Whatcha reading redux.

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Finished "Noble House" last night. Picked up the new Harry Turtledove, "Bombs Away". Instead of saying "no way! Are you fucking insane?" to MacArthur's request to use nukes against the combined Nork/Chinese forces in Korea, Truman agrees. Nuclear hell breaks loose from there.
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Just got back from two weeks' vacation in the northern woods off Sault St Marie with a sack of books...the latest Larry Corriea Monster Hunter book didn't make it to me before I left so it wasn't read. Several books at the bottom of the bag got neglected, a couple David Coe "Blood of the Southlands" books and a Peter Watts sequel to "Blindsight" weren't read.

That said:

Finished a few more of Patrick O'brian's Aubrey-Maturin books.

Finished all four of John Ringo's "Black Tide Rising" series about the zombie apocalypse. It got worse, not better and I agree with Ringo, the 4th book wasn't needed.

Read the first Destroyermen book "Into the Storm". I know I picked up #2 & #3 but must have left them at home. Wanted to read more of them. Very much "Lost Regiment" or "Final Countdown". Will be following up on this series.

Read John Scalzi's "Old Man's War" and started the second one. Not bad.

Read two old Calvin & Hobbes trade paperback compilations. That was such a great strip.
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Finished The Twelve Caesars and The Agricola and The Germania. Again. Back on The Jugurthine War and The Conspiracy of Catiline. Again. I'll probably reread Livy again after that.
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War! What is it good for? -- ian morris
Sniper on the eastern front -- albrecht wacker
The beggar king (hangman's daughter) -- oliver poetsch
greek fire and its contribution to byzantine might -- konstantinos karatolios
partners in crime: five bestselling crime thrillers -- rebecca forster, et al
winter territory (a jack reacher) -- scott blade
december 6: a novel -- martin cruz smith
the grey man: payback -- j l curtis
aphrodesia -- ohn oehler
the archers: historical fiction... -- martin archer
nanostrike -- pete barber
in the dark of the moon -- christopher kenworthy
armageddon -- leon uris
smaller, faster lighter, denser, cheaper -- robert bryce
night in shanghai -- Nicole Mones

some of it's trash fiction
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"The Prankster and the Conspiracy: the Story of Kerry Thornley and How He Met Oswald and Inspired the Counterculture", Adam Gorightly (pseudonym for the "late" Hunter S. Thompson, who is currently hiding out in Bad Ass, TX trying to remake his own life in the wake of his fame.)

Which causes me to refer back to "Principia Discordia" during my reading. Oddly enough, it was written by Richard Nixon as a counter to the various programs and operations the KGB was running in the American counter-culture in an attempt to de-stabilize America. The attributed authors, "Malcalypse the Younger" and Omar Kayyam Ravenhurst", are actually Nixon's editors and proof-readers, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. Apparently Bush got the "Ravenhurst" pseudonym after reading reports from military intelligence detailing the original Ravenhurst prank at Atsugi airbase. Ronald came up with the "Malcalypse" moniker as a pointed joke against J. Edgar Hoover's taste in men.
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Kipling's Stalky & Co. I love that book, but it makes me get less sleep.
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Add to my previous crazy one, John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" since Aesop said it should be a manual and not a socialist tear-jerker, and since I've never read it I'm trying to figure out what he meant, ergo I have to read it.

And "Breaking Bad and Philosophy".
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Started reading Charcuterie.Bad, baaaaaad idea. I can feel my arteries hardening page by page :mrgreen:
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Peter Nealen's "American Praetorians" series of novels.

Great gunplay, and one of the characters is, in physical description at least, based on Larry Correia.
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I put down Texas Rangers, rather boring and repetitive. Started reading Pratchett again. Read Mort (Death is a hoot), Wyrd Sisters (Granny Weatherwax is a hoot), presently on Sourcery.
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