Virginia Gun Owners Forum - VGOF

Another thread wandered into discussions of authors. So it made me wonder what else other people on the forum are reading (besides the obvious Guns and Ammo, Rifleman etc).

Personally I am a big Vince Flynn fan. I have read all of his books at least twice. I also recently reread "See No Evil" by Robert Baer. He is an ex-CIA field agent who became so frustrated with the system that he retired. The book inspired the movie Syriana. Currently I am working on "Hot Springs" by Stephen Hunter.

So what are you reading?

"Hyperspace" by Michio Kaku... I figure if I'm going to have any idea what my boy is talking about, I've got some catching up to do.
Before that "1776" by David McCullough.

Bedtime stories - anything Louis L'Amour

Right now--Time to Hunt-by Stephen Hunter

Books by:
Clancy
Ludlum
Vince Flynn
David Baldacci
David Morrel
Kyle Mills
John Sandford
Dale Brown
Steve Martini
Brad Meltzer
James Patterson
Jack Higgins
and over 200 books on military history from Napoleon to Vietnam

Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill.

It's been out for a minute but i have just got around to buying it. Usually read about military history.

Lyman's 49th edition, and Speer's Manual #14, my head is about to bust.

Stephen King when I have the time.

gregj wrote:Lyman's 49th edition, and Speer's Manual #14, my head is about to bust.

Same here! "49th" has had the position of honor in the blue room for the past 10 months... just now getting to where I can read 10 minutes without a getting a migraine!

Starting my third trip through Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Takes about 6 months. Scary to see the parallels between then and now.
Also like John Tilley and Frank Spearman. Lugwig Renn's Warfare, The Relation of War to Society, is a good one too.

The Company: A novel about the CIA by Robert Littell

A great read. Its been through my hand about 4 times now. I love to reread books and have dozens of favorites. This one is a work of fiction that chronicles the CIA from before the OSS to right after the first Gulf war. If you know or want to know anything about the operational and plans arm of CIA this is a must read.

Common Sense by Glenn Beck

The healthcare bill. Its fiction.

GS78 wrote:The healthcare bill. Its fiction.

+1!!!

Fiction - The "Assassin Trilogy" (Prayers for the Assassin, Sins of the Assassin, and Heart of the Assassin) by Robert Ferrigno - The Islamic States of America

Non-Fiction - SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

R/Kurt

C++ and PHP code is about all I read these days.

allingeneral wrote:C++ and PHP code is about all I read these days.

Is that really reading or deciphering?

allingeneral wrote:C++ and PHP code is about all I read these days.

Way cool Rick!!!! Maybe you could code us up some new smileys then. One where Calvin takes a whiz on obama and he melts would be right on time.

Hephaestus wrote:

allingeneral wrote:C++ and PHP code is about all I read these days.

Is that really reading or deciphering?

It's reading - just the chapters are all mixed up and there are a lot of run-on sentences.

Let's see here....

Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths- Karen Armstrong

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark- Carl Sagan
Reading this one for my Sociology class

Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil & Fundamentalism in Central Asia- Ahmed Rashid
Very good book on the history of the Taliban. This is what I based my paper on that I posted in the Op-ed section.

I guess Lonesome Dove was my last book. Winter is my time for reading, and it isn't here yet.

zephyp wrote:

allingeneral wrote:C++ and PHP code is about all I read these days.

Way cool Rick!!!! Maybe you could code us up some new smileys then. One where Calvin takes a whiz on obama and he melts would be right on time.

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