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Pax Nerdvana
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Postby Pax Nerdvana » Wed May 29, 2019 9:56 am

Elwher wrote:
Pax Nerdvana wrote:I want to read those. Who wrote them again?


David Weber.

Thanks. Those'll go on my read list, which is about a mile long.
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"Affordability
Suitability (.22LR for squirrels, bigger .22s for long range little things, and big-bore for legal hunting reasons, etc)
Ammunition supply-chain (6.5x55 Swede and .303 British, although available, isn't exactly everywhere)
If it's ugly, uncomfortable, and can't shoot straight, but it accomplishes the above, then it's either a Mosin or a Hi-Point."
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Postby Elwher » Wed May 29, 2019 12:01 pm

Pax Nerdvana wrote:
Elwher wrote:
David Weber.

Thanks. Those'll go on my read list, which is about a mile long.


I understand. I have about a shelf full of unread, and add to it regularly.

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Postby NewLakotah » Wed May 29, 2019 12:32 pm

Currently working through Napoleon: The Spirit of the Age by Michael Broers. Pretty fascinating read of Napoleon's finest points and high points of the Napoleonic French First Empire from 1805-1810. 9/10 the only times you hear of Napoleon is from British historians at the Battle of Waterloo or his infamous 1812 campaign, but this is a solid look at his military campaigns and his political moves that created one of the most powerful empires in Europe and Continental system that obviously didn't last that long.
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Postby Pax Nerdvana » Wed May 29, 2019 1:02 pm

Elwher wrote:
Pax Nerdvana wrote:Thanks. Those'll go on my read list, which is about a mile long.


I understand. I have about a shelf full of unread, and add to it regularly.

One of man's greatest intellectual failings is the concept that when one buys a book, one also buys the time to read it.

I have a stack of ten or so books I've been meaning to read since the fall. Occasionally I manage to read one. That's not counting all the other things I would like to read eventually.
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"Affordability
Suitability (.22LR for squirrels, bigger .22s for long range little things, and big-bore for legal hunting reasons, etc)
Ammunition supply-chain (6.5x55 Swede and .303 British, although available, isn't exactly everywhere)
If it's ugly, uncomfortable, and can't shoot straight, but it accomplishes the above, then it's either a Mosin or a Hi-Point."
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Postby Hanafuridake » Wed May 29, 2019 1:03 pm

The Avatamsaka Sutra.
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Postby Eirenopos » Wed May 29, 2019 6:02 pm

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
This is my first time reading it.
If you are part of the majority of people that are in the Harry Potter fandom, you're probably surprised.
I actually started reading Harry Potter when I was younger, but I decided that I didn't like fantasy so I just refused to read any fantasy books. Not one of my smartest decisions. My friend convinced my to give Harry Potter a try again. I'm reading it with an open mind this time, and I actually like it. Even though fantasy worlds still aren't really my thing, I've decided to stop ruling out books because of their genre (one could say that I have stopped judging books by their covers). I've also started playing dnd and I'm going to read more fantasy books (and books of genres other than the genre that I normally read). If anyone has suggestions, let me know (I typically read realistic fiction, autobiographies, and historical fiction).
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Postby The Macabees » Thu May 30, 2019 11:49 am

The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology, Jack Kornfield
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Postby United Earthlings » Thu May 30, 2019 4:01 pm

Just finished The Long Shadow: The Great War and the Twentieth Century by David Reynolds
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Postby Kohr » Thu May 30, 2019 6:59 pm

The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson and Your Band Sucks by Jon Fine.
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Postby Fedel » Thu May 30, 2019 8:03 pm

The Night Angel trilogy by Brent Weeks.
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Postby Sargon Reman » Fri May 31, 2019 10:59 pm

The Downing Street Years, by Margaret Thatcher
The Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Sickens
War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
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Transition by Iain Banks.
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2020: x=-10.0,y=-10.0
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Postby Ardoki » Sun Jun 02, 2019 1:49 am

Toll the Hounds by Steven Erikson
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Postby Tarvelia » Sun Jun 02, 2019 1:52 am

Reading At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft.

Also in the process of reading Deep Shadows by Vanetta Chapman.
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Postby An Alan Smithee Nation » Mon Jun 03, 2019 12:41 pm

The Design of Everyday Things
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Postby Pax Nerdvana » Mon Jun 03, 2019 12:57 pm

I'm rereading the Time Traders omnibus, by Andre Norton.
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"The universe did never make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract."
-Robert Heinlein

"Affordability
Suitability (.22LR for squirrels, bigger .22s for long range little things, and big-bore for legal hunting reasons, etc)
Ammunition supply-chain (6.5x55 Swede and .303 British, although available, isn't exactly everywhere)
If it's ugly, uncomfortable, and can't shoot straight, but it accomplishes the above, then it's either a Mosin or a Hi-Point."
-Hurtful Thoughts on stuff you want in a gun
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Postby The Grene Knyght » Thu Jun 06, 2019 12:48 pm

Right now in just reading Left Communism: an Infantile Disorder, by V.I. Lenin.
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Socialist Women wrote:Part of the reason you're an anarchist is because you ate too much expired food
Claorica wrote:Oh look, an antifa ancom being smartaleck
Old Tyrannia wrote:Bold words from the self-declared Leninist
Currently
Reading
2015: x=-8.75,y=-6.56
2016: x=-8.88,y=-9.54
2017: x=-9.63,y=-9.90
2018: x=-9.88,y=-9.23
2019: x=-10.0,y=-9.90
2020: x=-10.0,y=-10.0
2021: x=-10.0,y=-10.0
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Postby Elwher » Thu Jun 06, 2019 1:51 pm

Eric Flint - 1824 - The Arkansas War
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Postby Pax Nerdvana » Fri Jun 07, 2019 6:21 am

Elwher wrote:Eric Flint - 1824 - The Arkansas War

I still need to finish that series. I've only been able to find the first book though.
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We Will Not Comply
They can’t stop the Signal
"The universe did never make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract."
-Robert Heinlein

"Affordability
Suitability (.22LR for squirrels, bigger .22s for long range little things, and big-bore for legal hunting reasons, etc)
Ammunition supply-chain (6.5x55 Swede and .303 British, although available, isn't exactly everywhere)
If it's ugly, uncomfortable, and can't shoot straight, but it accomplishes the above, then it's either a Mosin or a Hi-Point."
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Postby The New California Republic » Fri Jun 07, 2019 6:26 am

An Introduction to Modern Architecture (1941 2nd Edition) by J. M. Richards.
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Postby Ethel mermania » Fri Jun 07, 2019 7:38 am

Rereading confederates in the attic by the recently deceased Tony Horwitz.
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Postby Korhal IVV » Fri Jun 07, 2019 7:44 am

Six Years - a very strange Filipino fanfiction written by aminoassids in Wattpad that features Leni Robredo and Rodrigo Duterte becoming... a couple?

Also I am reading that while writing my own sci fi themed book entitled Chronicles of the Demos. Two chapters in.
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Postby Elwher » Fri Jun 07, 2019 8:05 am

Pax Nerdvana wrote:
Elwher wrote:Eric Flint - 1824 - The Arkansas War

I still need to finish that series. I've only been able to find the first book though.


The first and second are available on https://book4you.org in various e-book formats; the third is still unpublished as far as I know.
CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.
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Postby Bluelight-R006 » Fri Jun 07, 2019 8:10 am

The Future of Humanity by Michio Kaku — It’s a book most people can understand as the writer relates some concepts to similar concepts in movies, which I rarely watch.
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Postby The Grene Knyght » Fri Jun 07, 2019 8:43 am

The Grene Knyght wrote:The Fellowship of the Ring

Finally moving on to The Two Towers
[_★_]
(◕‿◕)
Socialist Women wrote:Part of the reason you're an anarchist is because you ate too much expired food
Claorica wrote:Oh look, an antifa ancom being smartaleck
Old Tyrannia wrote:Bold words from the self-declared Leninist
Currently
Reading
2015: x=-8.75,y=-6.56
2016: x=-8.88,y=-9.54
2017: x=-9.63,y=-9.90
2018: x=-9.88,y=-9.23
2019: x=-10.0,y=-9.90
2020: x=-10.0,y=-10.0
2021: x=-10.0,y=-10.0
ＦＵＬＬＹ　ＡＵＴＯＭＡＴＥＤ　ＬＵＸＵＲＹ　ＧＡＹ　ＳＰＡＣＥ　ＣＯＭＭＵＮＩＳＭ
PRO: Socialism, Communism, Internationalism, Revolution, Leninism.
NEUTRAL: Anarchism, Marxism-Leninism.
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