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"The History of the Peloponnesian War", by Thucydides

Sparta!!!!!!

I'm onto James Michener's, "Hawaii" and, "Space" in a couple of days, can't remember if I read them long ago, but will find out when I get into the story.

Excellent - soon you can have a shave with that nice Wade and Butcher with Daniel Webster's etching on it...must be fascinating to read something about the man and also hold an actual piece of...

Oh yeah...it's like reading a really, really, really long Russian novel with even more names and characters you'll never remember...I tried that one two or three times, eventually, just put it...

Good point - agreed - finished watching another BBC series episode last night, series the wife and I have been watching, "Crimson Fields" about WWI field hospital. Think I may skip "The Razor's Edge"...

Just finished, "The Culture Series" by Iain M. Banks, fun read, always enjoy a good sci-fi read.

Next for me is about the 7th re-read of one of my favorite books of all time - Somerset Maugham's,...

Agreed - Stranger in a Strange Land is one of my favourites, first one I read and got me hooked...

Just downloaded the Trilogy to Kobo, always loved CS. Lewis - thanks!

Excellent novel, the guy who wrote it started it as a blog for fun, and lots of folks from NASA and other space agencies ended up helping him with a lot of the science behind it. Last I heard, they...

Harry Turtledove, "Joe Steele" - just finished, a superb alternative history of the US starting with the untimely death of Roosevelt before he was first elected President. Fun read!

This will be a potential, "reading room" only type book i.e., about 15 minutes at a time, or maybe longer if I had a fibre rich diet the day before.:o

So far, very interesting, "Full Catastrophe...

It's the theme that without the discipline, influence and guidance of responsible adults, representing Order, young people, or those who've grown up without this influence, will essentially be...

Read it on CNN - here it is:

Baltimore violence and the lack of black men in the city - CNN.com

It's actually quite a frightening tale in many ways, killings, kids playing games with their dead Fathers in the woods...in so many ways, it shows how far we have removed ourselves from imparting to...

Just reading J.M. Barrie's, "Peter Pan" - the original version.

It is a very interesting read and a glimpse into that historical time period. Peter is described as, "a lovely boy, clad in skeleton...

About 52% through pixel's fascinating recommendation of, "Vikings" and getting ready to head into Humphrey Hawksley, "The Third World War" - here is the synopis:

The novel portrays a world not...

I saw that, think it was called, "The Body Farm":


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qZmLo8qIx4

Now reading, "Command and Control" by Eric Schlosser, stunning read about how many various near accidents that caused basically worldwide nuclear holocaust...reading about the accident in middle...

The Dune series is spectacular as far as I'm concerned, and his son did some interesting books furthering the story...Frank Herbert was a brilliant novelist IMO.

For a foray into fiction and about drones, artificial intelligence, and future drone warfare, surrounding a great story, try, "Kill Decision" - Daniel Suarez.

Great writer, loved the Mars Series....

Two books right now, "Kill Decision" - Daniel Suarez.

A great new tech writer, this story is a wild adventure into Drone warfare, Artificial Intelligence, facial recognition software and how ants,...

After just finishing, "Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust", a book of nightmare's come to life, truly a terrifying book in every aspect, this almost seems light...

"The Bush War in Rhodesia: The Extraordinary Combat Memoir of a Rhodesian Reconnaissance Specialist" by Croukamp Dennis.

Then "32 Battalion - the Inside Story of South Africa's Elite Fighting...

Speaking of another excellent non-fiction book, a ways into, "Tales from the Tower of London" By Daniel Diehl,Mark P Donnelly. Incredibly interesting history of Tower of London.