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Originally Posted By medicmandan:
Finished the Divergent series a couple of days ago. Ending sucked. View Quote 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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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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Harry Potter 5 but I just picked up Leviathan Wakes.
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"There has never been a sadness that can't be cured by breakfast food" - Ron Swanson
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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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Quick like a bunny, like a bunny quick-quick.
NC, USA
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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. |
Shut up, Baker.
[22:20] <+JSG> Oh, right, you're the furry. |
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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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I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, & our flag still waves proudly from the walls - I shall never surrender or retreat.
- W B Travis |
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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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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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NRA Life Member, Cigar Lover, Humidor Moderator
OH, USA
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Currently reading Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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Future Crimes by Marc Goodman, Kinda makes me want to delete my account
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NRA Life Member, Cigar Lover, Humidor Moderator
OH, USA
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Kill Screen by Benjamin Reeves
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Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito
FL, USA
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"When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty."
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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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Quick like a bunny, like a bunny quick-quick.
NC, USA
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Shut up, Baker.
[22:20] <+JSG> Oh, right, you're the furry. |
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Still working on Trafalgar: An eyewitnesses history.
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A bad day at the range is better than a good day at work
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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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Damn. Aimless must have a belt-fed lock button. -photokirk
Logic is to democrats what laser pointers are to cats. They just confuse the shit out of them. -h3smith Welfare is a safety net, not a hammock. -cmjohnson |
NRA Life Member, Cigar Lover, Humidor Moderator
OH, USA
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The Maze Runner by James Dashner
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Quick like a bunny, like a bunny quick-quick.
NC, USA
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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. |
Shut up, Baker.
[22:20] <+JSG> Oh, right, you're the furry. |
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Originally Posted By BakerMike:
Spoilers, man! View Quote 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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Finally finished the Trafalgar book I was reading. Just picked up The Dardanelles: Tragedy and Heroism.
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A bad day at the range is better than a good day at work
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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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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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I'll be somewhere down in Texas if you're lookin' for me,
Drinkin' in that great wide-open... soakin' up the summer breeze. Kickin' back an' settled in with my family. I'll be somewhere down in Texas if you're lookin' for me. |
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Just finished Fred Ray,s Sharpshooter about Maj. EUGENE Blackford.
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Finished The Dardanelles. It wasn't worth the read.
Started The B-58 Blunder. |
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A bad day at the range is better than a good day at work
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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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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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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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A bad day at the range is better than a good day at work
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NRA Life Member, Cigar Lover, Humidor Moderator
OH, USA
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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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Memoirs of a Rifleman Scout. A Boyscout Leader joins the KRRC and fights in the trenches.
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Quick like a bunny, like a bunny quick-quick.
NC, USA
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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. |
Shut up, Baker.
[22:20] <+JSG> Oh, right, you're the furry. |
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Days of Rage. America's radical underground. Bryan Burrough.
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"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it". T. Sowell.
Bruce St. Pierre 1953-2016 RIP Brother. |
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“Firearms are tools, and the more exotic the tool, the more limited its usefulness.” - John L Plaster
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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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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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The Last Punisher. Author was on Kyle's Seal Team 3.
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Viper Pilot
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"There has never been a sadness that can't be cured by breakfast food" - Ron Swanson
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