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I'm reading Larry Correia's first Grimnoir book, Hard Magic.

I just finished the first Gray Man book, and wanted something more light-hearted.
I really enjoyed the Monster Hunter series-I think I've read all the ones written by Larry Correia, and got a kick out of the Memoir books basically written by John Ringo.
As you probably know, Correia is a certified gun nut. He has a book coming out in January, In Defense of the Second Amendment.
So he's one of us, even more so.



I’m about 30% through Hard Magic and loving it!
John Browning and Black Jack Pershing are in it.


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My latest book is The Art of Thinking Clearly - Rolf Dobelli. A definite must-read. This should be required reading for senior high school students.
 
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An older one, but right now, Baldacci's The Camel Club.

There are 5.5 books (one is a "novella") in the Camel Club series, and they are all good.


I look forward to the others.

I just started James Grippando's Pardon

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I just started James Grippando's Pardon

Another good author. I have read all of his to date.
 
A few other not-so-well-known authors that are also good:
 
Christopher Reich
 
Robert Crais
 
Ace Atkins (He took over Robert Parker's Spenser series after Parker passed, and he has the characters (Spenser and Hawk, especially) nailed to a T. His other novels, set in Mississippi, are also very good).



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I enjoy a good Western movie, but I never had any interest in reading novels set in the old west. I was cleaning out a closet and came across a book I read at least 15 years ago. It was written by Louis L'Amour. The vast majority of his books are set in the old west, but this one was set in the present day. It's title is LAST OF THE BREED. I read a few pages and I was hooked. It pulled me right in and I read it a second time after reading it at least 15 years ago. It's about an Air Force pilot of mostly American Indian ancestry who winds up getting shot down and captured over the USSR. The book chronicles his escape and travels through the vast Siberian wilderness following the path of his ancestors overland to the Bering Straight and across the sea to Alaska. Excellent read.
 
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No Surrender by Hiroo Onoda. The author was a Japanese officer in the Philippines in WWII. He Got there in 1944 and fought until 1974.
 
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I get my newly released novels a bit late because of the library's waiting list. I just finished Daniel Silva's latest, Portrait of an Unknown Woman, and have started David Baldacci's latest, The 6:20 Man. Silva's depicts Gabriel Allon on his first "adventure" after retiring as Director of the "Office". Balcacci's is a stand-alone novel, not one of his character series.



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Just finished "The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin" by Steven Myers. Written in 2015 just after the annexation of Crimea.

Good backgrounder for the Ukraine goings-on.

Starting "The Signal and the Noise" next.
 
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The Gregory Hays translation of Meditations, Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher and emperor of Rome. He offers insights and advice on everything from living in the world to coping with adversity and interacting with others.


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I enjoy a good Western movie, but I never had any interest in reading novels set in the old west. I was cleaning out a closet and came across a book I read at least 15 years ago. It was written by Louis L'Amour. The vast majority of his books are set in the old west, but this one was set in the present day. It's title is LAST OF THE BREED. I read a few pages and I was hooked. It pulled me right in and I read it a second time after reading it at least 15 years ago. It's about an Air Force pilot of mostly American Indian ancestry who winds up getting shot down and captured over the USSR. The book chronicles his escape and travels through the vast Siberian wilderness following the path of his ancestors overland to the Bering Straight and across the sea to Alaska. Excellent read.


I read that, too. Very good book.

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Just finished Kristi Noem's book Not My First Rodeo.

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Survival of The Fastest by Randy Lanier, a great read.


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Finished Buffalo Wagons, Elmer Kelton. A unique Western novel about an expedition of buffalo hide hunters who, seeing the northern herds pretty well played out, venture south across the Red River into Comanche territory seeking the wealth promised by the almost untouched southern herd. Imaginative writing and a great story.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Czech writer, Milan Kundera, about two women, two men and a dog in the time of The Prague Spring, and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of 1968. It’s a really different kind of novel for me, but intriguing and I’m entertained by it.


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I'm reading the second in a series by Brendan DuBois called Black Tide. The first is titled Dead Sand. They are part of the Lewis Cole series. Lewis was a think tank guy in the DOD until his crew was mistakenly killed by a toxic spray in an experiment while his team was on a yearly training exercise. Now he lives on the coast of New Hampshire "working" as a writer for a coastal magazine. His background and investigating personality gets him involved in various criminal investigations. Pretty good stuff.




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Finished 1066 and Before All That, which was excellent.

Started The Neighborhood by Matthew Bentley.




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Just finished "Blood and Treasure - Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier". This was very good, I've read other books by Tom Clavin and Bob Drury and will read more.


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Finished Babylon's Ashes earlier this month.
That's books 1-6 of The Expanse in about 3 months.

About to start boxing up all the books in anticipation of the impending move.
Once that's sorted, going to try to pick up the last 3 Expanse books & the novella compilation.


Picked up Memory's Legion a couple weeks ago. Need to dig into it.
Currently re-watching The Expanse & am almost done with S3.




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We subscribe to "Cowboys and Indians" magazine, it's basically an advertisement with some good stories. I saw a book mentioned in it, had to do with Texas, Oklahoma in the late 1800s, early 1900s. "Black Gun, Silver Star" is about the life of a former slave, Bass Reeves, who becomes a highly decorated Deputy US Marshal. I liked the book, though it was boring in parts, chronicling too many of his 3000 arrests. He was lost to history for over 50 years and now seems to be getting recognition, there is a movie based on him, "Corsicana", that I haven't watched, yet.


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I bought a two-book C.J. Box release at Costco. I’m reading Back of Beyond, and I’m pretty well finished with it. I’ve only read 2 or 3 C.J. Box books because there’s always one or two things that I view as inexcusable mistakes; this book is no exception. I’ll give you one example. This book takes place in the backcountry of YNP. A retired, very experienced outfitter takes a cop out there. The outfitter carries a .44 mag revolver “for bears.” He loads it with “hollow points.” No, you wouldn’t, and about 2 minutes of Google-Fu would disclose that fact that nobody in their right mind fires hollow points at a grizzly. The outfitter goes so far as to warn the cop not to shoot at a bear with his SIG in .40. Oh well, the story is interesting enough and I guess Box has bought himself a Wyoming ranch with the money he’s made on his writing, so I’m sure he doesn’t care what I think.


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