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Posted: 4/18/2017 3:45:07 PM EDT
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The Authorities by Scott Meyer, the author of Off to Be the Wizard. Funny guy.
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Posted: 4/20/2017 2:33:13 AM EDT
[Last Edit: mPisi]
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Just scored a 1918 first edition of McBride's The Emma Gees on Ebay. I feel the need to crow but didn't want to start a new thread on it. Not great condition but will be interesting to see. I've only read the text version before. I was not even looking for it, but I have a daily search running for "trench map" and it showed up since it has a trench map illustration.
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Posted: 4/20/2017 1:24:21 PM EDT
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Currently reading Rogue Heroes by Ben Macintyre about the SAS in WWII in North Africa.
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Posted: 4/22/2017 11:02:50 AM EDT
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Finished-
Dancer's Lament - Ian c. Esslemont Night of knives - Ian c. Esslemont Malazan world fantasy..Although neither compares to the Erikson books. It - Stephen King Starting-- American Assassin, by Vince Flynn |
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Posted: 4/23/2017 8:26:17 AM EDT
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Just started reading Dmitriy Loza's Fighting For the Soviet Motherland. It's the only account I've read from a Matilda crewman (funny, no Englishman ever wrote or cared to write about his experience in that vehicle). Anyway, Loza mentions a defector who was taken into the Gehlen Organization and was trained in Berlin for 8 months before being infiltrated back into the Soviet Union via Iran/Persia.
I supposed the traitor's route would be via Turkey into Syria and then Iraq before Iran. I didn't realize the Gehlen Organization reach was that far (I knew they were in Syria because Syria was part of Vichy France). Said traitor came forward post-war but Smersh learned from Loza and other survivors from Loza's unit about the desertion. Smersh then squeezed the rest of the story out of the defector/deserter. While Loza does not mention what happened to him (he was handled according to the law), we all know what Soviet justice does. Elsewhere Loza mentions that the T-34 of 1942-43 all had a lot of spalling. Loss of some mines in Ukraine meant that a certain component was unavailable for tank production and this made their steel very hard (brittle). So, even if there was no penetration, crews would be injured by spalling. Smersh investigated it and searched for the parties responsible for "counter-revolutionary sabotage" and it wasn't until injured survivors reported the defective armor that the issue was closed by Smersh. Still, because nothing could be done, the Soviets still churned out tanks with brittle armor. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 4/24/2017 10:28:50 PM EDT
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Finished up this
and started this 
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Posted: 4/28/2017 7:44:45 PM EDT
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Just finished this...
Now reading this... 
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Posted: 4/28/2017 8:22:16 PM EDT
[#8]
"No more dragons"
Jim Burgen |
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Posted: 4/30/2017 8:28:38 PM EDT
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Sherlock's Marches and Battles of the 100th Indiana Infantry. One of its member was Theodore Upson.
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Posted: 4/30/2017 9:56:08 PM EDT
[#10]
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
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Posted: 5/2/2017 10:17:01 AM EDT
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Coughlin & Bruning's Shock Factor.
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Posted: 5/5/2017 9:51:24 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Riter]
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John Herberich's (sp) Masters of the Field. It's about the Fourth U.S. Cavalry Regiment (regulars) before and during the Civil War. Hebrich's relative was a sergeant in that unit. In the prologue I learned a lot about cavalry before the war (most of my reading was on infantry and artillery of the era).
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Posted: 5/9/2017 8:21:54 PM EDT
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Managed to get sucked back into the Wheel of Time again. Almost done with the Lords of Chaos.
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Posted: 5/11/2017 5:58:08 PM EDT
[Last Edit: BakerMike]
[#14]
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson (19%) - enjoying this so far, but not quite sure where it's all going. Neal Stephenson is weird, y'all.
Python Crash Course by Eric Matthes (17%) - much more readable than the other python textbook I was working on before. Still pretty dull going. A Mile in Their Shoes: Conversations with Veterans of WWII by Aaron Elson (41%) - enjoying this quite a lot. It's all transcripts of interviews rather than an edited narrative, so you get a real sense of the way stories sometimes meander and branch off, or the way some guys just won't talk about certain subjects. Remembering Babylon by David Malouf (about 2/3rds of the way?) - I'm not really feeling this one yet. Hopefully it'll grab me in the home stretch. ETA: Oh my God, I just remembered. The other day in the "off-topic" channel of the office Slack, my boss remarked (to general befuddlement) that amazon had suggested to him He Became a Farm Girl: A Transgender Novella by one Susan Donym (get it? Sue Donym? eh? wink-wink, nudge-nudge? eh?). Because my Amazon Book recommendations are already a nightmare labyrinth of sweaty abs and poorly written pornography, and because it was $2.99, I went for it: 
I finished it on my third sitting (it is maybe 50 pages long) and friends, I'm here to tell you that it's exactly as bad as it sounds. It's not even bad because it's porn, it's just bad porn. It's skin-peelingly awful. There are horny teenagers on snapchat crafting better erotic fiction than this. There are sweaty forty year old virgins who have never seen a woman more authentically representing ladies' sexual experience. It's not even bad in a fun way, it just sucks. But hey, it's three bucks. |
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Posted: 5/11/2017 6:01:58 PM EDT
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Been rereading Ringo's Graveyard Sky series, my second favorite only to the Troy Rising series.
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OK, USA
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Posted: 5/11/2017 8:04:40 PM EDT
[Last Edit: jhendri223]
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Dogs of War by Jonathon Mayberry. His Joe Ledger series is one of my guilty pleasures lol
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Posted: 5/11/2017 9:55:23 PM EDT
[#17]
Just started A Crown of Swords by Robert Jordan.
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Posted: 5/11/2017 10:04:22 PM EDT
[#18]
Neil DeGrasse Tyson's Astrophysics For Those In A Hurry.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/16/2017 9:26:14 PM EDT
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Finished these
Started this one 
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Posted: 5/17/2017 1:45:52 PM EDT
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From page 50 of William Ash's Under the Wire: The World War II Adventures of a Legendary Escape Artist and "Cooler King". Ash was a Texan who grew up in and about Dallas. As a boy, he saw the depression and as he got older, rode the rail and wandered among hobos. When war broke out, he made his way to Canada to join the RCAF. They rejected him as underweight and he returned home, borrowed $20 and ate as much as he could for two weeks to gain weight. He passed this time and was trained to fly Spitfires. Assigned to 411 Squadron in Group XII, he shot down a couple of planes before being shot down himself.
At about this time, I became tangentially involved in one of the most remarkable deceptions of the war. Several of us were sent to fly guard duty over an aircraft carrier in the English Channel, only it was not an aircraft carrier at all. In reality, it was an old tramp freighter with a huge false wooden deck, painted up to look like an aircraft carrier. It was designed to lure the enemy bombers out to attack it, and very obligingly, they did just that.
For some days the enemy planes returned, wasting ammunition and energy on a wooden dummy boat, as we and the guns on board hammered back at them. Then, on one particular dark night, a single Stuka dive-bomber risked oblivion to swoop down over the ship. Before it veered away, it dropped a single bomb that clattered on the deck but did not explode. A bomb disposal expert inched up to examine it. It was a wooden bomb, dropped on a wooden boat, the Germans' way of saying the game was up. |
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Posted: 5/17/2017 3:10:07 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/18/2017 11:31:06 PM EDT
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Saxon Tales series by Bernard Cornwell
Read up to book 6 a few years ago and that was as far as the series went back then. Just found they made a tv show about it and thrust motivated me to read all the books again and now I'm on book 9. Really loving the new installments in the series since I left off with book 6. |
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MI, USA
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Posted: 5/24/2017 11:58:34 AM EDT
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Just finished "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain.
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Posted: 5/24/2017 1:38:37 PM EDT
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The Tamuli by David Eddings.
Read a bunch of his stuff when I was a kid and really enjoyed it. This one is not really grabbing me. |
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Posted: 5/24/2017 1:51:52 PM EDT
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Just finished reading Animal Farm for the first time. Seems not just a lambasting of the Soviet Union, but capitalism as well, especially at the beginning (Old Major's dream) and the end (the men talking about their workers).
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Posted: 5/26/2017 9:21:44 PM EDT
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Just started The Path of Daggers by Robert Jordan.
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Posted: 5/27/2017 4:05:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By strider98:
Just finished reading Animal Farm for the first time. Seems not just a lambasting of the Soviet Union, but capitalism as well, especially at the beginning (Old Major's dream) and the end (the men talking about their workers). |
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Posted: 5/27/2017 4:43:37 PM EDT
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On killing
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VA, USA
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Posted: 5/29/2017 6:51:20 PM EDT
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Just finished:
"The Bone Yard" by James F. Christ. (I know the LTC Tom Brewer from the book. Cool guy. I helped in his election campaign for the 43rd district of NE as state senator) "His needs Her Needs" by Willard F. Harley "5 Love Languages" Gary Chapman Reading: "The Theocratic Kingdom" by George Peters. I would be reading something else as well, but this book is heavy enough. 3 volumes at about 2400 pages. About a fourth of the way through the first volume. Next Reading: "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis Two books by Croft and butler titled: "Oversee God's people and Pray for the flock" |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/31/2017 1:11:05 PM EDT
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Just finished this
Starting these 
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GA, USA
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Posted: 5/31/2017 8:43:12 PM EDT
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Just finished Echopraxia sequel to Blindsight by Peter Watts. Heavy reading. I recommend a dictionary and a mathematician.
Currently reading Childhood's End. by Arthur C. Clarke. |
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Posted: 6/2/2017 10:19:59 PM EDT
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Just finished Roger Hillsman's American Guerilla: My War Behind Japanese Lines. Picked it up for $1.50 plus tax at a Friends of Library bookstore. Hillsman graduated from West Point and joined Merrill's Maruaders where he was injured by Japanese machine gun fire. While recovering, Merill's Marauders was disbanded and Hillsman transferred to OSS Detachment 101 which operated behind Japanese lines. Given a battalion of Chinese, Khan, Burmese and other indigenous soldiers, he engages in scouting, ambushing and sabotage. Afterward Hillsman is sent to Manchuria where he liberates his father, a full bird colonel, who was captured in the Philippines.
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Posted: 6/3/2017 7:14:31 PM EDT
[Last Edit: GiggleSmith]
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Even when you include what we already knew about the Hidlebeast, this book shows in the early chapters that we didn't merely dodge a bullet, we dodged a serious caliber artillery shell.
 And I'm only on Chapter 2.
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Posted: 6/4/2017 4:31:02 AM EDT
[#34]
Fed Up. It's an insider's view of the Federal Reserve.
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Posted: 6/8/2017 12:35:06 AM EDT
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Recently Finished:
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf - picks up a bit in the last chapter, but by and large didn't do a lot for me. Catastrophically introspective. Everything is told and told and told and told to the most exhaustive possible degree and nothing is ever shown. Hardly anything happens. 3/5. A Mile in their Shoes: Conversations With Veterans of WW II by Aaron Elson - quite liked this. The transcription style gives it all to you straight; it lets the vets give it to you in their own words and at their own pace, tangents and asides and all. Recommended. 4/5. Current Rotation: Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson - 55% - still quite good The Wreath by Sigrid Undset - 28% - started this the other day with my book club, it's about a girl living in medieval Norway. So far it's a little on the saccharine/idyllic side, but it's a fun read and the characters are interesting. And it's nice to pick up a little tidbit of Norwegian culture. The Linux Command Line by William E. Shotts - 3% - it's a textbook about how to use the command line interface in Linux, what else do you want? |
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Posted: 6/8/2017 1:33:14 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Lumpy196]
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Posted: 6/8/2017 1:50:03 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By BakerMike:
Recently Finished: A Mile in their Shoes: Conversations With Veterans of WW II by Aaron Elson - quite liked this. The transcription style gives it all to you straight; it lets the vets give it to you in their own words and at their own pace, tangents and asides and all. Recommended. 4/5. |
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Posted: 6/8/2017 8:48:42 AM EDT
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Posted: 6/9/2017 7:20:38 PM EDT
[#39]
Just started Winter's Heart by Robert Jordan.
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Posted: 6/9/2017 7:29:11 PM EDT
[#40]
Awesome....
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Posted: 6/10/2017 1:05:01 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Lumpy196:
Aaron is awesome. Buy one set of his audio interviews. He's incredibly generous with what he'll send you. Then get on his e-mailing list. |
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Posted: 6/10/2017 10:36:25 AM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Lumpy196:
Just released. I'll start reading it this week. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/24926/51ZaM3OUSNL-225671.JPG |
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Posted: 6/10/2017 10:39:49 AM EDT
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I just finished Red Platoon, about the battle of Kamdesh, when COP Keating was over-ran. I'm a slow reader but could not put the book down. It's easily in the top ten books I've read.
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Posted: 6/10/2017 10:43:34 AM EDT
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Just finished this, which I was inspired to read by the History of England podcast I've been listening to for months.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 6/17/2017 10:44:49 PM EDT
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Just finished this
Starting this 
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Posted: 6/19/2017 3:59:14 PM EDT
[#46]
Is the destroyermen series getting better? By book three I was thinking it kept repeating itself and all the original destroyermen were pretty much dying off.
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Posted: 6/19/2017 4:00:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By HELOBRAVO:
Awesome.... http://images.gr-assets.com/books/1395176404l/7648269.jpg 
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Posted: 6/20/2017 7:52:55 AM EDT
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Devil's Due - a four piper fighting a corn-fed Ironclad? Do tell more.
I'm reading Perry's Saints, a history of the 48th New York Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War. |
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Posted: 6/20/2017 9:29:05 AM EDT
[#49]
The Shining by Stephen King
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Posted: 6/20/2017 12:13:21 PM EDT
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Finished-
Return of the Crimson guard Ian c. Esslemont Kill Shot Vince Flynn Screwtape letters C.S. Lewis Currently reading- Stonewielder Ian c. Esslemont |
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