Anybody read books?

Started reading the Mitch Rapp series by Vince Flynn. Yep, I’m hooked.

I have heard that they are good, but haven’t read them personally yet. I read quite a bit, but with an infant at home, my reading time and ability to stay awake have been extremely limited the past few months.

Then I advise you stay away from these. He seems to be one of those authors who gets you going on the story line and you just can’t put it down.

I assume he writes fiction.

Awesome series! Vince Flynn is a local guy who lives around West St. Paul. He also has been fighting some kind of cancer and I believe he is doing alright. Mitch Rapp is as cool a character that has killed bad guys with his bare hands as there ever has been! Enjoy your reading sir!

Joel

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I assume he writes fiction.

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Yep. Mitch Rapp is a maverick CIA agent who does things his own way and does not give an expletive what people think.

Joel

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Awesome series! Vince Flynn is a local guy who lives around West St. Paul. He also has been fighting some kind of cancer and I believe he is doing alright. Mitch Rapp is as cool a character that has killed bad guys with his bare hands as there ever has been! Enjoy your reading sir!

Joel

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These are great books! Patiently awaiting the next one due in Feb I think.

Just started one from David Baldacci, I also like reading books by Clive Cussler.

Ive read a couple books in the last yr both real good!
The Crow Killer ( Jerimiah Johnson Story)
& 1776 (Revolutionary War)told by both sides! Interesting

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I assume he writes fiction.

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Yep. Mitch Rapp is a maverick CIA agent who does things his own way and does not give an expletive what people think.

Joel

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Sounds like my autobiography…
DT

They are great. Try John Sandford “prey” series also. St paul author

Never was a big reader,the wife turned me on to Vince Flynn,ended up reading every book he has out
(great author,Minnesota boy),looking forward to the next one,wish him the best with his cancer.
Can’t wait til the movie gets going.

My sister went to school with him but I haven’t tried his books yet…maybe soon.

Last one I read was the first 5 in the Game of Thrones series that’s on HBO now.

Currently reading Catch-22. That’s a different book…

If you want to read a couple really cool non-fiction books try these:

Ever wonder what we did before GPS’s? Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time This one is really cool, you can see a lot of the guys inventions in pendulum clocks and mechanical wrist watches.

Does anybody know who invented the TV? Not one person I have ever asked. Isn’t that ridiculous? The Boy Genius and the Mogul: The Untold Story of Television

This Lewis and Clark book was free and amazing. I can’t believe what those guys went through. First Across the Continent The story of the exploring expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6

Once your thru the Rapp series check out an author named Brad Thor. Similar story line and well written like Flynn.

Flynn’s stuff is very good. Also check out the books by William Kent Kreuger, another ST.Paul writer, his series is mostly set in Northern Minnesota. Very good reads.

I have read Kruger and Thor both. Both do a good job. I also like W.E.B. Griffin.

Merry Christmas everybody

I have read the Rapp series three times.

Agreed on Sanford.

Another great author is Lee Child – the Jack Reacher series

Love the Sandford books, both the prey series and the Virgil Flowers books. Another good author is C.J. Box, a series about Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden.

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Mitch Rapp is a maverick CIA agent who does things his own way and does not give an expletive what people think.

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He sounds like a real honey badger.

Agree with Vince Flynn, Very hard to put down. Just finished his last book a few days ago. Looking forward to his new one coming out soon.

Love to read! Am reading everything new and catching up on the old from Brad Thor, David Baldacci, Clive Cussler, Tom Clancy, W.E.B. Griffin, Alex Berenson, Dan Brown, Steve Berry and Vince Flynn. I am more of a spies and military thriller fan and have not read any of griffin’s cop series, but am current on everything else and slowly replacing some worn paperbacks with hardcovers as I find them. I think Griffin has a new Presidential Agent novel coming out next week also!

If you want to check out a new author who may be similar to one you enjoy try out this site.
Literature map

In it, you enter the name of an author you know and enjoy and you get results showing other authors you may enjoy.

Lately I have been re-reading my all time favorites. “Catch-22” then “Tom Sawyer” and “Bloody Williamson” and “The Grapes of Wrath”. When I finished “The Grapes of Wrath” I immediately went back and read it again. John Steinbeck could paint such a vivid mental picture that it is like you were there. Any Illinois folks here should read “Bloody Williamson”—-it is a part of Illinois history that very few know anything about.

I read a lot. Pretty varied material, too… mostly fiction. Jack London, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Clancy, Tom Robbins, Michael Crichton, lots of others too numerous and random to list. I’ve been on a real Clive Cussler kick lately – just the Dirk Pitt series, though… I haven’t found the other stuff to be as good. Just started Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose, and it’s really good so far.

Wife got me a Kindle for my birthday. Lots of out-of-copyright books are free, so it looks like I’ll be digging into the classics again. Might try to get through Moby Dick again… wish me luck.

Hey Rich
Start on the florida author Gordon Hiaasen. Learn a little, laugh alot!!…………Skink Lives