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Riter Member Joined Nov 2000 Posts 132214 EE 100% (6) CO, USA	Posted: 12/2/2018 11:19:11 AM EDT [#1] Bruce Catton's The Coming Fury. About the days before the Civil War. It's the final Bruce Catton trilogy to read.
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strider98 You can't take the sky from me... Joined Jun 2012 Posts 6105 EE 0% (0) TX, USA	Posted: 12/2/2018 4:36:53 PM EDT [#2] about halfway thru with Kratman's 7th book in the Carrera series, Pillar of Fire by Night.
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KPog Procrastibator Joined Aug 2010 Posts 418 EE 100% (4) CA, USA	Posted: 12/3/2018 3:58:12 PM EDT [#3] Just finished The way of kings by Brandon Sanderson and it was great. I will be reading the rest of the series.

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Posted: 12/3/2018 10:36:18 PM EDT

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Originally Posted By desertmoon:
One of my favorites is Zodiac. I coudn't believe how much I loved that book.
Snow Crash was just over the top fantastic Cryptonomicon introduced me to Cryptocurrency and the datahaven concept....
but "the Diamond Age". Now THAT is a masterpiece of futurism. I have read that damn book so many times I have lost count.
The first half of REAMDE had me thinking, "Damn dude, get out of my head." The last half just sucked.

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OK, you're cool since you've read the back catalog.

News today, Stephenson's next book is Fall, or Dodge in Hell.
Which is of course a sequel to REAMDE, hah. But the description sounds interesting. With my faith restored by Seveneves, I did preorder, but only the paperback ($3 savings whooo). Until further disappointment I will preorder Stephenson's main books and hold off on the co-authored ones until some reviews come in.

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Riter Member Joined Nov 2000 Posts 132548 EE 100% (6) CO, USA	Posted: 12/6/2018 10:45:51 PM EDT [#5] Today the Post Office delivered Mehegan & Mehegan's Record of a Soldier in the Late War: The Confederate Memoir of John Wesley Bone. I'm setting aside Catton's The Coming Fury to read this.
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strider98 You can't take the sky from me... Joined Jun 2012 Posts 6109 EE 0% (0) TX, USA	Posted: 12/7/2018 12:47:35 AM EDT [#6] Valley of Shadows by Ringo/Massa, the newest Black Tide Rising book
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Riter Member Joined Nov 2000 Posts 132679 EE 100% (6) CO, USA	Posted: 12/9/2018 7:48:52 PM EDT [#7] I'm crawling through the antebellum politics of Catton's The Coming Fury and finished John Gill's Four Years in the Confederate Army.
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jmccoy Joined Jul 2005 Posts 3695 EE 100% (14) TN, USA	Posted: 12/11/2018 9:56:03 PM EDT [#8] Just finished Black Autumn by Kirkham & Ross. It wasn't bad. I'm looking forward to the next installments.

FZJ80 Member Joined Aug 2015 Posts 2959 EE 0% (0) MI, USA	Posted: 12/13/2018 6:44:36 PM EDT [#9] The Hunters Alaska, by Roy F. Chandler
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Pcmangler Indomitable Warrior Joined Oct 2018 Posts 201 EE 0% (0) IL, USA	Posted: 12/18/2018 10:35:33 PM EDT [Last Edit: Pcmangler] [#10] I'm reading the prey series
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Posted: 12/19/2018 10:47:16 AM EDT

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Originally Posted By desertmoon:
Just got done with "Anathem" by Neal Stephenson. ...
I moved onto something lighter...

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If you were familiar with Jorge Borges's Garden of Forking Paths, its kind of amazing that Stephenson even attempted to write a book incorporating such ideas. Its probably one of the more ambitious pieces of fiction I've ever read. And I thoroughly enjoyed it. I can't argue that almost any other choice would be "lighter" reading. The language, setting, and entire structure of the ending are not everyone's cup of tea.

To the contrary Seveneves, among the books actually written by Stephenson (not including his co-authored works) was my least favorite, specifically because it lacked the humor Stephenson usually brings to his fiction.

dfariswheel Joined Feb 2005 Posts 9364 EE 0% (0) USA	Posted: 12/19/2018 8:52:18 PM EDT [#12] I just started the late Charles Krauthammer's book "The Point of It All", finished by his son. It's just as good as "Things That Matter".

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Posted: 12/20/2018 1:05:14 AM EDT

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Originally Posted By Slapoquidik:
To the contrary Seveneves, among the books actually written by Stephenson (not including his co-authored works) was my least favorite, specifically because it lacked the humor Stephenson usually brings to his fiction.

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I was about to protest but after trying to think about humor in Seveneves, you are probably right. Perhaps some of Doob's observations are the best we get.

OTOH, I consider Seveneves as possibly his best book. That is not the same as my favorite. But I put the book in a special, very rare category for me of being an extremely "human" book. Just a fantastic representation of human nature in its full spectrum from wonderful to terrible. That is rare to see. It's the natural peak of Stephenson's celebration of people doing real things, matched against forces of nature and human fuckheads who had me saying halfway through my first read "They've got 1,500 people in orbit, what the hell does seven have to do with anything?" Well, the fuckheads made it happen.

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Posted: 12/20/2018 1:18:09 AM EDT

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To keep better on topic, I'm currently working my way through the Simon Scarrow "Eagles" series, and old vet/young recruit buddy action series set in 40AD Roman legions. It is good enough for listening in the car, although the deus ex machina is ever-present. Click To View Spoiler
I do laugh at some of his names. The treasonous centurion Posthumous is featured, when a name like that should have been saved for a constantly referenced but never explained joke about some guy's terrible off-screen death. And Cato's trusty squaddie Pyrex, who teaches him the ropes in the early books, dies but is amazingly NOT replaced by the new recruit Corningware!

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Riter Member Joined Nov 2000 Posts 133175 EE 100% (6) CO, USA	Posted: 12/22/2018 11:49:29 PM EDT [#15] Captain Joseph Boyce and the First Missouri Infantry, C.S.A. by William Winter.
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MissileCop Member Joined Apr 2001 Posts 1380 EE 0% (0) NH, USA	Posted: 12/24/2018 6:36:27 PM EDT [#16] Bridge Busters: The Story of the 394th Bomb Group, by J. Guy Ziegler
	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

medicmandan Member Joined Jun 2002 Posts 26851 EE 100% (20) UT, USA	Posted: 12/30/2018 3:08:34 PM EDT [#17] Tip of the Iceberg, My 3,000 Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, The Last Great American Frontier by Mark Adams

Riter Member Joined Nov 2000 Posts 133688 EE 100% (6) CO, USA	Posted: 12/31/2018 10:22:48 PM EDT [#18] War Diary: 1862-65 by Brevet Brigadier General Joseph Stockton
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Riter Member Joined Nov 2000 Posts 133689 EE 100% (6) CO, USA	Posted: 12/31/2018 10:23:36 PM EDT [#19] Quote History Originally Posted By FZJ80: The Hunters Alaska, by Roy F. Chandler View Quote Roy Chandler wrote the forward to my first book. RIP Rocky.
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Riter Member Joined Nov 2000 Posts 133737 EE 100% (6) CO, USA	Posted: 1/1/2019 5:44:31 PM EDT [#20] Ninety Eight Days: A Geographer's View of the Vicksburg Campaign by Warren E. Grabau.
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M41A Dancing is forbidden Joined Feb 2011 Posts 3609 EE 100% (18) TX, USA	Posted: 1/6/2019 10:33:26 PM EDT [#21] The Andromeda Strain - Michael Crichton

Logan45 Terminally pretty Joined Jul 2009 Posts 2571 EE 100% (6) LA, USA	Posted: 1/8/2019 11:49:13 AM EDT [#22] Started re-reading Lord of the Rings. Its one of my favorites, i read through it every couple of years.

ChickenDaddy Member Joined Feb 2007 Posts 7436 EE 100% (241) MN, USA	Posted: 1/10/2019 12:09:05 AM EDT [#23] Blood World, book 8 of “undying mercenaries “. Looks like i’m a bit lighter in content than most on this page. But it is a fun series.

Riter Member Joined Nov 2000 Posts 134116 EE 100% (6) CO, USA	Posted: 1/10/2019 9:17:38 AM EDT [Last Edit: Riter] [#24] Osborn Oldroyd's "A Soldier's Story of the Siege of Vicksburg" ETA online copy: https://books.google.com/books?id=qKteqwb-dIIC&pg=PP7#v=onepage&q&f=false
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Bearsfan Member Joined Nov 2008 Posts 3373 EE 100% (3) MO, USA	Posted: 1/16/2019 1:39:00 PM EDT [#25] Just started the American Revenant series by John L. Davis IV. Just finished Average Joe by him and it was pretty good for a relatively unknown author.
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Riter Member Joined Nov 2000 Posts 134662 EE 100% (6) CO, USA	Posted: 1/20/2019 6:17:32 PM EDT [Last Edit: Riter] [#26] Just finished Silver State Dreadnought about the battleship Nevada. Starting Shea & Winschel's Vicksburg is the Key. Finished it this morning. Single best single volume on Vicksburg.
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BuffCat Joined Jan 2019 Posts 10 EE 0% (0) CA, USA	Posted: 1/22/2019 7:49:36 PM EDT [#27] Been reading Bad Blood, which is about the startup company Theranos that claimed to be able to test people's blood with just a few droplets and a fraction of the cost. Pretty crazy read because she raised millions of dollars from some of Silicon Valley's best VCs based on... well don't want to spoil it!

elderboy02 NRA Life Member, Humidor Moderator Joined Jul 2007 Posts 12323 EE 100% (34) OH, USA	Posted: 1/23/2019 11:03:50 AM EDT [#28] The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy

Riter Member Joined Nov 2000 Posts 134836 EE 100% (6) CO, USA	Posted: 1/23/2019 11:55:03 AM EDT [#29] Seventh Michigan Infantry. They did an amphibious assault across the Rappahannock River at Fredericksburg (Dec. 11, 1862).
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RayJaxShooter Member Joined Feb 2007 Posts 770 EE 100% (15) FL, USA	Posted: 1/25/2019 6:38:37 PM EDT [#30] Just finished Red Platoon. Great read written by a Medal of Honor recipient.

ChickenDaddy Member Joined Feb 2007 Posts 7471 EE 100% (241) MN, USA	Posted: 1/26/2019 8:35:11 AM EDT [#31] Imtroduced my kids to audiobooks, with the title "Zero g". Kind of a home alone story set in space, but not slapstick.

Riter Member Joined Nov 2000 Posts 134947 EE 100% (6) CO, USA	Posted: 1/26/2019 8:55:47 AM EDT [#32] Quarstein & Moore's Yorktown's Civil War Siege.
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RustyKnifeUSMC Major Catastrophe Joined Apr 2012 Posts 2515 EE 100% (24) MO, USA	Posted: 1/27/2019 10:23:17 AM EDT [#33] Empire of the Summer Moon.
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Riter Member Joined Nov 2000 Posts 135086 EE 100% (6) CO, USA	Posted: 1/29/2019 11:47:52 PM EDT [#34] Lawrence Lee Hewitt's Port Hudson, Confederate Bastion on the Mississippi.
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DesertGuns Member Joined Sep 2007 Posts 634 EE 0% (0) USA	Posted: 1/30/2019 5:59:20 PM EDT [#35] Preston and Child's "Verses for the Dead." My signed copy just arrived yesterday.

Riter Member Joined Nov 2000 Posts 135411 EE 100% (6) CO, USA	Posted: 2/6/2019 11:08:58 AM EDT [#36] Michael Dan Jones' 9th Battalion Louisiana Infantry in the Battle of Baton Rouge and Siege of Port Hudson
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MadMonkey WHEEEEEEE Joined Nov 2008 Posts 28019 EE 100% (81) TX, USA	Posted: 2/6/2019 7:17:17 PM EDT [#37] Finished all 15 books of the Dresden Files (great series) and have now started Monster Hunter International. Big difference in writing but I like Correia's style and can tell it's going to improve as the series goes on.

strider98 You can't take the sky from me... Joined Jun 2012 Posts 6180 EE 0% (0) TX, USA	Posted: 2/7/2019 12:37:44 AM EDT [#38] The Phule's Company series by Robert Aspirin
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WedgeAJT Member Joined Jan 2016 Posts 77 EE 0% (0) FL, USA	Posted: 2/7/2019 12:55:04 AM EDT [#39] Ready Player One. Love all the 80s references.

Riter Member Joined Nov 2000 Posts 135506 EE 100% (6) CO, USA	Posted: 2/7/2019 10:53:55 PM EDT [#40] Terry Scriber's The Twenty-seventh Louisiana Volunteer Infantry
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MissileCop Member Joined Apr 2001 Posts 1415 EE 0% (0) NH, USA	Posted: 2/8/2019 9:47:02 PM EDT [#41] Bedpan Commando, by June Wandrey.
	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

Riter Member Joined Nov 2000 Posts 135549 EE 100% (6) CO, USA	Posted: 2/9/2019 10:30:56 AM EDT [#42] Scribner's book contributed nothing to my knowledge about the Siege of Vicksburg. Onto Dick Stanley's The Blooody Thirteenth about Barksdale's Thirteenth Mississippi Volunteer Infantry. They fought at Fredericksburg.
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medicmandan Member Joined Jun 2002 Posts 26966 EE 100% (20) UT, USA	Posted: 2/10/2019 6:02:07 PM EDT [#43] Mediations by Marcus Aurelius

tucsonkid Joined Apr 2018 Posts 59 EE 100% (3) OH, USA	Posted: 2/10/2019 6:12:23 PM EDT [#44] Wilderness Empire by Allan W. Eckert. Also read Frontiersman by same author previously.

misc Gravel. Joined Sep 2005 Posts 8394 EE 100% (23) TX, USA	Posted: 2/13/2019 1:29:53 AM EDT [#45] The Secrets of the Hittites by C.W. Ceram.
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Riter Member Joined Nov 2000 Posts 135830 EE 100% (6) CO, USA	Posted: 2/14/2019 2:12:56 PM EDT [#46] Robert Gandt's China Clippers: The Age of the Great Flying Boats. Sidenote: My uncle worked on the China Clipper as a mechanic before WW II and on PBYs as a squid during the war.
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misc Gravel. Joined Sep 2005 Posts 8403 EE 100% (23) TX, USA	Posted: 2/14/2019 11:53:40 PM EDT [#47] A Brief History of the Future by Jacques Attali.
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jjc155 NRA Life Member Joined Dec 2006 Posts 14277 EE 0% (0) MI, USA	Posted: 2/16/2019 10:01:23 PM EDT [#48] Finishing up Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning. Prob gonna start Notes from the Underground by Dostevsky when I'm done with that. J-
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Lungbuster weather-eyed shooter Joined Feb 2009 Posts 5461 EE 100% (1) ID, USA	Posted: 2/19/2019 12:04:15 AM EDT [#49] I just reread Mediations by Marcus Aurelius for the second time. Currently reading Dersu the trapper by V.K. Arseniev. It's pretty good so far.
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Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe. Let me just say I'm glad I started reading this book one month into starting StrongLifts 5x5.

I lifted heavy on and off for many years. 5-6 of those years were mostly compound lifts. Apparently my squat technique sucked. I never realized propert technique involved more than breaking parallel and not arching your back. I have a lot more respect for squats now and have learned to love doing them 3x week.

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