Grand unified books thread

[Ed Anger]

Come on! That's fucking nerd gold right there.

After all House Kurita is directly descended from that Admiral.

[jimmy olsen]

Your use of Star Trek images in response strips you of any anti-nerd credibility.

[Ed Anger]

Your use of Star Trek images in response strips you of any anti-nerd credibility.

[Jacob]

For Fantasy, the Joe Abercrombie books are pretty good. The blade itself is the first one.

I second this; I actually prefer Abercrombie to Martin. For one, he finishes his series. 

I enjoyed Abercrombie, but I felt let down by the ending of the series (the The Blade Itself one).  I'm not reading more of his stuff as a result.

[Eddie Teach]

Your use of Star Trek images in response strips you of any anti-nerd credibility.

He didn't have any to begin with.

[Syt]

I enjoyed Sundiver a fair bit. Started with Startide Rising now, though the concept of Dolphin led spaceships is a bit weird if fun.

[Grey Fox]

Battletech, eh.

[grumbler]

I enjoyed Sundiver a fair bit. Started with Startide Rising now, though the concept of Dolphin led spaceships is a bit weird if fun.

The Uplift War books are a lot of fun.  The second trilogy takes much, much longer to get going, but is worth it in the end.

[Malthus]

For Fantasy, the Joe Abercrombie books are pretty good. The blade itself is the first one.

I second this; I actually prefer Abercrombie to Martin. For one, he finishes his series. 

I enjoyed Abercrombie, but I felt let down by the ending of the series (the The Blade Itself one).  I'm not reading more of his stuff as a result.

Really? I kind liked how he wrapped it all up.

I'm curious. What was so disappointing, as to preclude ever reading anything by him again? 

[Syt]

I enjoyed Sundiver a fair bit. Started with Startide Rising now, though the concept of Dolphin led spaceships is a bit weird if fun.

The Uplift War books are a lot of fun.  The second trilogy takes much, much longer to get going, but is worth it in the end.

Yes, enjoying it a fair bit so far. I'm in a bit of a space adventure/opera mood lately, with the arrival of ME2 and just finishing my third round in ME1 (first one on PC - picked the game originally on XBox, then for PC when it was down to 10 EUR).

The Uplift books and ME made me wonder, though, why there's often rather outlandish aliens or entities in sci-fi books while fantasy novels mostly seem to make do with the tried and true stock races from Tolkien, with some variations.

[ulmont]

Just finished "Confederate Emancipation" by Bruce Levine.  An interesting look at the evolution of plans to arm slaves, and how the CSA's political setup made the idea unthinkable until it was too late to do any good.
http://bit.ly/b5hJIy

[Neil]

Does there need to be a real economic incentive? As long as the Nazi's wacked out ideology says so and they successfully indoctrinate the people it will be done.

Yes.  In the end, economics will usually trump ideology.

[Neil]

.  Yamamoto knows nagumo is over his head and that Kurita is the man for the job

Kurita is always the man for the job.

Marik rules.

[Savonarola]

Next up: The Kojiki.

I have the turn of the century translation available on Gutenberg.  The author translated all the smutty parts into Latin.  I should have studied Latin better since the text reads like "God and Goddess meet and then LATIN LATIN LATIN and the child was born.

And there was an awful lot of Latin in the book. 

Next up The Koran

[Ed Anger]

Anything good on the Sino-Japanese war in the 30's and 40's? Playing HoI3 as Japan makes me want to read on the subject.