Recommended Books?

[Maddog]

Intensity by Dean Koontz

Levi's Will by W. Dale Cramer

The Patient by Michael Palmer

I really liked Intensity. Probably one of my favorites from all time. It was hard to put down and had my pulse racing at times.

 

[SDMF]

[h=1]Diary of an Airborne Ranger: A LRRP's Year in the Combat Zone by Frank Johnson.[/h]
Excuse the large type above, it's a cut and paste so I didn't get it wrong.

 

[Davy Crockett]

The Ultimate Evil, a book about the Son of Sam killer in NYC, and the ties to Minot and Bismarck, and the devil worshipers in the late seventies. A few of you might remember all the weird shit that went on in Hillside park and St. Mary's cemetery, and Mary College back then

I've read it, That was some weird shit indeed.

 

[Bed Wetter]

Anything on Jocko’s reading list. Love his book review podcasts.

http://jockopodcast.com/jocko-podcast-books/

 

[Brian Renville]

Also The Operator by Rob O'Neil is good stuff.

 

[mikef]

In harms way- indianapolis story
Pursuit of liberty-federalist paper story
Thomas jefferson and the tripoli pirates
Atlas Shrugged

 

[wjschmaltz]

Coyote America by Dan Flores has some inconvenient truths that every hunter/rancher/trapper really needs to learn about. To sum it up, if you want more coyotes, kill more coyotes.

Other hunting/wildlife
American Serengeti - Mr. Flores.
Beast The Color Winter - Douglas Chadwick
Anything by Tony Russ on Dall Sheep
Make Prayers to the Raven - Richard Nelson
Arctic Dreams - Barry Lopez
The Land of Feast and Famine - Helge Ingstad
Bloodties - Ted Kerasote
The Mindful Carnivore - Tovar Cerulli
Alaska's Wolf Man - Jim Reardon (if you only read one make it this! its a big dish a humble pie reading about a real man)
Meat Eater and American Buffalo - Rinella

Hillbilly Elegy - J.D. Vance (should be required school reading! basically explains why Trump was elected)
12 Rules For Life - Jordan Peterson
Maps of Meaning - Jordan Peterson
Extreme Ownership - Jocko
Everyday Millionaires - Chris Hogan
All the Dave Ramsey Stuff
Meg Meeker stuff if you are a parent or influential in a child's life

 

[honkerslayer]

Into the silence: Mallory, the Great War, and the conquest of Everest. Great read.

 

[Tillerman2095]

Anything written by Gary Paulsen are good reads. Hatchet and the sequal Brians Winter are my two favorites. Harris and Me will make you role its one of the funniest books ever. The Rifle, The Voyage of The Frog, & I could keep going on with Gary's books they are all great reads.

 

[MSA]

I second the "thank you for your service" and "the good soldiers", I couldn't put them down...

next book is https://www.amazon.com/dp/0345816021/?tag=nodakangler10-20

Awesome, did you see the movie yet?

 

[CAH]

The river of doubt by Candice Millard is an excellent read!

 

[shorthairman]

If your into fiction CJ Box is the author of a bunch of books where the main character is a Fish and Wildlife Officer. In all of them that I have read there is a mysterious murder/s that he has to unravel.

 

[Rowdie]

I read that one too, then learned that much was omitted/altered/fabricated. I still recommend reading it, but follow up with “Nicholas Black Elk” which is a better and more accurate portrayal that clarifies a number of things from “Black Elk Speaks.”

“Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintanance” is pretty fantastic and is local. 1950’s autobiographical novel about existential philosophy, schizophrenia, and a road trip across MN/ND/SD/MT/WA/CA. All topics of discussion revolve around a theme of Motorcycle maintainable. It’s as crazy and awesome as it sounds.

“Ordinary Men” By Christopher Browning, I think. Addresses the question of how ordinary dudes carry out genocide. Lots of WWII historical stuff.

“Extreme Ownership” by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin. Absolutely fantastic book on leadership principles in life and business, with anecdotal combat examples from a couple Navy Seal commanders. Also, Jocko podcast is best podcast. Period.

I just finished the chapter where different elders, who were just boys at the time, described their personal story of what they went through during the battle of Greasy Grass (Little Big Horn). Very interesting! I'm disappointed to hear of any fabrication. But the author was a poet, and Black Elk couldn't speak English. During the forward I knew there would be some poetry added to the translation. But in the book there are footnotes to other books about relating to the events, and they seem to line up chronilogically as far as I know. Where did you hear of any fabrication, as I would like to fact check it and bring it up in class.....do I dare lol. Maybe I have yet to get to those parts.

The Author's daughter transcribed the conversations, and in the forward I read they are still available somewhere. Sure wish they could have recorded them, and let others translate.

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[FONT=&quot]" Unfortunately, Neihardt is translating from information that is three times removed from the source. In effect, he is translating Enid’s translation of Ben’s translation of Black Elk’s vision. "

I think this is the biggest problem. I still recommend it, I mean these guys were actually in the Battle of the Little Big Horn.[/FONT]

 

[Davy Crockett]

For anyone that is into the brutal truth of inventing/manufacturing with humor and a little fiction and a lot of luck, Both good and bad "I am not a team player" by James Page is a fun book. Jim is a hillbilly friend of mine that cultured my mind and proved to me that big things can come from small places.

 

[JayKay]

I’ve been reading the killing series books by o’reilly and Martin Dugard. Read killing Lincoln, killing Kennedy, killing Reagan, and now I’m reading killing Patton. I like history stuff like that.

Yeah? I've looked at them many times, but have never bought one yet. I like history and a bit of fiction mixed in.

The book New York, by Edward Rutherford is a fictional account of the rise of that city, from the fur-trapper days up through 9/11. It has enough real mixed in, to make it very very interesting. I visited Manhattan for the first time in my life this past December, and I had a pretty good idea where certain things were, just from that book. Highly recommend it.

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I like to read books about true events also, and my reading interests mostly center around Native American and Sports stuff. My wife is a high school librarian so I have access, plus by law she is required to order X amount of new books per year and if student requests don't meet her quota then I usually come up with a list. I have read all of these and would recommend them if they are topics anyone is interested in.

Empire of the Summer Moon- S. C. Gwynne
The Lakota Way- Joseph M. Marshall II, just two chapters in, but is a good read centered around humility, respect, honor, love, bravery, etc
The Journey of Crazy Horse- Joseph M. Marshall III
I Am a Man- Joe Starita
Geronimo Leadership Strategies of an American Warrior- Mike Leach (WSU football coach) and Buddy Levy
The White Indian Boy- Elijah Nicholas Wilson (the exact book my wife got was The White Indian Boy and Return of the White Indian Boy, I think this may be two books in one not sure...but great read and a lot of historical information about Jackson/Wilson area of WY)
The Gauntlet Runner- S. Thomas Bailey (Historical Fiction based on French and Indian War)
How Lucky You Can Be- Buster Olney
Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court- John Wooden
The Animal Keepers- Donn Behnke

I will also second Rowdie's Black Elk Speaks as I have read that as well.

I read Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy because in one of the other books I read they recommended it...I HATED it...can't believe I finished it, but I was hoping the one guy would die a terrible death in the end so maybe that is why I kept reading...

Meelosh...having the wife order The Tiger tomorrow!

I can't read Cormac McCarthy. The Road was terrible. No Country for Old Men would have been just as bad, had I not seen the movie. Extremely hard to follow, for me.

 

[Glass]

Any book by CJ box
last of the ivory hunters
wildlife wars
black elk speaks
dirt
tuesdays with Maury
any of the classics

 

[Nmariner]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0195627628/?tag=nodakangler10-20

This man hunted maneating tigers and leopards in India around 1900. Crazy guy sitting with his back to a tree hoping a maneater returns to its kill relying on moonlight to see/shoot by.

 

[guywhofishes]

I listened to Crime and Punishment (audiobook) recently.

I felt a strange loathing and creepy feeling for weeks after... as if I had murdered someone in a previous life or some such.

Therefore I have decided books are the devil and NDA is all I will read from now on.

 

[bowhunter12]

This is a good one

 

[WormWiggler]

Awesome, did you see the movie yet?

No, I have not seen it on netflix which seems to be my only movie source at the time, any hints at where to find it?