Grand unified books thread

[Ed Anger]

I liked the Charlie Sheen movie.

[crazy canuck]

The Three Musketeers. Loved it.

Yeah, I read it a few years back and it is good fun.  I laughed out loud during the part where they were having their lunch on the battlefield when making their plans so as not to be overheard.

[Grey Fox]

Finished Reading 1632. It was a fun read. Something akin to watching an hour of mindless reality TV. I don't think I will read any other book in the series tho.

[The Brain]

Finished Reading 1632. It was a fun read. Something akin to watching an hour of mindless reality TV. I don't think I will read any other book in the series tho.

I've only read the Gustavus Adolphus parts.

[Grey Fox]

I mostly skipped those parts.

[Darth Wagtaros]

I liked the 1632 stuff that was written by Flint and Weber, it was fun and mindless.  Then Baen turned it over to fanfiction writers and it was boring crap.

[crazy canuck]

Finished the second book in the Master and Commander series - Post Captain.

You guys were right, this is becoming addicting.

[Admiral Yi]

Finished the second book in the Master and Commander series - Post Captain.

You guys were right, this is becoming addicting.

Next one is arguably the best in the series.

[Barrister]

Finished the second book in the Master and Commander series - Post Captain.

You guys were right, this is becoming addicting.

Next one is arguably the best in the series.

I think it's all pretty good for the first ten.  It's only 11-20 that are maybe just a little bit less fun than the first half, if anything.

[Admiral Yi]

I think it's all pretty good for the first ten.  It's only 11-20 that are maybe just a little bit less fun than the first half, if anything.

I thought the one about slavers was so so, as were the cuppa too tree books on that extended Pacific interlude.  Wine Dark Sea is bad.  The one about the 100 days and the one about leading the Chilean navy are bad.

Prominent high points for me are Master and Commander, HMS Surprise, and The Mauritius Campaign.

[crazy canuck]

Finished the second book in the Master and Commander series - Post Captain.

You guys were right, this is becoming addicting.

Next one is arguably the best in the series.

I will be leaving for the bookstore shortly then.

[PRC]

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Finished the second book in the Master and Commander series - Post Captain.

You guys were right, this is becoming addicting.

Next one is arguably the best in the series.

I will be leaving for the bookstore shortly then.

I love these books, have read all 20 several times through now.  HMS Surprise, imo, is where the characters really become themselves for the rest of the canon.  Book 5 (Desolation Island) to Book 14 (The Nutmeg of Consolation) is such a great run. 

[Admiral Yi]

The Ionian Mission is also damn good, especially after they get to the Ionian.

[jimmy olsen]

Stephen King wrote a sequel to the Shinning!   

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/feb/04/stephen-king-shining-sequel-doctor-sleep

[Scipio]

Max Boot's Invisible Armies.  An interesting book, but one glaring typo near the very beginning: 66 AD is not 200 years after 166 BC.

I can't believe no one caught that.

Reminds me of the typo in the first printing, first edition on the first page of Pevear and Volokhonsky's translation of War and Peace- the first sentence in French in the whole book, and 'et' is replaced with 'and.'  Only English word in the whole damn sentence.  Subsequent printings from the first edition have it corrected.  But I have the typo copy.