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Mike Schoby

Mike Schoby

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So it happens every time I travel with like-minded FE folks. The convo goes something like, "Have you read this?" which then spawns more suggestions from the group. Usually it is not the normal suggestions like "Horn or the Hunter" or "A River Runs Through It" but far more obscure and almost always worth the suggestion. I have kept notes on my phone and figured the Field Ethos Society would be a good place to start this same convo. Both to contribute suggestions and receive.

Must Read Books
One Second After (Entire Series)
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
All Ian Fleming 007 books
92 In The Shade (Thomas McGuane)
G-Men (Stephen Hunter)
Julip (Jim Harrison)
Under The Banner of Heaven (Jon Krakauer)
all C.J. Box Joe Pickett Novels (Bubblegum Summer Reading)
The Crossing and Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
All Wilbur Smith Novels
 
One of my all time favorite books just came to mind:

Bluewater Gold Rush: The Odyssey of a California Sea Urchin Diver
Book by Tom Kendrick

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“The book chronicles his experiences from 1978 to 1996, detailing the dangerous and adventurous life of the urchin fishery, including dives in locations like the Channel Islands and the Farallon Islands. It is described as a fast-paced, character-driven story that captures the camaraderie and risks of the profession
 
I second Atlas Shrugged as well as anything by Stephen Hunter or Wilbur Smith. I guess there's a reason that we're friends.

Anything by Ruark or Corbett should be required reading. Capstick's books are safari porn but I've got room for them in my life.

As a Florida Cracker, I have to recommend A Land Remembered by Patrick Smith.

I highly recommend the War of Art by Stephen Pressfield for anyone who is looking to become a writer. I re-read it before I start a new book project.

My favorite books, though, are the ones that make me mailbox money.
 
Great list!
If you are looking for something unconventional but is still a top five contender, look no further.
"The Warren Commission Report."
You think you know it because you took a few history classes, but you don’t. It’s a big fat book filled with suspense and mystery. You’ll learn more about the human condition and even question yourself.
It was recommended to me by a good friend. If I didn’t know the guy, I would have thought it was a poor attempt at a pretentious flex of intellect. But it wasn’t. He was right.
I don’t suggest reading it from cover to cover in a week. Rather, pick it up here and there, and take your time with it.
 
Mike Schoby said:
So it happens every time I travel with like-minded FE folks. The convo goes something like, "Have you read this?" which then spawns more suggestions from the group. Usually it is not the normal suggestions like "Horn or the Hunter" or "A River Runs Through It" but far more obscure and almost always worth the suggestion. I have kept notes on my phone and figured the Field Ethos Society would be a good place to start this same convo. Both to contribute suggestions and receive.

Must Read Books
One Second After (Entire Series)
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
All Ian Fleming 007 books
92 In The Shade (Thomas McGuane)
G-Men (Stephen Hunter)
Julip (Jim Harrison)
Under The Banner of Heaven (Jon Krakauer)
all C.J. Box Joe Pickett Novels (Bubblegum Summer Reading)
The Crossing and Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
All Wilbur Smith Novels
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Endurance - Alfred Lansing
All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr (don't judge the book by the tv series)
Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan (book and movie)
Out of Africa - Isak Dinesen (book and movie)
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque (book and movie)
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
The Rest is Memory - Lily Tuck (if you like something with moral/historical weight)
100 Poems - Seamus Heaney (Belfast; Troubles era through late career)
 
A Hillbilly Marine by S.J. Silcox

Spends his younger years amongst moonshiners in the Appalachian’s, teen years in the Northwest breaking hunting and trapping records, and his young adult years fighting the Japanese. Highly recommend it.
 

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Books:
Once an Eagle - Myrer
About Face - Hackworth
Fighter Pilot - Robin Olds
Gates of Fire - Pressfield
The Road - Cormac
Indestructible - John Bruning
Race of Aces - John Bruning
The Son
Jack Carr’s stuff
Heat 2
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Where the Red Fern Grows
Without Remorse - Clancy
Stephen Hunter’s stuff

Movies:
Legends of the Fall
Top Gun
Big Lebowski
F1
Fury
Heat
Stepbrothers
The Town
 
Books:
Empire of the Summer Moon
Lords of the Fly
The Longest Silence
The Godfather
The Summer of 1876

Movies:
Caddyshack
Tombstone
Force 10 from Navarone
Down Pariscope
Rudy
 
I recently read Scouts Out! A Kiowa Warrior Pilot's Perspective of War in Afghanistan. It was an excellent read, consisting of journal entries compiled by the author through two deployments at Bagram and Kandahar, respectively. The tone shifts from excitement as a new pilot to cynicism as bureaucratic red tape hampers their operations. It's a fascinating first-hand perspective.

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Camp Fires on Desert and Lava - Hornaday
Wild at Heart - John Eldridge
Churchill, Walking with Destiny - Robert’s (currently reading, fascinating)
Man-Eaters of Kumaon -Corbett

Not as well read as @jakefeenstra32
my brother, but working on getting there.
 
All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski (anything Bukowski)
True Grit - Charles Portis
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
 
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