Mike Tauss
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Hunter Ripley Rawlings:
What are some of your own favorite authors and/or book series?
Hunter Ripley Rawlings
Geez, this is really hard to answer.
I kind of have favorites categorized by 'epoch,' and 'genre.' Yes... I read a lot and I read WIDELY! So I have favorites in military non-fiction, modern thriller, classic lit, classical mythology (Chinese, Greek, Roman, Norse, etc), so that's a broad question for me. Right now: I'm re-reading the "Diary of Anne Frank," her hopefulness and the real-world tragedies are valuable inspirations to me; the Sharpes series by Bernard Cornwell, his action is just right - not too intense, not too cheesy and he lends a remarkable literary twist to his books; Red Platoon by Clinton Romesha; the Military Technical Manual for the Barrett M82A1 (for research); Jefferson Bates "Writing with Precision," which is like a modern version of Strunk and White (my go to for all things grammar); "Into the Rising Sun" by Pat O'Donnell; "Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (I was supposed to finish it for a book club I'm in and never did... I know, I know...); "The First Directorate" by Oleg Kalugin; "The Six Secret Teachings by Lü Shang (alias for Jiang Ziya) as research for Red Metal #2; and Mark Greaney's newest book "One Minute Out." Ask me in a month and it'll probably be a whole different list with a whole other flavor. Thanks for reading!!
I kind of have favorites categorized by 'epoch,' and 'genre.' Yes... I read a lot and I read WIDELY! So I have favorites in military non-fiction, modern thriller, classic lit, classical mythology (Chinese, Greek, Roman, Norse, etc), so that's a broad question for me. Right now: I'm re-reading the "Diary of Anne Frank," her hopefulness and the real-world tragedies are valuable inspirations to me; the Sharpes series by Bernard Cornwell, his action is just right - not too intense, not too cheesy and he lends a remarkable literary twist to his books; Red Platoon by Clinton Romesha; the Military Technical Manual for the Barrett M82A1 (for research); Jefferson Bates "Writing with Precision," which is like a modern version of Strunk and White (my go to for all things grammar); "Into the Rising Sun" by Pat O'Donnell; "Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (I was supposed to finish it for a book club I'm in and never did... I know, I know...); "The First Directorate" by Oleg Kalugin; "The Six Secret Teachings by Lü Shang (alias for Jiang Ziya) as research for Red Metal #2; and Mark Greaney's newest book "One Minute Out." Ask me in a month and it'll probably be a whole different list with a whole other flavor. Thanks for reading!!
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carl clause
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Are you going to get together with Mark and write follow-up to Red Metal dealing with China? Carl Clause
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