Whatcha reading redux.

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Finally got around to start reading MHI, up to chapter Nine where they run into the Vamped French Hunter.
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Just finished MHI. Great pacing.
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If you haven't read it, I recommend Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond.
If nothing else find a read the section about 16th Century China. Up in till then it was the most technically advanced and inventive country. The for the sake of "unity" they stagnated, there was only one way to paint, one correct form for music, and etc. Those who dared to be different or who said the wrong thing in front of the wrong people tended to disappear.
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I just finished Pratchett's Eric novel, another Discworld book. I'm about to start The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss's first Kingkiller Chronicle novel.
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I made it about a quarter of the way through Guns, Germs, and Steel and decided I'd had about as much anti-Western eyewash as I cared to take. As an alternative, I recommend David S. Landes' The Wealth and Poverty of Nations.
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I just started Alan Dean Foster's The Damned trilogy.

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Jump Gate Twist by Mark L. Van Name because I was waiting for the next two books of Destroyermen at the library, and they sent the last one first...and it was on the shelf in the aisle I walked into looking for something to read right goddamned now. And it was a Baen book.
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Captain Wheelgun wrote:Just started 'Son of the Black Sword' by Larry Correia. It's way different from his previous stuff, but it's been interesting so far.
Gah...I ordered it in dead tree version, so I'm still waiting...

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Finished Strands of Sorrow last night.
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Just finished Man in a High Castle...

Phillip K Dick was obviously talented, but it seems to be more... Involved than his other work. There seemed to be a much more complex story there, compressed into something which approaches a rough sketch- but worth reading.
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