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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.
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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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Finished the audio book of Foundation: the history of England from its earliest beginnings to the Tudors by Peter Aykroyd yesterday. A decent book but the audiobook narrator sounded like he was reading the evening news and not narrating something that he should try to put some "life" into.

I'm going to finish reading The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell today. His first Arthur book. If you've read a Cornwell book, especially the Saxon Tales series, and liked it then you'll like this one. I just love the type of protagonists he uses to narrate his stories.

All timed to finish up in time and leave me free to start A Parade of Horribles, like I'm sure so many others on this thread. I'm sure some of you are going to crush this book and probably finish it by tomorrow morning, lol, and I'm sure this reminder is probably unnecessary, please no spoilers without spoiler tags!
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Time to read Alas: Babylon again, love that book.
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In reply to maverick2076 • 7:41a
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maverick2076 said:
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.


That sucks. Her sources seem impeccable in nuclear war. As mentioned, it's a very quick read, so maybe worth a shot? After I read it and before I saw your post I went to her twitter to see if she was a loon, and she has a tinge of looniness, so that affected my opinion of her a bit.
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In reply to Sea Speed • 10:23a
I've been meaning to read it, but I just haven't gotten around to it. I only read nonfiction occasionally, and I'm currently finishing up Empire of the Summer Moon.
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About to start the The Fourth Option by Jack Carr! Been looking forward to this one.
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In reply to The Dog Lord • 11:59a
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Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J Mass
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss in-progress

I wasn't sure if I was going to reread the 2nd Kingkiller book, but I can't help but want to after reading Name of the Wind again. It may have been better than the first time. The first third definitely was better since I knew more about what was going on compared to the first time.

I really hope the prior knowledge also helps with some of the slower parts of book 2 this time. I didn't dive into theories or anything after my first read of this series, but I'm considering it after this one, especially since theories are all we may ever get. I still don't regret reading it even though we may never get an ending, but it's just a shame.
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I have two book reports today.

1.) Red Rising and Golden Son by Pearce Brown. This trilogy has been around for over a decade, but it seems like it really caught on in the last few years. Do you like space operas? A young, heroic boy rises from nowhere, sees his family fatally harmed by the ruling empire, gains special powers, and fights to destroy the empire. There's a slight chance this sounds familiar if you've seen a Star Wars movie in the last 49 years, but the formula works. I wish they didn't make you practically learn a new language to fully understand everything, but halfway through, I was using my new vocabulary around the dinner table with my family before watching HoloCan. I mean TV.

2.) 11.22.63 by Stephen King. A quick search around the internet will show you that this book is getting listed with books like "Lonesome Dove" as best of all time. I'm okay with that. Stephen King kept my attention, once again, for over 1100 pages. Sure, he could have chopped about 600 out and had just as good of a story, but something about putting in 35 or 40 hours into a book makes it personal. A lot of Stephen King's books seem to end with chaos. The bad guy turns out to be the devil or a demon or whatever, there's a fight, pain, blood, fire, hero, the end. I kept waiting for that here, but without spoiling it, the last 15 pages almost makes the first 1,085 worth it. It'll stay with you for a while.

After I finish the third book in the Red Rising Trilogy, I'm looking for a super lame, self-published book about time traveling dinosaurs or a rom-com about a guitar player having a mid-life crisis and finding love in a new city. Whatever the book is, it will be short, easy, and completely forgotten 10 minutes after finishing.
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In reply to Philo B 93 • 5:22p
May I suggest anything in the Murderbot universe for a quick read and be able to forget it in 10 minutes? if you haven't read any of them, there is only one novel. The rest are novellas.

If you are truly interested in a time-travel story with dinosaurs, try the trilogy of Extracted, Executed, and Extinct, by R. R. Haywood. I read them a number of years ago and they aren't terrible, but they aren't classics of literature either.

Extracted (Extracted Trilogy, #1) by R.R. Haywood | Goodreads

I can't help you on a rom-com book.
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