Simviation Forum - ..so.. Read any good books lately?

Mar 5^th, 2006 at 4:20pm

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Well?

I just finished "With Hostile Intent" by Robert Gandt. Good novel about Super Hornet drivers and there's a bunch of characters and plot twists. And I just started Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy.

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Reply #1 - Mar 5^th, 2006 at 8:22pm

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Not long finished reading The Lord Of The Rings Books (all 4 of them including The Hobbit) and going to start reading Utopia by Lincoln Child.

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Reply #2 - Mar 5^th, 2006 at 10:16pm

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Well, not really a book, but I just finished reading the script on the first episode of Stargate Destiny. Took me two days to read a script on an episode that lasts for about 45 minutes [commercials not included]. Roll Eyes

One of these days, I hope to finish reading "The Giver" and "1984".

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Reply #3 - Mar 5^th, 2006 at 10:32pm

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just started on the furth in the hitchhikers guide series. i hope the movies kep rolling in, cause the first was a hit!

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Reply #4 - Mar 5^th, 2006 at 10:43pm

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I'm in kind of a reading slump at the moment. Can't keep my mind on a story long enough to get interested in a book right now. But I tryed to start reading the new one from Michael Crichton entitled State of Fear. It seemed really good, but like I said, I can't really read right now.

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Reply #5 - Mar 5^th, 2006 at 11:14pm

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Just read "Herland" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a radical feminist, for a 7-page history paper due in... 8 hours. crap... gotta write that....

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Reply #6 - Mar 6^th, 2006 at 12:25am

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Currently reading for english class. Night...by Elie Wiesel.

Not to far in due to keeping with the class, but interesting Wink

Favorites though were the Left Behind series. Not a religious person really, but is definatly one of the best series I've ever read. I liked how the story just kept moving and each book picked up right where the other left off

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Reply #7 - Mar 6^th, 2006 at 4:51am

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Well?

I just finished "With Hostile Intent" by Robert Gandt. Good novel about Super Hornet drivers and there's a bunch of characters and plot twists. And I just started Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy.

Just finished The Killing Sky by Gandt last night Wink

Pretty good first book by him I have read.

Now working on Clash of the Carriers-The True Story of the Marianas Turkey Shoot of WWII, by Barrett Tillman

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Reply #8 - Mar 7^th, 2006 at 3:20pm

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Just finished The Killing Sky by Gandt last night Pretty good first book by him I have read.

Yeah, this is my first book by him. I like his writing style. I'll have to check that one out.

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Reply #9 - Mar 7^th, 2006 at 3:28pm

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ghost of flight 401. Very good book, well worth the re-read:)

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Reply #10 - Mar 7^th, 2006 at 5:19pm

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Just finished " JG 26 - Top Guns of the Luftwaffe " by Donald L. Caldwell and the forward by Adolf Galland.
Very Interesting and good.

Starting " Midway - The Battle that Doomed Japan, the Japanese Navy's Story " by Mitsuo Fuchida and Masatake Okumiya

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Reply #11 - Mar 8^th, 2006 at 11:58am

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hahaha books?? You gotta be kidding! Grin

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Reply #12 - Mar 8^th, 2006 at 1:00pm

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i finished the last two books on that series. im about to begin reading "to kill a mockingbird"

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Reply #13 - Mar 8^th, 2006 at 5:59pm

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i finished the last two books on that series. im about to begin reading "to kill a mockingbird"

ramos

Which is only half the title.

The rest is "with Avian birdflu"

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Reply #14 - Mar 8^th, 2006 at 6:04pm

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Lately.... no

But I can recommend the silence of the lamb series.. ( Red Dragon, Silence of the lambs and hannibal)

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Reply #15 - Mar 8^th, 2006 at 7:12pm

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Finished "Fall of Berlin" by Anthony Read and David Fisher earlier this year. It was very very good, and had accurate retelling of the war and its' cultural and miltary affects on Berlin, as well as the Battle of Berlin.

I Followed with "Fatherland" by Robert Harris, which is an excellent book about what might've happened if Germany forced America into a Cease-fire and had essentially "Won the War." I Highly recommend it, especially to those of you who like 1984-esque books.

I'm currently reading "Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire" by Richard B. Frank. Some of the events before the war with Japan, and then it deals entirely with the last few months of the Pacific War, and what might have happened had we gone in to Invade (Operation Olympic and Coronet and so on.). It's well-written but very factual (think lots of statistics) so it can be a tad tedious at times.

Also, throw in Jane Eyre for my English class right now too.

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Reply #16 - Mar 8^th, 2006 at 11:06pm

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i finished the last two books on that series. im about to begin reading "to kill a mockingbird"

ramos

Just read that for english a couple weeks ago...Good book Wink

Didn't relize how short Night is. Only around 120 pages...the rest of the book is just notes. Almost finished it now. Recamended reading if your interested in stories from the Holocaust Wink

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Reply #17 - Mar 8^th, 2006 at 11:36pm

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Just read that for english a couple weeks ago...Good book Wink

Didn't relize how short Night is. Only around 120 pages...the rest of the book is just notes. Almost finished it now. Recamended reading if your interested in stories from the Holocaust Wink

NIght, always a touching story, read that a few times. also the Diary of Anne Frank, Schindler's List, and so on. i like holocaust stories, how amazing yet terrifing they are.

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Reply #18 - Mar 18^th, 2006 at 6:37pm

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Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh is my latest read. Also plodding steadly along with the Master and Commander series.

My biggest recommendation though is Riotous Assembly by Tom Sharpe. Funniest book I've ever read. Grin

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Reply #19 - Mar 23^rd, 2006 at 2:29pm

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Started the Da vinci code this afternoon... lovely book! Hope to finish it later today( or early tomorrow)

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Reply #20 - Mar 23^rd, 2006 at 2:42pm

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Reply #21 - Mar 23^rd, 2006 at 7:46pm

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Just finished the Da vinci code.

Great book!

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Reply #22 - Mar 24^th, 2006 at 5:00am

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Just finished the Da vinci code.

Great book!

DAMN! Where there pages missing???
I can't read that fast, usually takes me a week or so to read through a average sized book, hell I couldn't finish a Cliff Notes book in a day! Grin

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Reply #23 - Mar 24^th, 2006 at 5:28am

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DAMN! Where there pages missing???
I can't read that fast, usually takes me a week or so to read through a average sized book, hell I couldn't finish a Cliff Notes book in a day! Grin

Dunno there were about 428 pages... Gonna get the Bennini mystery today.. I'm quite a fast reader and so is my sister.. she read the latest harry potter ( over 600 pages) in one day

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Reply #24 - Mar 24^th, 2006 at 10:58am

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I Followed with "Fatherland" by Robert Harris, which is an excellent book about what might've happened if Germany forced America into a Cease-fire and had essentially "Won the War." I Highly recommend it, especially to those of you who like 1984-esque books.

If you liked that you may like to try and get hold of "SS-GB" by Len Deighton, set in a post 1940 invasion Britain under Nazi control. Fascinating read...

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Reply #25 - Mar 24^th, 2006 at 3:35pm

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Dunno there were about 428 pages... Gonna get the Bennini mystery today.. I'm quite a fast reader and so is my sister.. she read the latest harry potter ( over 600 pages) in one day

Mmm...I love reading...I finished 3/4 of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince in 2.5 hours...don't believe me? Sorry I can't prove it...but just ask my parents...I got the book at 11 p.m. on July 16th when the book came out in the States...and by 2 a.m, I was nearing the end...Oh well...I read Da Vinci Code a while back...like 4-5 months ago...

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Reply #26 - Mar 24^th, 2006 at 4:38pm

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I don't read much anymore, but I did get a nice chunky book about the history of aviation - entitled "Flight - 100 years of aviation" written by R.G. Grant, lots of info in here Cheesy

Other than that, no, I haven't read any good books lately Wink

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Reply #27 - Mar 28^th, 2006 at 4:21pm

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Also read the bernini mystery yesterday. except for the first 45 pages....which I read earlier , I started at 2230-ish and finished the book at 05:16 this morning... I like to read!

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Reply #28 - Mar 28^th, 2006 at 5:16pm

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I used to read like that. But I take my time now. Take Moby Dick for example, I started that christmas day 2003 and have only got to chapter 14. Admittedly I havn't read any of it since 2004 cause it's boring but you get the picture. Grin

So I now put this question forward:

Ashar, what happens in the first 3/4 of Harry Potter?

Grin

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Reply #29 - Mar 28^th, 2006 at 5:49pm

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If I read good books I read fast! Read the first three Harry Potter books in two days.... If it wasn't for the fact that four wasn't out yet I would have read 4!

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Reply #30 - Mar 30^th, 2006 at 6:17am

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"escape zone" awesome book by sea harrier pilot about the falklands!

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Reply #31 - Mar 30^th, 2006 at 7:43am

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"escape zone" awesome book by sea harrier pilot about the falklands!

Balkans actually. We didn't lose any Harriers in the Falklands.

P.s. "No Escape Zone."

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Reply #32 - Apr 13^th, 2006 at 10:30am

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just finished reading Flight Of The Old Dog by Dale Brown.... now going to start on the gigantic manual for the captain sim hercules

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Reply #33 - Apr 13^th, 2006 at 12:43pm

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Finished "1984"
Great book Shocked

and just started "animal farm"
hope to finish it soon

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Reply #34 - Apr 24^th, 2006 at 8:46pm

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Finished Downfall awhile back, then followed with Robert Harris' "Archangel." It's an excellent book centered in Moscow and the City of Archangel in Russia. It has to do with Stalin and his secret diary. Excellent read, i'd be lying if I said I wasn't depressed when it ended!

Currently read Soldat, which is about Siegfried Knappe (well, he's telling the story, but it is translated), a Wehrmacht soldier who fought in almost every major german campaign and got wounded as well. He even fought in Berlin and stayed until May 1st where he surrendered to the Russians with Weidling and Co, and then spent five years in a Russian POW camp and then eventually getting to the west. It also includes 16 pages of photos he smuggled into the west. It starts with Berlin in April 1945, which is familiar territory for me (see: Fall of Berlin I read a few months ago).

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Reply #35 - Apr 25^th, 2006 at 9:49pm

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Reply #36 - Apr 26^th, 2006 at 9:55pm

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I reccommend anything by Hunter S Thompson.

Especially Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas and Fear and loathing on the campaign trail '72, every sentance he wrote was amazing.

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Reply #37 - Apr 30^th, 2006 at 10:38am

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i must the get on with the Harry Potter series Grin

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Reply #38 - May 1^st, 2006 at 4:47pm

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Balkans actually. We didn't lose any Harriers in the Falklands.

Sqn Ldr Bob Iveson would disagree when his Harrier was shot down at 100' @ 450kts!...

I think we lost a total of 9 or 10. 4 Gr.3 (3 to enemy ground fire, one engine failure*) and the others were SHARs (2 ground fire/SAM, 1 exploded after take off, 2 are thought collided whilst on a night CAP, and one fell off it's ship whilst waiting to take off)...

*It was forced landed by its pilot, who, 20 year later was to be Chief of the Air Staff...

What was amazing is that in 25 years of service, including a war against a not under equipped air force, the Sea Harrier never lost in air to air combat...

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Reply #39 - May 2^nd, 2006 at 9:38pm

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Have any of you guys read any books by John J. Nance?

I have read about 6 of his books, they all have aviation related themes and are very hard to put down once you start reading. I think the best one I have read was Pandora's Clock.

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Reply #40 - May 3^rd, 2006 at 4:19pm

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Have any of you guys read any books by John J. Nance?

Yes I have all of his novels bery good, if you like those you may want to look for Tracon by Paul McElroy Wink

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Finished "1984"
Great book

Written in 1948 which is how he came about his title.

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Reply #41 - May 3^rd, 2006 at 5:05pm

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read some awsome books called The Lazarus Vendetta by Robert Ludlum and Patrick Larkin, The Cassandra Compact by Robert Ludlum and Philip Shelby and The Altman Code by Robert Ludlum and Gayle Lynds

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Reply #42 - May 10^th, 2006 at 10:00pm

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All the Dale Brown books...they have airplanes, guns, and nuclear bombs... Grin

...It keeps me happy...I especially like "The Flight Of The Old Dog"...Its my favorite book ever.

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Reply #43 - May 11^th, 2006 at 12:38am

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Now reading "Kitchen Confidential" by Anthony Bourdain.

Yay! Grin

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