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A Confederacy of Dunces - by John Kennedy Toole
A prerequisite, and should be required reading, for the Campfire here.
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Penthouse forums the collection is a very good read. Those crazy kids banging on the side of the highway to get out of a speeding ticket.
Then STFU. The rest of your statement is superflous bullshit with no real bearing on this discussion other than to massage your own ego. Suckin' on my titties like you wanted me.
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I recall my grandmother reading, War, and Piece. It's a shame she didn't put it into a pillow case and swing until your skull was caved in. You libtard fugk ball. LOL
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I added The Great Bridge by David McCullough. It is about the building of the Brooklyn bridge during the Age of Optimism.
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The Chief Culprit by Viktor Suvorov
Not a real member - just an ordinary guy who appreciates being able to hang around and say something once in awhile.
Happily Trapped In the Past (Thanks, Joe)
Not only a less than minimally educated person, but stupid and out of touch as well.
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Revolutionary Summer by Joseph J. Ellis
Home Of The Mollies
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There are several mentions of books by Ayn Rand.
The book - For the New Intellectual- is a compendium of excerpts of her books.
As mentioned her works can be quite tedious but For the New Intellectual has the most memorable and quotable portions of all her novels in one book. Quite an interesting read even though I had read all of her books before stumbling on that one.
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You cannot solve a problem at the same level of awareness that created it - Einstein
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Catch 22 - I read it just in time whilst my late teen mind was still open.
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I have only read a small (very small) handful of books in my life. Before this year I believe the last time I actually read a book was in the 6th grade. It just isn't my thing.
I did however catch wind of a book called "Fallujah Redux" by William Mullen III and Daniel Green, both officers who served there in 2007. Operation Alljah was launched and turned the residents around, largely in support of Coalition Forces and against Al Qaeda. It was a major turning point in the awakening of Al Anbar Province. I was a Marine Sgt on my 2nd tour serving in this operation so I naturally felt compelled to read it. Thus far it is really accurate and I remember most all of the events, plus a lot of details that I wasn't privy to at the time, and I am putting a lot of puzzle pieces together.
It isn't a topic that the OP inquired about, but figured I'd throw that out there.
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The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors - James Hornfischer GR Hornfischer and /or Ian Toll are very good on WWII in the Pacific
...Actually Sycamore, you are sort of right....
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Horn sucker and /or I am a Troll are very good on WWII in the Pacific Thanks
If you are not actively engaging EVERY enemy you encounter... you are allowing another to fight for you... and that is cowardice... plain and simple.
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Books, I think the best was "Shogun" by James Clavell
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Books, I think the best was "Shogun" by James Clavell
Phil Your opinion is devoid of value.
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"Caesar - Life of a Colossus" (2006, Yale university Press)
Author: Dr.Adrian Goldsworthy Oxford University.
suitable for lay readers and scholarly study(footnoted). Among other things, a great insight into the power elite circles of Rome, dynamics of conquest and Civil War, effectively triggering transition from Republic to Principate.
Worthwhile follow-on to above would be;
"Augustus - First Emperor of Rome" [Goldsworthy/Yale 2014]
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God Does Not Forget by Deneys Reitz
This is a first person account of Reitz's experience on Commando in the Boer War. Reitz was the son of the Justice Minister of the Orange Free State and grew up hunting and camping in Africa. He was only 17 when the war started. His father refused to let him enlist in the Orange Free State, but Paul Kruger intervened, and let him enlist in the Transvaal. He was with Jan Smuts and the last Commando to come in at the end of the war. Having fought the British till he was down to riding bareback, wearing only a sack for clothing, using cartridges scavenged from the British, he went on to serve under the Union Jack commanding the First Royal Scots Fusiliers in World War 1.
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a good part of the classics, some biographies, Tom Clancy, Teddy Roosevelt, WDM Bell and some other non-fictions. science fiction, zombies, EMP, Bigfoot, Dogmen, vampires, thrillers, horrors, fantasy, nuclear or viral holocaust, murder mystery...Kindle is my friend... . when i read, my mind is turned on like a TV. i'm not reading it, i'm experiencing it.
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Russian Admiral said, after the Moskva sank, "we have the world's worst navy but we aren't as bad as our army".
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