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Started by Syt, March 16, 2009, 01:52:42 AM

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The Brain

#2760
July 17, 2015, 01:15:39 PM
Finished Tour of Duty: Samurai, Military Service in Edo, and the Culture of Early Modern Japan, by Constantine Nomikos Vaporis. About the alternate attendance system and its impact. Decent but hardly great.

One thing that bugged me: "Unlike Paris, London, and St. Petersburg, cities with which it has sometimes been compared, Edo was built in a frontier region, backward in political and economic terms." LOLWTF
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Valmy

#2761
July 17, 2015, 02:02:11 PM
Haha good point.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

The Brain

#2762
July 23, 2015, 12:28:57 PM
Finished Big Gun Battles: Warship Duels of the Second World War, by Stern. An enjoyable read, and I like that the author tried to understand and explain decisions made by the commanders. In some books it's more "XX retardedly and inexplicably decided to...", which isn't very helpful.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Razgovory

#2763
July 23, 2015, 12:36:51 PM
I've been listening to Moby Dick through my Kindle.  I get the rhythm better listening to it then reading it.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

11B4V

#2764
July 23, 2015, 11:57:09 PM
Digging into Snow and Steel: The Battle of the Bulge
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Syt

#2765
July 24, 2015, 12:56:19 AM
On a whim I order Anthony Kenny's A New History of Western Philosophy. Let's see how far I get with that one. :P
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Queequeg

#2766
July 25, 2015, 12:29:05 PM
Anyone have any interesting thoughts on A Distant Mirror?  Just finished it. 
Quote from: PDH on April 25, 2009, 05:58:55 PM
"Dysthymia?  Did they get some student from the University of Chicago with a hard-on for ancient Bactrian cities to name this?  I feel cheated."

sbr

#2767
July 25, 2015, 12:32:17 PM
I'm about 200 pages into Distant Mirror, after about 3 years of reading.  :lol:

Eddie Teach

#2768
July 25, 2015, 12:36:41 PM
My experience reading A Distant Mirror is like a distant mirror to a time when I read books.  :sleep:
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Savonarola

#2769
July 28, 2015, 01:05:31 PM
Question for the Spanish speakers.  Are there any authors in Spanish that are the equivalent to Robert Louis Stevenson or Arthur Conan Doyle in English, or Alexandre Dumas and Jules Verne in French?  That is interesting and not too difficult; an ideal book for an intermediate level reader.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

The Brain

#2770
July 28, 2015, 03:20:00 PM
Exactly how bad are the Gor books? I'm asking for a friend.
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The Minsky Moment

#2771
July 28, 2015, 06:23:15 PM
Quote from: The Brain on July 28, 2015, 03:20:00 PM
Exactly how bad are the Gor books? I'm asking for a friend.

Inconvenient Trut is OK.  Easier to just see the movie.
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson

The Brain

#2772
July 29, 2015, 12:34:44 AM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on July 28, 2015, 06:23:15 PM
Quote from: The Brain on July 28, 2015, 03:20:00 PM
Exactly how bad are the Gor books? I'm asking for a friend.

Inconvenient Trut is OK.  Easier to just see the movie.

Thanks. :)
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Grey Fox

#2773
July 31, 2015, 07:24:09 AM
Any good books on Nappy's Invasion of Russia by a french Author?
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

Duque de Bragança

#2774
July 31, 2015, 07:27:16 AM
En traineau avec l'Empereur (Retraite de Russie)
Caulaincourt :smarty:  :frog:

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