Tagging in more appropriate thread. While Abbey isn't the author, this is a great tale of two opposites and their respective contributions to conservation and literature.Originally Posted by John Hearne
Every work by David Gessner I have approached so far I have found enlightening and entertaining.
Got Stuart Woods' (not him, he's dead, someone else) Near Miss from the library on CD. Couldn't finish it. Starts with the usual Stone getting involved with a woman with a bad boy friend who tries to kill Stone. Idiotic plot as BF quickly learns that Stone is friends with the NYPD Commissioner, has a history of killing quite a few people, BF of Potus, etc. Sends some guy from the gym. Stone acts like a total incompetent - wait, didn't he go through CIA or SF training awhile ago. Can't shoot, won't carry. Let's a guy just walk up and hit him in the head. Switches to the Russians chasing him and of course, they hire the typical book super duper assassin. So I just listen to the last disc. Stone is going to a party and knows he will be targeted. There are tremendous layers of security from NYPD and Strategic Services. They are all red shirted by the super duper dude and Stone has to be saved by his own shooting, GF shooting and Teddy Fay infiltratring Super Duper Assassin's squad. Totally ridiculous. If I had paid for this, I would be annoyed.
Cloud Yeller of the Boomer Age
I just finished the "Long War" series by Christian Cameron. I really enjoyed them as well as his "Chivalry" series.
https://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Vengean...t%2C107&sr=1-1
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant.
Nonfiction account of a gigantic Siberian (Amur) tiger as serial killer in the almost unbelievable setting of the post-Soviet Russian Far East. Not to be missed.
Check out the Tom Swan series of novellas next.
Swan is not a professional Knight, his real interest is in history, languages and scholarship of the ancient world. But as a bastard son he finds himself captured in France and kneeling in a line, watching the French working their way along cutting the throats of men too poor to be ransomed, and waiting his turn.
When a refugee Greek Cardinal walks the line blessing the soon to be executed Swan calls out to him in Greek, and with some fast talking and selective editing of the truth finds himself briefly spared.
The Cardinal finds him intriguing and soon he has the very dangerous job of going to war torn areas and locating, buying or stealing artifacts and books from ancient Rome and Greece.
This leads us on a tour of the Near East during the time of the rebirth of interest in the art, history and learning that resulted in the European Renaissance.
Cameron's signature technical recreation of arms and armor, the brutality of the mindset of the day and the reconstruction of feudal society's power structures in transition are fascinating as usual.
I know I’m late to the party on this, but the Killing series by Bill O’Reilly is new to me. As in I just started reading them. Been looking at them forever. Finished Killing the SS and Killing Kennedy in the last week. Good stuff. Reading Killing the Rising Sun right now with Killing Reagan and Killing Lincoln next in line.
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I wonder if the shade of Mr. Heinemann is smiling about the fact that, over fifty years on, M113s are doing good service in Ukraine.
If we have to march off into the next world, let us walk there on the bodies of our enemies.
The Ghost of Cowcatcher carries on.
Just a dog chauffeur that used to hold the dumb end of the leash.
A Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
For a while I've been trying to remember where I read the ending paragraph as a kid - this was the novel. I was a total book worm in elementary school when reading was still for fun, knocked out Moby Dick in a day, and did this one shortly after, just didn't retain much except the excerpt about the compass directions changing.
Glad I picked it from the library.
I second this.
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