Book recommendations?

Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes

Fantastic book about the Vietnam War as seen through the lens of a Marine company in the bush in the late 1960s. Explores the themes of brotherhood, humanity, race relations, leadership and power. This is a historical fiction novel that is one of the best I’ve read. Top 5 book ever for me, and far above any other Vietnam book I’ve read. A little bit similar to Band of Brothers HBO series, but better in my opinion. The battle descriptions are horrific and captivating, but the bonds between Marines is reminiscent of team sports and the trust of others required to succeed. The caveat being, in this situation kids die. It’s serious and yet very relatable.
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Good book. Did a great job of letting the reader understand what it was like to slog through the jungle.

People forget that Cold Mountain was a great book because of the mediocre Jude Law/Nicole Kidman movie they made out of it

Currently rereading the Dune series. Magnificent, sprawling, probably the best science fiction ever written
 
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Nonfiction book suggestions appreciated. Been back reading/listening lately. Some I've read any enjoyed lately:
  • Boys in the Boat
  • The Big Short
  • Devil in the White City
  • Dead Wake
  • The Guns of August
  • Friday Night Lights
I thank the bored's intelligencia for their services.
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Boys in the Boat...LOL at taking a recommendation from the alt right.

The kind of book you should be reading is this gem:

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I also liked Stephen King’s 11/22/63. Good read and not his normal horror genre. More of a historical fiction book with the idea being how would the world be if someone could go back in time and stop Lee Harvey Oswald from assassinating Kennedy.
 
@GrundleStiltzkin.... "I, Fatty" skews much more towards fiction, but it's based on a historical figure and it's a hell of a read. It's written by Jerry Stahl who penned Permanent Midnight and some other good chit.

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I actually just read two of the Beartown books by Fredrik Backman. I enjoyed them. Beartown and Us Against Them; fags, hooligans, hockey, lots of drinking and fighting, the first six inches are consensual.....pretty decent.

Mrs. Throbber just tossed me a Man Called Ove by Backman but I don't think I've gone gay enough to start that one yet.

 
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes

Fantastic book about the Vietnam War as seen through the lens of a Marine company in the bush in the late 1960s. Explores the themes of brotherhood, humanity, race relations, leadership and power. This is a historical fiction novel that is one of the best I’ve read. Top 5 book ever for me, and far above any other Vietnam book I’ve read. A little bit similar to Band of Brothers HBO series, but better in my opinion. The battle descriptions are horrific and captivating, but the bonds between Marines is reminiscent of team sports and the trust of others required to succeed. The caveat being, in this situation kids die. It’s serious and yet very relatable.
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Good book. Did a great job of letting the reader understand what it was like to slog through the jungle.

People forget that Cold Mountain was a great book because of the mediocre Jude Law/Nicole Kidman movie they made out of it

Currently rereading the Dune series. Magnificent, sprawling, probably the best science fiction ever written
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People forget Nicole Kidman showed her perky nips....because, well, it was a Cold Mountain.

I can't quite get out of my head that Tom Cruise got inside that - but give her credit for going full-frontal in pretty much everything she appears in.

 
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes

Fantastic book about the Vietnam War as seen through the lens of a Marine company in the bush in the late 1960s. Explores the themes of brotherhood, humanity, race relations, leadership and power. This is a historical fiction novel that is one of the best I’ve read. Top 5 book ever for me, and far above any other Vietnam book I’ve read. A little bit similar to Band of Brothers HBO series, but better in my opinion. The battle descriptions are horrific and captivating, but the bonds between Marines is reminiscent of team sports and the trust of others required to succeed. The caveat being, in this situation kids die. It’s serious and yet very relatable.
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Good book. Did a great job of letting the reader understand what it was like to slog through the jungle.

People forget that Cold Mountain was a great book because of the mediocre Jude Law/Nicole Kidman movie they made out of it

Currently rereading the Dune series. Magnificent, sprawling, probably the best science fiction ever written
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People forget Nicole Kidman showed her perky nips....because, well, it was a Cold Mountain.

I can't quite get out of my head that Tom Cruise got inside that[/b] - but give her credit for going full-frontal in pretty much everything she appears in.
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by "that" I assume you mean the contract they signed to be seen together in public. No way he was doing what you would have done with her.
 
@YellowSnow just finished the audio version of Retribution. Thank you. Kinda wished I'd read-read it, there was a lot to digest.
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Iwo Jima, Philippines, and Okinawa were a total waste of life with the benefit of Captain Hind-site. 2 things won the war really: (1) our subs sunk their entire merchant fleet (something the vaunted Cherman U-Boots could never do to us) and the taking of the Marianas put Japan's cities in easy range of Boeing.
 
@YellowSnow just finished the audio version of Retribution. Thank you. Kinda wished I'd read-read it, there was a lot to digest.
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Iwo Jima, Philippines, and Okinawa were a total waste of life with the benefit of Captain Hind-site. 2 things won the war really: (1) our subs sunk their entire merchant fleet (something the vaunted Cherman U-Boots could never do to us) and the taking of the Marianas put Japan's cities in easy range of Boeing.
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Some trivia that surprised me: $2 billion for Manhattan Project, $4 billion for Tokyo bombing campaign, $30 billion for European bombing campaign.

The scale of men and material mobilization in under 4 years always astounds me. I never heard the bit out 400 B-29s and 1500 carrier planes flying over the USS Missouri after the surrender documents were signed.

While I'd read a little about it before, the geopolitical finagling between the West and Mao and Chiang Kai Shek was very interesting.

Anyhow, thanks again.
 
Anything by Michael Lewis or Timothy Egan.
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Thinking you intended to specifically reference this one...

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Most recently, it was this one. Pretty interesting stuff on the micks.

The Big Burn was outstanding too.

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I've read most all of Michael Lewis' books. His most recent one is about the ripple effect of the Trump election with regard to government agencies. Someday I'll type the last paragraph on the Tug. It's chilling with regard to politics and the self-inflicted unintended consequences we sometimes inflict on ourselves, hoping to eradicate our perceived woes.

I"m trying to get interested in @Doog_de_Jour 's Ghengis Khan book but haven't hit my stride yet.

 
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Also - “And a bottle of rum” is fucking incredible.
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@Dennis_DeYoung I'm about 1/3 of the way through this book. I wouldn't call it fucking incredible, but it's really good. I will never look at a bottle of Captain Morgan Loco Nut the same way again.
 
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