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Offline lazs2

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« Reply #30 on: December 08, 2007, 11:54:43 AM »
Just finished "house to house" a story of the clearing of faluja in Iraq.   A real page turner.   Trying to get through "cryptonomicon"

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« Reply #31 on: December 08, 2007, 01:19:06 PM »
Ortona

Hadn't even heard of the battle until I came across the book, but it apparently was the Canadian army's definitive WW2 battle. Kind of a smaller scale Stalingrad. Writing that's good enough, and a niche I hadn't read about before.
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« Reply #32 on: December 08, 2007, 02:28:30 PM »
In the middle of Stephen Donaldson's latest Thomas Covenant and "Epicenter". Both are slow so I went to get "House to House" as recommended by lazs. Terry Goodkind's 12th and final was on the stand so I had to get it. Enjoyed it but the ending was a bit weak. Dean Koontz has a new one I'm about half way through. Didn't see House to House.
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« Reply #33 on: December 08, 2007, 02:49:07 PM »
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Foundation - Isaac Asimov

Just finished:
Glory Road (Heinlein)
Podkayne of Mars (Heinlein)
The Menace from Earth (Heinlein)
Variable Star (Heinlein/Robinson)
The Number of the Beast (Heinlein)
Time Enough for Love (Heinlein)
I Will Fear No Evil (Heinlein)
To Sail Beyond the Sunset (Heinlein)
Job: A comedy of Justic (Heinlein)
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (Heinlein)

Haven't read these books in years.


good to re-read some good old books.

Time enough for love is my personal fav from your list.

I re-read "Stranger in a strange land" this year. Was digging into the text. I first read that book in Eng, then got a decent translation to Rus,
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« Reply #34 on: December 08, 2007, 03:57:43 PM »
Time Enough for Love is one of my favorites from him.  The Door Into Summer is another great one, haven't re-read it yet.
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« Reply #35 on: December 08, 2007, 04:19:41 PM »
Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I sat Down and Wept
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« Reply #36 on: December 08, 2007, 05:28:29 PM »
Ken Follet: "World Without End" ...NEVER read a book by this guy I didnt like (i.e. "Eye Of the Needle", "Key to Rebecca"...)
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« Reply #37 on: December 08, 2007, 06:17:48 PM »
If you want to count them as books, the Evangelion Mangas, up to 10.  Just finished them a little while ago.

I need to read New Spring, by Robert Jordan, and finish book 11 of the Wheel of Time...

Probably gonna read some other stuff that's in my roommates room...

No idea what though.
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« Reply #38 on: December 08, 2007, 07:21:29 PM »
"Die guten Glaubens waren. Die Geschichte der 4. SS-Polizei-Panzer-Grenadier-Division. Band II 1943-1945"

[In good faith. The history of the 4th SS-Polizei-Panzer-Granadier-Division vol 2. 1943-1945]

I would have bought it in english, but as far as I could find, only volume I was ever translated. And even this German version wasn't easy to come by.
Funny how after high school I could swear I was through with ever dealing with German again, and now 10 years later almost half the books I read seem to be in German.

It's mostly because I'm researching for some scenario I'm working on for another game, but as for unit histories (if you are into that sort of things) it is one of the better.
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« Reply #39 on: December 08, 2007, 10:08:25 PM »
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"Die guten Glaubens waren. Die Geschichte der 4. SS-Polizei-Panzer-Grenadier-Division. Band II 1943-1945"

[In good faith. The history of the 4th SS-Polizei-Panzer-Granadier-Division vol 2. 1943-1945]

I would have bought it in english, but as far as I could find, only volume I was ever translated. And even this German version wasn't easy to come by.
Funny how after high school I could swear I was through with ever dealing with German again, and now 10 years later almost half the books I read seem to be in German.

It's mostly because I'm researching for some scenario I'm working on for another game, but as for unit histories (if you are into that sort of things) it is one of the better.
I have been looking for this in german as the place I know has it has the english translation
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« Reply #40 on: December 08, 2007, 10:19:34 PM »
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Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War  by Robert Coram.


Excellent biography about the man who was one of the chief driving forces behind the design of the F-15 and F-16 and the "Fighter Mafia" faction in the U.S.A.F.


Good article on this gent  

http://www.codeonemagazine.com/archives/1997/articles/jul_97/july2a_97.html
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« Reply #41 on: December 09, 2007, 12:27:44 PM »
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I have been looking for this in german as the place I know has it has the english translation


Amazon  have Band.II for sale at $74.95

Otherwise you can find other sellers at  this site. But maybe they don't all ship overseas.
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« Reply #42 on: December 09, 2007, 01:52:53 PM »
Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship

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