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Or more. She's straight up psycho.

As Sheldon said, "Bitches be cray-cray".

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Started Bad Blood, about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, and how they bilked investors out of over a billion dollars by faking the results of a revolutionary product they were trying to bring to market. Very interesting so far.

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Over the years, reporters for the WSJ have uncovered all kinds of nefarious activites. The trial has been interesting. She deserves 20 years.




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Posts: 6021 | Location: Upstate SC | Registered: April 06, 2011Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Just finished "Tracing Time - Seasons of Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau". Craig Childs is a very good writer who goes out and explores the areas where long gone Indian cultures lived.


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I just finished The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande. Subtitled How to Get Things Right. Highly suggested.
 
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About half way through volume 1 of the 4-volume biography of Robert E Lee by Douglass Southall Freeman. After that I’ve got the 3 volume set of Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command, by the same author.

Yep, those will keep me busy for a little while.



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Posts: 6705 | Location: North Carolina | Registered: April 30, 2003Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Here are a few I am currently reading:
Books 2+3 of this series:

The Outside Man (A Matt Drake Novel)
Without Sanction (A Matt Drake Thriller)
Hostile Intent (A Matt Drake Novel)

By Don Bentley (A former FBI Special Agent, SWAT Team member, and Army Apache helicopter pilot.)


On the heavier side:

Battle for Skyline Ridge
The CIA Secret War in Laos
by Parker, James E.

The Spymaster of Baghdad
A True Story of Bravery, Family, and Patriotism in the Battle Against ISIS

No Shadows in the Desert: Murder, Vengeance, and Espionage in the War Against ISIS
By Samuel Katz
 
Posts: 1836 | Location: In NC trying to get back to VA | Registered: March 03, 2015Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Very light reading, but I've been getting into the Stone Barrington stories by Stuart Woods.




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Posts: 38599 | Location: SC Lowcountry/Cape Cod | Registered: November 22, 2002Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Finished Bad Blood, and am on to Sons of Valor, the first book in a series in the same universe as the Tier One series, which I have discussed here:

Tier One Book Series

Man, Bad Blood was crazy. But I've experienced some of the same behaviors in jobs I've had in the IT industry. The worst part is that there were patients who relied on their data that died or had other conditions result from that bad data, and that they have no recompense.




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Posts: 6021 | Location: Upstate SC | Registered: April 06, 2011Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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I recently finished Down River by John Hart. It won the Edger Award for 2008. It was well worth the read.



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Death Comes for the Archbishop. Willa Cather. Set in New Mexico from 1850 to almost 1900. Story of two French Catholic missionaries who establish a diocese in Santa Fe. I thought it was really good.

Tonight starting In the Blood, the new Jack Carr thriller.


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Posts: 13165 | Location: Wyoming | Registered: January 10, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Years ago while watching Boardwalk Empire, I decided that I'd have to read Sinclair Lewis' "Free Air". Just finished reading it on Kindle and greatly enjoyed it. It seemed to be to be both oddly dated and very contemporary.

Just started Clay Martin's "Prairie Fire". Sort of a manual for rural prep for a civil war.
 
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The Sackett Series. I'm about 7 or 8 books in.
 
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I have really enjoyed the Louis L'Amour I have read. Conagher in particular.
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The Sackett Series. I'm about 7 or 8 books in.




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Finished book 1 in the Sons of Valor series - it's a lot like the first book in the Tier One series.

Reading Couple Found Slain for True Crime book club; it's about a man who murdered his abusive and neglectful parents and his life in an insane asylum after his conviction. It's so angering how horrible parents can damage a whole family.




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Since I posted last it has been mostly but not all military non fiction nothing new just rereads.
dune
shoot to kill
reflections of a warrior
lone survivor
the commandos
mike force
the last punisher
no easy day
red platoon
into the fire
american sniper
lions of kandahar
outlaw platoon
house to house



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While waiting for Library holds, I've been working my way through John Connolly's Charlie Parker series. The books are sort of long, which I like. Connolly is apparently well-read, as he has had me running to DDG to look up word meanings. Parker is a former NYPD detective, turned PI. The series starts out with his having lost his wife and daughter, who were blinded/flayed and murdered by a serial killer. Parker has a close relationship with a gay couple who are burglar and private assassin. They are always involved watching his six. Good mystery/action books with a laid back narrative.



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I started reading Larry Correia's Monster Hunters International series, and have now read through book 5, Monster Hunter: Nemesis. It's been enjoyable, but they are quite intense.

Then I discovered a series Monster Hunter: Memoirs. It was basically written by SF writer John Ringo who loved the MHI universe and wanted to write something into that. It ended up as a collaboration between Ringo and Correia.

The great thing about the Memoirs series (3 books) is that they are much more light-hearted. They continue with the obsessive descriptions of firearms and explosives, and even step it up a notch. Then they add "off-screen" sex to the mix.

In these times when I can't stand to read the news and even right-wing sites are too depressing, I needed some red-blooded male entertainment that is humorous and not too dark. This is perfect for that.


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Posts: 18017 | Location: One hop from Paradise | Registered: July 27, 2004Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Finished reading Jack Carr's "The Terminal List" and started "True Believer". Going to watch the series on Prime when I have the time.


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Bookers Bourbon
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Just started "Killing The Killers" by Bill O'Reilly.



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Posts: 7120 | Location: Arkansas  | Registered: November 06, 2010Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Currently:

The Panzer Killers: The Untold Story of a Fighting General and His Spearhead Tank Division's Charge into the Third Reich

D-Day Tank Hunter: The World War II memoirs of a frontline officer from Africa to the bloody soil of Normandy

by Hans Hoeller

Previously:

The Devil's Trident
by George Norris (I finished this up today)


Without Sanction (A Matt Drake Thriller)
Hostile Intent (A Matt Drake Novel)

By Don Bentley (A former FBI Special Agent, SWAT Team member, and Army Apache helicopter pilot.)

Battle for Skyline Ridge
The CIA Secret War in Laos
by Parker, James E.

The Spymaster of Baghdad
A True Story of Bravery, Family, and Patriotism in the Battle Against ISIS

No Shadows in the Desert: Murder, Vengeance, and Espionage in the War Against ISIS
By Samuel Katz

Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior by Ric Prado

Brothers In Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiments Bloody War From D-Day to VE-Day by James Holland

To the Uttermost Ends of the Earth: The Epic Hunt for the South's Most Feared Ship―and the Greatest Sea Battle of the Civil War

40 Thieves on Saipan: The Elite Marine Scout-Snipers in One of WWII's Bloodiest Battles
by Joseph Tachovsky (Author), Cynthia Kraack

Damn Lucky
 
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Death Comes for the Archbishop. Willa Cather. Set in New Mexico from 1850 to almost 1900. Story of two French Catholic missionaries who establish a diocese in Santa Fe. I thought it was really good.

An incredible book. I’ve read it three times now. It’s one of those books you can read again and again and get something out of on each read.

It prompted me to read Cather’s ‘Prairie Trilogy’, of which I think ‘My Antonia’ is the best.


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