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01-07-2015, 06:07 PM #1Customized
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I'm trying to get through Thomas Picketty's "Capital in the twenty first century"
An interesting and somewhat provocative view on capitalism by a French economist.Bjoernar
Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years....
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01-07-2015, 08:08 PM #2Senior Member
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Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
“I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides, it furnished me seven times the pleasure afforded me by any of the others; twelve years of preparation, and two years of writing. The others needed no preparation and got none.”
— Mark Twain
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I'm reading The Mongoliad by Neal Stephenson & friends on my Kindle. Currently on book 2 of 4. It's a fiction book about a European military order trying to stop the Mongols from expanding their empire into Europe. Apparently the authors did some research about sword fighting and did some sparring to make the fights scenes more accurate. Anyway, if you liked Stephenson's Quicksilver trilogy this newer series might be of interest.
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Read them both. I found the Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion and The System of the World) much more interesting, I will read those again, not so The Mongoliad.
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I'm finishing up two at the moment;
1. On Killing : The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Dave Grossman
2. Full Force And Effect by TomClancy/Mark Greaney
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01-17-2015, 10:05 PM #6Senior Member
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Robert Jordan, Eye of the World. Book 1 of a 12 book series, give me 5 year I'll have them finished
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The Case for a Creator by Lee Strobel.
My son is a Drill Instructor in the United States Marine Corps at Parris Island, SC
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PMD, Originally Posted by ProudMarineDad
My wife and I are great fans of Lee Strobel also...
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I've read that series, up to but not including the final trilogy. Originally Posted by williamc
Great bedtime read. Thumbs up!
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01-25-2015, 02:49 AM #10Know thyself
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Just finished Americanah and didn't like it as much as I did initially. Good book, just didn't have the depth or development I'd been expecting.
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