” about snake handling Pentecostal churches, and the “redneck Riviera about rural Florida back in the 60’s and 70’s when it was the wild Wild West. Some crazy true stories.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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I just got Gun Notes Volume 1 from Larry Potterfield today. So going to to read some Elmer Keith.
What are you reading?
-John
PS They messed up my scope ring order for my Model 70 Super Grade and I'm really pissed about that...pay for return shipping on a thing advertised that it would fit? Goddamitall....ok ok relax, breath, go to LGS and get some hands on fitting...read EK. Be positive...live in the positive Campfire way and ignore the badness... Volume 1 and 2 are fun reads. I am reading Hell I Was There that I recently bought from Shrapnel. Short of stuff like that, I don't read.
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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Campfire Ranger
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My last book was American Sniper by Chris Kyle. A buddy recommended it and loaned his copy to me.
He was right, it's pretty good. Fugg the movie. I have his other book, "American Gun, a history of the US in ten firearms. Pretty good read.
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Working on Sword and Scimitar off and on. Its a bit hard to read, lots of detail on the origins of the murderous cult Islam.
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I just got Gun Notes Volume 1 from Larry Potterfield today. So going to to read some Elmer Keith.
What are you reading?
-John
PS They messed up my scope ring order for my Model 70 Super Grade and I'm really pissed about that...pay for return shipping on a thing advertised that it would fit? Goddamitall....ok ok relax, breath, go to LGS and get some hands on fitting...read EK. Be positive...live in the positive Campfire way and ignore the badness... Volume 1 and 2 are fun reads. I am reading Hell I Was There that I recently bought from Shrapnel. Short of stuff like that, I don't read. Hell I Was There is a great book with a lot of short fun stories from what I remember. My best friends dad let me borrow it as a kid but that was 30 years ago.
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Campfire Ranger
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The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn That’s hard core man hats off to you
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Campfire Member
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Stephen Moore, Patton's Payback. About the lead up to Kassarine
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Campfire Ranger
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Fools, Frauds, & Firebrands by Roger Scruton which was EXCELLENT then almost as a 180 I went to The Best & the Brightest by David Halberstam which touches a fair bit on one of the men Scruton classifies as a “fools” John Kenneth Galbraith who loomed large in the Kennedy Admin.
Next up I need a good classic work of fiction. Chesterton is at the top of my list I think… The Ball & The Cross? Anyone read it and have comment(s)?
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, by Malcolm Gladwell. Just finished The 33 Strategies of War, by Robert Greene.
Haul ass, haul ass! - Pappy
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