So What Are You Reading Now? (Page 6 of 71)
| Reading Larry Correia's new Grimnoir novel. BTW so far it's his best book yet, period. |
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Sour Mix? In a Margarita? What is this, Auschwitz?
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| Wife got me 3 of Lee Child's Jack Reacher novels for Christmas and I am just now getting to them. Read "The Enemy" on Wednesday, started on "The Hard Way" yesterday. Have "Nothing To Lose" on deck. Still trying to finish the first book in the "Game of Thrones" series, but losing interest. |
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Originally Posted By RikWriter: Started the Grimnoir series today. Love it as much as MHI so far. Just finished "A Frozen Hell" older book about the Winter War (good read). Also, "The Fatal Shore" about the founding of Australia (to long, but if you want to read endless facts & details about the horrors of the penal colonies this is your book) Reading Larry Correia's new Grimnoir novel. BTW so far it's his best book yet, period. |
We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We are evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go. I'm surprised you didn't know.
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Been reading the Spinward Fringe series. Great, great space opera. The first one in the series is free if you have a Kindle, app or cloud reader on your comp Broadcast 0: Origins All thanks to whogasak47 for his wonderful contributions in the free kindle books thread! |
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Originally Posted By RikWriter: Reading Larry Correia's new Grimnoir novel. BTW so far it's his best book yet, period. WHAT! Ordering now, didn't know it existed. |
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you." - Nietzsche
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"Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin" by Timothy Snyder.
I'm only on page 97 of 504 but it's sickening. So far, most of it has been about Stalin's purges before the war. I'm just getting to the late 1930's and Hitler's start. This gives the first real assessment of just what these two monsters did to the people of central Europe from 1933 to 1945. They converted Central Europe into a vast killing field, or "Bloodland". Much has been heard of Hitler's killing of 10 million people, but little known was the vast killings Stalin ordered before the war. Stalin was the first despot to use famine as a political weapon, and deliberately starved millions to death. Stalin was responsible for millions dead before the war, but before 1939, the Nazis had actually killed only a tiny few people. The Nazis were about putting people in concentration camps then, Stalin was always about killing them. In one instance, when Stalin ordered the liquidation of the Kulaks, (and any one could be deemed a Kulak) just 12 NKVD officers shot 20,761 people in 1937 and '38 in just one area near Moscow. So far, this is some excellent history that looks beyond the usual story of the Nazi horror to the largely hidden horror of Stalin and his much larger crimes. As far as I know, no one has written much about Mao's even worse campaign of murder in China, where estimates are that something on the order of 80 million Chinese were murdered in his "Great leap Forward" and cultural revolution. |
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Originally Posted By jmdau:
Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe's series. Historical fiction about life in the British army in the late 18th and early 19th century, as muskets gave way to rifles. Interesting view of the Napoleonic Wars. Those are FANTASTIC. If Cornwell wrote a phone book it would be a great read. |
If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? Maybe, if they screamed all the time, and for no good reason.
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Just picked up Service
Currently reading: Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz 13 Cent Killers: The 5th Marine Snipers in Vietnam (Which I probably won't finish) Finished Back in the Fight last week. |
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Originally Posted By Roland-G23:
Wife got me 3 of Lee Child's Jack Reacher novels for Christmas and I am just now getting to them. Read "The Enemy" on Wednesday, started on "The Hard Way" yesterday. Have "Nothing To Lose" on deck. Still trying to finish the first book in the "Game of Thrones" series, but losing interest. How did the Jack Reacher novels turn out? Saw the movie and liked it so I was considering buying the books. |
Sour Mix? In a Margarita? What is this, Auschwitz?
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Gross' The Minute Men and Their World Discusses life in Concord, MA just before the American Revolution and the Revolution's outbreak.
Before that I finished, "The Battle of Glorietta Pass." I guess the Confederates didn't lose because, according to some fellow in The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, "Sibley, he looks dead." |
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Just finished 'Last of the Breed' by Louis L'Amour.
I always thought he wrote just Westerns, but this is a tale about an American Indian who also happens to be a pilot (Colonel in the USAF) and is taken prisoner in Russia (Siberia). Excellent book! |
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Just finished "Outlaw Platoon" last night. Awesome book, deeply rooted about the brotherhood of soldiers.
About to start "Atlas Shrugged" its a giant book so I will get back to you when I finish it in 6 months. |
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Re-read of Monster Hunters International. Will be following up with Dead Six at some point.
Wanting on the Dead six Sequel and Warbound to come out. I do pick up Gotrek and Felix as my filler. Mindless Fantasy, but entertaining. This winter I'll it the Ensinhorn Trilogy (had to retire my original Omnibus.. started falling apart) |