Man’s Search for Meaning, Victor E. Frankl.
NFR What Are You Reading
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Just finished 'The Fort Bragg Cartel.' It's about the drug use, drug running, domestic violence and murder by the top tier operators working for the Joint Special Operations Command. It strips away the 'John Wayne' persona movies have made them out to be, and dives into the grit of what happens to men who are trained to kill, fed uppers and downers, put on kill quotas, and essentially live a life of violence in which the rules don't apply to them even back home where they are given free passes whether dealing drugs or murdering fellow soldiers. The book does a deep dive both on the drug smuggling and sales pipelines and how the US propped up warloads in Afghan who became the largest heroin producers in the world. And perhaps the saddest, the high rate of suicide among war fighters who just saw and did too much, and turned to heavy drugs to shut it out.
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Is it non-fiction?
no doubt the 44 soldiers stationed at Ft. Bragg who died in 2020 from murder and suicide wished it was.
wanderingrichard
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Yeah it's real.
Just started this interesting book (in English translation):
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa - Wikipedia https://share.google/A4lc4NHBOF1MQDUHA
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Just started Cold Victory by Karl Marlantes. I liked his book, Deep River, so I thought I’d try another book he wrote.
Westfly Refugee
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"The War on Illahee"
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A grim bit of Northwest history that few talk about and nearly all want forgotten.
The War on Illahee : Genocide, Complicity, and Cover-Ups in the Pioneer Northwest book by Marc James Carpenter: 9780300275735
Buy a copy of The War on Illahee : Genocide, Complicity, and Cover-Ups in the Pioneer Northwest book by Marc James Carpenter. How a generation of pioneers and their historians knowingly hid the violent history of Indigenous dispossession in the Pacific Northwest The small, mostly forgotten wars...
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A grim bit of Northwest history that few talk about and nearly all want forgotten.
I remember you recommending Deep River so............ thanks Scotty, I just checked out Cold Victory (I too liked Deep River and this coming Fling you'll have to refresh my memory on your connections to Deep River).
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Unconquered, In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes by Scott Wallace
I first read this book after hearing an interview of the author several years ago on NPR. Wallace (who was on assignment for National Geographic) joins explorer Sydney Possuelo (who was the first director of Brazil's Department of Indigenous in Isolation) and a 34 man team. The team's goal is to go deep into the uncharted Amazon in an effort to confirm the presence (but not contact) the mysterious flecheiros, or “People of the Arrow,” seldom-glimpsed warriors known to repulse all intruders with showers of deadly arrows. It's a wild, well written account of the expedition. I'm reading it for the second time...
I first read this book after hearing an interview of the author several years ago on NPR. Wallace (who was on assignment for National Geographic) joins explorer Sydney Possuelo (who was the first director of Brazil's Department of Indigenous in Isolation) and a 34 man team. The team's goal is to go deep into the uncharted Amazon in an effort to confirm the presence (but not contact) the mysterious flecheiros, or “People of the Arrow,” seldom-glimpsed warriors known to repulse all intruders with showers of deadly arrows. It's a wild, well written account of the expedition. I'm reading it for the second time...
The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes: Wallace, Scott: 9780307462978: Amazon.com: Books
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"The Case of Mary Surratt"
"Her Controversial Trial & Execution for Conspiracy in the Lincoln Assassination".
"Her Controversial Trial & Execution for Conspiracy in the Lincoln Assassination".
Thanks for the recommendation.
Another interesting read that connects with that part of the world is Amazonia: Man and Culture in a Counterfeit Paradise by Betty Meggers. Written in the 70s, she was an archeologist working for The Smithsonian at the time. Read it back in the early 00’s when kicking around the idea of expanding my F/F travelogue. Decided that time had passed me by for an adventure such as that.
There is a new revised edition available that I’m contemplating grabbing with updated climate data, etc. I would imagine that the new edition would do a deep dive into the slash & burn farming issues of the area in the Mato Grosso and the impact it has on the tribes in the region.
DryFly82
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I'll have to check both of those out. His book "Matterhorn" was a great read, but brutal...I definitely sought out a few lighter reads after that one.
wanderingrichard
Life of the Party
Used book stores are great. Picked up The Ninja series by Van Lustbader minus The Miko volume yesterday. Hope it reads as well as it did 35+ years ago.
i am going down to christmas island in 2 wks. any recommendations on a book about that part of the world ??
should i include - that i would like to be able to sleep at night ??