Good books you have read
Submitted by sea-kem on Wed, 2012-11-14 05:37
After Adam's thread about TV shows Mat T has inspired me to start this one about good books as I've usually got a couple on the go.A good holiday is always accompanied with a good book. So I'll start the show with two absolutely brilliant books I've read recently: The Sisters brothers (about two assasins in the California gold rush) and Snowdrops (Russia in the 90's can't say much more or it'll spoil the plot). Also the Dark tower series which I'm re reading (Stephen King)
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sarcasm0
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Haha here we go!
Chickenhawk - Robert Mason
Something of Value - Robert Ruark
Shadow Warrior - Dave Everitt
Blackwater - Jeremy Scahill
Dirt Music - Tim Winton
Four Fires - Bryce Courtenay
Rivergod, The Seventh Scroll - Wilbur Smith
The Sunbird - Wilbur Smith
Sahara - Clive Cussler
Plenty more I can't think of right now
Rob H
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Chicken Hawk=great readIf you
Chicken Hawk=great read
If you liked that Sarc, try Roberts Ridge (Afghanistan)
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Clown Fish
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+1 for dirt music.
+1 for dirt music.
EL SYD
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john connolly's character
john connolly's character charlie parker in all his series or quick read matt rilley's scare crow just got to love the wank factor in that and shades of grey in audio books for bed time stuff
dodgy
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Just finished Kokoda by
Just finished Kokoda by Peter Fitzsimons. Was a good read.
Does anyone know where the love of god goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
Yewiefish85
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I don't have the attention
I don't have the attention span to read books but always managed to read "the old man and the sea" by Ernest Hemmingway" all time classic
sea-kem
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Read that book at School 30
Read that book at School 30 yrs ago and still remember it well. Will find and read it again for nostalgias sake.
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playboy!!and thats only to
playboy!!
and thats only to look at the pics.
chris raff
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Isn't that also known as "
Isn't that also known as " Fifty Shades of Pink" ...TAB form guide and autotrader for me
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black gen
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the ice man dont tell mum i
the ice man
dont tell mum i work on the rigs, she thinks im a pianist in a whorehouse. funny read about his travels all over the world, from pet monkeys to goin to a bar where the bartenders are midgets in velcro suits and you throw them on the walls
Brock O
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2 of my
Favorites right there, so funny that rig book and good reading the first 3 chapters when he was based in WA.
The cottesloe bit smoking pot and going to the beach every day, falling of the balcony onto the rose bush with the soy sauce and bowl of pot following, then the kangaroo through the windsceen out at Laverton.
The Iceman - trouble picking it up and putting it down.
sea-kem
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Paul Carter still lives here
Paul Carter still lives here and works for Scotia inspection services
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Brucesta
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great bloke Paul. read all
great bloke Paul. read all three of his books. for those who have read his first look out for This Is Not A Drill and Is That Thing Diesel?
great reads. and if you've done those ones to death, look for Fighter Pilot by Mac "Serge" Tucker, same deal funny stories from one of our top fighter pilots. And for the perverts read I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell by Tucker Max, farking FUNNY!! all about getting stupid drunk and gettting laid as often as possible
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uncle
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anything and everything by
stepen king, couldn't reread the dark tower,it was still fresh in my mind,only got to book 4,just an amazing read
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sea-kem
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Just finished that (Wolves of
Just finished that (Wolves of the Calla) and about to start Song for Susannah. Currently reading The lost Symbol Dan Brown it's alright not great. What did you think of the Talisman Uncle? My fave King book.
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uncle
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good, so many favourites
the dark tower followed by the stand, It,tommyknockers,dreamweaver, the shining, and the richard bachman books, currently rereading pet cemertry,have the whole collection
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Dune - Frank Herbert
Dune - Frank Herbert
Manifold trilogy - Stephen Baxter
Contact - Carl Sagan
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Just spent three years
Just spent three years reading the whole Dune series by Frank Herbert - around 15 books in all (aparently more to be released), Grayzee if you liked Dune have a look at the others in the series as a couple are even better then the original "Chapterhouse Dune" comes to mind as one of these.
House Harkonnan, House Atredies and House Corrino give good insights into the history of each house/clan leading up to Dune
And The Machine Crusade, Butlerian Jihad and Battle of Corrin are about the war against the thinking machines -prequells if you like alluded to in the original Dune.
Frank Herberts son Brian Herbert and another Author Kevin Anderson also continued his Dune legacy writing a number of books after his passing based on chest fulls of notes that were discoved in his house for further books
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I'm waiting for the Tom
I'm waiting for the Tom swift autobiography to come out at Christmas
SABRE
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If your into military/air
If your into military/air force type books anything by Dale Brown is a good read. Good plot lines and lots of techo details.
Patrick Robinson if your into submarine stories is another good author.
All time classic Hunt for red october by Tom Clancy-Good movie even better book
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sea-kem
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Hey Sabre I've read all the
Hey Sabre I've read all the Patrick Robinson books they are brill.
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SABRE
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Tom Swift
What do you think that will be titled dumper ? I was thinking Crab-the Tom Swift story
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Rob H
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If you like true war stories,
If you like true war stories, the best I have read are
The Wolf: The True Story of an Epic Voyage of Destruction in WW1 (german merchant raider working down this way)
Roberts Ridge (US special forces f++kup in Afghanistan)
Fighting Back (Jewish resistance in Poland)
Eight Lives Down?? (British bomb disposal in middle east conflict)
Danger UXB (during the blitz)
Give a man a mask, and he'll show you his true face...
The older you get the more you realize that no one has a f++king clue what they're doing.
Everyone's just winging it.
SABRE
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Yep
Yeah seakem hes a good writer,if your into that i'm reading one from a guy called Joe Buff. Another submarine related story,just started it but it seems ok.
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sea-kem
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I've read one of his too
I've read one of his too Sabre. Tidal Rip It's basically set in WW3 Involves navy seals, german Kampfswimmer, sub chases love that shit and the bloke knows his stuff. Researches well.
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Used to read heaps before the kids came along...
Some old favourites:
The Belgariad Series - David Eddings
Magician - Raymond E Feist
The Haj - Leon Uris (great older book, you can't understand the Israel/Arab thing without reading this)
The Wheel Of Time - Robert Jordan
Bravo Two Zero - By some British SAS guy, was a good read.
And my latest dunny companion : Fishing Knots for Beginners.
Cortez474
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The truth about Bravo 2 zero
The truth about Bravo 2 zero is an intersesting book if youve read Bravo 2 Zero....
Anything by Robert G Barrett,,,,,Les Norton is a fucking legend!!
Jo Nesbo....The Harry Hole series
The Hunger Games......Dont bother with the movie though its shit!!
The Tomorrow series by John Marzden......Young Adult books buit very easy reading
Marching Powder.....About a bloke locked up for drug trafficking in Bolivia
Harry Potter.....I Know,i know.....i still liked it!!
Paul H
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Author of Bravo 2 Zero was
Author of Bravo 2 Zero was Andy McNab, has written a whole heap of books some of them fiction and some based on his SAS experiences. some are good.
Chris Ryan (who was another member of McNab's ill fated patrol that went into Iraq" wrote "The one that got away" (he was the only one of the 8 who managed to escape out of Iraq on foot - I think 2 or three were killed and 4 captured including McNab). his book is also worth reading if you liked Bravo2/0.
Don't have the titles but some of the Aussie SAAS books are a better read particularly the ones based on Vietnam and Borneo era's.
There is one which may be called Tunnel Rats about a group of aussies from the Training Task Force which were the first to go into the vietcong tunnels to fight them on their own terms and subsequently formed a training area of tunnels to train US troops. (the Yanks of course claim they were the first ones down the tunnels)!!
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Shark by Hugh Edwards
Shark by Hugh Edwards interesting book
Nathan
uncle
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three classics
devils guard, about the french FL in indo china,this will open your eyes
genesis by somebody harrisson, about ufos linked back to the nazis [fiction] awesome
all books by aleksanda solzhenisyn, about the prison gulags in russia
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big john
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Great
Great book 'The Devil's Guard', didn't muck around those boys.
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sea-kem
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Actually on fact books I've
Actually on fact books I've just finished one Sonny Barger the founder of the Hells Angels written by himself good read and another called The Brand all about the White supremist brotherhood ...bad bad men with far reaching tentacles. Make the mafia look like girls.
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"Zane Grey on Fishing", this
"Zane Grey on Fishing", this bloke caught some amazing fish back in the day and this book is a best of, love it.
And if your into hunting then "Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter" by W.D.M Bell is a must.
Ebery day a fishn day, but no ebery day fe catchn fish!
Brucesta
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The Changi Brownlow a great
The Changi Brownlow a great read about the aussies in POW camps and the story of Peter Chitty, sad but inspirational story and gives you a great sense of national pride. Dunno how many young kids would enlist now if we went to war....
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PattyT
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For those into fantasy novels
For those into fantasy novels like me, you cant go past
The Inheritance Cycle
and
Game of thrones
Awesome books!!
bod
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Game of Thrones
awesome tv/dvd series.
r.gates
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Bosch & Reacher
I've read the entire Harry Bosch series, written by Michael Connelly; the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child and most of Tom Clancy's novels....all great reads and hard to put down once you start.
Currently reading the 4 volume set of Scott Kelby's The Digital Photographer.
Just this week I was loaned a copy of 'Fishing Wild' (No. 13) and it's got some interesting articles including a trailer boat trip from Lowendal to Barrow Island and a Kimberleys project boat...the actual story of the trip is coming out in a future edition. The mag combines great fishing stories with top class photography...what more could you ask for! Oh yeah, the TAB Form every Friday
regards
rusty...
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Shadow Divers by Robert
Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson. True Story
In the fall of 1991, two deep wreck divers discovered a World War II German U-boat sixty miles off the coast of New Jersey. No identifying marks were visible on the submarine or the few artifacts that John Chatterton and Richie Kohler brought to the surface. No historian, expert, or government had a clue as to which U-boat the men had found. In fact, the official records all agreed that there simply couldnt be a sunken U-boat and crew at that location. Over the next six years, an elite team of divers embarked a quest to solve the mystery.
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts. True story about the author (audio book is great)
"It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured."Shantaram is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of a city where he can disappear.
Zoggy84
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Frank McCourts- Angelas
Frank McCourts- Angelas Ashes and Tis
thats about as far as my reading goes apart from Real life crime books and Sports AutoBiographys
The name is Zoe.
If any1 but the wife asks im fishing, if she asks im at work.
Doooma
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Robert G Barrett
Any of the Robert G Barrett... Les Norton books are a funny read...
Also the Girl with the dragon tattoo series of book sis excellent.. Much better than the movies..
Also I cant remember what its called... but the John Bertrand biography from the 83 Americas Cup is a fantastic and inspiring read!!!!
If you are still young at heart with a sense of humour... try "I hope they serve beer in hell" by Tucker Max.... Hilarious!!!
uncle
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theres a whole series
of war stories from a german penal panzer division from Sven Hassel,excellent
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twicther
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Books against adversity
A fortunate life
As far as my feet will carry me
Desperate voyage
For those i loved
One fourteenth of an Elephant
All these books i can remember well because they are the best TRUE STORIES i have ever read.
Try Peter Fitzsimmons - MAWSON, KINGSFORD- SMITH all good reads.
Agree with Browndog -' The Haj' good understanding of what the middle east conflict is all about.
Faulkner Family
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gotta say i dont get any
gotta say i dont get any time to read now but anything by King i could get into. Kujo, misery just to name a couple
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
wonky36
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Dust Devils
by Roger Smith. South African crime thriller. Excellent.
Anyone use a kindle?
gav077
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Anything by David gemmel. The
Anything by David gemmel. The Dresden files and the codex alera books by Jim butcher are my favorites. Bloody awesome books
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barlow2
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papillon
his exploits seem impossible to be true.
a very well read book in my collection.
for a harrowing insight into nazi death camps Stoker is up there.
fact over fiction any day for me.