Grand unified books thread

[crazy canuck]

Any good recommendations for books on the Korean War?

I really enjoyed "The Coldest Winter"

Here is a review from the NY Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/books/review/Frankel-t.html

[crazy canuck]

Beware, Niall Ferguson reputation in Economics is not terribly good

Given recent events no Economist is looking particular stellar.  He is an historian of economics and I enjoyed his historical descriptions. 

[crazy canuck]

That will pass.

Why?

[ulmont]

Any good recommendations for books on the Korean War?

I really enjoyed "The Coldest Winter"

Same here.

[Scipio]

That will pass.

Why?

Contact Jordanitis.

[crazy canuck]

That will pass.

Why?

Contact Jordanitis.

You are speaking in code I cannot decode.

[ulmont]

That will pass.

Why?

Contact Jordanitis.

You are speaking in code I cannot decode.

The developing tendency to slow down the advancement of plot and focus on the daily minutia of an increasing number of viewpoint characters.  Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series is the classic example:  the first book covers something like a year of time, the last like a day.

[crazy canuck]

Thanks for the translation.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

reading a novel called "Fruit" (Brian Francis) about a young gay Canadian boy in the burbs. I can relate to the cross-dressing but not the rest of it (i was never attracted to a male teacher/or any adult male ever as a kid, eww). fun sense of the early 80's though from the writer, as well as the retarded things that kids do thinking they are oh so smart, when.....

[jimmy olsen]

That will pass.

Why?

Contact Jordanitis.

You are speaking in code I cannot decode.

The developing tendency to slow down the advancement of plot and focus on the daily minutia of an increasing number of viewpoint characters.  Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series is the classic example:  the first book covers something like a year of time, the last like a day.

The last book covered at least a month of time.

[ulmont]

That will pass.

Why?

Contact Jordanitis.

You are speaking in code I cannot decode.

The developing tendency to slow down the advancement of plot and focus on the daily minutia of an increasing number of viewpoint characters.  Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series is the classic example:  the first book covers something like a year of time, the last like a day.

The last book covered at least a month of time.

So you claim. 

[Ed Anger]

Any good recommendations for books on the Korean War?

Toland's In Mortal Combat 1950-53 - Is Okay.

This kind of War Fehrenbach -Is Better.

Both should be extremely cheap used.

[Josephus]

Finished reading The Terror by Dan Simmons. 

It was very different. A horror/thriller fiction based on the 1845 Franklin Expedition in the Arctic Circle, which ended up in the deaths of both crews of the Terror and Erebus.

It reads like a good historical novel, well detailed and all that, and often you think you're reading an adventure book, based on the actual events. Except you have this nasty huge monster under the ice killing everyone one by one.

But mostly, you have chapters of men, struggling to survive on the ice under incredibly harsh conditions. Except for the rather metaphysical ending, I thought this book, all 950 pages, was really good.

[jimmy olsen]

Fuck you G.R.R Martin, Jordan's kicking your ass from beyond the grave!


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[Habbaku]

I'm currently finishing up Ordered to Die, by Edward J. Erickson, which is a look into the Ottoman military during the Great War.

It is rather dry and not terribly well-written, but it is one of the few English-language works there are on the subject.  Despite the flaws, I do enjoy the plethora of statistics and insight into the Ottoman staff's planning (there was rather little, and it was schizophrenic) as well as the force dispositions and OOBs that dominate the book.