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Post by mtdman on Jan 5, 2016 23:03:10 GMT -5
So I listened to Endzone on Sunday and Monday. However, since my wife was off for most of the day on Monday I missed a lot of it. It's a very detailed book, and goes into lots of details and backstory about what happened from 2010-2014. Plus there's a lot of history and deep backstory. It's a lot of Dave Brandon, and the dumb decisions he made. I liked it so much I ordered an actual written copy and plan to go over it extensively. The best stuff is all the dumb stuff that happened in the fall of 2014 that led to Brandon's demise and how he managed to piss off the students so bad. I recommend this book, John Bacon's stuff is always good. The RichRod book I enjoyed, even if I didn't gain any sympathy for him.
I highly recommend this book.
Also, I listened to the novelization of the Star Wars movie, and in November I listened to Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King, his new short story anthology. King's book was good, the SW book was pretty much the whole movie, with a few extra things thrown in. Nothing great. I downloaded Killing Reagan and the Martian but haven't listened to either. Podcasts take up a lot of my listening time I used to devote to books.
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Post by mtdman on Jul 11, 2016 12:44:32 GMT -5
Anyone read the martian?
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Post by Pollux on Jul 11, 2016 17:37:53 GMT -5
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Post by Pollux on Jan 12, 2017 21:29:08 GMT -5
I got Steven King's The Gunslinger for Christmas. It's the first of eight books in the Dark Tower series which they are making a movie of. It's an easy read and I like it. The movie is coming out in October so even if I'm held up to a book a month I should be done with the books and ready for the movie. It would be the first time I read the book first.
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Post by mtdman on Feb 13, 2017 3:13:25 GMT -5
I got Steven King's The Gunslinger for Christmas. It's the first of eight books in the Dark Tower series which they are making a movie of. It's an easy read and I like it. The movie is coming out in October so even if I'm held up to a book a month I should be done with the books and ready for the movie. It would be the first time I read the book first. You can skip Wind through the Keyhole. He wrote that after the series was done, and kind of shoehorned it into between the 4th and 5th books. It sucks and there's nothing in it of consequence. Book 2 and 3, Drawing of the Three and The Wastelands, are the best books of the series. Great books. Also, don't expect the movie to be anything like the books. It's an adaptation and 'retelling' of the series.
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Post by mtdman on Feb 13, 2017 3:26:29 GMT -5
So I am a big fan of Harry Turtledove. He writes 'alternate histories'. His best known book is Guns of the South, which is an alternate history of the Civil War. He also wrote a really good alternate history of WW2 when space aliens invaded in the middle of the fighting and all the various nations have to fight against the aliens instead of finishing ww2. It sounds weird, but it's really good.
He wrote a 10 part series called Southern Victory that starts with the Civil War and goes through WW2 where the south wins independence and then the USA and CSA are at odds and fight several wars between the 1860s and 1940s. I never finished the last 4 books in the series, which is an alternate history of ww2, because I caught up to the series and then didn't want to buy the new books in hardcover at $30 a pop.
I also listened to the series on audio, but they never did the last 4 books that I didn't read. So I never read or listened to the end of the series. But, I recently discovered they finally recorded those 4 books. So now I'm in the middle of that last series and it's really good.
In this alternate history, the USA won WW1, and in the aftermath a Hitler-type figure rose to power in the CSA and took over. He geared them up to fight WW2 against the USA. But also he had a huge hatred of black people and the CSA starts a prison camp program for the black people which ends up killing off a large portion of the population like the real Hitler did to the Jews. It's pretty amazing how the author applies the general themes of world history in different ways with this history. And it's pretty interesting how this guy rises to power in the CSA. I'm never a believer in comparing current politicians to Hitler, but he's pretty charismatic and reminds me of how Trump got elected.
Anywho, I'm about halfway through and I'm totally digging it. One of the things that's really interesting is how in this history socialism gets a foothold in the USA and it becomes the socialist party vs the democratic party. Republicans die off because Abe Lincoln was a republican and he lost the Civil War.
I highly recommend it, if you have the patience to read all 10 or so books.
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