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FL_Ag1998
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In reply to Sea Speed • 5:44p, 5/11/26
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Sea Speed said:
This book is depressing.




My man, you don't seem to read a lot of page-turning barn burners. Might I suggest a good fiction book for a nice break?

You seem like you'd enjoy a good historical fiction book with a classic heroic male protagonist who always gets the woman(usually plural) and really good battle sequences. I highly recommend Bernard Cornwell, he's perfected this style.
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In reply to krosch11 • 5:45p, 5/11/26
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Yea very quick read but the info that every single war game the us gov did on nuclear war ended with a nuclear apocalypse is not very comforting.
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In reply to FL_Ag1998 • 6:05p, 5/11/26
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Bad news, this is next up.
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In reply to Sea Speed • 6:15p, 5/11/26
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I have it on my shelf to read this year.
“If you think you can do it better, go ahead. We will step aside.” Secretary of State Marco Rubio
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In reply to Sea Speed • 7:10p, 5/11/26
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Lol, well then maybe its just being in a boat out on the open ocean that makes one want to tackle "deep" texts or topics. I spent several years right out of college as a NMFS observer onboard fishing boats up in the Bering fishery. It was 2000-2002, so definitely made sure to take a lot of thick books to read because the extremely limited dvd libraries available to watch on the galley TVs got old real quick. I plowed through so many classic books, history books, and travel books....Les Miserables, Frankenstein, The Dubliners, Dracula, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, A Walk In the Woods, just off the top of my head.
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In reply to Sea Speed • 7:45p, 5/11/26
Sea Speed said:
Yea very quick read but the info that every single war game the us gov did on nuclear war ended with a nuclear apocalypse is not very comforting.


You need to take anything Annie Jacobson writes with a huge grain of salt. For example, her book on Area 51 is a great read on both the U-2 and A-12/SR-71 projects.

But it also contains the "truth" about Roswell: the alien craft was a psyop cooked up by Stalin, and the aliens were actually Russian children surgically modified by Mengele, working in secret in Russia, to stoke panic in America.

Makes it hard to take her seriously as an investigative journalist.
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7:53p, 5/11/26
Completed: Octo***** and the Living Daylights: A James Bond Adventure by Ian Fleming. A collection of Bond short stories published posthumously. The two named stories bear only a little in common with their respective movies. I prefer the longer Bond novels, but the stories were a nice light read, taking maybe an hour or two total. One thing I like about Fleming's writing is that I always find a new word I need to look up, whether it's a dated reference or just a word that's fallen out of common use.
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7:54p, 5/11/26
Wraithstorm: The Wraithblade Saga, book 3 by S. M. Boyce --Thought it was a trilogy but evidently not. Decent series though for what it is.
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In reply to maverick2076 • 8:39p, 5/11/26
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Lmao that's an incredible conspiracy theory.
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In reply to Sea Speed • 9:50p, 5/11/26
She allegedly had an insider source that worked for EG&G at Area 51 that told her. It's really sad, because it detracts from an otherwise well-researched book.

I haven't read Nuclear War, but it makes me doubt any of her other classified revelations.
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