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Just re-reading Gravity Dreams by LE Modesitt jr. Have re-read it many times for something over 15 years.
About truth and honesty and love, a relationship between two individuals set against a...

Yup, we do have some doozies! Blinkin' yellow left turn (with caution against traffic) arrow instead of a yellow caution light. Right turn onto two lanes of 4 lane road under a red light. Good on ya!...

I am re-reading the mystery series by Robert van Gulik dealing with Judge Dee, a historical Magistrate in old China. The series is fiction but Van Gulik lived in China before WWII and many old...

After 70 years, a reread of:
"Space Cadet" by Robert Heinlein
A 1948 guess as to when we would be having planetary colonies. And having travel speeds greater than the speed of light....

The Red Pavilion: A Judge Dee Mystery
by Robert Van Gulik

Fiction > Mystery & Detective
Tang dynasty, 618-907
Judges
Dee Jen-Djieh (Fictitious character)
China

A chance...

Back to Science Fiction.
Reading "Ringworld" by Larry Niven. It is being reprinted with others of the series. I read it first about 40+ years back.
Larryniven dot net

I await the latest space...

A pleasant change of pace by going back to a simpler world.
"Featuring the Saint." By Leslie Charteris. Old time daring do with a polished robbinghood.
While written mostly in the twenties and...

Consider it being married, temporarily, to the author. There is a certain amount of give and take in the relationship that is swept under the rug...that said, making up new words and adding...

Once again re-reading the books dealing with, fictitiously, the life and times of 'Judge Dee" told in the fourth book of the series by VanGulik:
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I first came across one of the...

Yes, And, I think that we are used to a style that we knew and find few modern writers that use it.

Just finished "A Boy and His Tank" By Leo Frankowski.
Now into the sequel:
"The War with Earth"
I have read them before but...They are a good read!
~Richard

The local Public Radio " A Chapter a Day" program is reading the "Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin to its listeners.
Thanks to a great local book store I now have, inexpensively, a small bound...

"Flight Engineer Trilogy" Three books by James Doohan; "Scotty" from Star Trek:chapeau

The Rising
Flight Engineer
The Independent Command

Books by "Scotty" James Doohan
All are a good read...

A re-read after a year:
"The Ghost Brigades"
by John Scalzi

In this sequel to "Old Man's War," the Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces,

Now re-reading a group of SciFi books by David Drake.
The "Leary" series, and am up to "What Distant Deeps," This 'fun read' series is about people that act very quickly and are able to get the job...

Not yet but with your post, I plan to!

Iain+M+Banks
Thank you!
~Richard

Just finished:
THE ETHOS EFFECT
L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
Set in the same universe as "The Parafaith War, "--but two centuries later--"The Ethos Factor" is the story of Commander Albert, a brave and...

As usual, Science fiction of the near future by a prolific writer, and rereading it for the umteenth time since publication:
Flash
0-765-34992-2
Just as renowned author L.E. Modesitt, Jr. explored...

12 O'Clock High
by Beirne Lay, Jr.; Bartlett, Sy ~1949
A book about the heroes we deride today.
""In 1949, American attorney and former U.S. Army Air Forces officer Harvey Stovall is vacationing...

A very good read!
Yes, "Passage at Arms" is well done. The writer knows well the English language! He does not flaunt that knowledge but uses descriptive words to make the story live. Another war...

Thanks. I have it on order, now

"The Complete History of the Automobile"
A decidedly British compendium of who did what with which end to whom during the years of the auto industries marques and reprisals.
It gives an even...

I enjoyed the early Cussler books also.
I am now reading :
Musashi
by Eiji Yoshikawa, Charles S Terry (Translator) 984 op
Miyamoto Musashi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I read this when it...

I just finished a book first read, 50 some years ago, while on a Navy base, awaiting transfer to my new duties aboard ship.
Death in the South Atlantic
by Michael Powell
A fictionalized but...

I also like Michener's books'. I read "Hawaii" and was then stationed there in the USN. His long books are great for getting an internal awareness of the subject and the social and political nuances...