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[Metro752]

I heard "The Audacity of Hope" is a great fiction novel.

 

[Soverytired]

I heard "The Audacity of Hope" is a great fiction novel.

Isn't that the one written by Bill Ayers?

(It's on the internet, it must be true!)

 

[ePilot22]

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.












eP.

 

[Amish RakeFight]

Reading now:

"Michael Kohlhaas"

By Heinrich Von Kleist

Great classical German literature. Google the title if you're curious ofthe plot. Very good book about a honest and principled man whose virtues hurt him in the end.

 

[cfi_greg]

I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL freakin hilarious

 

[Soverytired]

I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL freakin hilarious

Hah hah! I second that!

Tucker Max -- I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL

(Chapter xx: "Tucker has butt sex, hilarity does NOT ensue)

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also good: "The Alphabet in of Manliness" -- by Maddox

(So manly some of it's sentences don't
end in periods)

 

[TNHillbilly]

I just finished Diving Into Darkness by Phillip Finch, really good book. It's nonfiction about deep cave diving, the main guy was a Cathay Captain.

Any of Robert Parkers westerns, "Appaloosa", "Resolution."

"Uncommon Carriers" by John McPhee, interesting look at several different ways of shipping stuff and the people that do it.

 

[flyboyike]

"The Elegant Universe" by Brian Greene, but only if you're a geek like me.

 

[Sandhawk]

Anything recommended by Oprah

 

[fareview]

In order of merit, these all time greats should not be read if you have a check-ride pending. You wont be able to put them down.

Non fiction of course:

"Legionnaire" by Simon Murray

"Stalingrad" Anthony Beaver

"Mao" Chang & Halliday.

Respectfully.

fv

 

[NoJoy]

When your done with all of those read The Stand, one of Stephen King's better novels.

 

[Soverytired]

In order of merit, these all time greats should not be read if you have a check-ride pending. You wont be able to put them down.



"Stalingrad" Anthony Beaver

fv

Correct spelling of author is "Antony Beevor".

I'm not nit-picking . . this is an excellent book that every student of the eastern front of WWII shouldn't miss. . . .

 

[johnpeace]

+1 for Atlas Shrugged. It's (increasingly) a 'must read' for people who want to understand the world we presently live in.

'The Fountainhead' is also really worth your time.

I'm listening to 'Pillars of the Earth' audiobook now, it's terrific!

'Revolution: A Manifesto' - Ron Paul
'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress' - Robert Heinlein
'1984' -George Orwell
'Unintended Consequences' -John Ross (excellent novel telling the story of America's 'gun culture')
'The Making of the Atomic Bomb' -Richard Rhodes (definitive history text of the Manhattan Project)

 

[johnpeace]

North star over my shoulder, Bob Buck (TWA ret) capt reflects back on his start and contributions to aviation. Pretty impressive and doesnt require much thinking.

uke:

Bob Buck's memoir was the most self-aggrandizing, vain, conceited, pompous, self-absorbed, self-important garbage I have ever tried to read.

I got a third of the way through it and threw it down in disgust at his utter lack of humility.

Ernie Gann has the genre of 'early days of airline industry' completely covered.

Bob Buck would do well to stick to writing about the weather.

 

[bigshooter107]

Dont stop the Carnival, or Theres a hole in texas by Herwman Wouk

Any book by Jim Buffet
any book by David Mcoullough

Brief history of time or Black holes and baby universes by Stephen Hawking

and Lone Survivor is almost impossible to put down once they get out of the helicopter, tough to imagine any better narrative of a firefight.

 

[Go Fly]

A standing ovation!!!

Most informative post ever on Flight Info.

Just so I can be a part of it, if you like fiction:

The Godfather by Mario Puzo. Yes, the movie was based on this book. I like the movie but love the book! I couldn't put it down even though I knew how it ended.

Gangster by Lorenzo Carcaterra. It's as good as The Godfather if you like this genre.

If you're as much of a geek as I am when it comes to reading try some American classics.

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. This one is short and can be finished in one boring day of hot spare.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Thanks to everyone who has contributed. I'm on my way to Barnes and Noble.

 

[Cardinal]

Generaton Kill - Evan Wright

One Bullet Away - Nathaniel Fick

Into Thin Air - John Krakauer

Into The Wild - John Krakauer

Eiger Dreams - Joh Krakauer

Touching the Void - Joe Simpson (Anything by Simpson is good, this one will hurt you)

The White Spider - Heinrich Harrer (a classic, but it's a history, you have to be crazy about climbing

Fate is the Hunter - Ernest Gann (anything by Gann!)

Hard Landing - Thomas Petzinger

North star over my shoulder -Bob Buck

Flight of Passage - Rinker Buck, no relation

One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer - Nathaniel C. Fick

Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege - Antony Beevor

Chickenhawk - Robert Mason

Assault In Norway: Sabotaging the Nazi Nuclear Program - Thomas Gallagher

We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance - David Howarth

The Forgotten Soldier - Guy Sajer (I've been reading military books all my life and this one finally made me get it, the agony, drudgery, the psychological damage, mostly through what was left unsaid.)

Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knight's Cross - Albrecht Wacker (Much more digestible look at the Eastern Front)

Adak: The Rescue of Alfa Foxtrot 586 - Andrew C. A. Jampoler (P-3 wreck and rescue)

First Light - Geoffrey Wellum (Fantastic essence of the the Battle of Britain)

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

'1984' - George Orwell

Lucifer's Hammer - Larry Niven

The Long Walk - Slavomir Rawicz

 

[johnpeace]

'To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth' - Col. Jeff Cooper

'Molon Labe' - Boston T. Party

The Vampire Chronicles - Anne Rice (the first 3 books are great...then it sort of goes downhill)

This is fun!

 

[pilotyip]

Anything by James Webb D (VA), "Fields fo fire", "A country such as this", and "A time to fight" to name a few.

 

[dictatortot]

Anyone read Without Remorse by Tom Clancy? I'm not a huge fan of Clancy, but this one was different. Awesome revenge story!

 

[Amish RakeFight]

"Life's Little Instruction Book" - any volume.

By: H. Jackson Brown Jr.



Lots of wise quotes to live by. Quick read.

 

[Uncle Bunkle]

"Pilots that wear Cowboy Boots"

"Punching the Clown"

"See No Evil" by Robert Baehr

"Mayflower" by Nathaniel Philbrick

"Female pilots and their smelly habits"

 

[rod farva]

Anyone read Without Remorse by Tom Clancy? I'm not a huge fan of Clancy, but this one was different. Awesome revenge story!

This book was rad!! One of his best.

Also try Under the Banner of Heaven by John Krakauer. Interesting read for you Skywesters.

 

[AV1ATRX]

The High and The Mighty - Earnest Gann

I read that book in one day.

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Also second (or third or whatever) Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. Thick books, not for the faint of heart, but worth your trouble.

 

[WalterSobchak]

Also try Under the Banner of Heaven by John Krakauer. Interesting read for you Skywesters.

I've been reading that one off and on over the last week or so (been super busy). Very interesting, yet disturbing stuff. I love to sit it out on my desk in the office...just to see the reactionary faces of a few.

Anyone read Without Remorse by Tom Clancy? I'm not a huge fan of Clancy, but this one was different. Awesome revenge story!

Rainbow Six is still, by far, my all-time favorite Clancy book (Teeth of the Tiger was a pretty good follow-up.). They were set to make a movie of Six, was even greenlit...then, of course, 9/11 happened (I would love to see them try to make one of Debt of Honor with that ending).

 

[CopilotDoug]

Anyone read Without Remorse by Tom Clancy? I'm not a huge fan of Clancy, but this one was different. Awesome revenge story!

Clancy can delve a little too deep into the minutia (sp?) but this was a good exception. +1 for Without Remorse.

Flyboys - James Bradley
A true story about 8 American pilots captured during WWII

 

[Airspur]

Also try Under the Banner of Heaven by John Krakauer. Interesting read for you Skywesters.

It's an interesting read for anybody. Why the jab? Surely you know Skywesters aren't all wacko fundamentalist Mormons? (contrary to what you might read here)

- The Origin of Virtue by Matt Ridley
- Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber by Mark Twight
- Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
- The End of Faith by Sam Harris

 

[johnpeace]

I got into Clancy several years ago and read a bunch of them in sequence.

Two of my favorites (after the aforementioned Without Remorse, which was excellent) were:
The Bear and The Dragon
Debt of Honor

These 2 seemed to represent a perfect blend of Clancy elements: global political policy and it's aftermath, war, military technology, espionage and character issues.

They were great.

They were also a pretty amazing foretelling of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, though with the perpetrator being a single operative working alone...rather than a network of muslim terrorists.

I liked the one about the Syrians building a nuclear weapon too: The Sum of All Fears

Might be time to re-read that one so I can better appreciate it when it's inevitably played out on the nightly news.

 

[GogglesPisano]

History:
"Guns, Germs, Steel," by Jared Diamond.
"Longitude," A shorty but goody about the development of the chronometer for navigation.

Science/History:
"Science as a Candle in the Dark," and "Billions and Billions," by Sagan.
"How They Built the Atomic Bomb," A long but thorough read about early 20th century physics and physicists.
The new biography of Einstein is supposed to be pretty good.

Wit:
Anything by Sedaris.

And "Freakanomics."

 

[johnpeace]

Can't go wrong with I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell though.

Actually...you can.

I am about 9 chapters into it after reading all the rave reviews here amongst you morons.

So, when invited to a Halloween costume party with 'villains' as the theme...I foolishly decided I could go as the dastardly, evil, debauched Tucker Max himself.

Dangerous hilarity ensued.

I'm scared to try it again though. Good luck if you think you're up for it.