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Yep. Great book. Was required reading for my American History II class. |
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01-05-2008, 04:42 PM | #452 |
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"A Stillness at Appomattox" by Bruce Catton Just finishing: "The Sunrise Lands" by S.M. Stirling Teeing up: "Evolution" by Stephen Baxter
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01-05-2008, 04:46 PM | #453 |
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my life inside radical islam by daveed gartenstein ross
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01-05-2008, 05:03 PM | #454 |
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I'm making an effort to read a bit more this year.
So far I've read the first two books in the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik and am nearly finished with the third. It's an alternate history set during the Napoleonic wars, with the fantastical part being that dragons exist and are used in arial combat. It's really well done, and I can see why she won the 2007 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Names of the individual novels are His Majesty's Dragon, Throne of Jade, Black Powder War and Empire of Ivory. |
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01-05-2008, 05:09 PM | #455 | |
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Sounds fun...you also may like Harry Turtledove's "Darkness" cycle, starting with Into the Darkness. It's basically a retelling of WW2 on a fantasy world...Dragons for aircraft, Behemoths for Tanks, Krakens for Subs...etc. It's a little long (5 or 6 books, IIRC) Oh, and of course the persecuted race is the blonde hair blue eyed Kaunians. Some of it was silly, but I was intrigued by his worlds version of the Manhattan Project.
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01-05-2008, 05:10 PM | #456 |
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On my quest to read at least 40 books this year, I began with
"A History of the Middle East" by Mansfield and Pelham and, "A History of the Arab Peoples" by Hourani. And I'm being distracted from those by "The Pillars of the Earth" by Follett. |
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01-05-2008, 05:12 PM | #457 | |
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01-05-2008, 05:14 PM | #458 |
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I've been meaning to give a Turtledove book a spin for a while now. I'm not sure it'll be my cup of tea, but I do like the Novik books.
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I prefer some of his less fantastic stuff (His alternate WW1-WW2 epic set in North America), but they were fun.
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01-05-2008, 06:17 PM | #460 | |
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Whether I like it or not will depend more on how he writes, rather than a subject matter, in any case. |
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01-05-2008, 06:18 PM | #461 | |
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Either way, whether I like it or not will depend more on how he writes, rather than a subject matter. |
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Worldwar/Colonization is a lot of fun. That was the first work of his I read. As for his writing, it's decent but not great. JMO.
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01-05-2008, 06:34 PM | #463 |
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Yeah, that's the general impression I've had about his writing, which is why I've thought about it for a while, but never gotten to it.
In the end, I'll probably either re-read "A Song of Ice and Fire" next, or go for some Gene Wolfe. I have a couple Ben Bova books left, too. |
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Im America and So can you By Stephen Colbert. Really High brow lol.
I have been also reading various law books and trying to get my hands on Huckabees book for months ( From hope to Higher Ground). |
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