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[#1]
On to "The Book of Mormon Made Easier"
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[#2]
Originally Posted By MadMonkey:
Finished the Monster Hunter main series and now working through some random fantasy. Currently on The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. View Quote |
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Better, Faster, Cheaper - Pick Two!
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Dune, hadnt read it in about 10 years, and I still notice new things for the first time.
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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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Originally Posted By AeroEngineer:
My usual choices in fantasy literature tend towards the grim & gritty, but I actually really enjoyed the The Name of the Wind. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By AeroEngineer:
Originally Posted By MadMonkey:
Finished the Monster Hunter main series and now working through some random fantasy. Currently on The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. Who would you recommend for grim and gritty? I haven't read much fantasy, I wasn't really interested until just a few years ago. |
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Team Ranstad
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Originally Posted By MadMonkey:
I like just about anything really so I'm finding this enjoyable. Who would you recommend for grim and gritty? I haven't read much fantasy, I wasn't really interested until just a few years ago. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By MadMonkey:
Originally Posted By AeroEngineer:
Originally Posted By MadMonkey:
Finished the Monster Hunter main series and now working through some random fantasy. Currently on The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. Who would you recommend for grim and gritty? I haven't read much fantasy, I wasn't really interested until just a few years ago. Joe Abercrombie, The First Law Ed McDonald, The Raven's Mark Series Rob J. Hayes, The Ties That Bind series Scott Lynch, The Gentleman Bastards series Douglas Hulick, Tales of the Kin |
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Better, Faster, Cheaper - Pick Two!
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Originally Posted By AeroEngineer:
Certainly! Here are some recommendations: Joe Abercrombie, The First Law Ed McDonald, The Raven's Mark Series Rob J. Hayes, The Ties That Bind series Scott Lynch, The Gentleman Bastards series Douglas Hulick, Tales of the Kin View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By AeroEngineer:
Originally Posted By MadMonkey:
Originally Posted By AeroEngineer:
Originally Posted By MadMonkey:
Finished the Monster Hunter main series and now working through some random fantasy. Currently on The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. Who would you recommend for grim and gritty? I haven't read much fantasy, I wasn't really interested until just a few years ago. Joe Abercrombie, The First Law Ed McDonald, The Raven's Mark Series Rob J. Hayes, The Ties That Bind series Scott Lynch, The Gentleman Bastards series Douglas Hulick, Tales of the Kin I'll check out the rest, thanks! |
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[#8]
The latest book "River of Night" in the "Graveyard Sky" series by John Ringo is available as an eARC.
https://www.baen.com/river-of-night-earc.html So far, pretty good, I'm about 1/3rd in. |
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Originally Posted By jvhuse:
Glen Cook's Black Company series ought to do! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By jvhuse:
Originally Posted By MadMonkey: I like just about anything really so I'm finding this enjoyable. Who would you recommend for grim and gritty? I haven't read much fantasy, I wasn't really interested until just a few years ago. |
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Better, Faster, Cheaper - Pick Two!
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Originally Posted By AeroEngineer: Oh yes, missed that one. The first couple of books in the series are top notch. View Quote Also, I've added your recommendations above to my list, thanks ! Edit: I just finished Eaters of the Dead by Crichton. It is pretty short and a change of pace, but I enjoyed it and it might fit the gritty fantasy genre. |
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Originally Posted By AeroEngineer: My usual choices in fantasy literature tend towards the grim & gritty, but I actually really enjoyed the The Name of the Wind. View Quote Heard he came out with some gayass novela about the sewers moon girl. I read the synopsis on amazon and removed Rothfuss as an author to follow. I expect I'm not missing shit if/when book 3 comes out |
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Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail. Oversentimentality, oversoftness, washiness, and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people." Teddy Roosevelt
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Originally Posted By AeroEngineer: Certainly! Here are some recommendations: Joe Abercrombie, The First Law Ed McDonald, The Raven's Mark Series Rob J. Hayes, The Ties That Bind series Scott Lynch, The Gentleman Bastards series Douglas Hulick, Tales of the Kin View Quote MadMonkey, how dark and gritty are you looking for? R Scott Bakkers Prince of Nothing series is incredibly good, but pretty dang dark. I'm currently enjoying 40k stuff and am loving the Gaunts Ghosts series. |
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Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail. Oversentimentality, oversoftness, washiness, and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people." Teddy Roosevelt
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Originally Posted By geoint:
MadMonkey, how dark and gritty are you looking for? View Quote I enjoy a wide range, from sunshine and unicorns to as dark as possible. I don't see much of the latter though, so I'd be interested in what you'd recommend. |
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[#15]
Restarting after a nice hiatus. Hannibal by Patrick N. Hunt.
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It's a Fine Art in avoiding propaganda.
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[#16]
Recently finished "Bad Blood" about Elizabeth Holmes / Theranos. Great read.
Thinking about starting either "Dopesick" or "Alienated America" next. Not sure which one I'll pick up first... |
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"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." - H. L. Mencken
DO NOT CONGRATULATE |
[#17]
"Impasse" by Royce O Buckingham.
Honest lawyer goes to Alaska, on vacation. Then discovers he wasn't supposed to survive. What he was must change. Can he? |
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[#18]
Esoteric Hollywood 2:. More Sex, Cults and Symbols in Film by Jay Dyer.
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It's a Fine Art in avoiding propaganda.
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[#19]
The Count of Montecristo again
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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 |
[#20]
In the last twoish weeks:
Blind Man's Bluff by Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew. Seems to be an arfcom favorite, lots of interesting info about the chicanery the US sub force got into during the Cold War. The Deadly Deep by Ian Ballentine. Pretty exhaustive history of the development and employment of submarines in warfare, from the 16th century to the present. Crusade by Rick Atkinson; a history of the Gulf War. As I was an infant at the time alot of it was all new to me. It certainly changed some perspectives I had. Schwarzkopf sounds like a marionette, and the Kuwaitis in particular and Arabs in general come off as utter scumbags. Started: The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang. Only a few chapters in but it's certainly interesting hearing a coastal technocrat's efforts to identify, and plan to rectify, issues plaguing modern "normal" Americans. Shattered Sword by Jonathan Parsall and Anthony Tully. An account of the Battle of Midway that claims to be from a completely new and unexplored perspective. I have my doubts but we'll see. |
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[#21]
One of Us Craig DiLouie
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If there's lead in the air, there's hope!
Originally Posted By fatcat4620: Pizza ovens can't melt steel beams |
[#22]
Through book 3 of “Galaxy’s Edge”.
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Originally Posted By jvhuse: -snip- Edit: I just finished Eaters of the Dead by Crichton. It is pretty short and a change of pace, but I enjoyed it and it might fit the gritty fantasy genre. View Quote They made it into a movie as well, The 13th Warrior. |
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[#24]
Philip Haslam and Russell Lamberti's When Money Destroys Nations. It discusses Zimbabwe and the hyperinflation they had there. Here is an interview with one of the authors:
Philip Haslam: When Money Destroys Nations |
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[#25]
Malazan Book of the Fallen book 4, House of Chains
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Better, Faster, Cheaper - Pick Two!
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[#27]
Frederick Taylor's The Downfall of Money.
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"Inhuman Land, Searching for the Truth in Soviet Russia 1941-1942," by Jozef Czapski.
It's the story of a Polish soldier captured by the Soviets during the September Offensive in 1939, and his journey as a member of the Soviet-backed Polish army through Iran, Palestine and Italy. I'm four chapters in, and it's an illuminating glimpse of the incredible human cost of Soviet Communism, from a perspective we don't often see. The collected Conan the Barbarian series, by Robert E. Howard. It's simple, easy reading that doesn't leave you feeling like shit for being a dude. Been reading this stuff since I was a kid. Scouting on Two Continents, by Maj. Frederick Russell Burnham. Damn good book about an American frontier scout who went to Africa during the Boer War and got into adventures. |
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Vápnum sínum skala maðr velli á feti ganga framar því at óvist er at vita nær verðr á vegum úti geirs um þörf guma |
[#29]
Howard Stern Comes Again
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[#30]
Leviathan by Hobbes.
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To those who have gone before us. May we earn what they have given.
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[#31]
Received yesterday and read Pedro Garcia's Port Hudson: Last Bastion on the Mississippi.
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[#32]
Just finished Arthur Bergeron & Lawrence Hewitt's Miles' Legion: A History and Roster. They fought at Port Hudson under Gardner.
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[#33]
Lab 257 by Michael Christopher Carroll.
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It's a Fine Art in avoiding propaganda.
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[#34]
Notes from the Underground
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Vápnum sínum skala maðr velli á feti ganga framar því at óvist er at vita nær verðr á vegum úti geirs um þörf guma |
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I'm on my first re-read of the Wheel of Time series. I just finished book 9 and started book 10. I never finished the series the first time and book 10 is where I'll get into new stuff for me.
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[#36]
Originally Posted By MOS68W:
In the last twoish weeks: Blind Man's Bluff by Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew. Seems to be an arfcom favorite, lots of interesting info about the chicanery the US sub force got into during the Cold War. View Quote |
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Never mind.
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Since my last post about six weeks ago:
Started/Ongoing: Vietnam by Max Hastings. I'm not very familiar with the conflict, at least at the level I'd like to be, and this seemed like a fairly comprehensive account by someone who'd actually been there. Unfortunately Hastings was a Britbong journo and not a trooper, so his characterizations come off as elitist, sneering, and derogatory despite acknowledging his life was saved by US servicemen. It kind of pissed me off after a while so I set it aside for a bit, I'll come back to it later. Clash of the Carriers by Barrett Tillman. An in-depth account of the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot," I'm not far in yet. The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang. Honestly haven't made it far since last time; he seems to have gone out of his way the last few weeks to align further with the hard left versus bringing an outside/non-partisan-hack perspective to the Democratic primaries, so I'm in no hurry to read much more. Finished: Shattered Sword by Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully. They tried to present it as a totally new take on Midway by presenting it through the Japanese point of view. I will say the research was good, and it provided an interesting look into the Japanese leadership's mindset during the action; they genuinely believed until the last moment they could win. Worth reading if you're really into the Pacific War, but worth skipping as a generalist. Hornblower and the Hotspur, Hornblower and the Crisis, Hornblower and the Atropos, A Ship of the Line, The Happy Return, Flying Colours, and The Commodore by C. S. Forester. If you aren't familiar with Hornblower, think Aubrey-Maturin but if Aubrey was an uncharasmatic autistic person (at least initially) and Maturin a bit of a dullard, accelerated over the course of like nine books instead of 20. Fun reading if you're a fan of the era as I am. Please don't take my characterizations of the main characters as criticism; I like it when authors are able to actually attribute flaws to their heroes. His Majesty's Dragon, Throne of Jade, Black Powder War, and Empire of Ivory of the Temeraire novels by Naomi Novik. These were re-reads and listens so I was able to get through pretty quick. For those unfamiliar, it's an alternate history series set during the Napoleonic Wars where dragons are real, sentient beings and are crewed and fought much as period warships. Kind of silly on the face of it, but enjoyable reads and not shy about the brutality. Hard Magic by Larry Correia. Another re-read and another alternate history, set during the 30s, in which, surprise, magic is real. Guns still work, though, so that's nice. The first in a trilogy, I think the world created in this series is the strongest in all Correia's work and I'm a bit disappointed it ended after three. Spearhead by Adam Makos. An interesting story, poorly told, it follows a handful of members of the Third "Spearhead" Armored Division throughout the ETO, including the crew of one of the first M26 Pershings to join the fight. That particular M26 was the one caught on camera in 1945 dueling with (and destroying) a Panther at comparatively close range. That tank's gunner was extensively interviewed as prime source material by the author; unfortunately, the author didn't seem particularly skilled in weaving together a narrative and I frequently lost track of who was who and doing what. Additionally the book is light on technical details which I know some spergs (such as myself) long for. |
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[#39]
Bergeron and Hewitt's Boone's Louisiana Battery: A History & Roster. Now halfway through Confederate Guerilla.
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[#40]
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War by Robert Coram on audiobook while I workout.
Eye of the World by Robert Jordan on the Kindle. |
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“The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.”
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[#41]
Edward Young Memorries' History of the First Regiment Alabama Volunteer Infantry, C. S. A.
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[#42]
Just finished "A Spy and a Traitor" by Ben Macintyre. It's a very good read. It's about Oleg Gordievsky's career in the KGB. It gets a little into Aldrich Ames's treachery.
After this book I'm wanting to read more books about espionage. Can someone recommend something? |
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[#43]
Rereading With British Snipers to the Reich.
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[#44]
Battle of Westport about Westport, Missouri.
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[#45]
The 97th Step, by Steve Perry. Read it years ago and it was good then, too.
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How you live your life is important. Just be sure the memory of how you died doesn't overshadow the tales of how you lived your life.
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“Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
[#47]
Originally Posted By usar_ds:
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. View Quote |
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DK-Prof: "NO POOP THREADS seems like such a simple rule, yet here we are."
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[#48]
Originally Posted By mPisi: I trust you have read Sniping in France and the McBride books? Reading Stephenson's latest Fall, or Dodge in Hell. Neal goes SJW? Not sure yet. View Quote |
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[#49]
The Thirteenth Tribe by Arthur Koestler. 1976 Original Hardback Edition.
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SHARPSHOOTERS FORWARD The Regimental History of the Palmetto Sharpshooter Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, 1861-1865 by Brocky A. Nicely
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Lyfe member: NMLRA; CoMilHist; INRO, and; In-Arrgh-A. Your name here. Inquire within.
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