Ah i loved catch-22. Possibly the funniest war book i have ever read.
Ah i loved catch-22. Possibly the funniest war book i have ever read.
Am currently in the midst of reading the Orcs: First Blood Trilogy by Stan Nicholls. An interesting take on a stock fantasy race, wherein they're the protagonists and (most) humans are the rampaging marauders.
It's not the best fantasy literature I've ever read, but it's definitely not bad either. It's been keeping me turning to the next page on a pretty consistent basis.
That's probably my favorite Clancy novel, believe it or not (although Without Remorse and Debt of Honor come very close).
"MTW is not a game, it's a way of life." -- drone
Finished The Odyssey last night and am now moving on to the Aeneid.
Rest in Peace TosaInu, the Org will be your legacy
Originally Posted by Leon Blum - For All Mankind
Defamation Act 2005.
#Hillary4prism
BD:TW
Some piously affirm: "The truth is such and such. I know! I see!"
And hold that everything depends upon having the “right” religion.
But when one really knows, one has no need of religion. - Mahavyuha Sutra
Freedom necessarily involves risk. - Alan Watts
I found the Odyssey to be a lot more gripping than I expected it would be. It read like a good fantasy novel, and not only that, but it felt like that since the Greeks actually believed in it, then it had a lot more meaning than you would normally get from a fantasy book.
#Hillary4prism
BD:TW
Some piously affirm: "The truth is such and such. I know! I see!"
And hold that everything depends upon having the “right” religion.
But when one really knows, one has no need of religion. - Mahavyuha Sutra
Freedom necessarily involves risk. - Alan Watts
finishes Red Storm Rising
currently has the record for fastest Tom clancy novel i finished. started it on Wednesday, finished yesterday.
back to Cath-22.
On the Path to the Streets of Gold: a Suebi AAR
Visited:
Hvil i fred HoreToreA man who casts no shadow has no soul.
The Last Wish. been trying to find it ever since I bought the Witcher. Finally had to get it shipped from the other side of the world, paying an arm and a leg.....but man I'm happy now
The horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.
I'm currently waiting for BPRD: The Black Goddess to come from Amazon.
I'm so excited
High Crusade. Funny book it is.
Parthian Nationalist
Freakonomics.
Give Me Combat, which are the memoirs of Republican Spain's foreign minister during the war. Quite interesting, though I'm only up to what he was like in University.
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Rest in Peace TosaInu, the Org will be your legacy
Originally Posted by Leon Blum - For All Mankind
Louis Fischer's Gandhi biography (almost finished) - quite an interesting read.
Rest in Peace TosaInu, the Org will be your legacy
Originally Posted by Leon Blum - For All Mankind
Finished it now... well, sort of. I skipped the last few chapters on China because:
1) They weren't relevant to my essay.
2) He was blind to human rights abuses, etc and was again completely fawning. This was just irritating so I stopped.
About to move on to one of Paul Preston's books on the Spanish Civil War.
Rest in Peace TosaInu, the Org will be your legacy
Originally Posted by Leon Blum - For All Mankind
Andrew Lamberts book on the admirals that shaped the royal navy, and thus made great britain:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Admirals-And...6567680&sr=1-2
very good so far, would thoroughly recommend it.
Furunculus Maneuver: Adopt a highly logical position on a controversial subject where you cannot disagree with the merits of the proposal, only disagree with an opinion based on fundamental values. - Beskar
just started Clear and Present Danger.
On the Path to the Streets of Gold: a Suebi AAR
Visited:
Hvil i fred HoreToreA man who casts no shadow has no soul.
"The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker" by Tobias Smollet, born just down the road from me.
At the end of the day politics is just trash compared to the Gospel.
ciceros oration against catiline. Read it before but this is in latin. Part project, part fun.
Edit: had another book on my mind, oops
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I would like to downgrade my earlier assessment of this series. I'd been enjoying it overall, but the third (and final) book ended up being a huge disappointment.
It was everything the final entry in a trilogy should *not* be: It was anti-climactic, had little character development (and in some cases, characters displayed qualities that went almost completely against their pre-existing personality), the dialog was stilted, and the plot meandered more than than the Mississippi River.
I suspect that after the first two books (which are pretty decent), the author didn't know how to finish the story -- or if he did, then his execution was lacking. Either way, the ending was a big letdown compared to how the books started out.
I can recommend checking out the trilogy at your local library, but don't make the mistake I did of actually purchasing it. While far from horrible, it was definitely was not worth the money.
Tomorrow, I start on (re)reading Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. I first read it about six years ago, and really enjoyed it. I've since purchased my own copy earlier this year (I originally borrowed it from a friend), and am now finally ready to give it another go. Should be fun.
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"MTW is not a game, it's a way of life." -- drone
Currently reading Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, Charitons Chaireas and Kallirhoë, a book containing some of Lenins essays and letters and a book of short story's by Lovecraft.
Wheel down, wheel down to southward! Oh, Gooverooska, go!
And tell the Deep-Sea Viceroys the story of our woe;
Ere, empty as the shark's egg the tempest flings ashore,
The Beaches of Lukannon shall know their sons no more!
Rudyard Kipling, Lukannon
Just finished re-reading Vernor Vinge's epic space-opera books, A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky. The first one is definitely better, but they're both masterpieces of weird ideas made flesh.
Alright I'm biting the bullet. I have 4 months off Uni so plenty of time to read. I am once again embarking upon a grand re-reading of the Wheel of Time, towards which end I bought The Gathering Storm today.
Rest in Peace TosaInu, the Org will be your legacy
Originally Posted by Leon Blum - For All Mankind
I'm currently reading Rome and its Enemies, a Penguin Book. Excellent quality, a good investment I think.
I'm nearly finished with that, and once I do, I'm probably going to go back and re-read Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which is my favorite book.
"You must know, then, that there are two methods of fight, the one by law, the other by force: the first method is that of men, the second of beasts; but as the first method is often insufficient, one must have recourse to the second. It is therefore necessary for a prince to know well how to use both the beast and the man.
-Niccolo Machiavelli
AARs:
The Aeduic War: A Casse Mini AAR
The Kings of Land's End: A Lusitani AAR
Released during the last week.
Robert Jordan did pass away, yes. However, his wife arranged for Brandon Sanderson to do the writing that Jordan didn't do before he died. The entire plot was already fleshed out, and various sections written, however.
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Rest in Peace TosaInu, the Org will be your legacy
Originally Posted by Leon Blum - For All Mankind
Back in Style: Dungeon, Zenith Vol. 3 - Lewis Trondheim, et al.
I'm currently reading Make Room, Make Room! by Harry Harrison. It's the book that Soylent Green is based off. Pretty good so far, the movie seems to be a decent adaptation about a third of the way through the book.
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