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Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Abusing Yellow is meant to be a labor of love, not something you sell to the highest bidder.
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Foundation series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
One of the all time greats for science fiction, perhaps the best - IMHO - there is no doubt, this is the great science fiction every recorded (please read all 28 related novels (sequilles, prequilles amd tie ins to the empire and robot stories, before you decide)
features of this story- the human race is heroic and fares well in the story
- it has a 25,000 year story arc
- many central charactors, plenty of action, wars, battles, etc
- fantastic technology
- no aliens
Last edited by USSWisconsin; 24 Mar 13,, 20:22.sigpic"If your plan is for one year, plant rice. If your plan is for ten years, plant trees.
If your plan is for one hundred years, educate children."
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Originally posted by USSWisconsin View PostFoundation series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
One of the all time greats for science fiction, perhaps the best - IMHO - there is no doubt, this is the great science fiction every recorded (please read all 28 related novels (sequilles, prequilles amd tie ins to the empire and robot stories, before you decide)
features of this story- the human race is heroic and fares well in the story
- it has a 25,000 year story arc
- many central charactors, plenty of action, wars, battles, etc
- fantastic technology
- no aliens
For Gallifrey! For Victory! For the end of time itself!!
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Originally posted by lemontree View PostAt last the pind will have a better, faster and meaner gudukka (not that it is any less meaner now...)Cow is the only animal that not only inhales oxygen, but also exhales it.
-Rekha Arya, Former Minister of Animal Husbandry
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The Man Who Saved The Union: Ulysses Grant In War And Peace
H. W. Brands / Doubleday / 2012 / 718pp / ISBN: 978-0-385-53241-9
A comprehensive and intimate biography of U.S. Grant. Sources include previously unpublished personal letters and archival materials.
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My Share Of The Task: A Memoir
General Stanley McChrystal / Portfolio | Penguin / 2013 / 452pp / ISBN: 978-1-59184-475-4
This autobiography chronicles his journey from a US military at its lowest ebb post-Vietnam through its metamorphic reincarnation as the premier military force in the world. General McChrystal was the architect/implementer of CT strategy in Iraq and would later accept command of all Coalition forces within Afghanistan. In the Epilogue of this book, General McChrystal ruminates about the qualities of leadership - five pages that everyone everywhere should read. The flow of personal thoughts throughout this autobiographical journey is distinctly reminiscent of U.S. Grant.sigpic
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Originally posted by Doktor View PostGuess you read the other 2 from the trilogy.
Been looking forward to this volume.
I would read a list of cereal ingredients if Rick Atkinson wrote it.“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
Mark Twain
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for fiction, i'm currently re-reading one of my old sci-fi favs, S.M. Stirling's "The Domination" trilogy.
The Domination: S.M. Stirling: 9780671577940: Amazon.com: Books
it looks at what a world would look like if there was an "anti-America"-- a nation founded on the principles of (as you might guess) domination, slavery, and mastery.
unlike other lesser evil nations, they do not try to hide whom they are under a guise of enlightenment/egalitarian principles ("the democratic republic of NK", for instance), but actively proclaim the world to be made of two types of people, the master-race draka and everyone else-- serfs (domesticated if under draka rule, "feral" otherwise).
a truly dystopic world, demonstrating that progress and a world living under democratic principles was, and is, not inevitable.
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for non-fiction, i've been reading "Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution".
Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution (Studies in Maritime History): Nicholas A. Lambert: 9781570034923: Amazon.com: Books
excellent study of an innovative leader trying to drastically revolutionize the Royal Navy during an arms race...all while facing huge fiscal constraints due to insanely fast technological obsolescence.
any recommendations for other non-fiction work?There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."- Isaac Asimov
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Originally posted by Albany Rifles View PostDude, do you own a novel???!!!!?!?
(looks like my Civil War library.....but much smaller)
there are nine bookcases in that room and over a dozen more around the house - sci fi novels are what I enjoy most for fiction, the naval library takes up two bookcases, each one with 7 shelves. I suppose I've got too many books - moving requires professional help, like too many of my problems ;).Attached Filessigpic"If your plan is for one year, plant rice. If your plan is for ten years, plant trees.
If your plan is for one hundred years, educate children."
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