Whatcha reading redux.

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Weetabix
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The Book of Judges in the Old Testament. Kind of dry.
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Weetabix wrote:The Book of Judges in the Old Testament. Kind of dry.
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.
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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.
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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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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'.
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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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John Locke's Second Treaties on Government.
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TheArmsman wrote:
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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Just bought this and started reading it. Thanks for the recommendation. It is rare that an author gets things right in The Corps.
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.
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