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Gusington

#3285
October 12, 2016, 06:43:57 PM
WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN???
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We can't live under the threat of a c*nt because he's threatening nuclear Armageddon.

-JudgeDredd

Sir Slash

#3286
October 12, 2016, 10:44:19 PM
I heard he was doing 18 to 24 months for that illegal Fertilization Clinic he was running.
"Take a look at that". Sgt. Wilkerson-- CMBN. His last words after spotting a German tank on the other side of a hedgerow.

Martok

#3287
October 13, 2016, 02:07:32 PM
That was just the cover story.  I was actually in the Witness Protection Program until they could put away the Giraffe Mafia. 

"Like we need an excuse to drink to anything..." - Banzai_Cat
"I like to think of it not as an excuse but more like Pavlovian Response." - Sir Slash

"At our ages, they all look like jailbait." - mirth

"If we had lines here that would have crossed all of them. For the 1,077,986th time." - Gusington

"Government is so expensive that it should at least be entertaining." - airboy

"As long as there's bacon, everything will be all right." - Toonces

BanzaiCat

#3288
October 13, 2016, 04:20:49 PM
The Giraffe Mafia doesn't play.

airboy

#3289
October 13, 2016, 04:59:20 PM
Incredible Victory by Walter Lord, one of the benchmark books of Midway is on sale at amazon for $1.99

https://www.amazon.com/Incredible-Victory-Battle-Midway-Classics-ebook/dp/B0078X73G6?_bbid=2424922&tag=bookbubemailc-20

Gusington

#3290
October 16, 2016, 12:43:34 PM
Just started Disappearance at Devil's Rock by Paul Tremblay.
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Greybriar

#3291
October 16, 2016, 05:34:15 PM
I am reading  Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors by James D. Hornfischer.  This is a book those who are interested in World War II in the Pacific should read.
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Airborne Rifles

#3292
October 16, 2016, 05:58:06 PM
Quote from: Greybriar on October 16, 2016, 05:34:15 PM
I am reading  Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors by James D. Hornfischer.  This is a book those who are interested in World War II in the Pacific should read.

Everything by Hornfischer is gold.

Gusington

#3293
October 17, 2016, 05:31:41 PM
Just started a collection of Lovecraft-inspired stories called 'A Lonely and Curious Country'.
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OJsDad

#3294
October 23, 2016, 04:35:32 PM
Tried reading a book called 'Into the Guns'.  I only got through about a 1/3 of it.  It was such junk, that I actually went to B&N and gave it a 1 star and wrote a review. 
'Here at NASA we all pee the same color.'  Al Harrison from the movie Hidden Figures.

JasonPratt

#3295
October 25, 2016, 10:57:12 AM
I'm currently finishing up C. S. Lewis' Till We Have Faces, the only major work of his I haven't read yet in all these years of being a superfan. (I even own and have read the OHEL! And enjoyed it!)

While I don't join those fans who think this is his best work evar (or not yet, I've still to finish Part 2, the extended epilogue to the story), I have been constantly amusing myself while reading it (beyond enjoying the work itself) by imagining that Lewis was writing a narrative AAR of a game of Crusader King 2! (Which for creativity's sake he re-set in a pre-Roman time, using fictional kingdoms.)
ICEBREAKER THESIS CHRONOLOGY! -- Victor Suvorov's Stalin Grand Strategy theory, in lots and lots of chronological order...
Dawn of Armageddon -- narrative AAR for Dawn of War: Soulstorm: Ultimate Apocalypse
Survive Harder! -- Two season narrative AAR, an Amazon Blood Bowl career.
PanzOrc Corpz Generals -- Fantasy Wars narrative AAR, half a combined campaign.
Khazâd du-bekâr! -- narrative dwarf AAR for LotR BfME2 RotWK campaign.
RobO Q Campaign Generator -- archived classic CMBB/CMAK tool!

Martok

#3296
October 25, 2016, 02:29:55 PM
Am almost halfway through Lords of the North, the third book in Cornwell's Saxon Tales.  Thus far, I'm enjoying the series even more than I did the first time around.  :smitten: 


Coincidentally, I just received an email from B&N a few days ago notifying me that the tenth book, The Flame Bearer, is due to be released at the end of November.  Giggity!  :D 

"Like we need an excuse to drink to anything..." - Banzai_Cat
"I like to think of it not as an excuse but more like Pavlovian Response." - Sir Slash

"At our ages, they all look like jailbait." - mirth

"If we had lines here that would have crossed all of them. For the 1,077,986th time." - Gusington

"Government is so expensive that it should at least be entertaining." - airboy

"As long as there's bacon, everything will be all right." - Toonces

nelmsm

#3297
October 25, 2016, 07:33:02 PM
Got started on Gettysburg July 1 by David G. Martin. Not to far in but has lots of detail. Looking forward to working my through this.

mirth

#3298
October 27, 2016, 07:44:11 PM
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

Gusington

#3299
October 27, 2016, 07:55:21 PM
^That's on my short list to-read...please post your impressions!
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