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mirth

#3300
October 27, 2016, 07:57:15 PM
Will do. I'm only a short ways in. So far, so good.
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Gusington

#3301
October 27, 2016, 08:00:27 PM
He's a great author...I pre-ordered that title. Just haven't been in a world war mood in a while.
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mirth

#3302
October 27, 2016, 08:02:44 PM
Quote from: Gusington on October 27, 2016, 08:00:27 PM
He's a great author...I pre-ordered that title. Just haven't been in a world war mood in a while.

I hear ya. I like the scope on this one though, tying together both wars, the interwar period and the start of the Cold War. And he's going to do a second volume covering the rest of the 20th Century.
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Gusington

#3303
October 27, 2016, 08:04:57 PM
Up until...1989?
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OJsDad

#3304
October 27, 2016, 08:17:53 PM
Quote from: Martok on October 25, 2016, 02:29:55 PM
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

The next book for David Weber's Honorverse Series, 'Shadow of Victory', is coming out 1 Nov and his next book in his Safehold series, 'At the Sign of Triumph', comes at a week later on 8 Nov.  It's going to be a busy November for you Martok. 
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mirth

#3305
October 27, 2016, 08:22:16 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

OJsDad

#3306
November 01, 2016, 07:44:22 PM
Started Shadow of Victory.  The last book in the Honor Harrington series by David Weber. 
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Staggerwing

#3307
November 01, 2016, 08:32:00 PM
Quote from: OJsDad on November 01, 2016, 07:44:22 PM
Started Shadow of Victory.  The last book in the Honor Harrington series by David Weber.

Uh, last.. or latest...?
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WallysWorld

#3308
November 01, 2016, 08:42:58 PM Last Edit: November 01, 2016, 08:46:18 PM by WallysWorld
Finished V.M. Keats' "Winged Victory": a very good semi-autobiographical book about aerial combat in World War One. Highlights the excitement, terror, comradeship and even sometimes boredom of being a fighter pilot in the RFC. The book reminded me a lot of the 1976  movie "Aces High" which I really like.

Just started "A Brief History of the Roman Empire: Rise and Fall" by Stephen Kershaw.
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OJsDad

#3309
November 01, 2016, 09:06:37 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on November 01, 2016, 08:32:00 PM
Quote from: OJsDad on November 01, 2016, 07:44:22 PM
Started Shadow of Victory.  The last book in the Honor Harrington series by David Weber.

Uh, last.. or latest...?

Yes, the latest.  Though it's my understanding that it's last of the Shadow story line. 
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Pinetree

#3310
November 02, 2016, 04:24:26 AM
I've started the first book in the freebie Four Years War Star Trek novel series. It's been pretty good so far, the writing's not bad and it's set in the background established by FASA for the STRPG which has always been my favourite ST setting.
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Martok

#3311
November 02, 2016, 01:12:04 PM
Quote from: OJsDad on October 27, 2016, 08:17:53 PM
Quote from: Martok on October 25, 2016, 02:29:55 PM
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

The next book for David Weber's Honorverse Series, 'Shadow of Victory', is coming out 1 Nov and his next book in his Safehold series, 'At the Sign of Triumph', comes at a week later on 8 Nov.  It's going to be a busy November for you Martok.
Oy!  I was not aware of that.  :o  Thanks for the heads-up, OJsDad! 

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OJsDad

#3312
November 02, 2016, 10:43:48 PM
Quote from: Martok on November 02, 2016, 01:12:04 PM
Quote from: OJsDad on October 27, 2016, 08:17:53 PM
Quote from: Martok on October 25, 2016, 02:29:55 PM
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

The next book for David Weber's Honorverse Series, 'Shadow of Victory', is coming out 1 Nov and his next book in his Safehold series, 'At the Sign of Triumph', comes at a week later on 8 Nov.  It's going to be a busy November for you Martok.
Oy!  I was not aware of that.  :o  Thanks for the heads-up, OJsDad!

Your welcome.  You should see some of the snippets Weber's post on his web site for ATST.  The one is absolutely mouth watering. 
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Martok

#3313
November 03, 2016, 04:01:27 PM
Gah!  Stop teasing me!  Must get through the Saxon books first! 

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"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
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