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  • #46
    Originally posted by USS Utah View Post
    Finished this one earlier this week:

    The Battle of the Huertgen Forest by Charles B. MacDonald
    I just found this one on my shelf, you might like it as you seem to be into WWII.

    If you Survive by George Wilson. It is story of a replacement infantry platoon leader in the 4rh Divsion. He joins the Division shorly after D-Day and serves to the end of the War. It includes a lot of details about the 4th's role in the Hurtgen and the Battle of the Bulge.
    Last edited by happyone; 07-20-2009, 12:45 PM.

    I may be small, but I'm slow.

    A veteran - whether active duty, retired, or national guard or reserve is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to, "The United States of America ", for an amount of "up to and including my life - it's an honor."

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    • #47
      Originally posted by Flystripper View Post
      I read like 8 of the Wheel Of Time books and then put them down when Jordan died thinking that there will never be an ending. I will have to pick them up again ... I do hope Sanderson can bring the series to a conclusion that is worthy of the series.
      I just finished Sanderson's Mistborn series.

      I have no doubt that he will bring the Wheel of Time to a worthy conclusion. I thought the Mistborn trilogy (and its ending) was outstanding.
      If we disagree on something, it's because you're wrong.

      "Somebody needs to kill my trial attorney." — Last words of George Harris, executed in Missouri on Sept. 13, 2000.

      "Nothing is too good to be true, nothing is too good to last, nothing is too wonderful to happen." - Florence Scoville Shinn

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      • #48
        I am reading George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series. Very good reading. Four books are out. Three more are expected to complete the series.

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        • #49
          Originally posted by happyone View Post
          I just found this one on my shelf, you might like it as you seem to be into WWII.

          If you Survive by George Wilson. It is story of a replacement infantry platoon leader in the 4rh Divsion. He joins the Division shorly after D-Day and serves to the end of the War. It includes a lot of details about the 4th's role in the Hurtgen and the Battle of the Bulge.
          Read it a few months ago, loved it.
          Col. Klink: "Staff officers are so clever."
          Gen. Burkhalter: "Klink, I am a staff officer."
          Col. Klink: "I didn't mean you sir, you're not clever."

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          • #50
            Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
            The Looming Tower.
            I'm reading this for a second time. It should be required undergrad reading. I've start bait and switch by barbrah eirenreich, about the difficulty of making it with a college degree. I also picked up meet you in hell about henry fricke and andrew carnegie. I just finished a book called the eliminationists, a book about how right wing talk radio is fueling extremisn. I thought it was so-so and unbalanced

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            • #51
              War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk

              Wouk's sequel to Winds of War, both of these historical novels of World War II are masterpieces.
              Last edited by Flattop; 07-29-2009, 05:06 PM.
              Col. Klink: "Staff officers are so clever."
              Gen. Burkhalter: "Klink, I am a staff officer."
              Col. Klink: "I didn't mean you sir, you're not clever."

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              • #52
                Originally posted by SoCalCoug View Post
                Have you read any of the Wheel of Time? Sanderson's finishing the last (3-part) volume for the late Robert Jordan. Both writers at the top of the quality list for the genre.
                Ha, I'm such a closet geek with my Wheel of Time series. It's the only fantasy I read, and I have to hide it behind a Cosmo on mass transit to avoid very strange people striking up unwanted conversations with me. I've been reading it this summer and am currently on Book 9, Winter's Heart. It's intelligent writing, though people rightly complain about too many minor characters and subplots.
                "You know, I was looking at your shirt and your scarf and I was thinking that if you had leaned over, I could have seen everything." ~Trial Ad Judge

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                • #53
                  I have been reading the side of my cereal box. It offers the advantage of efficiency, a conclusion every morning without cliffhangers, and I can keep up wiht that wacky leprechaun's latest antics.
                  PLesa excuse the tpyos.

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                  • #54
                    I also picked up Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto at Powells Bookstore in Portland. Looks interesting.
                    "You know, I was looking at your shirt and your scarf and I was thinking that if you had leaned over, I could have seen everything." ~Trial Ad Judge

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                    • #55
                      Originally posted by Mrs. Funk View Post
                      Ha, I'm such a closet geek with my Wheel of Time series. It's the only fantasy I read, and I have to hide it behind a Cosmo on mass transit to avoid very strange people striking up unwanted conversations with me. I've been reading it this summer and am currently on Book 9, Winter's Heart. It's intelligent writing, though people rightly complain about too many minor characters and subplots.
                      I read the first two novels in the series and was overwhelmed by the sense that Jordan loves to drag his feet. That was enough for me.

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                      • #56
                        I started Simon Scarrow's Centurion. It is the Bernard Cornwell mold of historical fiction.

                        I may be small, but I'm slow.

                        A veteran - whether active duty, retired, or national guard or reserve is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to, "The United States of America ", for an amount of "up to and including my life - it's an honor."

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                        • #57
                          Read High Fidelity last weekend.

                          So, without further adieu, my top 5 songs of 2009 so far:

                          1. Guy Eyes by Animal Collective - after the breakdown when the diverging harmonies finally come together you get to hear pure bliss.

                          2. Folds in Your Hands by Passion Pit - as fist pumpingly awesome and danceable as the best best tracks from last year's MGMT album.

                          3. While You Wait for the Others by Grizzly Bear - crashing guitars, soaring harmonies, and one of the best voices in current music.

                          4. Marrow by St. Vincent - super cute girl makes great pop song and assassinates guitar somewhere in the middle. What could be hotter?

                          5. All for the Best by Thom Yorke (original by Miracle Legion) - nice electro beat, but when the blaring guitar feedback line splits off into separate drum stick ticks, magic happens. Bonus for Andy Yorke's awesome backing vocals.

                          Honorable mention: Bull Black Nova by Wilco - nice little Krautrock rhythm which turns into an awesome guitar noise freakout courtesy of Nels Cline.
                          So Russell...what do you love about music? To begin with, everything.

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                          • #58
                            Now reading Heroes & Villains: The True Story of the Beach Boys.
                            So Russell...what do you love about music? To begin with, everything.

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                            • #59
                              I finished Dante's Inferno over the weekend.

                              I think I'll read 1776 again, as I'm sure I'll learn a few things that I missed the last time I read it.
                              "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill


                              "I only know what I hear on the news." - Dear Leader

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                              • #60
                                A Thousand Splendid Suns.
                                "There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
                                "It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
                                "Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster

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