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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 1 2013, 10:37 AM (462 Views) | |
| DevilFish | Mar 1 2013, 10:37 AM Post #1 |
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LCDR Paul "Voodoo" Carter
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Over the last couple of years I've found myself doing something I've never done before......picking up a book and reading it. I've never been bothered with it but suddenly I like to sit down with a book. My "genre" if you can call it that is real life stuff....history and particularly military history. So far I have read... "Empire of the Clouds" Sharkey Ward's "Sea Harrier over the Falklands" Jerry Pook's "RAF Harrier ground attack Falklands" The Lightning Boys Currently reading "the Quick and the Dead" by Bill Waterton There are others but can't remember off the top of my head. So, what does everyone else enjoy reading? Or don't you? |
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| madmonk | Mar 1 2013, 11:01 AM Post #2 |
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Lt Warren "Satan" Monks
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I've got a couple on the go at the moment. Shunt, the biography of James Hunt and, Angels and Spaceships by Fredric Brown which is a compilation of his short Sci-Fi stories from 1954. I've been looking for the book for about 5 years after remembering my mum having it some 35 years ago when she went back to college to retake her O levels. There was one story in particular I remembered called Answer, it's only about 500 words long but has always stuck with me. I've always checked book shops when we have been out and about but never found it and it was always expensive if it ever came up on amazon. Anyway this Christmas my eldest daughter found a cheapish copy online in the US and bought it me. Who says kids these days are bad! I also like a good horror read, particularly Stephen King or James Herbert. Terry Pratchett is also a favourite of mine and my daughter. Cheers, Warren |
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| DevilFish | Mar 1 2013, 11:20 AM Post #3 |
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LCDR Paul "Voodoo" Carter
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It's always good to find an old book. The Quick and the dead is mentioned in The Empire of the clouds. It was written in the late 50's by Bill Waterton, a Canadian Ex-RAF pilot, who became cheif test pilot for Gloster and the aircraft correspondant for a big newspaper (can't remember which off hand), so it gives a true, at the time look at the life of a test pilot. That and he pulls no punched as to the state of the British aircraft industry after the war. I'd been looking for it since reading Empire and I think it was reprinted on the back of that book, as my dad got me it for Xmas. |
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| Mosquito | Mar 1 2013, 12:37 PM Post #4 |
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I'm reading Achtung Panzer! by Heinz Guderian. I like reading WW2 stuff and occasionally a Terry Prachett. Wee Free Men is a great laugh. |
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| Deleted User | Mar 1 2013, 12:39 PM Post #5 |
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Im reading Andy Mcnab's Recoil Im slowly working my way through all of his books but Im about 4 or 5 behind at the moment :lol: |
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| benskipper | Mar 1 2013, 12:50 PM Post #6 |
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LCDR Ben 'NITRO' Skipper
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Empire of the Clouds, War Tales of the Mercian Regt and RucksMarsch 1944. |
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| Olde Farte | Mar 1 2013, 12:52 PM Post #7 |
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Lt. Derek 'Smurfy' Reeve
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Empire of the Clouds I have read but biographies bore me to tears so tend to stick to modern crime/thrillers. Dale Brown is OK along with Clive Cussler and a few of their ilk. |
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| Admin | Mar 1 2013, 03:32 PM Post #8 |
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Razzle escort fiesta but I only read the stories I cannot get into books I only ever read one called chickenhawk |
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| Disorder | Mar 1 2013, 03:50 PM Post #9 |
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Lt Paddy 'Chancer' Boyle
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My usual is crime or espionage fiction, but recently I read Major Richard Winters book Beyond Band Of Brothers. Really enjoyed it. |
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| Mark M | Mar 1 2013, 05:11 PM Post #10 |
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Hawk T1
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robert ludlum, clive cussler, dale brown, steven coonts and i have the complete works of Sharp that im working through, on my kindle, and a cd with 10000 books on to go through
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| Deleted User | Mar 1 2013, 05:16 PM Post #11 |
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Chickenhawk is a bloody good read and would recommend it to any Vietnam war enthusiast (if that the right word :unsure: ) I can recommend all those others as well Simon but only for the articles of coarse :lol: Sorry all, carry on
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| Daz Greenwood | Mar 1 2013, 05:33 PM Post #12 |
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The voices told me to do it!
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I've just started reading "A Hell of a Bomb" by Stephen Flower. Its about they bombs of Barnes Wallis, and how the helped win the War. Ok so "Upkeep" was a mine, but you get the idea. It's a bit heavy going, but I'm enjoying it. It's a must read for any RAF Bomber Command enthusiast (if there is such a thing). |
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| Mark M | Mar 1 2013, 06:01 PM Post #13 |
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Hawk T1
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got a copy of Warburtons war as well from the kind 'flying warden' cracking book |
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| Deleted User | Mar 1 2013, 06:11 PM Post #14 |
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Another good book I have read is the 13th valley by john m delvechio. Another Vietnam book and a very 'deep' read. |
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| DevilFish | Mar 1 2013, 07:41 PM Post #15 |
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LCDR Paul "Voodoo" Carter
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on that vane, I read the Dambusters, the history of 617 "during the war" (in my best Uncle Albert voice) |
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