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They were deadly! Slow braised with aromatic vegetables and herbs in a deep red wine & beef consume' reduction.
I'm getting ready to turn the sound off on the Tigers game and read another short-story or two out of a book compiled by W. B. Yeats.
I'm getting ready to turn the sound off on the Tigers game and read another short-story or two out of a book compiled by W. B. Yeats.
Right now, The Fifth Element and Jingo by Terry Pratchett, The Day Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Larsson and the first of the Game Of Thrones series when I can get my hands on it.
Hmm, that Magellan narrative sounds pretty good (sounds a little like "Endurance", the Shackelton tale).
Reading Robert McMannon's (Boys Life, etc.) "Five" right now, too soon to comment.
I have "Robotica" on my "to read" list and it is waiting for me at our public library. "2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America" by Albert Brooks sounds interesting as well.
Reading Robert McMannon's (Boys Life, etc.) "Five" right now, too soon to comment.
I have "Robotica" on my "to read" list and it is waiting for me at our public library. "2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America" by Albert Brooks sounds interesting as well.
Finished up Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes, which I can say is a great book. Makes you feel like you were there. The Known World by Edward Jones which is about Manchester county VA before the Civil War and focuses on free blacks owning slaves. It is an ok book, tough to read, it jumps around a lot from person to person and backwards and forwards in time a lot. Age of Darkness which is the 16th book in the Horus Heresy series and is made up of short stories, great if you like 40k fluff. Havana by Stephen Hunter, this is the 3rd book in the Earl Swagger series. Great character dropped into a cool plot in Cuba before Castro came to power. These books are about the father of Bob Lee Swagger who has his own series of books and the movie The Shooter was based on the Bob Lee books.
ssjones, I read a lot of books in the same genre, historical nonfiction/adventure. For the most bang for your buck, I'd highly recommend "Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls" .
Its a thoroughly researched book with hundreds of documented tales of survival from about the 1400's to the present.
Mostly shipwrecks and marooning from The Great Age of Sail.
Lots of stories of months floating in lifeboats, drawing lots to see who gets eaten. Details of shipwrecks on uncharted coasts, years alone on islands eating turtles and fighting natives. Lots of stories from WWI and WWII of jungle plane crashes and water rescues, fighting off sharks etc.
Plenty of action ! The stories it tells of survival against all odd truly deserve to be read and recognized.
http://tiny.cc/aa5np
Another great read in the same vein is "Skeletons on The Zahara" which really makes you wonder how in hell ANYBODY could have survived.
http://tiny.cc/nbcyh
Its a thoroughly researched book with hundreds of documented tales of survival from about the 1400's to the present.
Mostly shipwrecks and marooning from The Great Age of Sail.
Lots of stories of months floating in lifeboats, drawing lots to see who gets eaten. Details of shipwrecks on uncharted coasts, years alone on islands eating turtles and fighting natives. Lots of stories from WWI and WWII of jungle plane crashes and water rescues, fighting off sharks etc.
Plenty of action ! The stories it tells of survival against all odd truly deserve to be read and recognized.
http://tiny.cc/aa5np
Another great read in the same vein is "Skeletons on The Zahara" which really makes you wonder how in hell ANYBODY could have survived.
http://tiny.cc/nbcyh
Death Stalks the Night by Hugh B. Cave - more shudders from the pulps of the 30's. This one focus's more in the Spicy Detective stories. Hey how can you resist - A 2 fisted Hero, punching out a hunchback Mad Scientist - while a scantily (usually almost nude) clad woman moans and shrieks during the slugfest?
The Crossing by Cormac Mccarthy. Read all by a few of his works. Blood Meridian is by far the best in my humble opinion. It is cool seeing so many mentioning Tolkien. When I am done with The Crossing I was planning to jump into the Two Towers. I Finished the Fellowship not that long ago.
Infantry Attacks by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. Truly a great read if tactics interest you. It's a damn she Rommel never had a chance to finish "The Tanks in Attacks." While he may of served under the swastika, Rommel was truly one of the finest generals of the War. He showed humility when others would not.
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