Whatcha reading redux.

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JAG2955 wrote:During my long drive to Texas, I was listening to a podcast called Hardcore History, by Dan Carlin. I had five episodes, each about 3-4 hours in length called "Blueprint for the Apocalypse", which was all about WWI. Extremely well done. Just have one more episode to go. I hope that he has lots more out before my next trip to Houston.
Thank you so much for recommending this, though the Title is actually "Blueprint For Armageddon". Took a bit of goggling to dig it up and I'm only about 20 min in but I am enjoying it allot so far. I really wanted to read something good about WWI last year but got kinda busy with other things. This should make up for it.
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"Leviathan Wakes" by James Corey. Part of "The Expanse" series.

Humanity has expanded into the Solar System; there's Earth, Mars, and the Belt colonies, and they don't always get along. Members of a crew of an ice freighter come across a distress signal from another ship, but then find themselves involved in an escalating series of events leading to war, and "killing on a scale unfathomable".

So far its pretty good. Four additional volumes are out, and it is supposedly being made into a series by the sci-fi channel
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Apparently Ringo's Muse is active and riding him hard. And what Ringo is putting out is.... stories in the MHI universe. He's been snippeting a lot on FB. Looks great, I've been enjoying them quite a bit.
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I started Helen McDonald's H Is For Hawk a couple of days ago. Good so far, she has a way with words.

http://www.amazon.com/H-Hawk-Helen-Macd ... s+for+hawk
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POLITICIANS & DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON

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
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Rich Jordan wrote:"Leviathan Wakes" by James Corey. Part of "The Expanse" series.

Humanity has expanded into the Solar System; there's Earth, Mars, and the Belt colonies, and they don't always get along. Members of a crew of an ice freighter come across a distress signal from another ship, but then find themselves involved in an escalating series of events leading to war, and "killing on a scale unfathomable".

So far its pretty good. Four additional volumes are out, and it is supposedly being made into a series by the sci-fi channel
Found this series by accident last year thanks to a blogpost about future economies.

The 'author' (actually two writing under the pseudonym Corey) has a really well developed universe and storyline.
All the time I'm reading it, I get the feel that it is Firefly oriented. And that's a good thing.
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Cracking open an old series.
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"Joe Steele" - more Harry Turtledove alternate history. Somehow Josef Stalin is an American, and becomes president instead of FDR, running on the Democratic ticket.

some metaphysics by Rudolf Steiner

Found myself flipping through a copy of "Ancient Christian Magic" last night looking and Jesus spells.
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evan price wrote:Image

Cracking open an old series.
WOW!! How old is THAT??? Have they been compiled into a book, and if so, are they a different name?
POLITICIANS & DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON

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.

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Next in line: Prototrak Programming Manual
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