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Originally Posted By strider98:
Awesome, I love it when people read classic sci-fi and enjoy it. Niven and Pournelle are probably my favorite writers. Finishing rereading the first 5 Monster Hunter novels now that MH Grunge comes out today. Already have it downloaded on my Kindle View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By strider98:
Originally Posted By I_Ware:
I've finished Footfall and The Mote in God's Eye recently. The Mote was fantastic! I'm working on The Gripping Hand now. Footfall was really good as well but took longer for me to get into. Awesome, I love it when people read classic sci-fi and enjoy it. Niven and Pournelle are probably my favorite writers. Finishing rereading the first 5 Monster Hunter novels now that MH Grunge comes out today. Already have it downloaded on my Kindle I've been a huge fan of SF since I was a teenager. Heinlein's my favorite author ever, and I've read most of the modern classics I think. Pretty much everything Asimov and Clarke wrote, Ringworld, Dune series, The Forever War, etc. Somehow I've missed a lot of Niven and Pournelle's stuff though. In the last year I've read Footfall, The Mote, Lucifer's Hammer. Now I'm reading The Gripping Hand and have The Legacy of Heorot as an audiobook going. I need more! |
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Finished Crux by Namez Raam (4/5) and Bryony and Roses by T. Kingfisher (3/5; starts off a little weak, but finds its pace and gets pretty decent toward the middle through the end).
New Rotation: Bully Able Leader: The Story of a Fighter-Bomber Pilot in the Korean War by George G. Loving (0%, just started) Claws and Starships: A collection of Pelted short fiction by M.C.A. Hogarth (0%, just started) Learning Python by Mark Lutz (39%) The Spire by William Golding (49%) |
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Took me less than a day to read Ringo's MHI Grunge Good book, written in kind of a short story, first person fashion, with a Ringo flair.
Now rereading Footfall, only read it once, which is odd for me with Niven/Pournelle books. |
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Originally Posted By I_Ware: I've been a huge fan of SF since I was a teenager. Heinlein's my favorite author ever, and I've read most of the modern classics I think. Pretty much everything Asimov and Clarke wrote, Ringworld, Dune series, The Forever War, etc. Somehow I've missed a lot of Niven and Pournelle's stuff though. In the last year I've read Footfall, The Mote, Lucifer's Hammer. Now I'm reading The Gripping Hand and have The Legacy of Heorot as an audiobook going. I need more! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By I_Ware: Originally Posted By strider98: Originally Posted By I_Ware: I've finished Footfall and The Mote in God's Eye recently. The Mote was fantastic! I'm working on The Gripping Hand now. Footfall was really good as well but took longer for me to get into. Awesome, I love it when people read classic sci-fi and enjoy it. Niven and Pournelle are probably my favorite writers. Finishing rereading the first 5 Monster Hunter novels now that MH Grunge comes out today. Already have it downloaded on my Kindle I've been a huge fan of SF since I was a teenager. Heinlein's my favorite author ever, and I've read most of the modern classics I think. Pretty much everything Asimov and Clarke wrote, Ringworld, Dune series, The Forever War, etc. Somehow I've missed a lot of Niven and Pournelle's stuff though. In the last year I've read Footfall, The Mote, Lucifer's Hammer. Now I'm reading The Gripping Hand and have The Legacy of Heorot as an audiobook going. I need more! I'm reading "the Integral Trees" and "the Smoke Ring" again. Niven could come up with some amazing concepts. He has some great writing partners. Another good one is Niven with Brenda Cooper : "Building Harlequin's Moon", really well written. |
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Niven has always been one of my favorite authors. I have all his scifi books and reread some every once and a while.
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QC Doktor...soldier, scholar, funnyman, raconteur
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The Book of Mormon |
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"I'm just an innocent, moon hillbilly!!!"
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"I'm just an innocent, moon hillbilly!!!"
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QC Doktor...soldier, scholar, funnyman, raconteur
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Edited ~ medicmandan
The Book of Mormon |
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City in the sky by Glynn Stewart was decent. So was the Starship's Mage series.
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Sphere by Michael Chricton
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"There has never been a sadness that can't be cured by breakfast food" - Ron Swanson
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Learning Python by Mark Lutz - 40% - continues to be a thorough, useful, but mummifyingly dry textbook
Bully Able Leader: The Story of a Fighter-Bomber Pilot in the Korean War by Lt. Gen George G. Loving, USAF (Ret.) - 54% - this is a war memoir that somehow turns stories about dive-bombing and harrowing near-crashes into dry, bloodless reports. On track for a 2/5. Claws and Starships: A collection of Pelted short fiction by M.C.A. Hogarth - 70% - not very good sci-fi short story collection so far, lots of eye-rollers, lots of poorly-justified made-up words, stilted dialogue, way too much of that weird thing from bad detective novels where you say a character's name once in a paragraph and then think you shouldn't repeat yourself so you call them "the [thing that they are]". On track for a 2/5. Just finished The Spire by William Golding. I found it to be kind of a slog, because the main character alternates between being a crazy person and being an unsympathetic jackass, and his is the only perspective that The Spire provides. 2/5, I think. Might have to give it another try later. |
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Miller's Earned in Blood. Miller served in the 1st Marine Div. that landed on Guadacanal.
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Originally Posted By sgthatred: I started Birthright and I'm in about 8 chapters and you have me hooked. I'm always a sucker for long lost alien civilizations stories with artifacts. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By sgthatred: Originally Posted By RikWriter: Originally Posted By sgthatred: Finishing up the "Duty, Honor, Planet: The Complete Trilogy" by Rick Partlow. I got the first book on one of the free Kindle days and decided to buy the 3 book trilogy since it was cheaper than buying the next 2 books individually. Its a good military scifi series and I hope he continues it. He has another scifi series which I plan to read too since once again I got the first book free and will see if I like it. Glad you liked Duty, Honor, Planet. Hope you enjoy the Birthright series as well. I started Birthright and I'm in about 8 chapters and you have me hooked. I'm always a sucker for long lost alien civilizations stories with artifacts. |
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Killing Pablo by Mark Bowden
Great book so far, hard to put down. |
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Quick like a bunny, like a bunny quick-quick.
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Just finished Bully Able Leader: The Story of a Fighter-Bomber Pilot in the Korean War - 2/5 for being kind of bloodless and boring (ETA - by 'bloodless' I mean kind of passionless and flat, not that I want to read a memoir about blood and guts &c.). Not enough detail to learn a ton about the Korean War, not exciting enough to read for fun. I was surprised at the volume and accuracy of tactical air support during the Korean War, the only stuff I'd ever heard about before was F-86s vs. MiG-15s way up North.
Also finished Claws and Starships - 2/5 for not getting any better than previously reported. Frig off with the ellipsis and the made-up words and the detective novel not-pronouns, already. Now on: Learning Python - 41% Essays on Political Economy by Frederic Bastiat - 33% - it's like taking Econ 101 again! John Dies at the End by David Wong - 10% Creation by Gore Vidal - 0% - just got this one in the mail today, reading it for a book club |
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A Century of Progress, by Fred Saberhagen. Never even heard of it till the other day. Found it in a used book store. Then comes The Black Mountain, also by Saberhagen.
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How you live your life is important. Just be sure the memory of how you died doesn't overshadow the tales of how you lived your life.
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Way of the Reaper
By: Nicholas Irving Just hits on more missions throughout his Ranger career and some lessons he learned. Great book just like his first one |
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Just finished Droughts and Dreams. It's first hand (and hearsay) accounts about the Great Depression.
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Now reading Sink The Tirpitz!
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Just finished "The Curse of Chalion" by Lois McMaster Bojold. I've never read any of her works before, so I gave her a try. Really enjoyed it. Just started the second novel in the series, "Paladin of Souls".
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"When the press sleeps with the government, their dread bastard offspring is named Tyranny."--F. Symptoms, ca. 1980
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Finished up Tomorrow War by JL Bourne last night, and read all of Day of Wrath by Forstchen tonight.
Both good, entertaining reads. Tomorrow War felt a bit rushed at the end though. |
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Man-Eaters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett thanks to a thread in GD. So far I am enjoying it.
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Read Altered Carbon a while back, thought I'd listen to Book II of the series on audio. Was on a bike ride, graphic sex scene came on, got a huge boner. Was awkward.
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Not my circus; not my monkeys.
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Jim Rickards' The Big Drop.
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I just re-read Steven Callahan's book Adrift. I first read it when published in the late 80s.
It's his account of spending 76 days alone in an inflatable lift raft after his boat sank in the Atlantic. A truly remarkable story of survival, courage and human endurance. |
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Proud Member-Team Ranstad
'll, what we got here is a failure to communicate. |
I just finished Another Life by Andrew Vachss. Closed out the Burke series. I wish the series didn't end.
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"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." - Abraham Lincoln
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Almost done with Sphere.
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"There has never been a sadness that can't be cured by breakfast food" - Ron Swanson
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Originally Posted By 4v50:
Just finished Droughts and Dreams. It's first hand (and hearsay) accounts about the Great Depression. View Quote Used paperback on Amazon for $61? Because Glenn Beck co-wrote it? Not sure why it would be that price. Forget that nonsense and getThe Worst Hard Time for a penny used or $2.35 new. The same premise of true to life families and their first hand accounts of the Dust Bowl. |
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'll, what we got here is a failure to communicate. |
I am currently reading One Year After by William Forestchen.
I just re-read One Second After and it was great except for him referring to AR15s as "assault rifles, and magazines as "clips" |
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Quick like a bunny, like a bunny quick-quick.
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Learning Python - Mark Lutz - 43% - I'll be dead long before I finish this book.
The Martian: A Novel - Andy Weir - 28% - so far this is SUPER GOOD. I'm having a hard time putting it down. 10% Happier: How I Turned... - Dan Harris - 37% - like Dan at this point in the book, I'm getting a little fed-up with the preamble and wish he'd cut to the damn chase and make with the helpful stuff. Creation - Gore Vidal - p.56/512 - Slow goin'. Good, though. I just finished John Dies at the End, which I loved to pieces - excellent blend of humor, action, existential horror, and regular-ass gore-show horror. Easily 4/5, debating making it 5/5. |
Excuse me, sir, do you have a moment for El-Ahrairah, the Prince with a Thousand Enemies?
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Memoirs, and Letters and Journals, of Major General Riedesel During His Residence In America. Riedesel served under Burgoyne during the ill fated Saratoga Campaign.
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I just finished "Lunar Discovery: Let the Space Race Begin (Discovery Series Book 1)" that was on the free Kindle list here and I liked it. I am now going to read the second on in the series. |
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Hammerhead Six.
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I'm reading the Dresden Files series. The first couple books weren't that good, but now that I'm 7 books into the 15-book series, they have greatly improved.
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Quick like a bunny, like a bunny quick-quick.
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I just finished The Martian.
Top Gear Top Tip: The Martian is really, really fun! I got about halfway through it, threw my rotation out the window, and just blasted through to the end. I read the last ten percent of it just standing at my desk at work because I couldn't put it down. ETA: New Rotation: Creation by Gore Vidal - 69/512 - god, this book is slow Learning Python by Mark Lutz - 43% - i'm trapped in the chapter on package imports, which is basically the swamp of sadness 10% Happier by Dan Harris - 62% - finally getting into practical territory in this book. getting better as it goes. Just started: Science Friction by Kyell Gold - 1% - finally started another Kyell Gold book. He needs to hurry up and finish another non-fantasy novel, I'm running out of novellas and novelettes. |
Excuse me, sir, do you have a moment for El-Ahrairah, the Prince with a Thousand Enemies?
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Currently on Storm of Swords, book three in the series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin which is what the show Game of Thrones is based on for those who don't know. (books are better but the show is good too)
Before SOIAF, I had a been reading a lot less than usual. I'm definitely not as fast as I used to be. This series has lit the reading spark in me again, you could say. Also has rekindled my interest in finishing my book I've been writing for years in my head!
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"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances." - Thomas Jefferson
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I've always been a one book at a time guy, unless its school-related, but I'm about to start multiples. We'll see how that goes!
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"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances." - Thomas Jefferson
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"Storm of Steel" by Ernst Junger - I bought it at the WWI Museum in Kansas City
I've been wanting to read it after hearing it referenced often in Dan Carlin's Hardcore History WWI podcast series, "Blueprint for Armageddon." |
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It's not just a screen name. It's a way of life.
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Rules of the Game by Neil Strauss. It's a humorous fiction.
The Second Machine Age |
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Not my circus; not my monkeys.
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The Man-Eaters of Tsavo by John Henry Patterson
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I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, & our flag still waves proudly from the walls - I shall never surrender or retreat.
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Quick like a bunny, like a bunny quick-quick.
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Originally Posted By strider98:
Is that on Kindle by chance? View Quote https://www.amazon.com/Man-Eaters-Tsavo-Other-African-Adventures-ebook/dp/B017RPBXBA/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1474925518&sr=8-2-fkmr0 There's a $0.00 version, too, but in my experience some of those free-conversion ones are kinda janky. |
Excuse me, sir, do you have a moment for El-Ahrairah, the Prince with a Thousand Enemies?
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Just finished up Team Yankee. Excellent read.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00YWE3YGM/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 |
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I really do know my ass from a hole in the ground!
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I just finished the two Ash Henderson books by Stuart MacBride. Birthdays for the Dead, and A Song for the Dying.
If you've never read Stuart's books, you really should give them a try. Warning: He's Scottish and they take place in Scotland, so can be a bit of a tough read until you get used to it. |
"The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you can never know if they
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Just finished Science Friction by Kyell Gold, which is profoundly not-safe-for-work, but wasn't as good as the other novellas by Kyell Gold. It seems to kinda lurch from scene to scene and eventually the story just stops with an audible thud. There's a little bonus story tacked onto the end, but it doesn't save the rest. 3/5.
Also finished 10% Happier by Dan Harris, which I thought was a pretty interesting memoir of his introduction to meditation and mindfulness, and coming to grips with same without putting up with a lot of woo-woo and hippie BS. Gonna try listening to his podcast. 4/5, probably. Current rotation: Learning Python - Lutz - 46% Creation - Vidal - 76/500ish How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk - Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish - 9% - picked this up on recommendation from a teacher friend, who says it's got some useful communication techniques for dealing with people of all ages |
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Reapers Gale by Steve Erikson, book 7 in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series.
Just starting Alliance of Shadows by Larry Correia. Third of the way through The intelligent investor. |
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