Awesome! Stoked you liked it. I really enjoyed the way the story would go back and forth between the foot soldiers on the ground and the pilots. A lifelong buddy of mines dad was one of those Marines on the ground freezing his ass off fighting the "white coats". Mr Witt, who was my little league coach, earned a Silver Star and a Purple Heart for taking out an enemy machine gun placement that had his unit dialed in and pinned down. Pretty much single handedly saved their bacon. Decided, you guys hang here I'm gonna go sneak up on them and take em out. Bravado or survival instinct? Kinder most humble man I have ever met...I am going to check out Pathfinder.

Something that I've already read, but occasionally revisit...

Reprieve From Hell
by Samuel B. Moody


Sam Moody has recorded in faithful detail the harrowing account of his experiences
as a Prisoner of War of the Japanese Government from the surrender of Bataan until
the Japanese surrender in 1945


Kind of had a personal interest for me ...
... Sam Moody and my father were POW's and
were both survivors of the Bataan Death March.
Very late in my life my father talked of his POW days, but not
near in depth as the book. I also got to meet and speak with Sam Moody.


Very well written and with pictures.
I have two copies...one signed by Sam Moody.







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Puerto Rico 11 - 24 - 2013

Just finishing up 'In search of Captain Zero' and looking for recommendations for something new to break up the monotony of GIS for environmental management books.

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Specializing in sarcasm and condescending rhetoric since 1971.

Just ordered Quota by Jock Serong.  He's a formidable middle-aged lawyer, surfer, and now writer from Victoria, Australia.  

Cat Wars.  

I have some Randy Wayne White books if you, or anyone on here wants to take a look let me know, Mangrove Coast, Captiva, Everglades. Also have Carl Hiaasen, Nature Girl & Tim Dorsey, Florida Roadkill. They are fiction books, based on Florida locations. They're just collecting dust over here so let me know.

I'm all caught up on Carl's books. I've read the first 10 books from Tim Dorsey's Serge Storm series and they're ok, but I just don't get into it as much as Hiassan books. Somebody else recommended Randy Wayne White, never read him, but think I'll give it a shot. thanks.

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Specializing in sarcasm and condescending rhetoric since 1971.

Fire and Fury - a couple of tidbits but overall not a good read.

Big Bass Magic - Doug Hannon, outstanding.

John D. Macdonald’s Travis Magee series is pretty good; the main character lives on a houseboat in SE FL.  There were 21 written from ‘66-‘85.

Guns germs and steel.

It changed my entire perspective about how and why Europeans seemed to be more advanced. Truly enlightening.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

If you liked Captain Zero, you'd probably enjoy Cosmic Banditos. I did!

I went ahead and ordered it on Amazon. For some reason neither of the those books are available for my Kendall.

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Specializing in sarcasm and condescending rhetoric since 1971.

I read that a while ago, great read. The follow up 'collapse' is pretty interesting too; kind of prophetic in a sense.

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Specializing in sarcasm and condescending rhetoric since 1971.

The Saxon Stories, Bernard Cornwell. Ten novels and supposedly another coming. Screened as two seasons of The Last Kingdom; check your Netflix.

Bernard Cornwell, one of my favorites.

I'm reading the original printings of Sherlock Holmes. I'm not sure why it's taken forty years to get to them; great stuff.

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I was right.

Cole did you ever read that book I recommended, Tales of Hooker and her Madame?

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Specializing in sarcasm and condescending rhetoric since 1971.

Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage


I can't put it down, the story is fast moving, historically fascinating, and very "American".

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“It is the heart of US policy to use fascism to preserve capitalism while claiming to be saving democracy from communism “ - Michael Parenti

I just pulled out Tom Robbins - " Still Life With Woodpecker" for a reread

IMO, Robbins is one of the greatest wordsmiths of the 20th century

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"Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do." - Bertrand Russell


"Morality is doing what is right, regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, regardless of what is right.


If I do not answer you .... nothing personal, I just have you on ignore.

Just completed a quick trip to Europe - only thing worthwhile of two days of Delta was some reading time.  Completed:

The Last Fighter Pilot - The True Story of the Final Combat Mission of WWII - Don Brown with Captain Jerry Yellin.  Yellin recently passed, reading about what the greatest generation did for us during WWII makes my couch potato life seem very pathetic.

Also read 

Barbarian Days A Surfing Life - William Finnegan.  Some of the best description of wave riding I have read.

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Even a blind hog finds an occasional acorn

Just arrived,
"Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past" by David Reich.  Looks like a bit of a slog.  Interesting and informed, but sloggy.

For biology, on a January trip I read Neil Shubin's "Your Inner Fish: A journey into the 3.5 billion-year history of the human body."  It's a delight.  

Just arrived,
"Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past" by David Reich.  Looks like a bit of a slog.  Interesting and informed, but sloggy.

For biology, on a January trip I read Neil Shubin's "Your Inner Fish: A journey into the 3.5 billion-year history of the human body."  It's a delight.