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Posted: 2/27/2017 12:14:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By medicmandan:
Finished the Divergent series a couple of days ago. Ending sucked. I haven't read these, mostly because the movies looked like they sucked LOL, but your reaction to the books is the same thing I hear everywhere. I've often thought about seeing for myself, but I don't know that I want to invest the time over so many pages to be disappointed in the end. 
As for me, I'm reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. A little over half done. 
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Posted: 2/27/2017 1:40:17 PM EDT
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Just finished reading Zalooga's Bazooka vs. Panzer and Mander's March on Rome. Now onto Mander's men shot down the Fieseler Storch that was piloting Cruwell down. Cruwell was the then commander of the Afrika Korps. Cruwell asked for his Pour le Merit back and Mander got the sergeant to return it. Mander was later captured and sent to Itlay where he wandered off after Italy signed the armistice. It took him ten months to reach Rome and when he got there, he began collecting intelligence and sending it back to the British 8th Army. Now onto Ruth Sheppard's The Tank Commander Pocket Manual.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 2/28/2017 1:15:53 PM EDT
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Currently reading the 5th in the Jesse James Dawson series. Its a very good series.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 3/2/2017 2:45:24 AM EDT
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Started this. The lead Maddox character in this series is very good and the story line is very intriguing.
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Posted: 3/2/2017 6:07:07 PM EDT
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Harry Potter 5 but I just picked up Leviathan Wakes.
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Posted: 3/5/2017 1:19:42 PM EDT
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The Complete AR-15/M16 Sourcebook by Duncan Long and John Frost's Pictorial Life of George Washington.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 3/6/2017 7:45:02 PM EDT
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Started this today
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TX, USA
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Posted: 3/7/2017 3:44:28 PM EDT
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Started my next book which is the first in a trilogy
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Posted: 3/8/2017 12:36:43 PM EDT
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Finished Losing My Religion by Kyell Gold. I keep wanting to say I'm surprised by how much I like his little romance novellas, but I shouldn't be surprised anymore. It's a cute little story, the emotional beats punch above their weight, and it ends on a weird semi-hopeful note like a lot of the other novellas do. 4/5 for now, probably a 3/5 in the grand scheme of things.
Still working on A Short History of Nearly Everything; Cloud Atlas is temporarily on hold. I started on Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan, about 2/3 of the way through it now. It's got kind of a sluggish start and some of the dialogue still makes me go "ugh" but it's pretty frigging gritty overall. Having a hard time putting it down since I got to about 30% or so. There's a pretty satisfying murder spree there in the middle somewhere. |
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Posted: 3/8/2017 2:24:33 PM EDT
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Just finished up the first book in a series called Post-Apocalyptic Nomadic Warrior by Benjamin Wallace on Kindle. Pretty funny book, and it was free. I think I'll buy the next one.
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Posted: 3/8/2017 6:28:56 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Riter]
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Yesterday I finished "We Had Everything But Money" about the Great Depression.
Now reading a book about the dust bowl, The Worst Hard Time. |
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Posted: 3/8/2017 6:38:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By M4A1Carbine:
I recently finished <u>Unintended Consequences</u>. Now I'm starting Tom Clancy's <u>Without Remorse</u>. Without Remorse is pretty good. Intense and gritty, but good. |
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Posted: 3/8/2017 6:44:19 PM EDT
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Recently finished Your Brain On Porn. Found it fascinating and informative.
Currently listening to the audio book for Loving What Is. The author gets a bit carried away with the applications of her mental exercises, but the basic premise is interesting and helpful for keeping a healthy perspective in life. |
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Posted: 3/8/2017 8:22:34 PM EDT
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Currently reading Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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IA, USA
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Posted: 3/9/2017 11:38:00 PM EDT
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Future Crimes by Marc Goodman, Kinda makes me want to delete my account
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Posted: 3/12/2017 5:42:21 PM EDT
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Kill Screen by Benjamin Reeves
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Posted: 3/12/2017 6:01:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Shane333:
Without Remorse is pretty good. Intense and gritty, but good. I loved it. It was my first Clancy book but I added it to my favorite list as soon as I finished. And I don't do that often (only have 8 other books on there). |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 3/13/2017 11:59:15 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/14/2017 7:42:00 AM EDT
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The Battle of Paoli. British launch a nighttime surprise attack against a sleeping American camp at Paoli. Sentries were obvioulsy unattentive.
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Posted: 3/14/2017 12:50:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4v50:
Sentries were obvioulsy unattentive. Spoilers, man! |
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Posted: 3/14/2017 1:15:38 PM EDT
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Still working on Trafalgar: An eyewitnesses history.
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Posted: 3/14/2017 3:56:39 PM EDT
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Finished up The Blood of Heroes, about the Alamo the other week. Now working on The Hunter Killers by Dan Hampton, about Wild Weasel operations during the Vietnam War.
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Posted: 3/15/2017 2:50:59 PM EDT
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The Maze Runner by James Dashner
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Posted: 3/15/2017 8:16:14 PM EDT
[Last Edit: BakerMike]
[#24]
Finished Altered Carbon a few days ago. It never quite shook off its mild case of the eye-rollers, but it got better as it went. I never thought I would feel the violence in a book was off-puttingly gratuitous, but I found it so in Altered Carbon. It really is over the top. Still pretty decent, though. Not sure if I'll read the rest of the series. 3/5.
Started Fields of Fire by Marko Kloos on Sunday, finished it about ten minutes ago standing at my desk at work. It carries on the tradition of the series well, I think - there's some interesting setups early on that pay off well, the combat is well-described and varied enough that it doesn't get tiresome. I don't know if it's always been this way, but Kloos, like, repeats the technical details of weapons and the historical details of characters over and over in Fields of Fire. Maybe I only noticed it because I knocked this book out in like a half a dozen sittings, but he describes what "Silver Bullets" are like ten times, repeats who Dmitry and Maksim are three or four times, and at the very end repeats the location and disposition of certain characters within maybe two page-turns of each other. It wasn't outrageous, just a little irritating. 4/5. ETA: also to hell with this miserable son-of-a-bitching book for making me tear up once. That's only happened to me like 3 or 4 times ever while reading. I'm deducting two points for heartstring abuse. Still picking at Cloud Atlas and A Short History of Nearly Everything. Might drop a second boring book into my rotation for a few days so that I have a strong incentive to polish off A Short History. |
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Posted: 3/18/2017 9:06:12 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Riter]
[#25]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By BakerMike:
Spoilers, man! 
On an unrelated note, spent most of yesterday working on timeline for my new book. The editor suggested it (so as to keep connsistency with other authors in the short history series). Hence my inquiry in GD yesterday into passive night vision and thermal sights. I actually found the answer in one of my books, but it took a while. Then I found the name of the thermal sight and got the date form an online source. It's amazing how these "simple" things we take for granted aren't really part of the general knowledge. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 3/18/2017 11:31:49 AM EDT
[#26]
Started the last in this series.
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Posted: 3/18/2017 2:28:19 PM EDT
[#27]
Finally finished the Trafalgar book I was reading. Just picked up The Dardanelles: Tragedy and Heroism.
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MI, USA
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Posted: 3/19/2017 5:28:04 PM EDT
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Glock: The Rise of America's Gun by Paul M. Barrett. Interesting history if you're into how Glock rose from almost nothing to a handgun giant in a few decades. Kind of an anti-gun tone by the author at the end, though.
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Posted: 3/21/2017 11:57:18 AM EDT
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Wayne was acquitted at his court martial. At the subsequent battle of Germantown, the Pennsylvania Line got its revenge against the British Light Infantry and in an early morning attack routed them with a pure bayonet attack. They fell back on the 40th which sought shelter in Chew's (stone) house. Said house became a fortress and a thorn in the American attack.
Now reading "Our Aim Was Man." It's about the First Andrew's Sharp Shooters. |
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Posted: 3/21/2017 12:05:24 PM EDT
[Last Edit: KTM300XCW]
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TX, USA
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Posted: 3/22/2017 7:31:06 PM EDT
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Started this book today
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Posted: 3/24/2017 4:13:15 PM EDT
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Just finished Fred Ray,s Sharpshooter about Maj. EUGENE Blackford.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 3/25/2017 12:28:26 AM EDT
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This has become on of my favorite series. It kind of reminds me of The Stainless Steel Rat series.
Started the latest one today. 
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Posted: 3/25/2017 4:58:55 PM EDT
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Finished The Dardanelles. It wasn't worth the read.
Started The B-58 Blunder. |
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Posted: 3/26/2017 9:11:55 PM EDT
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Just finished A Dog Before a Soldier. It's a collection of essays about the little known achievements of the Union Navy during the Civil War. For example, there was a squadron of rams designed to ram and sink the ironclad Virginia. The Virginia declined battle with them though. There is also an essay about the failed Confederate attack on Fort Butler and this was because a Navy officer feigned sympathy with the Confederacy and gaining their confidence, learned of the attack. The Navy then position its gunboats to support the fort with grape and cannister shot.
Also read From Corruna to Waterloo. It's the diary of two British Hussars who fought against Napoleon. |
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Posted: 3/27/2017 8:07:36 AM EDT
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Rifle Green in the Peninsula, Vol 4 by Caldwell and Cooper.
I contacted Cooper and he is not going to work on a the 3/95 at New Orleans. The 3/95 was caught in a crossfire between the American riflemen and their own redcoats who halted 80 yards from the American lines and began firing (ineffective) volleys at the Americans. |
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Posted: 3/27/2017 12:43:53 PM EDT
[Last Edit: BakerMike]
[#37]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Shane333:
Recently finished Your Brain On Porn. Found it fascinating and informative. Started The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr. About 1/3 of the way through it now. I like this book better when it sticks to facts and studies and interpretation, and I like it less when it is making breathless predictions about how my kindle is going to connect me to a constant stream of discussion about books I'm reading. Still, interesting so far. I'm 77% on A Brief History of Nearly Everthing. Finished the third chapter of Cloud Atlas the other day. It is fascinating so far. Can't wait to read more of it. 
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Posted: 3/27/2017 1:02:52 PM EDT
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Finished the B-58 Blunder. It was worth the read, relatively quick. Now started on the Vietnam Air War: First Person.
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Posted: 3/28/2017 10:33:47 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/3/2017 5:53:43 PM EDT
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Just stared Delavan Miller's Drum Taps in Dixie. Miller was in the Second New York Heavy Artillery.
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Posted: 4/6/2017 9:00:48 PM EDT
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Memoirs of a Rifleman Scout. A Boyscout Leader joins the KRRC and fights in the trenches.
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Posted: 4/7/2017 6:51:15 PM EDT
[Last Edit: BakerMike]
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Finished Cloud Atlas a few minutes ago. Every passing chapter I liked it a bit more, and I find at the end that I just want to read it again. Excellent, strongly recommended. 5/5
Finished A Short History of Nearly Everything the other day. My enthusiasm for it kind of lost its head of steam about 2/3 of the way through, but I still think it's decent. 3/5 Still picking at The Shallows. Started The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton today. I started reading it once in high school a long time ago, but fell off about halfway through the first volume of the first book. Looking forward to giving it another go. Going to start Remembering Babylon by David Malouf next week for a book club, when my used copy gets in. ETA: Watched Cloud Atlas with my book club buddy today. What a fascinating adaptation of the story's structure. |
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Posted: 4/7/2017 7:47:06 PM EDT
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Days of Rage. America's radical underground. Bryan Burrough.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 4/8/2017 12:47:45 PM EDT
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Started this
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Posted: 4/9/2017 4:48:11 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/9/2017 6:03:57 AM EDT
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Long Range Shooting Handbook by Ryan Cleckner. Keep a copy in your range bag as reference and a copy to pass along to a new shooter.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 4/15/2017 10:22:35 PM EDT
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Just came out and I just finished the previous on so good timing.
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Posted: 4/16/2017 9:31:09 AM EDT
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Irving's Way of the Reaper. It's a sequel to his first book on being a sniper in the 3/75.
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Posted: 4/17/2017 2:12:05 PM EDT
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The Last Punisher. Author was on Kyle's Seal Team 3.
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Posted: 4/18/2017 3:33:52 PM EDT
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Viper Pilot
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