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#3140652 - 11/19/10 06:33 PM Re: What are you reading now? November 2010! [Re: Legend]  
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Matterhorn, a Novel of the Vietnam War.

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Matterhorn is a great novel. There have been some very good novels about the Vietnam War, but this is the first great one, and I doubt it will ever be surpassed. Karl Marlantes overlooks no part of the experience, large or small, from a terrified soldier pondering the nature of good and evil, to the feel and smell of wet earth against scorched skin as a man tries to press himself into the ground to escape withering fire. Here is story-telling so authentic, so moving and so intense, so relentlessly dramatic, that there were times I wasn’t sure I could stand to turn the page. As with the best fiction, I was sad to reach the end.


Highly recommended.


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#3142660 - 11/23/10 04:58 AM Re: What are you reading now? November 2010! [Re: Legend]  
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FlashForward by Robert J Sawyer

Really good book very different from the tv series


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#3143468 - 11/24/10 12:46 PM Re: What are you reading now? November 2010! [Re: Legend]  
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I just finished Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King and I'm starting After the End by Bonnie Dee.

#3143766 - 11/24/10 07:56 PM Re: What are you reading now? November 2010! [Re: Legend]  
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Best Foot Forward by Colin Hodgkinson,

ISBN 10: 0552106879 / 0-552-10687-9
ISBN 13: 9780552106870
Publisher: Corgi
Publication Date: 1978
Binding: Paperback

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#3143817 - 11/24/10 08:59 PM Re: What are you reading now? November 2010! [Re: Legend]  
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Just recieved "The Longbow A social and Military History" by Robert Hardy and about to start reading it ... just after I finish fletching some arrows for my bow.
Been looking for a copy of this book at a reasonable price for a few years and finaly found one in New York took about a month to arrive here tho frown


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#3144015 - 11/25/10 02:19 AM Re: What are you reading now? November 2010! [Re: Legend]  
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Almost finished with "Fallen Dragon", meanwhile I've also started in the Complete Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (again).


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There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
#3145977 - 11/28/10 08:30 PM Re: What are you reading now? November 2010! [Re: Legend]  
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FlashForward by Robert J Sawyer

Really good book very different from the tv series



I watched the TV series which I really enjoyed, before reading the book in the hope of finding out what happened in the end. I agree the book and TV show are very different. I just didn't warm to the book or it's conclusion. I felt more empathy for the way the characters were portrayed on the TV show.

#3146562 - 11/29/10 07:46 PM Re: What are you reading now? November 2010! [Re: Legend]  
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"At Home", Bill Bryson and "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival,Resilience, and Redemption", Laura Hillenbrand, on my brand new Kindle. (This thing is fantastic by the way!!).

#3146761 - 11/30/10 01:43 AM Re: What are you reading now? November 2010! [Re: Legend]  
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Finished with "Apache" by Ed Macy, kindle edition. Just started "Low Level Hell", and enjoying it so far. Great book when you simply cant get enough of helicopters in EECH and DCS Black Shark.

Title: Low Level Hell
Author: Hugh Mills
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Presidio Press; 1 edition (August 8, 2000)
ISBN-10: 0891417192
ISBN-13: 978-0891417194


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#3147366 - 11/30/10 11:39 PM Re: What are you reading now? November 2010! [Re: Legend]  
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James Clavell's Shogun. Was a freshman in high school when the TV series aired and always wanted to read the book. Plus I used it to push a Amazon order over $25 for free shipping.


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#3147636 - 12/01/10 03:23 PM Re: What are you reading now? November 2010! [Re: Legend]  
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I finished re-reading these in November:

Roger Hall; Clouds of Fear

ISBN-10: 0561002150
ISBN-13: 978-0561002156

Richard Hillary; The Last Enemy

ISBN-10: 0887511031
ISBN-13: 978-0887511035


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#3156651 - 12/14/10 08:31 AM Re: What are you reading now? November 2010! [Re: Legend]  
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#3157111 - 12/14/10 09:01 PM Re: What are you reading now? November 2010! [Re: Legend]  
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What in the hell does what you posted have anything to do with anything?

Chase your tail or whatever. But please, have at least some relevance to topic at hand.


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#3157118 - 12/14/10 09:11 PM Re: What are you reading now? November 2010! [Re: 20mm]  
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Originally Posted By: 20mm
What in the hell does what you posted have anything to do with anything?


Maybe it's "Running Around (And Such) (Lizzie Searches for Love, Book 1)" ? Amazon

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