I just ordered Shogun. Cost me more in shipping than the book itself...!
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That's because it takes forever to navigate Mordor.
Kraut783
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Just finished one of my old favorites;
Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
https://www.amazon.com/Lucifers-Ham...id=1530141332&sr=1-1&keywords=lucifers+hammer
Great end of civilization type book.
Thinking of re-reading Footfall also...forgot how good their books are.
Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
https://www.amazon.com/Lucifers-Ham...id=1530141332&sr=1-1&keywords=lucifers+hammer
Great end of civilization type book.
Thinking of re-reading Footfall also...forgot how good their books are.
ThunderHorse
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Read Foundation in Belize. Finishing up Foundation and Empire now. Wasn't much of an Asimov guy growing up, but great stuff.
Will do mate.
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Just downloaded off of iTunes. Will begin reading it this weekend.
A lot of dudes get their heads cut off with Samari swords. What's not to like about that?
Free shipping from the book depository... A couple of second hand stores in NZ selling it too.
I always forget about BD, I suppose Amazon just have me too firmly in their grip.
Shipping to Australia is retarded and Amazon can not into GST apparently, so they've never been my first port of call.
This is the book, btw, that introduced the West to the Amida Tong and the "ninja"...a religious cult of assassins for hire. And bushido--the code of the warrior. The book is fiction, but, like C.S. Forester and Patrick O'Brian, painstakingly accurate from a historical standpoint.
Since it's publication, many books and movies have "borrowed" from it. Madison Avenue was putting the word "Shogun" on just about everything.
Feudal Japan was the strangest fucking place on the planet.
Btw, you can still get brand new copies. The book is still in print.
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BuckysBadger24
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I mean Christ, what choice is there? I ordered the book.
Just finished reading
The Last Battle: The Mayaguez Incident and The Last Battle of The Vietnam War by Ralph Wetterhahn.
All I had known before reading was that a US ship had been captured by the Khemer Rouge, what a complete and total cluster fuck it devolved into...
The Last Battle: The Mayaguez Incident and The Last Battle of The Vietnam War by Ralph Wetterhahn.
All I had known before reading was that a US ship had been captured by the Khemer Rouge, what a complete and total cluster fuck it devolved into...
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Re: Shōgun.
Found this link, thought it was pretty cool and worth sharing.
Enjoy!
Learnings from Shōgun
Found this link, thought it was pretty cool and worth sharing.
Enjoy!
Learnings from Shōgun
It was the doorknob hitting our asses on the way out...the final insult...with the exception of Carter pardoning all the draft dodgers. If I have one eloquent thing to say about that entire era, it's "fuck it."
That's very interesting. That's an afternoon with Killians at the desktop which I will do. Thanks, J.
Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II by Jeffrey Cox. A little known campaign in the opening days of WWII as a motley, unorganized force from the American, British, Dutch, and Australian forces (ABDA) fleet tried to take on the early WWII Japanese surge. I'm only a few chapters in, mostly background to the war stuff, but it is very good and well written. One of the books I picked up through Amazon's Kindle book deals for 3-4 dollars.
I'm about 30 pages into Shogun, enjoying it immensely. I always enjoy something that starts off with a beheading. I really don't read enough fiction these days.
Reading, Our Founding Fathers and started a trilogy, fiction, sort of. America Down. Starts with an EMP, followed by N. Korea attacking the US, life of a few folks, getting all Red Dawn-ish.
