Books? Does Anyone Read as much as I do?

Richard Marchinko

• Rogue Warrior (1992)
• Leadership Secrets of the Rogue Warrior: A Commando's Guide to Success (1997)
• The Rogue Warriors Strategy for Success (1998)
• The Real Team (1999) (with John Weisman)

• Red Cell (1994)
• Green Team (1995)
• Task Force Blue (1996)
• Designation Gold (1997)
• Seal Force Alpha (1998)
• Option Delta (1999)
• Echo Platoon (2000)
• Detachment Bravo (2001)
• Violence of Action (2003)
• Vengeance (2005)
• Holy Terror (2006)
• Dictator's Ransom (2008)
• Seize the Day (2009)
• Domino Theory (2011)

Tom Clancy

The Hunt for Red October (1984)
Red Storm Rising (1986)
Patriot Games (1987)
The Cardinal of the Kremlin (1988)
Clear and Present Danger (1989)
The Sum of All Fears (1991)
Without Remorse (1993)
Debt of Honor (1994)
Executive Orders (1996)
SSN: Strategies for Submarine Warfare (1996)
Rainbow Six (1998)
The Bear and the Dragon (2000)
Red Rabbit (2002)
The Teeth of the Tiger (2003)
Dead or Alive (2010)
Against All Enemies (2011)
Locked On (Dec 2011)

...and on the agenda....

Search and Destroy (June 2012)

Plus numerous books and manuals on every firearm I own, and some I don't own yet.

I also enjoy the works of Kurt Vonnegut jr...

• Player Piano:
• The Sirens of Titan:
• Mother Night:
• Cat's Cradle:
• God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater:
• Slaughterhouse-Five:
• Welcome to the Monkey House:
• Happy Birthday, Wanda June:
• Breakfast of Champions:
• Slapstick:
• Jailbird:
• Palm Sunday:

Kurt Vonnegut's experience as a soldier and prisoner of war had a profound influence on his later work. As a private with the 423rd Infantry Regiment, 106th Infantry Division, Vonnegut was captured during the Battle of the Bulge on December 19, 1944, after the 106th was cut off from the rest of Courtney Hodges's First Army. "The other American divisions on our flanks managed to pull out: We were obliged to stay and fight. Bayonets aren't much good against tanks..." Imprisoned in Dresden, Vonnegut was chosen as a leader of the POWs because he spoke some German. After telling the German guards "...just what I was going to do to them when the Russians came..." he was beaten and had his position as leader taken away. While a prisoner, he witnessed the fire bombing of Dresden in February 1945 which destroyed most of the city.

Vonnegut was one of a group of American prisoners of war to survive the attack in an underground slaughterhouse meat locker used by the Germans as an ad hoc detention facility. The Germans called the building Schlachthof Fünf (Slaughterhouse Five) which the Allied POWs adopted as the name for their prison. Vonnegut said the aftermath of the attack was "utter destruction" and "carnage unfathomable." This experience was the inspiration for his famous novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, and is a central theme in at least six of his other books. In Slaughterhouse-Five he recalls that the remains of the city resembled the surface of the moon, and that the Germans put the surviving POWs to work, breaking into basements and bomb shelters to gather bodies for mass burial, while German civilians cursed and threw rocks at them. Vonnegut eventually remarked, "There were too many corpses to bury. So instead the Germans sent in troops with flamethrowers. All these civilians' remains were burned to ashes."

some of my favorite authors are:

James Lee Burke, writes alot of fictional about southern Lousiana. very detailed writer.

Stephen Hunter, also very good.

Clive Cussler, one of my all time favorites, have been reading his books since high school.

John Sandford, started reading his books about five years ago.

Tom Clancy, have read many of his books over the years. very detailed writer.

Lee Child, very good writer and tells a good story. his continuing character, Jack Reacher series is awesome.

C. J. Box, doesn't have a lot of books out yet, but all i have read so far are very good.

i will try out new authors all the time, and buy a lot of books used off Ebay. usually if i can't be captured by the first few chapters, i don't even waste time. i also read a lot of non-fiction books as well.