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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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[#2]
about halfway thru with Kratman's 7th book in the Carrera series, Pillar of Fire by Night.
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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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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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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. View Quote 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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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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[#6]
Valley of Shadows by Ringo/Massa, the newest Black Tide Rising book
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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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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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[#9]
The Hunters Alaska, by Roy F. Chandler
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I'm thinking of necking up the 6.5 Creedmoor to take a .308 bullet. It would make a nice round for hunting deer and offer a wider range of bullets.
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I'm reading the prey series
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Do you know what? No, but I know his brother who.
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Originally Posted By desertmoon:
Just got done with "Anathem" by Neal Stephenson. ... I moved onto something lighter... View Quote 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 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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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. View Quote 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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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
And of course Boudicca was a young lady in the Roman invasion of Britain so she has to be the love interest for a while. Since the main characters can't be killed, the younger Cato is constantly getting knocked out by blows to the head. Apparently concussions and resultant damage build up hadn't been invented yet.
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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“Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
[#15]
Captain Joseph Boyce and the First Missouri Infantry, C.S.A. by William Winter.
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[#16]
Bridge Busters: The Story of the 394th Bomb Group, by J. Guy Ziegler
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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 |
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Tip of the Iceberg, My 3,000 Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, The Last Great American Frontier by Mark Adams
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[#18]
War Diary: 1862-65 by Brevet Brigadier General Joseph Stockton
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[#20]
Ninety Eight Days: A Geographer's View of the Vicksburg Campaign by Warren E. Grabau.
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[#21]
The Andromeda Strain - Michael Crichton
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[#22]
Started re-reading Lord of the Rings. Its one of my favorites, i read through it every couple of years.
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[#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. |
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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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[#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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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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[#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!
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[#28]
The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy
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[#29]
Seventh Michigan Infantry. They did an amphibious assault across the Rappahannock River at Fredericksburg (Dec. 11, 1862).
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[#30]
Just finished Red Platoon.
Great read written by a Medal of Honor recipient. |
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[#31]
Imtroduced my kids to audiobooks, with the title "Zero g". Kind of a home alone story set in space, but not slapstick.
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[#32]
Quarstein & Moore's Yorktown's Civil War Siege.
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[#33]
Empire of the Summer Moon.
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"There are two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket." MajGen Smedley Butler, USMC
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[#34]
Lawrence Lee Hewitt's Port Hudson, Confederate Bastion on the Mississippi.
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[#35]
Preston and Child's "Verses for the Dead." My signed copy just arrived yesterday.
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[#36]
Michael Dan Jones' 9th Battalion Louisiana Infantry in the Battle of Baton Rouge and Siege of Port Hudson
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[#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.
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[#38]
The Phule's Company series by Robert Aspirin
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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 |
[#39]
Ready Player One. Love all the 80s references.
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[#40]
Terry Scriber's The Twenty-seventh Louisiana Volunteer Infantry
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[#41]
Bedpan Commando, by June Wandrey.
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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 |
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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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[#43]
Mediations by Marcus Aurelius
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[#44]
Wilderness Empire by Allan W. Eckert. Also read Frontiersman by same author previously.
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[#45]
The Secrets of the Hittites by C.W. Ceram.
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"Civilized peoples are never racially pure; rather they are always the product of large number of strata formed by more or less different races" Hugo Winckler
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[#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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[#47]
A Brief History of the Future by Jacques Attali.
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"Civilized peoples are never racially pure; rather they are always the product of large number of strata formed by more or less different races" Hugo Winckler
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[#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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" I swear by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." John Galt.
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[#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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“When you have to shoot…shoot, don’t talk.” Tuco
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