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Reading anything good?
« on: January 28, 2008, 06:35:09 AM »
I just started Chosin: Heroic Ordeal of the Korean War by Eric Hammel.

Pretty good so far, I'm only 100 or so pages into it, though.
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Re: Reading anything good?
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2008, 06:37:51 AM »
A survey of the development of artillery from the Crimean War to modern day.
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Re: Reading anything good?
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2008, 06:38:07 AM »
Does a boatload of textbooks count?

Actually, I really am enjoying reading most of them.
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Re: Reading anything good?
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2008, 07:19:44 AM »
Monster Hunter International.  Given that it got here friday, and so did the flu bug, I read the whole thing this weekend.  Thats on kick ass book, written by our own Larry Correia.

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Re: Reading anything good?
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2008, 08:09:02 AM »
Chesapeake. On tape, for about the next twenty trips to the river & back. On tape, I pick up lots of details I don't remember from the first read.

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« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2008, 09:26:52 AM »
I normally have several going at once.

The Greatest Battle (Stalin Hitler and the Battle for Moscow) is by the bed.
Confrontation at Lepanto is in the Bathroom.
Mysteries of the Middle Ages : the rise of feminism, science, and art from the cults of Catholic Europe is in the family room.

Depending on where I'm at determines what I read.

I just finish Reduced Shakespeare (Fun Read, BTW!!) it was in the bathroom.  My daughter is reading it now.  Ties nicely into where they're at in Literature in School.
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« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2008, 09:48:37 AM »
"Cancer Ward" Alexander Solzheneitsin, what a book!
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Re: Reading anything good?
« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2008, 10:21:13 AM »
Quote from: grislyatoms on January 28, 2008, 05:35:09 AM
I just started Chosin: Heroic Ordeal of the Korean War by Eric Hammel.
I'm actually rereading a Korean War book, myself.  One of the best, I think.  "This Kind of War" by Feherenbach (sp?).
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Re: Reading anything good?
« Reply #8 on: January 28, 2008, 10:31:06 AM »
I'm about to be defeated in yet another attempt to finish a Jack Kerouac novel. (Visions of Gerard this time) Whatever merit he might have, I can't get past feeling like I'm talking to (or being talked at by) a flighty stoner with an interest in Buddhism.

So I think Joyce Carol Oates On Boxing is next.
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« Reply #9 on: January 28, 2008, 11:38:51 AM »
Boys Passage, Man's journey by Brian Molitor.
http://www.powerofagreement.com/store.htm
So far its very good.
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Re: Reading anything good?
« Reply #10 on: January 28, 2008, 11:40:23 AM »
I am a WEB Griffin fan.  I have his latest book coming.....chris3
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« Reply #11 on: January 28, 2008, 11:47:34 AM »
McClurg et al, Gun Control and Gun RIghts
Mauet, Pretrial
Laycock, Modern American Remedies

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« Reply #12 on: January 28, 2008, 11:47:54 AM »
Finished "The Bounty" last month.  New, non-fiction book on the "Mutiny on the Bounty" saga.  Very interesting book.  Author (can't recall her name right now) must have spent a bunch of time doing beaucoup research. . . fills in the personalities and social/political/military climate of the people and times. . .interesting, some things don't change---it's who you know, how well you're liked, (and being the UK in the 1790's--who you're family is . or was. . .) how good one's PR machine, and oh yeah---the power and seduction of warm beautiful women and the equally warm and beautiful islands of the South Pacific. . .those sailors forgot who and what they were. . . . tragic, yet understandable. . .


recommended. . .
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« Reply #13 on: January 28, 2008, 12:33:37 PM »
Mostly graduate quantum mechanics, metallurgical phase transitions and thin film characterization textbooks.
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Re: Reading anything good?
« Reply #14 on: January 28, 2008, 01:26:16 PM »
A book by Spencer Weart - something to do with lies and made up science and things that aren't really real.

John Burrow - A history of histories. Just starting it, I like some historiography stuff sometimes. He seems readable.

Peter Hedges - What's eating Gilbert Grape. Like the film, only just started the book.

I need to go on some train journeys, best reading time there is.
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Re: Reading anything good?
« Reply #15 on: January 28, 2008, 01:31:14 PM »
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, enlarged edition
Bernard Bailyn

A History of Christianity
Paul Johnson

Just a Theory:  Exploring the Nature of Science
Moti Ben-Ari

The Last Battle (Book 7 of the Narnia series)
C.S. Lewis
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Re: Reading anything good?
« Reply #16 on: January 28, 2008, 01:41:35 PM »
Quote from: fistful on January 28, 2008, 12:31:14 PM
Just a Theory:  Exploring the Nature of Science
Moti Ben-Ari

I see the science wars have piqued your interest. Any good? Just read a brief synopsis and a brief review - pretty positive.
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Re: Reading anything good?
« Reply #17 on: January 28, 2008, 02:20:22 PM »
I'm reading a book on nutrition for cyclists and Lance Armstrong's book It's Not About the Bike.

I recently finished several mediocre scifi books, a book on Lewis and Clark's journey, and a couple of other cycling related books.

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Re: Reading anything good?
« Reply #18 on: January 28, 2008, 02:52:25 PM »
Quote from: Iain on January 28, 2008, 12:41:35 PM
Quote from: fistful on January 28, 2008, 12:31:14 PM
Just a Theory:  Exploring the Nature of Science
Moti Ben-Ari

I see the science wars have piqued your interest. Any good? Just read a brief synopsis and a brief review - pretty positive.


I'll probably start a thread on it tomorrow.  Mum till then.

On second thought, I'm going to post a thread tomorrow or tonight, just asking some questions about the book's characterization of evolution.  I think we should have enough science heads here to clarify whether Moti is on track. 
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Re: Reading anything good?
« Reply #19 on: January 28, 2008, 05:58:46 PM »
I'm reading through Machiavelli's The Art of War, which is tending to serve more as a sleep aid rather than any real entertainment (though "The Prince" wasn't bad...)

That and a couple of text books.   undecided


I'm thinking about making a run to the book store in a couple of days and picking up "Guns, Germs, and Steel" (since I hear it referenced so often) and maybe some sci-fi/fantasy stuff. 
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« Reply #20 on: January 28, 2008, 06:01:16 PM »
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"This kind of War" by Feherenbach

T.R.'s book is the best I read on the Forgotten War.  Been a few years since I read.  Might be about time to go back to re-read.
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Re: Reading anything good?
« Reply #21 on: January 28, 2008, 06:11:39 PM »
The Language of God, by Francis S. Collins, Head of the Human Genome Project
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« Reply #22 on: January 28, 2008, 06:31:01 PM »
Duma Key by Stephen King.  Not as smartsy as everyone else's, but it sure does kick some ass.
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« Reply #23 on: January 28, 2008, 06:32:09 PM »
Quote from: BridgeWalker on January 28, 2008, 10:47:34 AM
McClurg et al, Gun Control and Gun RIghts
Mauet, Pretrial
Laycock, Modern American Remedies

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How do you like Remedies?
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Re: Reading anything good?
« Reply #24 on: January 28, 2008, 06:34:18 PM »
Finished Monster Hunter International a while ago.
Starting back on the First King of Shannara.
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