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Best reads in 2006
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The Weapons of Choice WW2.1 trilogy by Stephen Birmingham was a bit of a cracker.

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Re-read many of the Slammers by Drake early in the year, then started on the Bible, still on OT, Deuteronomy ...  Have not done as much reading as I would have liked ...

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(Tas @ Jan. 01 2007,00:39)
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Moby ****

PS I cant believe the White Whale book title got sensored by the boards!

:laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:

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I've been re-reading Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire, Tides of War, Alexander and The War of Art. I'm a bit of a Pressfield obsessive.

I've also been working my way through The Proceedings of the 5th Annual Symposium of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Beijing. My life is one big party... :p

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Hi Reaver,

Pressfield is great... Gates of Fire is one of his best books EVER!

Tides of War was very slow in comparison.

You might be interested in Victor David Hanson, another ancients writer.

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Hi Tas,


(Tas @ Dec. 31 2006,23:39)
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So on my 2006 reading shelf was:
Dracula
Frankenstein


Check. Great books!

They remade the old GW classic Dracula game this year as well.


(Tas @ Dec. 31 2006,23:39)
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Moby ****
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
Journey to the Centre of the Earth


Check.

Moby **** can be a slog. Queequeg is cool. I always wanted to name an RPG character Queequeg.

Journey to the Centre of the Earth is also a great movie. I recommend it. The old special effects are kitschy but fun.


(Tas @ Dec. 31 2006,23:39)
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The War in the Air


Never read it.

*** Who wrote it? ***


(Tas @ Dec. 31 2006,23:39)
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The Time Machine
The Lost World


Check. Great books!

I really like The Time Machine. Watch out for the recent movie remake of it... the special effects were great, but the movie was lacking otherwise.


(Tas @ Dec. 31 2006,23:39)
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Morcok's Warlord of the Air trilogy
Robur the Conqueror
Some VSF anthologies


*** Do you mean Michael Moorcock? ***

I have never heard of Robur the Conqueror either.

*** Who wrote it? ***


(Tas @ Dec. 31 2006,23:39)
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And I re-read War of the Worlds as well, but you probably guessed that too!


Check. Great book!

I reread it this year too! Great minds must think alike.

Watch out for The Last Of the Mohicans... I tried rereading it this year and... failed. The old prose style was trying and the movie was far more easy and entertaining to watch than slogging through the verbose prose of yesteryear.


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PS I cant believe the White Whale book title got censored by the boards!


It's pretty funny. Dic Dik Dic! African herbivorous animals!

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The War in the Air =  H.G. Welles - an air war between Germany, the UK, USA, Japan (mainly) using dirigibles and stuff. A good read.
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Thanks, V.

You're the best!

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The War in the Air = ?H.G. Welles - an air war between Germany, the UK, USA, Japan (mainly) using dirigibles and stuff. A good read.


A very good read indeed. ?
Wells shows incredible foresight in this book and apart from some cracking battles, introduces the concept of M.A.D. ?Well worth reading

'Robur the Conqueror' is a Jules Verne novel, also known as 'Clipper of the Clouds'. ?You can read more about it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robur_the_Conqueror
..glad I posted that as I didnt know there was a sequel - the hunt is on again!

Yes Moby D was a hard read. ?I quite agree that sometimes reading old prose, late at night when I do most of my reading, can make a good book a chore. ?Wells and Verne dont usually have so much of it

Journey to the Centre of the Earth is also a great movie. I recommend it. The old special effects are kitschy but fun.

trying to find a copy of it myself - great for watching while playing Dino Hunts with the kids!

*** Do you mean Michael Moorcock? ***

yes...trying to get around the board's sensorship!

And yes L4 - I reread all my Slammers books too and picked up the ones I was missing. ?I ran out of hundred year old novels at sea - loved them as much as ever!




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Hmmm... I read Harrison's Hammer and Cross series, very well written.  Also some of Drakes stuff.  Some non-fiction books that were pretty good, one about the Navy Seals and another about the 101'st Airborne's operations late in the Vietnam war.  And reread some of my Foster and Heinlein collections.


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Glad to see you have continued your Slammer indoctrination, Tas ! :laugh:  And glad  to see, iblisdrax, you read about my old unit, the 101 ! :D

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(MaksimSmelchak @ Jan. 01 2007,16:59)
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Pressfield is great... Gates of Fire is one of his best books EVER!

Tides of War was very slow in comparison.

Hi Maksim,
Got to agree with you here, Tides covers a bit too much history and feels slow sometimes. But Gates of Fire is one of those books I just keep reading again! Always makes me wish I'd died at Thermopylae. ?:D

I've not come across Victor David Hanson, but I'll get down the library and grab one of his books as soon as possible.
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Hi Reaver,


(Reaver @ Jan. 02 2007,11:36)
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(MaksimSmelchak @ Jan. 01 2007,16:59)
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Pressfield is great...
Tides of War was very slow in comparison.

Hi Maksim,
Got to agree with you here, Tides covers a bit too much history and feels slow sometimes.


Alcibiades is a little less dynamic of a character to begin with.


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(MaksimSmelchak @ Jan. 01 2007,16:59)
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Gates of Fire is one of his best books EVER!

But Gates of Fire is one of those books I just keep reading again! Always makes me wish I'd died at Thermopylae. ?:D


Still love it, still read it at least once a year!


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I've not come across Victor David Hanson, but I'll get down the library and grab one of his books as soon as possible.
Thanks!
Reaver


Much like Chomsky, if you read any of his political writing, read it with a grain of salt. VDH does really well after you fact check him, which is far better than Chomsky, but I still encourage you to fact check his political weritiings if you get to them. He and Chomsky are about exact opposities on the political spectrum.

Or better yet, aboid the politics and stick with VDH's excellent historical writiing. VDH loves the Greeks and it shows... he never bothers with cultural relativism or any of that. He just plain likes the citizen-soldier and the Phalanx.

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(firestorm40k @ Dec. 31 2006,11:10)
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started reading 'Horus Rising'

That was probably my best read of '06. I just started reading the third book. I got it a few days ago and I'm already almost halfwayt done with it.

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Did some rereading of some stuff, notably Starship Trooper, Dune, Belgarath the Sorceror, and Dragons of Autumn Twilight.  Unfortunately Starship Trooper finally fell apart after having been read so many times.  Also read Pattern Recognition, which will probably be the last William Gibson book I read unless I'm rereading something he did much earlier, Dreamer of Dune (a biography of Frank Herbert by his son), Dune Messiah, the first three Harry Potter books to see what the hooplah was all about, several wargame rules, there's probably a reread of one of the Gaunt's Ghosts books in there somewhere too.

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