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Another pretty gud Tom book, A WW3 without nukes, there's a vidya about it now, called cold waters. It's a sub simulator(?)

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>tom clancy

would be silly to expect some good taste from /k/ i guess

>>34679191
What would you suggest then dickweed?

Does anyone seek the dark tower?

>>34679111
A Frozen Hell is superb

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>>34679281
I never finished it, I bought it on Kindle but Kindle gives me a huge headache when I read so I sold it. I want to pick it up again though but physically, I really enjoyed the 60% I had finished. I bought a couple other Winter War books on the Kindle but obviously don't have them either anymore

>>34679226
the waves by virginia woolf

>>34679191
Have you read Without Remorse?

>>34679342
i don't recall, nowadays the only genre fiction that i read it's detectives. i have read or watched some work of his though

>>34679365
>>34679191
>Hahaha Tom Clancy so bad XD
>Oh, iunno if I really read some of his best or nuttin, also I love "detectives"
I don't think you can fathom how useless your opinion is.

>>34679342
Not that Anon, but Without Remorse was a load of power fantasy wank, even by Clancy standards.

People are going to hate me for recommending these, but I dont care, they are really fun to read.

>American Sniper
>No Easy Day
>Black Hawk Down
>Guardian Angel

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>>34680348
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are good as well

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Here, read this. It's like Tom Clancy, except it doesn't suck ass

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This is pretty good. Haunting I would say.

>>34680388
>It's Red Storm Rising, except the Soviets have plot armor out the wazoo and there's not nearly as much attention devoted to tactics or equipment
Red Army is good, but come on dude.

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Just a heads up for anyone who hasn't read it already, but this is free on Amazon and I really like it

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this was the best war history i ever read

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ah nu cheeki breeki iv damke

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>>34679281
Can confirm.

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If anyone wants some easier reading/steampunk novels then check out the Leviathan series. It's not "/k/" as such but it seems to be loved by many on this board. The whole trilogy is available free online less than legally as a .ePub. Great artwork too.

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a decent enough read on ww2

>>34679331
Yeah I'm almost done with it on my kobo mini, and I definitely want to get it physically

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>>34681016
THEY'VE TAKEN BUENOS ARES

>>34680436
My local book shop has it for $6, worth the pickup?

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>>34679393
if you smelled a piece of shit you shouldn't taste it to realize what it is

btw detective fiction is the noblest kind of genre fiction. the most stuff that i read is not genre fiction of any kind though

>>34680383
they are much better than what he listed, like by grades

>>34680758
"colonialism is bad. like really really bad" (c)
pic related :3

>>34680911
>When the light chariots come out first and take up a position on the wings, it is a sign that the enemy is forming for battle.

reminds me useful pieces of advice by hesiod:

>Do not stand upright facing the sun when you make water, but remember to do this when he has set towards his rising. And do not make water as you go, whether on the road or off the road, and do not uncover yourself: the nights belong to the blessed gods. A scrupulous man who has a wise heart sits down or goes to the wall of an enclosed court.

except at least we all are "making water" every day unlike dealing with "light chariots". also note how he supported sitting urination by men, the modern feminists would love him

>>34679191
>clancy
>all bad
Hunt for Red October is goof but his writing quality is negatively proportional to time. That's why he died, he was about to flip around to impossibly good like Gandhi in Civ 1.


>ctrl+f Forsyth
>0 results
How does nobody have any fucking taste?

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>>34679111
Sento Yosei Yukikaze, and the sequel, Good Luck Yukikaze. Very cool scifi novels about super hightech fighter aircraft being used against an incomprehensible alien machine species.

>>34681147
iirc i got bored to death reading 3/4 of the book of preparations that included buying some silly shares, flashlights etc stuff

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>>34679111
A great book, very informative.

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>>34681192
>Sento Yosei Yukikaze
>a modern classic

>>34681224
Hey, the shares trick was brilliant. Why have your company buy the mountain of platinum when you can buy the mountain of platinum under a front you bought for cheap and sell that company to your own company at "has a mountain of platinum" price to get paid extra?

>>34679150
i preferred team yankee, but i'm mostly into tanks and shit

>>34679191
This
So pathetic, especially when I see these faggots complain about anime

>>34681331
my head is spinning now, thank you

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>>34679111
A song of ice and fire. Also Remember, Daenerys is the hero

>>34681291
What's wrong?

>>34681513
well if you like books to heard something like that some jap young adult fiction is "a modern classic" it's like for the most of /k/ to imagine an enlisted tranny helicopter pilot in a women's bathroom

>>34681534
hey doc, try speaking english.

>>34681011
yes, i thought so too.
he got a few things wrong, but believable nevertheless.
finished a month or so ago, so on to a different war in a different time.

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>>34679111
are you the /klit/ commander?

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>>34681534
>well if you like books to heard something like that some jap young adult fiction is "a modern classic" it's like for the most of /k/ to imagine an enlisted tranny helicopter pilot in a women's bathroom
What did he mean by this?

>>34681542
>>34681553
grr

if you like books

then

to hear that something like that jap crap is "a modern classic"

it's as disgusting as for the most of /k/ to imagine an enlisted tranny helicopter pilot in a women's bathroom

except it was written more compactly

>>34681576
David Drake loved it. Its also won the Jap equivalent of the Hugo awards.
I think I'll trust the word of the writer of Hammer's Slammers over some dude who can't even form a coherent sentence in English.

>>34681576
grrrr
I see you are a fine man that likes books, specially "modern classics".
Could you recommend me some of those "modern classic" please? It really disgust me when someone misstags a filthy jap shonen as a classic as well, what a pleb.

>>34681534
Not him, but I do feel Yukikaze is a classic by now, a modern one but still, although I probably do not like books enough it seems.
What I am trying to say is that you are a pretentious nitpicking faggot.

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>>34679111

>>34681592

>sci-fi awards

implying i have a high opinion even of the original hugo award the more so of its japanese clone

you know that they gave the 2010 nebula award to a my little pony fanfic and it also was nominated for hugo?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponies_(short_story)

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its a good, personal feeling account, i liked it

>>34681604
You are implying I have a high opinion of your opinion.

>>34681485
>buy shares in front company using swiss bank
>coup nation
>have nation sell platinum mountain mining rights to front company for cheap
>reveal platinum in mountain, driving up share price of front company
>have real company buy shares of front company to take over the mining rights because they can actually get the platinum out of the ground
>collect yuge profits from sale of front company from your swiss banker
>collect more dosh from platinum sales by main company

It's not complicated.

>>34679111
Depends on what you want out of the books
>The Black Rifle: M16 Retrospective
If you're interested in the development of the M16 and its derivatives through 1987 this is good, but be prepared for wonky formatting until you get used to it. Each page is split into two columns and there are block quotes of text that are split among the two columns. You'll eventually figure it out after the words don't match up a few times.
>The U.S. Marines Corps in World War II by Steve Crawford
It's a picture book with detail paragraphs. Nice and easy to read, good to have on a coffee table.
>Red Platoon by Clinton Romesha
Enjoyable read, gives you the on-the-ground perspective not the big picture, something the book emphasizes.
>TM 31-210 Improvised Munitions Handbook
Interesting, but not particularly useful as I have little to apply it to and sources of nitrates are much more heavily controlled nowadays.
>>34681501
There are no heroes in ASOIAF, fuckwad.

Anyone have a recommendation for non fiction books about the American-Indian wars?

>>34681607
Just got a copy of this. If you go for one, do some research on the editions, you want a reprint of the like 1926 version. After that version they edit out alot of the pro-German stuff, if you want the true picture find a reprint of the early edition. Will likely cost $30 used

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>>34681679
>There are no heroes in ASOIAF, fuckwad.
The fuck you say bitch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany_and_the_Second_World_War
Pinnacle of German autism with a fucking ridiculous level of detail, shame I can't find all the volumes on libgen

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My grandpa who was Panzergrenadier in Bundeswehr had this laying in around in the attic, even though i've never served, i think its a very realistic description. Great read.

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>>34681594
meow me nicely if you want an answer

>>34681599
apparently
i know it can be hard on you to realize that a piece of japanese young adult fiction doesn't worth much as literature

>>34681838
Ironic.

>>34679111
The bear and the Dragon is pretty good. Basically China decided to invade Russia after a huge gold deposit is found there and NATO allows Russia to join so they can kick China's ass together. Had a vasily zaytsev type old hermit out in the Urals that originally discovered the gold strike near his shack in the woods, he dusts off his mosin and helps repel the invasion.

>>34681838
>Disregarding a work by it's genre
It's ok anon.

>>34681864
if you mean the anime pics, i like that way of stylization, i dislike anime plots etc so i don't watch (and mostly despice) it. i also generally dont like watching, so i dont watch movies just as well. it doesn't prevent me from liking the ani e art style

>>34681872
having a genre is already a problem

>>34681903
Oh don't worry, that wasn't it.
That said your reply already tells all I need to know.

>>34681907
It's ok anon.

>>34681679
"Bury my heart at wounded knee" is pretty good at getting the Native American viewpoints over.

>>34681969
took an arrow to the kne

>>34679150
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>>34681867

This. The key thing to remember is to stick to the Clancy novels before he started "co-writing" them. I don't know what the fuck happened with them, but I get the distinct impression the "co-writer" basically did all the work and Clancy gave them the plot and told them to flesh it out. They completely change in tone/prose everything to the point it's not even clancy, and might as well be a crazy-man's Dan Brown military fiction novel.

I think the chron goes like:

Without Remorse (Focuses on Jon Clark, the crazy cia hit man and his origins, not much on the military, it really is a detective novel)

Patriot Games - Good IRA shenanigans.

Hunt for Red October - Hope you have a sub boner

Kardinal of the Kremlin - Probably one of his best, lots of cold-war spy shenanigans.

Clear and Present Danger - Slottin' druggies in colombia lots more Jon Clark here.

Sum of All Fears - Nukes, Evil Injuns, and Angry Palestinians and East Germans oh my! Probably the last of his cold-warish stuff. Still good.

Debt of Honor - Lots of business/economic warfare and spy stuff in japan, kind of an interesting take on if we got pissy with Japan again.

Executive Orders - This is probably the most political/terrorist focused outside of Rainbow 6, not much grand warfare until the very end and then you get desert storm 2 electric boogaloo.

Rainbow 6 - Evil Hippies trying to wipe us all out. Lots of technobabble. Kind of a boring read.

Bear and the Dragon - Awesome Russian/China/US spy and conventional warfare. Gives a holler back to his cold-war stuff again. Pretty much stop here if you want his original stuff.

>>34681727
Nobody read this, eh?

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Should be mandatory reading for all wehraboos and /pol/acks.
t. Freeaboo

>>34682057
>wehraboos
>/pol/acks
>being able to read that past the first ten pages
Anon, I...

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>>34679111
I recently started re-reading SSN by Tom Clancy, awesome book

>>34682374
This. Might be anti-war but the depiction is great.

I recommend the '' Guns of the South''. Amusing and detailed, was a nice read. I then tried the North vs South 2 electric boogaloo and it was a bit nice I guess? It' s basically ww2 in another place though, there's not much else but I liked it, characters were good and the story flowed nicely.

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>>34681838
Fucking stop.

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>>34680436
I have this one, but haven't read it yet

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if you haven't read this you don't know what the WW1 really was

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It's a stealth B-52.

I read a bunch of his earlier stuff, up until the early 200s. Some of it gets pretty stupid like bombing a chinese aircraft carrier with glue to gum up the ramp and radars, but the majority is pretty fun when it doesn't focus on the politics.

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I am surprised nobody ahs mentioned this mans magnum opus.

>>34682918
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>>34682394
his civil war 2 & 3 books were fucking dreadful.

I say that as a guy who actually bought the print versions as they came out.