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Just finished both of Michael Durant's books, Night Stalkers and In The Company Of Heros.
He's got a terrific writing style, I hope he has more books planned.“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”
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Originally posted by sappersgt View PostTuesday is when the new books come out at Barnes & Noble. Today I picked up Harold Coyle's (with Barrett Tillman) new novel Pandora's Legion, It's been a while for anything new by him, I'm looking forward to reading it.
Also, I'm nearly done with Charlie Wilson's War now (though it's taken me nearly a month, an extremely long time by my standards) and I'm either gonna start Chain of Command by Casper Weinberger or Ghost Wars by Steve Coll next.
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As I was laid up for a while, a friend gave me the John Meaney “Nulaperion” trilogy, as she said, “if I couldn’t exercise my body, I could use it to exercise my mind”.
She was correct, this is the best Science Fiction I’ve read in many a year. It’s hard SF with a emphasis on Science, I can readily recommend it to all who enjoy SF, but if you’re not fully up on current physics and biology, (as I wasn’t) then “get ready to Google” if you want full enjoyment.When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. - Anais Nin
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Originally posted by Amled View PostAs I was laid up for a while, a friend gave me the John Meaney “Nulaperion” trilogy, as she said, “if I couldn’t exercise my body, I could use it to exercise my mind”.
She was correct, this is the best Science Fiction I’ve read in many a year. It’s hard SF with a emphasis on Science, I can readily recommend it to all who enjoy SF, but if you’re not fully up on current physics and biology, (as I wasn’t) then “get ready to Google” if you want full enjoyment.In the realm of spirit, seek clarity; in the material world, seek utility.
Leibniz
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What's Everyone Reading?
I'm currently reading "Black Water" (The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army) by Jeremy Scahill. It's pretty interesting so far, but I don't how how hyped-up and sensationalized it is because the author is an investigative journalist.
Next up will be "Digital Fortress" by Dan Brown."Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams
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Almost finished with Cobra II."We will go through our federal budget – page by page, line by line – eliminating those programs we don’t need, and insisting that those we do operate in a sensible cost-effective way." -President Barack Obama 11/25/2008
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What I'm reading
Recently, I just finished "The bear and the dragon" by Ton Clancy. I was extremely surprised to find such a novel available in China because the dragon part of the title is about China and a hypothetical war with Russia(bear) over newly discovered oli and gold resources in Siberia, and excellent read!
I'm a big fan of WEB Griffin and have read many of his books, but they're so damned hard to find over here in China! Actually, where I live, any decent geopolitical/military novel is kinda hard to find and when found, although cheap in $, are damned expensive in the local currency (RMB). I'm only a poor English teacher here so trips to HK are out but I try to find, and buy, a new novel every couple of months so I can re-read when the local English language newspaper has a slow news day!
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This is what I am reading ... I am almost at page 3
http://www.worldaffairsboard.com/wor...reading-3.html
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"Jennifer Government" by Max barry.
A good book, if a little scary, due to it's "Capitalizm" .Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
- John Stuart Mill.
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Just finished "Breakpoint" by Richard A. Clarke. Starting "the Changing Face of War" by Martin Van Creveld.Reddite igitur quae sunt Caesaris Caesari et quae sunt Dei Deo
(Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's and unto God the things which are God's)
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