Books you're reading.

Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but I haven't I seen any threads about books members were reading. So, I hope this thread gets some traction.

I finshed two books last week. Both of them were pretty good reads.

The first one was El Narco, by Joan Grillo.

It's an in-depth look about the history of drug cartels in Mexico. Anyone paying attention to all the bloodshed south of the border, might want to read it.

I also picked El Sicario, The Autobiography of a Mexican Assassin.
Edited by Molly Molloy and Charels Bowden.

It's a story straight from the mouth of a man who was recruited by the cartel in Juarez. He goes into his 20 year career as a kiddnapper, hit man, and corrupt cop on the Juarez police force. He eventually, leaves the cartel because he finds religion.
This book is also a pretty good read as well.

 

I'm terrible with reading multiple books at the same time. ADHD???

Theogny/Works and Days- Hesiod (Classic Greek Mythology)

The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis- Carroll Quigley

Europe: a history- Norman Davies

Tinker,Tailor, Soldier, Spy- John Le Carre' (David Cornwall)

A Dance with Dragons- George R.R. Martin



El Narco sounds right up my alley.

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I watched Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy last week. I'm thinking about picking up the book.

 

The book is very well written. Le Carre's insight into bureaucratic infighting is brilliant-IMHO.

The movie was ok, but I liked the BBC mini-series much, much more. You can pretty much watch it on You Tube. The sequel - Smiley's People is pretty good too.


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Hitler's War by Harry Turtledove...WW2 starts a year early, with the invasion of Czechoslovakia.

Anxiously waiting for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo to arrive.

 

Bumping an older thread.

I just finished reading Rick Atkinson's "Crusade: The Untold Story of the Gulf War." The book entails Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and the subsequent U.S. led coalition of forces involved in Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm. It was a war which demanded almost nothing from the American civilian population, not even higher taxes.
Last year was the 20th anniversary of the 42-day war and the event came and went by with little fanfare...I purchased the book then even though it was written in 1993.
What prompted me to finally read it was a rare January thunderstorm here in St. Louis a week or so ago. I was awoken by my neighborhood's tornado siren at O'dark thirty and half awake I was looking for my gas mask...stumbling around my room oblivious to the present moment. In my mind it was 1991 and I was in Saudi Arabia, as the Saudi air raid siren seemed eerily similar warning of inbound Iraqi Scud missiles.
Sirens, loud noises and smells, events that sometimes trigger memories long since shoved away in the sub-conscious, had never bothered me before. I figured it's time to do a little reflection.

This book is, in my opinion, the definitive guide to the Persian Gulf War. It's written by an historian and journalist in a very factual way, but the dramatic narrative is what keeps the reading interesting and not just a dry recounting of events. Surprisingly the book is none too fond of Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, then CENTCOM commander, and paints a picture more suited for a primadonna than the "teddy bear" image so often portrayed in the media at the time. I was a 26 year old Captain in the active duty USAF, flying a military Lear jet
based out of Saudi Arabia during the latter part of Desert Shield and throughout Desert Storm. As most veterans will agree, when you're part of a large operation you're focused on your own small World and lose sight of the massive undertaking a war entails...realizing it's akin to a jigsaw puzzle with hundreds of thousands of pieces.

I highly recommend this book for civilians and veterans alike. You will find no other published book on this subject matter that fits all the pieces of the puzzle into a concise overview that reveals the bigger picture.

Thanks for your time and enduring my long-winded, but at least therapeutic...prose.

 

"Double Tap" by Steve Martini

 

"The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History" by Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Ph.D.

Liberals would hate or avoid this book. Here are a few reasons why:

* The American "revolutionaries were actually conservatives

* The Puritans didn't steal Indian lands

* FDR agreed to send a million Russian POWs back to Stalin

* "Landslide Lyndon" Johnson stole his first senate race

* The War on Poverty made poverty worse

* Hundreds of American libewrals had secret ties to the Soviets

 

Lol. The chapters in that book are about two pages long tops. The arguments presented are extremely and terribly one sided and on top of that very very short. Too short. Its set up like a childrens book. I can see why you are so fond of it.

 

I am reading "blue on blue- a history of friendly fire"


I just started yesterday and it seems to start in early greece and will document wartime folly all the way up to the Gulf war.

 

The chapters are condensed so as to make it a unique educational tool in offsetting the liberal lies that have propagated and distorted the truth when it comes to the telling of American history. This type of educational source is all I need to read to back up my political discourse with the facts. I'm just starting to read Glenn Beck's book..."BROKE" as I see a lot of interesting facts about American history just by leafing through a couple of the more interesting portions. Stick around and I'll give you my terse but factual take on Glenn's book right here after I finish it.

The chapters in the book I'm reading now are short in length, but the book does manage to cover all of American history by highlighting the events that liberals have either misunderstood or skewed in the past.

 

Only you have failed to back up several of your beliefs with facts when engaging with myself. Also, that bit you just posted about the book is pretty far fetched. The chapters are not condensed for any good reason other than theres not much more the author can write in the way of backing up his claims. Its real simple, if you want to be a better republican pseudo conservative ideologue, read the pollitically incorrect guide to american history. You can finish the entire book in about two hours and it will better add to your already large collection of one sided, ill informed, and baseless claims against what many call liberals.

 

2624. Sedlacek, Tomas. The Economics of Good and Evil, The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2011. (H)

 

James Rickards' Currency Wars, and Andrew Ross Sorkin's Too Big to Fail: the Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System-and Themselves. The latter is an arduous read.

 

was an interesting one. I haven't read Currency Wars. What do you think of it?

As for Libhater, consider the source then do as I do. Laugh.

 

Thank you good fellow, I had forgot about "too big to fail." I had heard about it and wanted to read it however the title must have escaped me somehow. Now that you have riminded me I too may enjoy this book. Im certain it will be exposing.

 

Sinclair Lewis' "Babbitt". An interesting, and satirical, look at middle class 1920's.

 

I gave you the facts straight up. Most of those facts I have gone over before here at PF, so if you feel the need to dispute them, then the onus woud be on you to do so. Nuff said. God luck with that assignment.

 

Ameritopia - Mark Levin

 

What facts did you give me? I have engaged with you on these fora on more than one occasion and this far your arguments consist of calling things idiocy, and subsequently leaving the discussion when things get too involved. I challenged you quite some time ago to address my welfare thread which effectively explains a common right wing misconception and all you did was call it idiotic. You offered nothing in the way of effective disputation. Now you talk to me of challenging you as if you havent already failed enough.

 

Well, I'm glad too see this thread survived during my vacation from PF.

I've just finished "Blood Meridian" by Cormac McCarthy for the third time.
Its a novel based of historical events in the 1850s, on the Mexico-Texas border. It's very dark and grim, something McCarthy excels at in his books.

A good read.

 

Victory or Valhalla, The Final Compilation of Writings by David Lane

 

I just finished reading all three books of "The Hunger Game" series, by Susan Collins.

Now I'm starting "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

 

I have no idea what you're talking about with that welfare thread, and look back to my initial post in this thread where I posted six precise facts about American history that libs such as yourself are prone to dismiss as being too un liberal like to take seriously. Now take any one of those six facts or all of them and debate or engage me with your reasoning as why they may not be fact. I'll be waiting.

 

How am I a liberal?

After reviewing the brief list of things you have limited me to I do not really see anything worth the time. The welfare thread you have forgotten is linked in my sig.