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Posted: 9/24/2018 11:37:57 PM EDT
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Barnum's Own Story: The Autobiography of P. T. Barnum
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Posted: 9/26/2018 6:33:50 PM EDT
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Book report when you're done medicman.
Right now I'm reading the original "Go Girl!" book, Lady Death. |
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Posted: 9/27/2018 10:07:44 AM EDT
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Confidential Source Ninety-Six
It is a true story of a successful confidential informant. |
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Posted: 9/27/2018 10:43:53 AM EDT
[#4]
History of Early Rome - Livy.
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SC, USA
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Posted: 9/27/2018 10:49:15 AM EDT
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Just starting on the Extinction series by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
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Posted: 9/27/2018 4:29:13 PM EDT
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ARFCOM GD book section?! Seems like a paradox. I just started A.B. Guthrie's, "The Big Sky".
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Posted: 9/27/2018 11:52:12 PM EDT
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Mikhail Baryatinskiy's The IS Tanks (IS-1, IS-2, IS-3). I put down Lady Death to read this booklet today. The author is Russian and has access to information not readily accessible to us in the West. It's got the most technical and descriptive discussion on the IS-I, IS-II and the IS-III. The Germans ate up the IS-I with it thinner, less sloped armor. Only a handful were made before being replaced with the IS-II. The IS-II were more vulnerable than I thought. Three different noses and the early, bent nose was the most vulnerable. Even the lower glacis of the later third model of the IS-II needed additional armor (generally in the form of spare tracks). Both were vulnerable to infantry panzerfaust/shreck weapons. There is one account of a small hole in a JS-II and all four crew men dead because of of a hollow charge weapon.
Back to Lady Death. |
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Posted: 10/2/2018 10:36:27 AM EDT
[#8]
Horns by Joe Hill
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Posted: 10/2/2018 10:42:47 AM EDT
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Laura Tohe's Code Talker Stories. Navajo woman Laura Tohe speaks the language and uses it to interview some surviving Code Talkers. Each man tells his own experience about the war.
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Posted: 10/7/2018 1:09:34 AM EDT
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Rick Hatcher (now retired from NPS): The Battle of Wilson's Creek and the Struggle for Missouri
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Posted: 10/7/2018 4:35:54 PM EDT
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A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea - by Masaji Ishikawa
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Posted: 10/12/2018 8:36:14 PM EDT
[#12]
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942, by Ian Toll.
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Posted: 10/14/2018 5:36:47 PM EDT
[#13]
“Sam Walton: made in America “
Autobiography of founder of Wal Mart |
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Posted: 10/14/2018 5:55:51 PM EDT
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Started reading Prince of Mercenaries by Jerry Pournelle. "Lost" it in my wife's car (finally found it under the passenger seat). So, I started reading All the Traps of Man by Clifford D. Simak. Somehow, in the middle of this I ran across Vectors by Charles Sheffield and started that.
First time I can remember being into 3 books at the same time. Two? Sure. Several times in 50 years. Not three. Trying to finish off Prince of Mercenaries as it's a good old book. Then I think All the Traps of Man will be next. I've read several books by Simak over the years that were very good books (The Silkie, Way Station, The Goblin Reservation, and a few more). |
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Posted: 10/15/2018 8:36:24 AM EDT
[#15]
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay. Pretty awesome so far!
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Posted: 10/17/2018 12:42:25 PM EDT
[Last Edit: misc]
[#16]
A Casual View of America: Rothschild Letters 1859-1861. Edited by Sigmund Diamond.
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Posted: 10/17/2018 12:47:42 PM EDT
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Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
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Posted: 10/18/2018 6:53:30 PM EDT
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I just finished reading The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell. It's a novel about a boy born with red eyes (ocular albinism) and his life.
What an excellent book. It's one of those books that stay with you forever. 
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Posted: 10/18/2018 11:10:00 PM EDT
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Perfectibilists: The 18th Century Bavarian Order of the Illuminati by Terry Melanson.
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Posted: 10/20/2018 10:33:42 AM EDT
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The Red Badge of Courage.
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Posted: 10/26/2018 9:43:23 AM EDT
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Two going on right now.
Nonfiction history of the rise and fall of the Comanche Indians: And a pulpy sci-fi adventure. If you like Dietz's novels, then I'd recommend this one. |
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Posted: 10/26/2018 9:57:55 AM EDT
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Rereading Stephen Wise's Gate of Hell. It's about the siege of Morris Island outside of Charleston, SC.
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Posted: 10/26/2018 10:18:04 AM EDT
[#23]
The Exorcist
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Posted: 10/26/2018 6:32:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AeroEngineer:
Two going on right now. Nonfiction history of the rise and fall of the Comanche Indians: www.amazon.com/dp/B003KN3MDGAnd a pulpy sci-fi adventure. If you like Dietz's novels, then I'd recommend this one. www.amazon.com/dp/B00J90CEJM |
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Posted: 10/26/2018 7:15:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ChickenDaddy:
Ive had the commanche book in my que for some time, will he interested in hearing your thoughts when finished a Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ChickenDaddy:
Originally Posted By AeroEngineer:
Two going on right now. Nonfiction history of the rise and fall of the Comanche Indians: www.amazon.com/dp/B003KN3MDGAnd a pulpy sci-fi adventure. If you like Dietz's novels, then I'd recommend this one. www.amazon.com/dp/B00J90CEJM |
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Posted: 10/30/2018 8:03:33 PM EDT
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Rereading Ed Bearss’ The Vicksburg Campaign, Vol III. Its the best book on the Siege of Vicksburg.
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Posted: 10/30/2018 9:34:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ChickenDaddy:
Ive had the commanche book in my que for some time, will he interested in hearing your thoughts when finished a Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ChickenDaddy:
Originally Posted By AeroEngineer:
Two going on right now. Nonfiction history of the rise and fall of the Comanche Indians: www.amazon.com/dp/B003KN3MDG |
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Posted: 10/30/2018 11:11:02 PM EDT
[#28]
Monster Hunter Nemesis.
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Posted: 10/31/2018 12:11:42 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By VelvetJones:
Monster Hunter Nemesis. |
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Posted: 10/31/2018 11:52:10 AM EDT
[#30]
Sniper's Honor by Stephen Hunter
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Posted: 10/31/2018 11:58:36 AM EDT
[#31]
Countdown: The Liberators by Tom Kratman
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Posted: 10/31/2018 1:35:22 PM EDT
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Attempting to do The God Delusion on audiobook but they have the author and a woman trading off narration and it is unpleasant. They trade off randomly, sometimes in the same paragraph. Just terrible.
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Posted: 11/4/2018 11:56:47 PM EDT
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Catch-22
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Posted: 11/5/2018 1:02:59 AM EDT
[#34]
Just finished a re-read of The Liberation Trilogy by Rick Atkinson. WWII European campaign broken down into a book each for North Africa, Italian and Mainland Europe.
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Posted: 11/5/2018 9:15:28 PM EDT
[#35]
Blood Makes the Grass Grow by Mike Peshmerganor
A Norwegian ethnic Kurd who is a veteran of the Norwegian miktery tells his story of returning to Northern Iraq and fighting ISIS. I followed him on Instagram while he was over there fighting. It’s been a great book so far, I haven’t been able to put it down. |
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Posted: 11/6/2018 8:42:31 PM EDT
[#36]
D. Brown's The Galvanized Yankees. It's about the Corn-feds who fought for the Union in the West against the N-D-Ns. They were disliked by their southern brethen and unwanted by the post-war GAR.
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Posted: 11/17/2018 11:32:47 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Riter]
[#37]
Earlier I read The Angry Angel of Chinatown about Donaldina Cameron who rescued many Chinese girls (along with some Japanese and whites) from slavery in the San Francisco Bay Area. I knew of her and Cameron House when I grew up, but never any details about her or her work. Her building at 920 Sacramento Street still stands today.
Just finished Bryan Mark Riggs' Lives of Hiter's Jewish Soldiers. While I was aware of the Luftwaffe's Field Marshal E. Milch, I did not know that Bernhard Rogge, skipper of the hilfskreuzer (auxiliary cruiser) Atlantis had some Jewish blood. Fritz Bayerlein, one of Rommel's leading officer in DAK as well as commander of Panzer Lehr division had not only Jewish blood but a homosexual! There are a lot of other lesser or unknown soldiers who had Jewish blood that the author examines including their struggle against discrimination, knowledge that their families were persecuted at home. Not to denigrate the experience of the Jews in Europe, The only thing remotely close to this is the Japanese Americans who served in the 442 (but no genocide) and the American Indians. |
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Posted: 11/18/2018 9:34:10 PM EDT
[#38]
The Ape that Understood the Universe by Steve Stewart-Williams.
I’m convinced that humanity will be saved by evolutionary psychologists/biologists. |
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Posted: 11/18/2018 9:40:41 PM EDT
[#39]
the Hero has a Thousand Faces.
again. |
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Posted: 11/19/2018 12:42:29 AM EDT
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Finished The Leopard and the Cliff by Wallace Breem. You may know my esteem for his book Eagle in the Snow, which is probably one of my top 5 books. So I have been seeking out his other ones. Leopard is a story of a British frontier officer in Afghanistan during a border war in the 1920s. It was interesting enough but nothing in comparison to Eagle.
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Posted: 11/19/2018 10:58:03 AM EDT
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Intensity by Dean Koontz
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Posted: 11/19/2018 12:13:58 PM EDT
[#42]
The Unknown Stalin by Roy Medevez. I read his other book, Let History Be Judge about Stalin decades ago. Just watched The Death of Stalin and the very first chapter of The Unknown Stalin talks about the Stalin's death and how it was handled by the Soviets.
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Posted: 11/24/2018 3:50:43 PM EDT
[#43]
I’m halfway through The Hobbit and when I finish I’ll start The Lord of the Rings. It’s my first time reading them.
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Posted: 11/24/2018 11:48:20 PM EDT
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Just got done with "Anathem" by Neal Stephenson. I am not sure which is the bigger steaming pile of crap "ReamDe" or "Anathem". Stephenson has written some of my favorite works and essays...but his recent work is utter drek. Just plain shit. I tossed it in the trash after I was done.
I moved onto something lighter and ENJOYABLE: Charles Sheffield's "Dark as Day" which stars my favorite, morbidly obese hero "The Bat"!!!! |
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Posted: 11/25/2018 1:15:15 AM EDT
[Last Edit: mPisi]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By desertmoon:
Just got done with "Anathem" by Neal Stephenson. I am not sure which is the bigger steaming pile of crap "ReamDe" or "Anathem". Stephenson has written some of my favorite works and essays...but his recent work is utter drek. Just plain shit. I tossed it in the trash after I was done  
{deep, cleansing breaths to deactivate fanboy defense} Dude, that is harsh. May Amnectrus hit you cleanly when you scale the walls with the rest of the benighted peasantry 
And Seveneves is fantastic. Mongoliad was interesting for a group project. DODO was mostly the co-author. Coincidentally I am reading REAMDE again. I too thought it was crap when it came out. Maybe it would have been a good action/spy novel if it wasn't by Stephenson. Shades of his early novel Cobweb. But then I was watching a bunch of old interviews from that publicity tour and I realized I couldn't remember a damn thing about the book. He's talking about some interesting themes. Can't find my copy in the house, must have sold it. Go to half price, no paperbacks, only one hardback. Possibly could be the copy I sold back to them... Enjoying it so far. Solid Earthtone Coalition here. |
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Posted: 11/26/2018 2:20:46 AM EDT
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Remembered Prisoners of a Forgotten War by Lewis Carlson. It's about the Korean War PoWs. Brutal what they did to our guys.
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Posted: 11/26/2018 10:26:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mPisi:
{deep, cleansing breaths to deactivate fanboy defense} Dude, that is harsh. May Amnectrus hit you cleanly when you scale the walls with the rest of the benighted peasantry
And Seveneves is fantastic. Mongoliad was interesting for a group project. DODO was mostly the co-author. Coincidentally I am reading REAMDE again. I too thought it was crap when it came out. Maybe it would have been a good action/spy novel if it wasn't by Stephenson. Shades of his early novel Cobweb. But then I was watching a bunch of old interviews from that publicity tour and I realized I couldn't remember a damn thing about the book. He's talking about some interesting themes. Can't find my copy in the house, must have sold it. Go to half price, no paperbacks, only one hardback. Possibly could be the copy I sold back to them... Enjoying it so far. Solid Earthtone Coalition here. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mPisi:
Originally Posted By desertmoon:
Just got done with "Anathem" by Neal Stephenson. I am not sure which is the bigger steaming pile of crap "ReamDe" or "Anathem". Stephenson has written some of my favorite works and essays...but his recent work is utter drek. Just plain shit. I tossed it in the trash after I was done
{deep, cleansing breaths to deactivate fanboy defense} Dude, that is harsh. May Amnectrus hit you cleanly when you scale the walls with the rest of the benighted peasantry
And Seveneves is fantastic. Mongoliad was interesting for a group project. DODO was mostly the co-author. Coincidentally I am reading REAMDE again. I too thought it was crap when it came out. Maybe it would have been a good action/spy novel if it wasn't by Stephenson. Shades of his early novel Cobweb. But then I was watching a bunch of old interviews from that publicity tour and I realized I couldn't remember a damn thing about the book. He's talking about some interesting themes. Can't find my copy in the house, must have sold it. Go to half price, no paperbacks, only one hardback. Possibly could be the copy I sold back to them... Enjoying it so far. Solid Earthtone Coalition here. 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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Posted: 11/27/2018 11:59:19 PM EDT
[#48]
Just finished, The Sea Wolf by Jack London. Starting, A More Complete Beast by Jack Donovan.
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Posted: 11/28/2018 12:11:52 AM EDT
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Just finished H-Hour, the third book in the Countdown series by Tom Kratman. He's probably one of my top 5 favorite writers, especially in scifi
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Posted: 11/28/2018 12:26:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By strider98:
Just finished H-Hour, the third book in the Countdown series by Tom Kratman. He's probably one of my top 5 favorite writers, especially in scifi Looks like something I would pick up! Currently reading Deep Silence from Jonathan Maberry. Just one in the long Joe Ledger series |
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