tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post1125119021197347058..comments2023-11-10T04:17:00.492-05:00Comments on View From The Porch: Late night...Tamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-44582639045789143252012-02-13T13:30:08.405-05:002012-02-13T13:30:08.405-05:00Tam, that's two books I've had to buy on y...Tam, that's two books I've had to buy on your recommendation in just over a week. Only about a quarter of the way through Pike, and now I just ordered this... slow down, I can't keep up :-)NJDavenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-9779592257964324252012-02-13T12:17:47.382-05:002012-02-13T12:17:47.382-05:00As a soft and nerdy insurance salesman, I resemble...As a soft and nerdy insurance salesman, I resemble that remark.velcro8ballnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-36118694985971413822012-02-12T23:05:09.340-05:002012-02-12T23:05:09.340-05:00Book is called "Roll Me Over" by Raymond...Book is called "Roll Me Over" by Raymond Gantter (author was a bit of a Hun by ancestry and in addition to fighting served as an interpreter)Laniusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-14636841328286404992012-02-12T22:53:50.121-05:002012-02-12T22:53:50.121-05:00Dunno, but I really liked tales of Derring-do by a...Dunno, but I really liked tales of Derring-do by a lanky, mild-mannered bespectacled, married(with three kids), thirtyish jazz musician who threw out his third draft deferment and went on to fight in US Army from Normandy all the way to Western Czechoslovakia in I believe 1st Infantry division.<br /><br />Was promoted from PFC to sergeant, and eventually brevetted as officer to lead his platoon.<br /><br />He only remembers killing about thirty Germans.Laniusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-38944065280664421652012-02-12T21:35:51.263-05:002012-02-12T21:35:51.263-05:00Kolt Raynor? I guess that's only a little les...Kolt Raynor? I guess that's only a little less believable than Dalton Fury, but, shit. Even giving the naming traditions among the Puritans, it was Oliver Cromwell, not I-Shall-Smite-the-Antichrist-Who-Goes-By-the-Name-of-Charles-Stuart Cromwell. (Besides, imagine what a pain in the ass that moniker would have been to write out.)Lewisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-70691745003196448972012-02-12T19:23:23.441-05:002012-02-12T19:23:23.441-05:00Funny thing is that Marcinko comes across in perso...Funny thing is that Marcinko comes across in person as the same character he does in his books.<br /><br />Act or no, I could not tell.GuardDucknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-67549591201130313812012-02-12T13:30:29.310-05:002012-02-12T13:30:29.310-05:00S'okay. Bourbon is my friend, Tam. Also, I&#...S'okay. Bourbon is my friend, Tam. Also, I've been mainlining Barbara Tuchman. Between them, they keep the nightmares to a dull roar.<br /><br />WV="masishis." If they're not a fringe cult of Islam, they certainly should be. Except then Dick Marcinko would probably write a book claiming to have killed them all.Joelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03442354270552212335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-22291066109964217192012-02-12T12:11:51.112-05:002012-02-12T12:11:51.112-05:00Joel,
Whoops. Sorry, I didn't mean to open ol...Joel,<br /><br />Whoops. Sorry, I didn't mean to open old wounds. :DTamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-8418694438975974742012-02-12T12:11:13.954-05:002012-02-12T12:11:13.954-05:00Joel,
No. It is good. You've missed out on on...Joel,<br /><br />No. It is good. You've missed out on one or two slightly better-than-average books and then a whole lot of dreck.Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-14473494024205268172012-02-12T12:10:51.458-05:002012-02-12T12:10:51.458-05:00Wait! I sit corrected. "Rogue Warrior"...Wait! I sit corrected. "Rogue Warrior" - okay, got it.<br /><br />Yeesh.Joelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03442354270552212335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-79280339150808601962012-02-12T12:10:34.096-05:002012-02-12T12:10:34.096-05:00It's on my list.It's on my list.Tango Juliethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07593296126387219845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-60864900584902803692012-02-12T12:08:22.967-05:002012-02-12T12:08:22.967-05:00Is it bad that I've never heard of Dick Marcin...Is it bad that I've never heard of Dick Marcinko?Joelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03442354270552212335noreply@blogger.com