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Well didn't way Crypto was bad. Ending sucked and his characters were flat and there was that painful letter to Penthouse.

 

Was going to read Seveneves next actually.:lol:

Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

Well didn't way Crypto was bad. Ending sucked and his characters were flat and there was that painful letter to Penthouse.

Was going to read Seveneves next actually.:lol:

Cool! Looking forward to what your thoughts are on it! :)

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No reading this:

 

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It's about the volunteer 14th Air Force who flew for the Chinese against Japan staring in 1939

"While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before"

Thomas Sowell

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    Just bought this on my Kindle. I'll start reading it at lunch today.

     

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    "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before"

    Thomas Sowell

    And he ended up killed by hunters, if I recall. Heh, big surprise.

    Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

    And he ended up killed by hunters, if I recall. Heh, big surprise.

     

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    "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before"

    Thomas Sowell

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    Well was a lot of articles about him. Is a nice story even if humans have to **** it up as usual

    Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

    Well he lived over seven years apparently. He certainly beat the curve for a wild wolf.

    "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before"

    Thomas Sowell

    typical our reading is continuing education/professional plus a few select works o' fiction we reread 'til the bindings fall apart.  for example, got eight copies each o' dubliners and as i lay dying.  maybe throw in a highly recommended novel every couple o' years. even so, am rereading mcmaster's book.

     

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    read it back in 2000ish.  seems like a good time to review.

     

    HA! Good Fun!

    "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927)

    "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)

    Hmmm... I need to add that one to my list. My Viet Nam reading list has been short I'm afraid. I have at home and have read Neil Sheehan's A Bright and Shining Lie, James Rowe's Five Years to Freedom, Marine Sniper and Goodnight Saigon by the same guy whose name I can't remember. 

     

    At least my non-fiction list is short. I've read a few novels but only one stands out is James Webb's Fields of Fire. 

     

    Edit: Charles Henderson wrote the last two. That was the name I couldn't remember. 

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    "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before"

    Thomas Sowell

    Dispatches by Herr is a good read as well

    Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

    Loved Fields of fire and Dispatches , looking forward to checking out the others, cheers!

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    Free Book, Aim True my Brother's, decent thriller, middle East terrorist plots to kill US president. You will need Book Funnel, you will get a code number, enter it into Book Funnel and choose your ereader type, it will download to your Kindle or whatever you choose.

     

    https://books.bookfunnel.com/spiesandterrorists?utm_source=Instafreebie+List&utm_campaign=a1643fb5f5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_05&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8e1609f340-a1643fb5f5-72309181

     

    Most of the books listed are novellas, but Aim True is a full novel.

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    No reading this:

     

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    It's the story of the 1925 Serum run from Seward to Nome to combat a diphtheria outbreak. Today the Iditarod sled dog race is run every year to commemorate this event (partially). 

    "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before"

    Thomas Sowell

     

    I believe Sanderson has written all three of those books in the time SINCE George RR Martin finished A Dance With Dragons. In fact he finished the last three WoT books, two of his other projects AND all three of this series in the time we've been waiting for Rothfuss to finish his next book Doors of Stone. 

     

    We need to find out what coffee Sanderson is drinking and send it to Martin & Rothfuss.

    "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before"

    Thomas Sowell

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    The Cruelest Miles was outstanding. I highly recommend.

     

    Now reading this:

     

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    It's a collection of stories about the relief and clean up efforts in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.

     

     

    Also reading this:

     

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    I'm half way through. I've already read two things I'm almost positive are not true. So I'm not too sure about this one. It's a good read, don't get me wrong. But I was actually in the Naval Service during the Cold War and some things I remember differently. Granted I was in a different branch, never even saw a submarine, and my experience with naval vessels was as cargo rather than operations.

    "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before"

    Thomas Sowell

     

    It's a collection of stories about the relief and clean up efforts in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.

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    You might find these interesting

     

    https://www.amazon.com/Zeitoun-Dave-Eggers-ebook/dp/B004TRQAMC/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1508255512&sr=1-1&keywords=Zeitoun

     

    https://www.amazon.com/Blackwater-Rise-Worlds-Powerful-Mercenary-ebook/dp/B00505SX36/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1508255644&sr=1-3&keywords=blackwater+book

    Thanks for shopping Pawn-O-Matic!

    I've read Zeitoun! It's a great story. The other does look interesting.

    "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before"

    Thomas Sowell

     

    I've read Zeitoun! It's a great story. The other does look interesting.

    Yeah apparently BW were the first paramilitary organisation to enter NO to "help" after Katrina, but 8ts a very interesting read.

    Thanks for shopping Pawn-O-Matic!

    Been slowly working my way through this one in the last month:

     

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    Not feeling particularly smarter or more knowledgeable about the subject, but that's probably a good thing.

    "Lulz is not the highest aspiration of art and mankind, no matter what the Encyclopedia Dramatica says."

     

    Been slowly working my way through this one in the last month:

     

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    Not feeling particularly smarter or more knowledgeable about the subject, but that's probably a good thing.

    That looks cool, is there much art work? Dunno if I should get it for Kindle or a real book.

     

    You might like this :

     

    https://www.amazon.com/Crusader-Search-Jerusalem-Tim-Severin-ebook/dp/B00HGIC08O/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1509011501&sr=1-1&keywords=Tim+severin+crusader

     

    Dunno if you know Tim, but his books are great as he re-enacts historic achievements.

     

    In Crusader, he buys a big knight size horse as he follows the footsteps of 11th century crusaders from Belgium to Jerusalem on horseback

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    Thanks for shopping Pawn-O-Matic!

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