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Pax Nerdvana
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Postby Pax Nerdvana » Wed Jul 10, 2019 5:43 am

Artifact, by Gregory Benford.
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Ammunition supply-chain (6.5x55 Swede and .303 British, although available, isn't exactly everywhere)
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Postby Elwher » Wed Jul 10, 2019 7:44 am

John Malcolm Brinnin - The Sway of the Grand Saloon - A Social History of the North Atlantic
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Postby An Alan Smithee Nation » Wed Jul 10, 2019 8:01 am

Learning and memory by Donald A Norman
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Postby Pax Nerdvana » Fri Jul 12, 2019 6:21 am

Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
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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 » Fri Jul 12, 2019 7:41 am

Pax Nerdvana wrote:Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.


That is one that cries out to be made into a mini-series! Are you listening, HBO or Netflix?
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Postby Pax Nerdvana » Sun Jul 14, 2019 11:29 am

Elwher wrote:
Pax Nerdvana wrote:Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.


That is one that cries out to be made into a mini-series! Are you listening, HBO or Netflix?

Just finished reading it this afternoon. I had bought a used paperback copy of it, if you're curious. I really enjoyed it. Hot Fudge Tuesdae!
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"The universe did never make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract."
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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 New Octicarg » Sun Jul 14, 2019 2:28 pm

The Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy by Cixin Liu. Absolutely mind bending stuff, and starts with the Hugo Award-winning The Three Body Problem.
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Postby Elwher » Sun Jul 14, 2019 2:38 pm

Pax Nerdvana wrote:
Elwher wrote:
That is one that cries out to be made into a mini-series! Are you listening, HBO or Netflix?

Just finished reading it this afternoon. I had bought a used paperback copy of it, if you're curious. I really enjoyed it. Hot Fudge Tuesdae!


Wouldn't the surfer scene be a beautiful ending for one episode?
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Postby Bombadil » Mon Jul 15, 2019 6:23 pm

New Octicarg wrote:The Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy by Cixin Liu. Absolutely mind bending stuff, and starts with the Hugo Award-winning The Three Body Problem.


I read this trilogy earlier this year, absolutely amazing books - I even made a related thread on it.. Link
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Postby Ethel mermania » Mon Jul 15, 2019 7:12 pm

Sarah morgan, a confederate girls diary.
https://www.hvst.com/posts/the-clash-of ... s-wl2TQBpY

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Postby Jolthig » Mon Jul 15, 2019 7:30 pm

Jesus In India by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
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Postby Petrolheadia » Tue Jul 16, 2019 4:39 am

Mick & Keith - Parallel Lines.

A biography of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

From the book it seems that everyone who was anywhere near Keith in the 60s and 70s ended up getting addicted to heroin.
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Postby Painisia » Tue Jul 16, 2019 4:45 am

Knut Hamsun - Hunger

And some books waiting to be read are Outline of Sanity - GK Chesterton and Hillaire Belloc - The Servile State
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Postby Pax Nerdvana » Tue Jul 16, 2019 6:24 am

Elwher wrote:
Pax Nerdvana wrote:Just finished reading it this afternoon. I had bought a used paperback copy of it, if you're curious. I really enjoyed it. Hot Fudge Tuesdae!


Wouldn't the surfer scene be a beautiful ending for one episode?

Yeah. I like the way the book as a whole ended.
The Internet killed gun control.
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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."
-Hurtful Thoughts on stuff you want in a gun
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Postby Ohioan Territory » Tue Jul 16, 2019 7:23 am

American Lion, by Jon Meacham. Really cementing my dislike for Andrew Jackson.

Also Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius. It's more of a simple morning read that I look at every few days. Nothing big.

I'm about to start To Live by Yu Hua as well. It sounds amazing.
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Postby Eastern Denmark » Tue Jul 16, 2019 2:06 pm

finished lore: dreadful places recently

now working through a rather hefty book about Heironymous bosch, my favorite artist
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Postby Ethel mermania » Wed Jul 17, 2019 12:29 pm

The coming fury. Bruce catton.

The first volume in his civil war trilogy.
https://www.hvst.com/posts/the-clash-of ... s-wl2TQBpY

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
--S. Huntington

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

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Postby Geneviev » Wed Jul 17, 2019 1:34 pm

I just started The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, so that's something. :p
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Postby Platypus Bureaucracy » Wed Jul 17, 2019 3:37 pm

What if I sort of did Star Wars, but boring and meandering and totally incomprehensible, and also maybe both Empire and Rebels are fascists?

-Gene Wolfe, writing Book of the New Sun, probably
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Postby Pax Nerdvana » Thu Jul 18, 2019 5:48 am

Ethel mermania wrote:The coming fury. Bruce catton.

The first volume in his civil war trilogy.

I still need to finish Grant Takes Command. I don't know if it's in the same trilogy though.
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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."
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Postby The Grene Knyght » Sat Jul 20, 2019 12:59 pm

Haven't been reading much lately but I'm almost finished Jackdaws by Ken Follet. Not his best work tbh, but still alright.
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Postby Ohioan Territory » Sat Jul 20, 2019 1:57 pm

I finished American Lion and now I'm onto Mao: the Unknown Story. I'm 100 pages in, and holy shit, this book is eye-opening.
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Postby Sofa Sofa » Mon Jul 22, 2019 2:08 am

My favourite writer is S. King. I also read different blogs (the last one was this one https://slotsspotgaming.quora.com/ never thought it could be interesting for me), newspapers, magazines. Trying to be in touch with the world.
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Postby Ethel mermania » Mon Jul 22, 2019 5:19 am

Pax Nerdvana wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:The coming fury. Bruce catton.

The first volume in his civil war trilogy.

I still need to finish Grant Takes Command. I don't know if it's in the same trilogy though.

He wrote 2.

The centennial civil war, and the army of the Potomac .

I am reading the centenial trilogy
https://www.hvst.com/posts/the-clash-of ... s-wl2TQBpY

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
--S. Huntington

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

--H. Kissenger
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Postby Xeraph » Mon Jul 22, 2019 5:23 am

The Wealthy Barber: David Chilton.
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