Read anything decent lately /k/ucks?

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>>33714481

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>>33714481
Absolutely.

>>33714528
Good one. Love me some Flashy

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>>33714533
Very rarely do novels get me laughing out loud, but The Flashman Papers absolutely ravage me.

>>33714481
Stephen Ambrose's D-Day is bretty gud

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>>33714481
Also, the best memoir on WW1 combat I have ever read.

Really with Clancy had written sequels to Rainbow Six. It was a fun read.

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>in the process of reading Shattered Sword
>haven't opened it in weeks

I really should stop shitposting and watching series for at least a couple hours once in a while.

>>33714572
Yes, you should. Make an effort to read something with substance once a day, even if it's just a page. Your mind will thank you later in life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFtcLJVN8yg

>>33714528
>>33714539
>tfw will never be an adventurous European explorer meeting danger and adventure while romancing exotic women

>>33714481
naw I quit reading books when they invented the internet.

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>>33714589
feelsbadman

>>33714612
all i want is to conquer far of exotic lands with my european arms and to conquer dark skinned exotic beauties with my european penis, but alas it shall never be

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>>33714618
The only frontier left is space. Perhaps we can conquer blue-skinned exotic beauties instead.

>>33714629
>tfw a hostile spear, a new frontier
I'd do it

>>33714612
>This isn't my saddle.

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>>33714636
>Space Zulus

I can dig it.

>>33714649
but what to name ones ship? Spion Kop, Rorkes Drift, Cecil Rhodes?

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>>33714655
I'm partial to Culture naming techniques, so let's go with "Pish, to you!"

ITT the same books every thread. Probably because there are about a dozen /k/ommandos who know how to read.

The Turner Diaries is a pretty good book.

stephen ambrose is my nigga

>>33714481

I'm reading the Expanse novels right now.

Goddamn the battle between UN and Martian warships just out of the orbit of Jupiter was fucking cool, as was the battle at Io.

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>>33714629

I support this notion if we get pic related

A regiment of civil war soldiers are sent to another planet, they have to employ the help of Medieval Russians to defeat 10 foot tall man eating mongol aliens.

>>33715202
To add to that it is a logistics fans wet dream.

>>33715185
Have a question. Are missles the primary ship to ship weapons in the Expanse?

Finished Blindsight, not exactly super /k/ related but it's an autistic SciFi wet dream rolled into one.

>>33715338

Missiles are the main weapons, yeah.

Gauss cannons/ coilguns are close-range weapons (in spaceship terms) but onoy get mounted on full warships, and they use rotary cannons for point-defence.

>>33715428

>autistic SciFi wet dream

Tell me more

Anybody else here read On Combat? The bulk of the material is about the effects of combat stress on the human body and mind. It's pretty entertaining.

>>33715433
The less you know the better. Not OP but go read it. Easily in my top five favorites and I read quite a bit.

>>33715456

Yeah, I just looked up the wikipedia page and read the first paragraph (no plot spoilers, just an overall idea of what it is).

I've added it to my list to read. It sounds exactly my kind of thing. Thanks for the recommendation.

>>33714481
Holding their Own (series) was a good read and is still coming out with books. Pretty much US breaks down due to rising gas prices, economical hardship, general shit politics that gets exasperated by an incident outside a Hospital in Texas going bankrupt where the Oxygen/Natty Gas delivery guy who happens to be 2nd gen Afgani or Paki can't remember gets three locals during the resulting protest trying to attack him (believing him to be Mexican), driver draws gun to defend himself, Cop coming onto the scene see's the gun and fires at driver, igniting tanks/causing boom boom in middle of the protest. Iran then see's this as an opportunity to activate some of their cells to take advantage of the chaos and massive Anti-Latino movement (believed terror attack). More stuff happens and pretty much the US Splinters but without much direction and the story from here on follows main character and his Wife trying to survive/thrive out in Texas.

299 Days is another series that has since completed. Can't remember reasons behind the falling out but pretty much economy/other/whatever causes further and further instances of Government stepping up control (gas rationing, food rationing, etc) and follows a guy and a couple other side characters in Washington State. More of a "prepper/right vs left" series but still decent.

Pretty much anything by Thomas A. Watson is good.
Nicholas Sansbury Smith has some zombie ones, EMP ones, post-apoc.
Nick Webb is a really good future/Sci-Fi one.
William R. Forstchen for his "One Second After" EMP series.
Perseid Collapse Series by Steven Konkly is a good one.
Peter Meredith does two good zombie/plague series but I stopped following the main one due to loss of interest after like 8th book. Author is pretty good at keeping down with reality and not everyone has plot armor to keep them alive.

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>>33715497

The only zombie book I've ever really read was World War Z. I'm not really a big fan of zombies but that book is fantastic.

Shame the film was a bit shit.

>>33715517
A good portion of them the zombies end up just being a backdrop and most is bare surviving/putting things together/dealing with other humans. Peter Merediths has a lot of slave trade and bartering elements where fuel, food and ammunition are the new currencies. I like a lot of them as it gives so many different perspectives/idea about the various situations. Some of the books have sheer overwhelming firepower to deal with zombies, others bring back phalanx style warfare with halberds and shield walls.

One series and I would have to dig back to find it's title has the outbreak contained fairly quickly in the US and a Giant fuck huge wall with automated turrets surrounding the quarantine zone. The series has a lot of homages to "stalker" as guys will sneak into the zone and recover items for people willing to pay.

Holding Their Own had probably one of my favorite moments in reading a book with a declaration by the US to the UN after an incident I won't spoil that other nations tried to take advantage of the US via vote.

“Members of this body, with the full authority of my government, I hereby declare the withdrawal of the United States of America from this organization. My nation will no longer be a member of the United Nations. Furthermore, please consider this official notice that all non-American citizens have 10 days to leave our country. This very building will be occupied by the New York City Police Department after that time, and anyone remaining will be arrested and deported. My nation has had enough of the parasitic governments represented by this body. In addition, I would like to take this opportunity to announce our withdrawal from NATO. All American military units will be recalled immediately. Our naval carrier battle groups and all associated support operations are being ordered home as well. All air wings of the United States Air Force are being recalled from foreign lands. God help all of you – you are on your own.”

>>33715497
Have you read the lost regiment my man?

>>33714549
I read this after All Quiet on the Western Front and the different perspectives are really interesting. I still believe that Remarque is closer to the general feeling of most of the enlisted troops and in general (war is shit), since even gung-ho to the max Jünger has enoughof war near the end and just wants it to stop

>>33715178
The beginning was pretty interesting, but the end is just plain shit

>>33715497
The Survivalist series by A. American is also pretty great

>>33715541
It's on my radar but im finishing other series right now as some new books recently came out.

>>33715545
Same for Survivalist series. I actually have couple of them downloaded already but just haven't started them yet.

Currently reading newest Z-Risen book and had just previously finished the Necrsospace Series by Sean Micheal-Argo

>>33715551
You'll enjoy it senpai.

pic related is the most recent one
Pretty good short memoir about a tank commander in the Halbe Kessel and the breakout to reach the americans during the last days of the war in Berlin
I think it was written in the 40's by the guy but only published after his death so theres not really any of the 'but the Wehrmacht didndu anything' shite. It was more just 'this is what happened'
Also read 'Lost Honour, Betrayed Loyalty' by Herbert Maeger. Pretty decent story

Next on the list are
>Sniper on the Eastern Front
>Callsign Hades
>Seige of Jadotville

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>>33715697
Being the gobshite that I am I forgot the picture

>>33714572
Read just before you sleep for a half hour, really makes the difference

>>33715697
>>33715702
http://weaponsman.com/?p=22319

Sniper on the Eastern Front also seems to be heavily ghost written/embellished, at least most non-Wehraboo reviewers seemed to think so when I was thinking about buying the German edition

>>33715178
No it's not, it's just a right wing conspirational wankathon.

>>33715726
Having read it I don't think it was all that embellished, the only thing that really seems to have been changed heavily is a good bit of whitewashing of heer atrocities, apart from that its a pretty good read and generally believable, everything he says in it about sniping and fighting gels with what others of the same period wrote about it

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>>33714481
If you're into strategy, fighter jets, or both this is a good book. A lot of good lessons for life in general thrown in as well

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>>33714481
Finally got around to reading this, very good read, the author has seen some shit

>>33714528
>>33714481

OK

I'm rereading both of these right now

What the fuck is going on?

>>33715193
>tfw want a space frontier with both vietnam and 40k and western aesthetics

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>>33717898
also is destroyermen /k/ enough?

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>>33717942
I personally enjoy the series.

I was three or four books in when I realized the others were pretty much real life furries. As long as he doesn't write in a bunch of interspeciesed buttfucking I can happily ignore it.

recently bought:
>a hero of our time
>crime and punishment
>beyond good and evil
>paradise lost
no idea where to start

>>33714481
Powder Mage series.

I demand that everybody on k reads "on killing." It's about killing. Learns you a lot about war and psychology. That's the book I'm most glad I've read.

>>33714612
My new steam pic.

>>33714481
"The tragedy at valcartier"

>>33715445
Dave Grossman? I read "On Killing", but was unable to find "On Combat" yet.

>>33715456
I have three different books coming up with the same name on audible. Watts is the correct author?

>>33714564

English, senpai.

>>33718687
Yes
His stuff is free to read on his site too

>>33715497

Joe nobody is good. I have 3 of his books: Self-taught shootist, without rule of law, and holding your ground

>>33715517

It's like when they were thinking of making WWZ the movie, they read the book, then completely ignored it.
Fucking frustrating

About halfway through Blood Red Snow. Should be able to finish it on my flight home.

Almost done with We Were Soldiers Once, and Young. I'll finish that in the coming week. The madness at LZ Albany sounds horrific.

I have a handful of books at home I haven't read yet. Probably gonna go with either Level Zero Heroes or Rattler 17.

>>33718760

>tfw a fan makes a better WWZ thing than the multi million dollar film

https://m.fanfiction.net/s/6115555/1/The-Way-Is-Shut

Yeah yeah different mediums but still, I'd pay good money to see this put on film instead of the shit we got. It's a fan-made chapter about a guy who goes into best korea, it' s fucking brilliant.

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how /k/ approved is library work? I just had a coworker order these new since I didn't think we had enough material on warships.

>>33719185

I'd love to work in a library.

I helped out in my school library when I was in high school, and got to have a big say in what stuff we got in and got first picl of the new books. It was great.

I asked for the stuff like the Halo books and they were by far the most popular books there.

I wish I could do library stuff again.

>>33718527
Eh, the fact that it repeats the "soldiers miss shots due to psychology" myth really diminishes it IMO.

>>33718050
>a hero of our time

Hope you read the Nabokov translation.

>>33715178
It's pretty crap, but I was amused I was able to correctly identify the author as a navy man by his fixation on attacking ports.

>>33714481
" One Day in August" by David O'Keefe

Just about to start reading Armor by Steakley. Love me some science fi/k/tion

I just started "The Winchester" by Laura Trevelyan. It's basically a biography about the family and their business and it seems good so far. I read "Glock" by Paul Barret and loved it. For you anons that like more constitutional stuff "The Second Amendment Primer" is an amazing compilation about the origins of the second amendment, it's use and context in colonial times, and some contemporary stuff about it. "The War on Guns" by John Lott was pretty enjoyable for me, but that's basically a lot of statistics about gun control. "Control" by Glenn Beck was the same way; I thought it was pretty good as well.

Haven't read it recently but since I never see it mentioned in this thread...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altered_Carbon

>>33721411
The Takeshi Kovacs novels are fucking great.

Really everything Richard Morgan has written has been excellent.

Fiction Wise? Red Army, Team Yankee, Chieftains, and Red Storm Rising.

Anyone know any other good cold war gone hot books?

Finished reading "Helmet for my Pillow, it was a bit dry at first but you learn to appreciate Robert Leckies verbosity and to see the military experience don't ever really change

>>33720652
And on this day I did look upon ye;
And did I not speak, "Lo-
This man shall be my nigger"

>>33715178

No it isn't. It reads like it was written by an autistic seventh grader, especially that whack sex scene.

>>33714481
Does Arma 3 Apex count?

>>33715929
Most of what other countries said about sniping was also largely propagandized. Even Simo Hayha was propagandized to hell and back, his kills are simply not falsifiable. Sniping is a psychological attack.

Johnny Got His Gun is pretty good. It's about The Great War so that's fairly /k/. Definitely one of my top 5 favs. Rainbow Six is also a pretty damn good book.