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The Joy Maker |
I'd be careful with that last one, it's dry. Informative, but dry. Dune could be a tough read too, but at 15 that was my favorite series. No complaints with Starship Troopers, but if you want a bug hunt without the civics lesson, grab Armor by John Steakley. Here be some of my suggestions: Killing Rommel, Steven Pressfield. Novel set in North Africa with the Long Range Desert Group, hunting after Rommel. It's shorter, and an easier read, but very exciting. This book introduced me to Steven Pressfield. War of the Rats, David L. Robbins. You seen Enemy at the Gates? Here it is, as a book! Neat! The Guns of the South, Harry Turtledove. Alternate history, where South African Nazis build a time machine and go back to the American Civil War to arm the Confederacy with Kalashnikovs. If that doesn't sound like a fun read, then there's something wrong with you. Worldwar series, also Harry Turtledove. Alternate history (it's kind of what he's known for) where Hitler and Einstein team up to fight space lizards. Lot of real good choices here though. 
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The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. I read them at 10 but also many times, as an adult. Bruce "The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams “It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free." -Niccolo Machiavelli The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken | |||
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Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich Safety, Situational Awareness and proficiency. Neck Ties, Hats and ammo brass, Never ,ever touch'em w/o asking first | |||
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Not really from Vienna |
Non-fiction: “Maneaters of Kumaon” by Jim Corbett. “Here is Your War” by Ernie Pyle. I read both of those as a kid and enjoyed them very much. | |||
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Telecom Ronin |
I would also suggest The Three Musketeers... Ender's Game Clancy was a fav of mine at that age Incarnations of Immortality, I started with Death rides a pale horse. And I alway suggest Jonathan Seagull Sharpes Rifles...great historical fiction | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
Let's just say he's not going voluntarily.
While a great idea in most traveling situations, that's not an option. | |||
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Tom Clancy. Houston Texas, if the heat don't kill ya, the skeeters will. | |||
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| My common sense is tingling  |
Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. “You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.” - Robert Heinlein | |||
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JAWS. ========================================== Just my 2¢ ____________________________ Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right ♫♫♫ | |||
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| Banned |
If he likes tennis, Andre Agassi's autobio is fantastic. For fiction, Divinci Code. Also, the first Serial podcast is great. As is any of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcasts. | |||
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| Conservative in Nor Cal constantly swimming up stream  |
Another vote for Ender's Game ----------------------------------- Get your guns b4 the Dems take them away Sig P-229 Sig P-220 Combat | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado  |
Almost any book by Robert A. Heinlein. My choices for him would be: The Rolling Stones Rocket Ship Galileo (was the model for movie "Destination Moon") Farmer In the Sky Between Planets Time For the Stars Red Planet Starman Jones The Door Into Summer The Star Beast Have Space Suit--Will Travel Citizen of the Galaxy The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress Most of those have young adults as the main characters, or scientific themes. RAH was an outstanding writer, and his stories are good reading. Any of the above should hold his interest. His books "Starship Troopers" and "The Puppet Masters" were made into movies, but the transfer to film was not particularly good (the books are much better). flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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Too clever by half |
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand Important, inspirational, enthralling, unforgettable, and potentially life changing. "We have a system that increasingly taxes work, and increasingly subsidizes non-work" - Milton Friedman | |||
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I used to have a subscription to Readers Digest. Find a short stack in a used book shop. Lots of short stories of all varieties. Also jokes and an abridged longer story in every issue. When done he can pass them along or keep stories he likes. | |||
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Fifteen? I'd start him with How to Be a Gentleman, and then go to the Ian Fleming / James Bond series. God bless America. | |||
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| An investment in knowledge pays the best interest |
The Man Who Never Missed by Steve Perry Foundation Series by Asimov, but if you want to really blow his mind start with i-Robot. For those that know the Secret to Foundation, let’s keep it on the dan low. | |||
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| The success of a solution usually depends upon your point of view |
Ender's Game Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy “We truly live in a wondrous age of stupid.” - 83v45magna "I think it's important that people understand free speech doesn't mean free from consequences societally or politically or culturally." -Pranjit Kalita, founder and CIO of Birkoa Capital Management | |||
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When I got my nephew started on these at age 14? he read them twice by age 18. No big deal until you see the size and number of these volumes. But for such a short call, the first book, Eye of the World would do the job for great fantasy. | |||
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I echo The Lord of the Rings and the Chronicles of Narnia, and would add Jack London's Call of the Wild, plus, depending on his intellectual level, Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. | |||
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