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Old 03-11-2006, 10:37 PM  
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Ok for the high brow crowd what books you are reading
I'm reading The New American Revolution by tammy bruce. She is a great thinker and funny.
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Old 01-05-2008, 04:41 PM   #451
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Just starting " Devil in the White City " by Erik Larson. Anyone read it? Turn of the century in Chicago.

Yep.

Great book.

Was required reading for my American History II class.
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Old 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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Old 01-05-2008, 04:46 PM   #453
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Old 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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Old 01-05-2008, 05:09 PM   #455
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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.

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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Old 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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I generally tend to say far away from the best-sellers list for creative nonfiction/memoir, for fear of running into an Oprah-approved sap story... but Elizabeth Gilbert's "Eat, Pray, Love" is incredible. It's memoir at its finest.
My wife loved it as well. I plan on reading it when I get through my current queue. You might also like the Glass Castle, which my wife just finished. Very different story, than Eat, Pray, Love, though, more like a modern Angela's Ashes from what I understand.
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Old 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'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.
If you like Dragons in Napoleonic times, the Darkness cycle would be a good introduction to Harry.

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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Old 01-05-2008, 06:17 PM   #460
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If you like Dragons in Napoleonic times, the Darkness cycle would be a good introduction to Harry.

I prefer some of his less fantastic stuff (His alternate WW1-WW2 epic set in North America), but they were fun.
I don't know if it's the one you mean, but the Worldwar & Colonization series looks interesting to me. Aliens invading during WW2.

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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If you like Dragons in Napoleonic times, the Darkness cycle would be a good introduction to Harry.

I prefer some of his less fantastic stuff (His alternate WW1-WW2 epic set in North America), but they were fun.
I don't know if it's the one you mean, but the Worldwar & Colonization series looks interesting to me. Aliens invading during WW2. You might mean his alternate history where the south wins the Civil War, though.

Either way, whether I like it or not will depend more on how he writes, rather than a subject matter.
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Old 01-05-2008, 06:27 PM   #462
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I don't know if it's the one you mean, but the Worldwar & Colonization series looks interesting to me. Aliens invading during WW2.

Whether I like it or not will depend more on how he writes, rather than a subject matter, in any case.
No, the series I was talking about starts with "How Few Remain", a second American Civil War in the 1880's.

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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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.

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