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Posted: 2/19/2019 9:43:05 PM EDT
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I'm rereading the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher. Just starting the 4th book.
Great urban fantasy series! |
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Posted: 2/20/2019 11:27:59 PM EDT
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I Held Lincoln. About Lt. Loring of the USN who was present when Abe was shot.
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Posted: 2/21/2019 1:18:39 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MadeintheUSA:
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. J- |
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Posted: 2/21/2019 1:45:29 PM EDT
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Haystacks of Limbs: The Siege of Petersburg, Virginia -1864-1865; The Civil War Diary of Anthony Gaveston Taylor, 39th Illinois Regiment, Company A, Volunteer Veteran Infantry by Bambi Rae Brown.
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Posted: 2/21/2019 1:57:07 PM EDT
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SAKURA: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
By Zachary Hill Zach Hill ran the "Minimum-Wage Historian" website. I loved his take on 'history'. |
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Posted: 2/21/2019 8:11:49 PM EDT
[Last Edit: dfariswheel]
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I just finished "Wild Bill: Americas First Gunfighter" by Tom Clavin.
This has turned up some new info on Hickok and Clavin has attempted to get to the man behind the legend. Also by Clavin is "Dodge City" about the Earp's and Bat Masterson. |
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Posted: 2/22/2019 11:26:54 PM EDT
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Survival of the Richest.
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Posted: 2/23/2019 12:27:26 AM EDT
[#8]
Never Grow Up by Jackie Chan
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Posted: 2/23/2019 4:02:05 PM EDT
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 Spearhead by Adam Makos |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 11:05:23 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Riter]
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Neal Wixson's Echoes from the Boys of Company 'H'. It's about the 100th New York Infantry in the Civil War.
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Posted: 2/28/2019 12:57:22 AM EDT
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This I Cannot Forget: The Memoirs of Nikolai Bukharin's Widow
Been on a Russian kick recently. . .read "The Unkown Stalin" recently, which is where I read about this woman and her husband. .. good book. . . personal observations about the dark and disturbing Russia of the 30's, and one woman's journey through 20 years in the gulag. . . Pretty tough cookie---quite beautiful when she was young. Sad and depressing at times, but even in the midst of hell, there were some brights spots of humanity. . After being released in the 50's she devoted much of the rest of her life in rehabilitating her husbands name. . . She was a commie through and through, but I have to admire that loyalty and devotion to her husband, and her ability to endure very difficult times. . |
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Posted: 3/1/2019 12:23:16 AM EDT
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Buhkarin? Wasn't he once one of the top Soviet leaders until he fell from favor and was purged?
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Posted: 3/4/2019 12:49:11 AM EDT
[Last Edit: tooBeaucoup]
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Finishing up "Mystic River" by Dennis Lehane.
The movie follows the book almost perfectly but I will say you get a lot more from it. I've breezed through it, good read. |
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Posted: 3/6/2019 12:07:21 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4v50:
Buhkarin? Wasn't he once one of the top Soviet leaders until he fell from favor and was purged? |
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Posted: 3/6/2019 4:19:04 PM EDT
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Tales of the Crazy - Why My Ex Embalmed Her Uterus.
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Posted: 3/14/2019 3:10:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By FudgieGhost1:
Yes. Compatriot of Lenin. Stalin purged all the "old Bolsheviks" in the late 30's as well as most of the senior officers in the army. Was he paranoid or were they really plotting against him? or both? Currently reading Selco's book. First pages on the media is spot on. Lulls people into complacency. Then divide et impera (divide and conquer), then agitation to violence. |
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Posted: 3/14/2019 11:45:41 PM EDT
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Voices of the Fall
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Posted: 3/15/2019 12:02:30 PM EDT
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About 3/4ths of the way through Erikson's Gardens of the Moon. This has been a strange novel. I was not enjoying it for the first quarter. Then it started to pick up and now I don't want to put it down. Looking forward to slowly working my way through the rest of the series.
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Posted: 3/15/2019 12:05:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JasonMPA:
I'm rereading the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher. Just starting the 4th book. Great urban fantasy series! I think I'm going to go back and reread Cold Days and Skin Game in preparation for Peace Talks. |
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Posted: 3/15/2019 12:31:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AeroEngineer:
@JasonMPA, Dresden Files is a great series. How far along are you now? I think I'm going to go back and reread Cold Days and Skin Game in preparation for Peace Talks. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AeroEngineer:
Originally Posted By JasonMPA:
I'm rereading the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher. Just starting the 4th book. Great urban fantasy series! I think I'm going to go back and reread Cold Days and Skin Game in preparation for Peace Talks. According to Butcher's website, his Peace talks draft is up to Chapter 49, and he's writing a chapter every 4 or 5 days, so a draft should be complete soon. Hopefully it comes out this year. |
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Posted: 3/15/2019 1:52:56 PM EDT
[Last Edit: usar_ds]
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just finished coyote by allen steele.
read it because someone suggested it. said he was like Heinlein. book is garbage. its like Heinlein if heinline was a fucking hippy commie with a learning disability. |
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Posted: 3/19/2019 8:08:57 PM EDT
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Just finished The History of the Fifty-Third Massachusetts and an Account of the Siege of Port Hudson.
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Posted: 3/20/2019 10:55:27 PM EDT
[Last Edit: misc]
[#23]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4v50:
Just finished The History of the Fifty-Third Massachusetts and an Account of the Siege of Port Hudson. |
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Posted: 3/21/2019 10:05:57 AM EDT
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Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes.
I put it right up there with E.B. Sledge’s “With The Old Breed”. Yes Matterhorn is a novel and Sledge’s is an autobiography but just as impactful. Marlantes has stated all the events in the book happened to him or others he knew. Amazing book. |
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Posted: 3/21/2019 2:23:11 PM EDT
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Started on Deadhouse Gates, Book 2 of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series.
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Posted: 3/21/2019 2:26:02 PM EDT
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Space Team: Sting of the Mustard Mines
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Posted: 3/21/2019 3:30:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By misc:
Do you speed read? You are a prolific reader,sir. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By misc:
Do you speed read? You are a prolific reader,sir. 
I get 10 pages a day and 40 minutes of audiobook  Originally Posted By rocco1695:
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes. I put it right up there with E.B. Sledge’s “With The Old Breed”. |
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Posted: 3/23/2019 12:17:30 PM EDT
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Major General Frank Gardner: Hero of Port Hudson
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Posted: 3/23/2019 12:18:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By misc: Do you speed read? You are a prolific reader,sir. |
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Posted: 3/23/2019 6:32:03 PM EDT
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Decided to work in a little nonfiction, so started Debra Komar’s The Bastard of Fort Stikine: The Hudson's Bay Company and the Murder of John McLoughlin Jr.
If you need a history lesson to disabuse yourself of any of the “rugged but heroic” notions of North American frontier life, this is a great book
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Posted: 3/23/2019 11:00:30 PM EDT
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David Edmonds' The Guns of Port Hudson, Vol. I: The River Campaign
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Posted: 3/25/2019 8:15:29 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4v50:
David Edmonds' The Guns of Port Hudson, Vol. I: The River Campaign Now onto Vol. 2 which covers the Siege of Port Hudson. |
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Posted: 3/25/2019 11:14:50 AM EDT
[Last Edit: PanzerOfDoom]
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Panzer Ace -von Rosen; just started but very good so far. The photos alone make it more than worth the price. Many early war photos from the author’s collection, he went into the USSR on day one and the very early war makes for interesting reading.
Just finished, very good read. |
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Posted: 3/25/2019 12:29:11 PM EDT
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Recently became addicted to 40k lore videos on youtube and needed to start learning more about the universe so I just finished the Kindle books on Eisenhorn and this weekend just bought the 1st Gaunt's Ghosts books.
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Posted: 3/25/2019 12:36:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By jjc155: excellent guide to lifting. Read it when I was much younger and re-read it about a year ago when I started back lifting. J- In my experience, even idiots can sound intelligent when writing (with an editor fixing the most blatant nonsense they write down). Youtube idiots though are easy to identify though because even with editing, a person's sincerity and intelligence are obvious after only 2 or 3 videos. And it's much easier to understand proper form of a movement/exercise with a video than with still imagery. So for fitness stuff, I much prefer Youtube. Scooby1969 remains the most useful channel I've ever found on YT. Even though I'm less about lifting/nutrition these days, I appreciated everything I learned there back in the day. In my mind, lifting guides are mostly conversation pieces. |
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Posted: 3/25/2019 9:56:41 PM EDT
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Next book in the Expanse series, Timat's Wrath, arrives tomorrow
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Posted: 3/28/2019 11:32:02 PM EDT
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On Audiobooks, finished Simon Scarrow's latest (I think) Eagles book, #16 or so. It's enjoyable overall, better writing that other long series like Lt. Leary. As I mentioned in my first review, the heroes have plot armor so they end up getting drowned or knocked out by being hit on the head a lot. In fact being knocked out happens twice to Cato in this last book. But he's still sharp as a tack in spite of his 10+ concussions.
And maybe his wife's a whore, but maybe not. But the whore allegations coincided nicely with the author's contentious divorce
As they got into Roman imperial politics it lost a little suspense since you know certain plots aren't going to work out. But overall I found his historical adaptions or expansions to be interesting. He makes a whole book out of two sentences in Wikipedia: Caratacus himself was defeated in the Battle of Caer Caradoc and fled to the Roman client tribe of the Brigantes who occupied the Pennines. Their queen, Cartimandua was unable or unwilling to protect him however given her own truce with the Romans and handed him over to the invaders. |
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Posted: 3/29/2019 12:11:33 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mPisi:
Next book in the Expanse series, Timat's Wrath, arrives tomorrow |
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Posted: 3/29/2019 12:26:04 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mPisi:
Next book in the Expanse series, Timat's Wrath, arrives tomorrow 
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Posted: 3/29/2019 1:24:25 AM EDT
[Last Edit: usar_ds]
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i just read man who sold the moon by Heinlein. never read it before. i can definitely see how it inspired elon musk (as he has said in an interview).
maybe because its an earlier work but the style is way different for Heinlein, almost like he wrote it to be a 1950s screenplay. |
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Posted: 3/30/2019 8:05:41 PM EDT
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Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Steven Hawking.
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Posted: 4/2/2019 10:25:01 PM EDT
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The War for All the Oceans by Roy & Lesley Adkins.
So far fairly dry and a bit dense if one doesn't have much familiarity with late 18th/early 19th century naval terminology and technology, but judging from the length seems a pretty exhaustive and detailed account of the Napoleonic wars at sea. |
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Posted: 4/4/2019 10:41:54 PM EDT
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Charleston Battles and Seacoast Operations in South Carolina. It's part of the Journal of the American Civil War, Vol. V, No. 2.
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Posted: 4/5/2019 5:38:20 PM EDT
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Charlestonians in War: The Charleston Battalion by W Chris Phelps. It was one of the units at stationed at Battery Wagner at the epic attack on July 18, 1863.
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Posted: 4/7/2019 1:31:57 PM EDT
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Past Tense - Lee Childs
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Posted: 4/11/2019 5:41:04 PM EDT
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Alarm Starboard!- Brooke
RN officer who served on HMS Prince of Whales during her fight with Bismarck and was onboard when sunk by the Japanese. Was then at Singapore for its fall, escaped, sunk again. Went on to escape across Sumatra and then sail across the Indian Ocean to Ceylon. Back to war. Good stuff |
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Posted: 4/11/2019 9:10:10 PM EDT
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Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck. Combination history and travelogue of a modern wagon trip from Missouri to Oregon. I was skeptical at the start because the author seemed a bit whiny, but it has grown on me. Interesting history about the wagon business and mules.
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Posted: 4/14/2019 11:20:37 AM EDT
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Finished Neville's book on sniping and now reading John Walters' book on the same subject. Also rereading Ed Kugler's Dead Center and making notes along the way.
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Posted: 4/14/2019 11:27:07 PM EDT
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Finished the Monster Hunter main series and now working through some random fantasy. Currently on The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.
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Posted: 4/15/2019 12:10:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AeroEngineer:
Started on Deadhouse Gates, Book 2 of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. |
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