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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/25/2014 2:38:49 PM   
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Yeah all books here. This is one of the best threads on the forum.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/25/2014 4:53:54 PM   
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Have you read (or heard of) John Grainger's 'Dictionary of British Naval Battles'?
It was published 2.5 years ago, but has no reviews on Amazon.
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Sorry, no to both. I hadn't even heard of it until you just mentioned it.


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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/26/2014 11:22:36 AM   
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Have you read (or heard of) John Grainger's 'Dictionary of British Naval Battles'?
It was published 2.5 years ago, but has no reviews on Amazon.
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Sorry, no to both. I hadn't even heard of it until you just mentioned it.

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Based on reports I've read, I fancy reading Gone Girl - anyone read it?




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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/26/2014 11:43:47 AM   
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Is Gone Girl a book about WW2 or what is it about?

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/26/2014 11:46:32 AM   
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Is Gone Girl a book about WW2 or what is it about?
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No - a completely different genre, for me at least. Here is the plot summary from Wiki - but its supposedly a best-seller and just been made into a film.

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Gone Girl tells the story of Nick and Amy Dunne's difficult marriage, which is floundering for several reasons. The first half of the book is told in first person, alternately, by both Nick and Amy; Nick's perspective is from the present, and Amy's from the past by way of journal entries. The two stories are very different. Amy's account of their marriage makes her seem happier and easier to live with than Nick depicts. Nick's story, on the other hand, talks about her as extremely anti-social and stubborn. Amy's depiction makes Nick seem a lot more aggressive than he says he is in his story.

Nick loses his job as a journalist due to downsizing. The couple relocate from New York City to his small hometown of North Carthage, Missouri, in part so the couple can help care for his dying mother. He opens a bar using the last of his wife's trust fund and runs it with his twin sister, Margo. The bar provides a decent living for the three Dunnes, but the marriage becomes more dysfunctional. Amy loved her life in New York and hates what she considers the soulless "McMansion" which she and Nick rent.

On their fifth wedding anniversary, Amy goes missing. Nick becomes a prime suspect in her disappearance for various reasons: he used her money to start a business, increased her life insurance, and seems unemotional on camera and in the news. The police later find boxes of violent pornography in Nick's woodshed, further implicating him.

In the novel's second half, the reader learns Amy and Nick are unreliable narrators and that the reader has not been given all of the information. Nick has been having an affair and Amy is alive and hiding, trying to frame Nick for her "death". Her diary is fake, intended to implicate Nick to the police.

Amy is robbed by fellow guests of a motel and left without any money. Desperate, she seeks help from her first boyfriend, Desi. He agrees to hide her, but Amy soon feels trapped in his house as Desi becomes possessive. She murders him and returns to her husband, saying she had been kidnapped. Nick knows she is a killer, but he stays in his marriage because she is pregnant with his child. The book ends with Amy writing that she is about to give birth to her son, and that she has written a memoir about her so-called abduction and imprisonment. Nick had begun writing his own memoir exposing Amy's lies, but deleted it when Amy, who knew he wanted to have a child, revealed her pregnancy.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/26/2014 11:52:07 AM   
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Sounds like it has a lot of interesting twists to it.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/26/2014 2:42:26 PM   
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Re-re-re-reading the Flashman series by the late great George MacDonald Fraser. Probably my all-time favorite series.


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Just finnished reading Redcoat by Bernard Cornwell.

To bad that this is a stand alone novel since I really liked the setting in the American Revolutionary War.


Take a look at The Fort, another of his books set in the Revolution. Haven't read it myself but I've read virtually everything else he's written. Great writer.

Here: http://www.amazon.com/Fort-Novel-Revolutionary-War/dp/B008SLBCL4

Thank you for the suggestion. It was both good and, I believe, educational.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/27/2014 2:37:33 AM   
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Going for some really heavy reading...

Complete Wizard of OZ series by Frank Baum for 99 cents :)

http://www.amazon.com/Oz-Collection-Illustrated-Wonderful-Exclusive-ebook/dp/B00C448DL8/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1414377367&sr=1-2&keywords=frank+baum+oz+series+free

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/27/2014 10:23:49 AM   
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/27/2014 11:35:46 AM   
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Do you read books by Mr Cornwell, Warspite1? I would have thought that The Fort was right down your alley.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/27/2014 11:39:52 AM   
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No - my reading matter is mostly fact based. I like to read other stuff from time to time as a change, but there is just so little time to read - and so much choice.



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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/27/2014 12:03:34 PM   
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No - my reading matter is mostly fact based. I like to read other stuff from time to time as a change, but there is just so little time to read - and so much choice.


This one is fact based fiction which makes it so much more interesting. Especially since one of my favourite generals appear as a young lieutenant. So many fascinating, historical, characters included.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/28/2014 3:32:16 AM   
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The Wars of the Roses by Allison Weir, about the fist half of the wars. She is the author of The Princes in the Tower, about the final part of the wars. One thing I have learned is just how well Crusader Kings models the dynamics of Medieval power struggles.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/29/2014 9:40:40 AM   
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 10/30/2014 3:55:04 AM   
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I'm reading Ann Leckie's "Ancillary Justice," which swept the Hugo and Nebula Awards for science fiction this year. Interesting book.

I'm also listening (in my car) to the audiobook version of "Bleeding Edge" by Thomas Pynchon. It's vintage Pynchon: funny, strange, opaque, conspiratorial -- sometimes too conspiratorial for my tastes. Stylistically, it's of a piece with his next-most-recent book, "Inherent Vice," which I enjoyed a bit more. I'm looking forward to the release of the film based on that book next month.



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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 11/1/2014 12:04:07 AM   
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Been alerted to a book on The Battle of Savo Island, seen from an Aussie perspective. The Shame of Savo has been out for sometime but I had never heard of it.

Should be an interesting read, especially considering an RAAF crew has been officially exonerated from the charge laid against them in Morrison's works that they failed to carry out orders after having sighted Mikawa's ships heading toward Guadalcanal.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 11/1/2014 3:22:31 AM   
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I am currently reading Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by by S. C. Gwynne.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 11/1/2014 5:29:06 AM   
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I am currently reading Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by by S. C. Gwynne.


Loved that book.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 11/2/2014 10:19:26 AM   
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I am beginning to. Empire of the Summer Moon is very informative. I have learned a lot about the plains indians. The author's style of writing makes for easy reading.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 11/4/2014 5:40:26 PM   
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Handbook of Genetic Algorithms by Lawrence Davis. Fun !


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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 11/4/2014 10:19:27 PM   
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Handbook of Genetic Algorithms by Lawrence Davis. Fun !



Oh I love light reading like that.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 11/9/2014 5:37:33 AM   
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Handbook of Genetic Algorithms by Lawrence Davis. Fun !



Sounds like something I probably should read...
Are you a code-monkey, too?

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 11/9/2014 10:39:54 PM   
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I'm reading Ann Leckie's "Ancillary Justice," which swept the Hugo and Nebula Awards for science fiction this year. Interesting book.



Checked it out on Amazon, a bit pricey for me at the moment but have it on the wishlist for when the entire trilogy is completed and available.

Some really brutal one star reviews for such an award winning novel though. Most of these complaining about it being a slow, tedious read with limited action. Obviously a very deep read. Would like to hear your take on it once you have finished reading it.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 11/11/2014 12:09:31 PM   
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 11/11/2014 12:46:20 PM   
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Just started a new audiobook--Bloody Spring: Forty Days That Sealed the Confederacy's Fate, by: Joseph Wheelan
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 11/11/2014 4:16:14 PM   
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Handbook of Genetic Algorithms by Lawrence Davis. Fun !



Sounds like something I probably should read...
Are you a code-monkey, too?


Naw. I'm a wanna be code monkey. I'm into the application of the technique to machine design. The coding part of it isn't that heavy surprisingly. Interesting stuff though, a different way of optimization than I had when I was in school.


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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 11/11/2014 6:06:16 PM   
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Just started reading Cornwell's "Sharpe" series which I had heard about before and then saw mentioned here. Decided to do the series in chronological order so I'm a few chapters into Sharpe's Tiger.

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 11/11/2014 8:19:37 PM   
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Just started reading Cornwell's "Sharpe" series which I had heard about before and then saw mentioned here. Decided to do the series in chronological order so I'm a few chapters into Sharpe's Tiger.


I absolutely love the "Sharpe" series. I have read every book AND listened to an audio version of them. Fantastic series!!

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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 11/16/2014 3:15:37 PM   
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Been alerted to a book on The Battle of Savo Island, seen from an Aussie perspective. The Shame of Savo has been out for sometime but I had never heard of it.

Should be an interesting read, especially considering an RAAF crew has been officially exonerated from the charge laid against them in Morrison's works that they failed to carry out orders after having sighted Mikawa's ships heading toward Guadalcanal.
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Just finished the book. What an excellent book!

Puts me in the mood to re-read Frank's Guadalcanal, so that's next




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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? - 11/17/2014 11:07:11 PM   
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