Any interesting books to recommend?

[[frl]myke 14]

Highly recommendable: Arthur C. Clarke - The Songs of distant Earth

make sure you have the soundtrack playin while reading: Mike Oldfield - Songs of distant Earth

Another "quick recommendation": Stephen King - The Dark Tower

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I checked the forum rules and I believe this qualifies as a significant update to the thread ;)

My wife's first book is out now (came out last week) and she's taking up the option of one of the allowed free days on Kindle, so for this weekend only it's completely free from Amazon Kindle!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008B7STWU

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008B7STWU (will show a charge for any non-USA IPs )

"It's the eyes of the victims that haunt me in my sleep, but it's the accusing faces of the families that keep me awake at night." - Detective Milesson, Mora PD, MN.

It wasn't supposed to be like this. Rick Stone was only sixteen, he should be having the time of his life, enjoying his senior year, having a blast. But it wasn't to be so. One phone call had changed everything. His older brother, Theodore, was dead; and it was all Rick's fault.

Trying to come to terms with his brother's murder, Rick is confronted with how little he truly knows about his older brother, a courtroom artist, and about himself. As Rick starts to question the society and values he grew up in, bringing his brother's killer to justice is no longer merely about closure; it's necessary to keep the ones he loves safe. And it's up to Detective Milesson to make sure that Rick Stone comes out of it alive.

Also on Amazon.fr Amazon.de Amazon.es and Amazon.it in English

[Messiah 2]

Your wife is called Rick Stone?

Hmmm...

(congratulations to her!)

On the subject of book recomendations, I can't stress how good the Empire and Conqueror series by Conn Iggulden are. Historical fiction in genre, he resoundingly bring's his subjects to life (Julius Caesar and The Khans) with a superb story, all based on true events, battles, deaths, etc.

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Your wife is called Rick Stone?

Hmmm...

(congratulations to her!)

LOL silly ;)

Thanks :)

[hellfire257 3]

Chalk up another one for Low Level Hell by Hugh Mills! Great insight.

[Hillsbills 1]

Try the Bible, or are you looking for non fiction?

[rye1 21]

^

Or the Qur'an.

[[aps]gnat 28]

My wife's first book is out now (came out last week)

Well done to her !

[PELHAM 10]

Sweating the Metal: Flying Under Fire - A Chinook Pilot's Blistering Account of Life, Death and Dust in Afghanistan

Flight Lt. Alex Duncan DFC AFC.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sweating-Metal-Chinook-Blistering-Afghanistan/dp/1444707981

Read this on holiday, great account of his career and several tours in Afghanistan. Several great battle descriptions including retreiving wounded and delivering troops under fire. Also some illustration of Taliban tactics you never normally hear about, drug business funding, suicide bombing civilians in markets to draw helicopters to the scene, having to evacuate a Taliban bomb maker after he blew himself up but being prevented from rescuing civilians wounded by the blast.

He criticises the REMFs somewhere in the book which has driven the small minded types into a fury and several have 1 stared it lol. Read the comments, it just shows them up for what they are rofl.

Edited June 24, 2012 by PELHAM

[Daniel 0]

Rofl indeed. He's certainly managed to upset a lot of people.

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Gnat;2177875']Well done to her !

Thank you from her ;)

[hellfire257 3]

Sweating the Metal: Flying Under Fire - A Chinook Pilot's Blistering Account of Life, Death and Dust in Afghanistan

Flight Lt. Alex Duncan DFC AFC.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sweating-Metal-Chinook-Blistering-Afghanistan/dp/1444707981

Read this on holiday, great account of his career and several tours in Afghanistan. Several great battle descriptions including retreiving wounded and delivering troops under fire. Also some illustration of Taliban tactics you never normally hear about, drug business funding, suicide bombing civilians in markets to draw helicopters to the scene, having to evacuate a Taliban bomb maker after he blew himself up but being prevented from rescuing civilians wounded by the blast.

He criticises the REMFs somewhere in the book which has driven the small minded types into a fury and several have 1 stared it lol. Read the comments, it just shows them up for what they are rofl.

Reading this at the moment - good to hear it is worthwhile.

[tremanarch 6]

I can recommend Reamde by Neal Stephenson! CHeck it out!

I give it a 9/10

yes its reamde: http://www.amazon.com/Reamde-A-Novel-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0061977969

"not a spell error" for readme - it is but anyway its the books name ^^

[Matthewkunx 3]

I could recommend afew books actually. Military Scifi I would read Weapons of Choice Series, and the Forever War :P. I also like Paradise Lost, Dante's Inferno and Hamlet

[[aps]gnat 28]

If you like those you'll like stuff by John Scalzi

[rye1 21]

COMMANDOS The Inside Story of Britain's Most Elite Fighting Force by John Parker. Absolute classic, I love the eccentricity and inventiveness of the Commanders and the wacky ways they kept one step ahead of the enemy. It features a number of popular raids and battles in which it accounts a mixture of archived interviews and reports to try and gather a more evidence-based philosophy to the said events, comparing that to the men's account on the ground and recollection through numerous writings and personal discussions. It's interesting how the perspectives changed and how official documents were either modified, destroyed or neglected in order to lessen the impact on the War and the general public; such as Commando's killing captured German prisoners with their hands tied behind their backs simply because they did not have enough room on the boats to take them back to base. Anyways, it tells you the truth and what is known, some documents are still top-secret from WW2 operations the Commando's conducted and still won't be released for a good 10 years. The book travels through time, to the present, giving you a holistic approach on why the Commando's are a great fighting force when used appropriately.

[Iroquois Pliskin 0]

The Evolution of Civilizations - An Introduction to Historical Analysis (1979)

by Carroll Quigley

http://archive.org/details/CarrollQuigley-TheEvolutionOfCivilizations-AnIntroductionTo

In this perceptive look at the factors behind the rise and fall of

civilizations, Professor Quigley seeks to establish the analytical

tools necessary for understanding history. He examines the application

of scientific method to the social sciences, then establishes his

historical hypotheses. He poses a division of culture into six levels,

from the more abstract to the more concreteâintellectual, religious,

social, political, economic, and militaryâand he identifies seven

stages of historical change for all civilizations: mixture, gestation,

expansion, conflict, universal empire, decay, and invasion. Quigley

tests these hypotheses by a detailed analysis of five major civilizations:

the Mesopotamian, the Canaanite, the Minoan, the classical, and

the Western.

Surprisingly up-to-date analysis on the origins of first civilisations and Ice Age migrations of peoples - I haven't read a better introductory book on the subject than this.

You can download a scanned copy in .pdf format on the website.

[Tonci87 163]

http://www.amazon.de/The-100-Year-Old-Climbed-Window-Disappeared/dp/1401324649

That book is great and funny as hell!

[Odecious111 1]

Twilight Book Series ^^, I enjoyed them to be fair. Much better than the movies.

[PostalDude 10]

A re-read of the begining drivers manual haha lota drivers could use it

[Mattar_Tharkari 10]

Great book - not what you might expect:

Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History

http://www.amazon.com/Argo-Hollywood-Pulled-Audacious-History/dp/0147509734/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1360085947&sr=1-3

Favourite line: Knock, knock - Who's there? - Argo! - Argo who? - Argo ....................

Might be some ideas there for sneaky missions

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I checked the forum rules and I believe this qualifies as a significant update to the thread ;)

My wife's first book is out now (came out last week) and she's taking up the option of one of the allowed free days on Kindle, so for this weekend only it's completely free from Amazon Kindle!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008B7STWU

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008B7STWU (will show a charge for any non-USA IPs )

Also on Amazon.fr Amazon.de Amazon.es and Amazon.it in English

My wife's second book is out now (well has been for a while but I forgot about this thread ;)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 19, 2012

This is a must read for all the girls that know that WIG really means Women in Games.

With Christmas creeping around the corner, all that Tove wanted to do was to hide from family drama and the real world into the safety of cyberspace with her pug girl, Q. Stockpiled with enough coffee to wake the dead, Tove was ready to take a well-deserved break from hacking and sharpen her blade in the Mists of Pandaria, to the sound of Big Bang Theory and re-runs of X-Files. She might even try her luck at DayZ - hopefully without having all her stuff pinched.

Well, if only.

Press-ganged into action by Interpol, Tove finds herself stuck in Prague, with a target painted on her back, and forced to play spy-games with her BFFs computer whiz Arnie and the gadget guy of the group, Ota - who also happens to be determined to set her up. Running against the clock, going undercover, chasing terrorists, and fending off a group of black-hats, what could go wrong?

Thriller, Technothriller, Geek Lit

http://www.amazon.com/System-Czech-Hacked-Off-ebook/dp/B00AR3514U/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/System-Czech-Hacked-Off-ebook/dp/B00AR3514U/

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/267370

[ProfTournesol 956]

snip

So this one takes place in Prague, the next one in Greece ?

[Placebo 29]

Prague yes, and no not Greece, location of the next one is revealed on the last page so I don't want to spoil it ;)

[roger1796 1]

If you are a fan of fantasy/adventure books then search up 'A Song Of Ice And Fire'. A series of great books that managed to keep me hooked from beginning to end. Look it up on wikipedia if you aren't so sure, but they are definitely a great read.