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

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Maladict

#4200
June 24, 2020, 10:22:06 AM
Ordered  :cool:

grumbler

#4201
June 24, 2020, 11:02:24 AM
Quote from: Maladict on June 24, 2020, 10:22:06 AM
Ordered  :cool:

Weren't you supposed to post this in you B4 account?  :lol:
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garbon

#4202
June 24, 2020, 11:08:43 AM
:D
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Maladict

#4203
June 24, 2020, 02:37:17 PM
Quote from: grumbler on June 24, 2020, 11:02:24 AM
Quote from: Maladict on June 24, 2020, 10:22:06 AM
Ordered  :cool:

Weren't you supposed to post this in you B4 account?  :lol:

That's the one for rock climbing posts. No, wait...

11B4V

#4205
June 24, 2020, 07:32:04 PM
Quote from: grumbler on June 24, 2020, 08:22:26 AM
Quote from: 11B4V on June 23, 2020, 10:33:43 PM
Grumbler you a navy guy. What's your recommendation on the book Six Frigates?

Great book. Popular history in the vein of Ryan or McCullough (not scholarly like, say, Wilmott) so very readable.  I didn't see any significant flaws, errors, or unreasonable conclusion.  Highly recommended.

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Tamas

#4206
June 25, 2020, 06:55:28 AM

Syt

#4207
June 29, 2020, 11:26:48 AM
Reading Jill Lepore's These Truths, a history of the USA. Good writing so far (about 1/4 in, ca. 1820), with a lot of room given to the slavery question in the settling, founding and growth of the young nation. Slightly confusing when references are made to Malthus and Richard Hakluyt.  :hmm:
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viper37

#4208
July 12, 2020, 06:28:05 PM
Savage Earth.

A 5 book series about the last humans living a sheltered existence in the air, in a flying city, while the Earth has been overrun by vampires 150 years ago.

It has some nice action elements, but the universe isn't that original.  It's a post-apocalyptical setting and it reminds me a lot of The 100, BSG and The Walking Dead.
I like how they did the vampires though. For the most part, they are savage beasts only driven by their instinct to feed, whenever they find a human.

Humans send down patrols, the GMT (Ground Mission Team) from time to time to gather some supplies, like electronic components to repair the city.

The first 3 books deal with the rise of a populist leader in the city, you'd swear he is Trump from the way he acts, except he is intelligent (that being the scariest part ;) ). The next 2 (or maybe 3, I think it's 6 books total...) deal with the continuation of the story and other problems arising.

They have a huge, huge problem with grammar.  I don't think I've ever read a book with so many grammar and spelling mistakes.  Inverted or skipped letters, wrong or missing pronoun, wrong or missing article, it's like there's something wrong every 3-4 pages.  It kinda distract from the reading.

All in all, not so bad despite not being highly original, except in its treatment of vampires.  I guess every author dealing with supernatural creatures bring his/her own mythology in it.

On the plus side, there is no boring love triangle, so no Twilight/Vampire Diaries stuff here.  Action, non descriptive sex and some lingering mystery on what really caused the widespread vampiric infection.

***/5.
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jimmy olsen

#4209
July 12, 2020, 09:19:01 PM
Are the vampires immortal?

Otherwise, shouldn't they have starved to death since they overran humanity and the survivors retreated to their city in the sky
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Eddie Teach

#4210
July 12, 2020, 09:30:36 PM
Or they could feed on animals maybe.
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Razgovory

#4211
July 22, 2020, 10:16:57 AM
I am rereading the Lord of the Rings.  I read these books back in when I was about 12.  Now that I'm an adult I can appreciate the books quite a bit more.  For instance, I didn't know much about the imagine past of rural England as a sixth grader which is what the Shire is based on.  One funny thing:  Frodo's annoying relations are the Sackville-Bagginses and they are occasionally refereed to as S-Bs.  As a kid I thought the hyphen was censoring the letter "O", sort of like "G-D Damnit".  So I was under the impression Frodo was calling is relatives "Sons of Bitches".  I had forgotten all about that weird interpretation.
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

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The Brain

#4212
July 28, 2020, 12:26:28 PM
^_^ Ah, Amazon...

Religion & Spirituality Books:
Hitler's Eastern Legions 1942–45

I miss Ed. :(
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Syt

#4213
August 17, 2020, 03:31:03 PM Last Edit: August 17, 2020, 03:34:47 PM by Syt
I finished Ian Kershaw's Hitler biography. I picked it up as unabridged audio book which ran at about 44 hours. A fascinating read and quite exhaustive. Though he seems to have cribbed the parts about the last few days in the bunker from the movie Downfall. :P

As paperback the book has 1,072 pages; it's abridged from the two part biography which was about twice as long. Or a a third longer? Getting confused info. :P While this was very good, I don't feel an immediate need to rush and get the two part version, though. :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.

Admiral Yi

#4214
August 17, 2020, 07:17:39 PM
Finished Bring Up the Bodies and started back over again with Wolf Hall.  Much, much less confusing.
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