Whatcha reading redux.
- Weetabix
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The Book of Judges in the Old Testament. Kind of dry.
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I am leading my small group at church through a study of Judges. Timothy Keller's Judges For You is a good entry level commentary to the book.Weetabix wrote:The Book of Judges in the Old Testament. Kind of dry.
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Just finished No Going Back, the latest Jon & Lobo book from Mark Van Name. Good story, and very satisfying and necessary character development.
Maybe we're just jaded, but your villainy is not particularly impressive. -Ennesby
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If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. -Unknown
Sanity is the process by which you continually adjust your beliefs so they are predictively sound. -esr
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Burned through Kratman's Countdown series recently, on to Hard Magic by Correia... I'm not usually into magic type stuff, but I figured coming from Larry it wasn't going to suck, at least. About halfway into it and I have not been disappointed so far.
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- Weetabix
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The Wind in the Willows. Sometimes you need to take a break, and return to the classics.
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Came across something that made me think of a short story I couldn't remember the name of.....
Turns out it's Eric Frank Russell's 'Minor Ingredient'.
Reread that and several other gems I came across in my fiction anthologies while I was searching.
Like Randall Garrett's 'The Highest Treason', Poul Anderson's 'Cold Victory' and 'No Truce With Kings' and Tom Godwin's 'Too Soon to Die'.
Turns out it's Eric Frank Russell's 'Minor Ingredient'.
Reread that and several other gems I came across in my fiction anthologies while I was searching.
Like Randall Garrett's 'The Highest Treason', Poul Anderson's 'Cold Victory' and 'No Truce With Kings' and Tom Godwin's 'Too Soon to Die'.
Maybe we're just jaded, but your villainy is not particularly impressive. -Ennesby
If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. -Unknown
Sanity is the process by which you continually adjust your beliefs so they are predictively sound. -esr
If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. -Unknown
Sanity is the process by which you continually adjust your beliefs so they are predictively sound. -esr
- Weetabix
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Unintended Consequences by John Ross. I'd forgotten what a good read it is. I'm still in the buildup part - I think Henry's on safari.
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Jack Reacher #10, "The Hard Way".
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"I am Chaos, I am alive...and I tell you that you are free!" -Eris Discordia
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John Locke's Second Treaties on Government.
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Have you finished the book yet? The ending is quite the twist from what you may have expected. I've re-read the last several chapters many times now, and still find them interesting.TheArmsman wrote:Just bought this and started reading it. Thanks for the recommendation. It is rare that an author gets things right in The Corps.308Mike wrote:I just finished reading: "The Secret Corps" - and it's a book which might scare the shiite out of you if you've been paying attention to what's going on around the nation (for former Marines, no explanation is necessary):
http://www.amazon.com/The-Secret-Corps- ... 1511775793
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A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad