Muffin Posted March 12, 2005 Share Posted March 12, 2005 You should read it you'd probably like it, it's more like a guy book anyway(yeah that was sexist, I don't care ) Cold Zero : Inside the FBI Hostage Rescue Team by Christopher Whitcomb From Publishers Weekly This close-up look at the FBI's most elite unit by a 15-year veteran including firsthand accounts of actions at Waco and Ruby Ridge is alternately funny, exciting and disturbing. With his liberal arts background and experience as a D.C. speechwriter, Whitcomb was an unusual candidate for special agent. Currently director of information management for the Bureau's Critical Incident Response Group, he recounts his 1980s epiphany, following a State of the Union address, that he wanted to help preserve American democracy; he chose the FBI as his medium. He details the tricky, competitive process of becoming an agent, and humorously recalls how, as a cocky, ambitious FNG ("fucking new guy"), he clashed with his conservative superiors, yet soon valued their expertise as he chased an assortment of fugitives, bank robbers and kidnappers from a rural Missouri field office. He details these cases and his own growing expertise, then depicts with gallows humor the "physical and emotional hell" of applying to join the Hostage Rescue Team's (HRT). He succeeded and became a sniper, and offers excellent insight into the science and mindset of this rarefied killing art. In skillful prose, Whitcomb upholds the FBI's party line. Alongside sharp observations of the rituals and absurdities of federal law enforcement, he fiercely espouses an unreconstructed "thin blue line" philosophy whereby he perceives figures such as David Koresh and Randy Weaver simply as evil men and incompletely addresses civic disillusionment with the Bureau following Waco, Ruby Ridge and the FBI crime lab scandals. Still, Whitcomb ably portrays conflicts between the agency's factions Washington bureaucrats, profilers and negotiators, and the gung-ho HRT during these major crises. This valuable book makes a compelling read for armchair G-men everywhere. (Sept. 13)Forecast: There's always a market for insider FBI stories, and Whitcomb's involvement in the controversial Ruby Ridge and Waco incidents gives this one extra currency. A six-city author tour and print advertising in major newspapers should lead to brisk sales. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo52285 Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 Invisible Monsters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest quasicartes Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 I've started the His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, the first book being The Golden Compass. So far I like it. I want a daemon What would you want your daemon be? In my opinion, Golden Compass is better than Harry Potter. I see more strength and bravery in Lyra than in Harry. Like all great books, it's being made into movies. The Golden Compass movie will however start being made by 2007. <_< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avadakedavra Posted March 15, 2005 Share Posted March 15, 2005 I've started the His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, the first book being The Golden Compass. So far I like it. I want a daemon What would you want your daemon be? In my opinion, Golden Compass is better than Harry Potter. I see more strength and bravery in Lyra than in Harry. Like all great books, it's being made into movies. The Golden Compass movie will however start being made by 2007. <_< A raven I think. Or perhaps a large spider. I heard they were taking the church out of it and making it just some random "bad guy". Wusses. And I'm halfway through The Amber Spyglass now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avadakedavra Posted March 15, 2005 Share Posted March 15, 2005 Invisible Monsters I that book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest quasicartes Posted March 15, 2005 Share Posted March 15, 2005 I've started the His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, the first book being The Golden Compass. So far I like it. I want a daemon What would you want your daemon be? In my opinion, Golden Compass is better than Harry Potter. I see more strength and bravery in Lyra than in Harry. Like all great books, it's being made into movies. The Golden Compass movie will however start being made by 2007. <_< A raven I think. Or perhaps a large spider. I heard they were taking the church out of it and making it just some random "bad guy". Wusses. And I'm halfway through The Amber Spyglass now. Pullman is an atheist. Dan Brown's only a free thinker. That's why the church is being taken out from Pullman's movie, not Brown's. Any idea who they are going to cast as the angels? I sure hope it will be Petra and Josie... :evil: :evil: :evil: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaLiSuRfEr81 Posted March 15, 2005 Share Posted March 15, 2005 dostoevysky - crime and punishment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lullaby Posted March 15, 2005 Share Posted March 15, 2005 A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lullaby Posted March 15, 2005 Share Posted March 15, 2005 A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lullaby Posted March 21, 2005 Share Posted March 21, 2005 A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Posted March 21, 2005 Share Posted March 21, 2005 I loved Their Eyes Were Watching God (read through the earlier posts), but.. uhh.. yea, Hawthorne is shitty. And Oprah seriously fucked up the story with the ABC movie thing. So bad.Reading some Dylan Thomas poetry, and I'm probably going to try to start Things Fall Apart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muffin Posted March 21, 2005 Share Posted March 21, 2005 someone else who can read. (else then the usual posters) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avadakedavra Posted March 21, 2005 Share Posted March 21, 2005 someone else who can read. (else then the usual posters) There are so few of us Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muffin Posted March 21, 2005 Share Posted March 21, 2005 ^ yes, so true it's sad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avadakedavra Posted March 22, 2005 Share Posted March 22, 2005 Collector's Edition of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I'm about halfway through The Resturant at the End of the Universe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mignonne Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 Hawthorne is amazing! What are you talking about Don! He's hands down my favorite writer of the time period, followed by Poe. (The only reason he comes in second is cause he didn't really write novels so much as poetry and short stories) Rappucinni's Daughter and the Birthmark compared thematically to the Scarlett Letter are simply amazing!!!!! Okay, anyways...now that I'm off my bend about the Romantic time period in American Lit... lol I've just decided to undertake the rereading of the entire Merry Gentry series by Laurell K Hamilton in anticipation of Stroke of Midnight which comes out in April! Yay!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 Literacy is a disease. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mignonne Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 lol. Something like that. I love to read. And I'm such a bibliophile it's out of control. I wish I had more money to buy more books. Ah books...I love them I would rather buy a new book than buy a pair of shoes. If you knew how addicted to shoes I am, one would understand how very serious a statement that is. Lol. I love giving books and getting them and buying them and most of all...the smell and feel of them. Sigh... Books... After school ends I have a reading list that will take me all summer to get through, beginning with Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, rereading the Count of Monte Cristo, the entire Chronicles of Narnia, Lolita, Crime and Punishment and a slew of other stuff. I wonder if I'll be able to get through it all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the mascot Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 i used to read a lot, then i started coming here, and now i get my daily does of literacy from here. and english. started rereading the redwall series by Brian Jacques. i thoughly enjoy it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xfiler Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 just started to read "War and Peace" by L.Tolstoy in my russian class - boy, its really hard !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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