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Re: Whatcha reading redux.
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2017 3:02 am
by SoupOrMan
Just finished "The Scarlet Pimpernel" by Baroness Orczy. While not as slapstick as Warner Brothers' "The Scarlet Pumpernickel" it was a fun read and I think I'm going to look for the rest of the series.
Re: Whatcha reading redux.
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2017 3:22 pm
by Greg
Working through the Black Company series again. I skipped one the first time around.
Read the first 3 (4th one is due out any minute) Caine books by Rich Gannon. They're surprisingly good, much better than I expected.
Read the first Jao Empire book by KD Wentworth and Eric Flint. Liked it a great deal, will have to read the others. Was sorry to learn that Wentworth passed away recently, and her role in the series was handed on to someone else.
Partway through Niall Ferguson's 'The Ascent of Money'.
Reading David Friedman's 'The Machinery of Freedom'. Well it's interesting certainly, but it kind of breaks down when it comes to law enforcement (AnCaps fundamentally can't seem to come up with an internally consistent system capable of *punishment*, which to my mind is a disqualifying flaw) and I just can't get through the section on national defense.
Re: Whatcha reading redux.
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2017 3:31 pm
by Steamforger
Cybrludite wrote:
Oh, and as a local, the Audible version has me grinding my teeth.
Like Kevin Costner in JFK bad???
Re: Whatcha reading redux.
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2017 9:18 pm
by Weetabix
Clear and Present Danger
Re: Whatcha reading redux.
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2017 10:40 pm
by HTRN
dfwmtx wrote:"The Peshawar Lancers", which I haven't read since college.
Go read "2025 USA ISOTed to Peshawar Universe" on alternatehistory.com, you'll have to sign up though.
Re: Whatcha reading redux.
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2017 2:45 pm
by evan price
Spenser books. So many...
Re: Whatcha reading redux.
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2017 11:53 pm
by Cybrludite
Steamforger wrote:Cybrludite wrote:
Oh, and as a local, the Audible version has me grinding my teeth.
Like Kevin Costner in JFK bad???
Worse. Pronouncing "fais do do" as "fay doo doo".
Re: Whatcha reading redux.
Posted: Wed May 17, 2017 5:34 am
by Netpackrat
Re: Whatcha reading redux.
Posted: Thu May 18, 2017 10:37 am
by Langenator
On the fiction side, The Empire's Corps by Christopher G. Nutall.
Non-fiction, Military Effectiveness, vol II: The Interwar Years by Allen Millett and Williamson Murray (eds). Continuing to grind my way slowly through the Duke PhD military history reading list.
Re: Whatcha reading redux.
Posted: Thu May 18, 2017 6:58 pm
by Vonz90
World Class Quality by Kiki Bhote - finished reading it for some training I am going to be doing at work (I am the trainer). Good book in general, typical consultant "my stuff works great and everyone else is an idiot" stuff but the principles and tools he works through are practical and well thought out. It is a variation of the Shainin / Red-X method. It is a good potential alternate tool set vs Lean / Lean-6 Sigma or DFSS tool sets (which are also good, but have their limitations).