Threat Vector - Tom Clancy

McPherson Battle Cry of Freedom again

just finished The Big Short, Michael Lewis

Acts of Faith by Eboo Patel.

The Fellowship of the Ring

Every few years I have to break out Tolkien and re-read them.

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Threat Vector - Tom Clancy

How is it? Thinking of buying for iPad

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Threat Vector - Tom Clancy

How is it? Thinking of buying for iPad

If you like Clancy, you'd probably like this. I enjoyed it and thought it was worth the read.

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Threat Vector - Tom Clancy

How is it? Thinking of buying for iPad

If you like Clancy, you'd probably like this. I enjoyed it and thought it was worth the read.

Ditto. Finished last night - Kindle edition. A very good Clancy book and one I had trouble putting down. I'm going to seek out more by his co-author.

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The Fellowship of the Ring

Every few years I have to break out Tolkien and re-read them.

Ditto - although I have grown to love the Harry Potter series more.

Better Off Without Em by Chuck Thompson
You southern boys ought to skip this one (or buy all of the books and burn them). Totally skewers the South for race, relegion, politics, college football, and just about everything southern. His premise is the country would be better off if we'd let you seceeded.

Magnificat Year of Faith Companion.

An Edge in the Kitchen by Chad Ward....a good knife geek book.

My interest in the American Civil War has been piqued again recently. I just finished a book on Shiloh, read some of McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom again (this is really one of the best history books I've read), and am now starting on a series of battle books about the overland campaign in 1864 on a long, long trip I'm taking.

Working my way through The Two Towers

Anyone care to guess what my next book will be?

The River Of Doubt by Candice Millard

What a great book... I highly recommend it.

warded man by peter brett

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

How to retire happy, wild and free.

The day of battle - the war in Sicily and Italy '43-44, Atkinson. Brutal stuff.

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The day of battle - the war in Sicily and Italy '43-44, Atkinson. Brutal stuff.

An Army at Dawn was really good, but I didn't care for this one much. Not sure I'm motivated to read the last one now.

Age of Voltaire.

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The day of battle - the war in Sicily and Italy '43-44, Atkinson. Brutal stuff.

An Army at Dawn was really good, but I didn't care for this one much. Not sure I'm motivated to read the last one now.

Agreed the first is better, but it will not preclude me from reading the third.

Charles Rosen
A Short Companion to Beethoven's Piano Sonatas

Pretty interesting. If you don't know what the tonic, dominant, and subdominant are, you're probably going to have a rough time of it as he assumes his readers (lectures given to piano students) know a fair bit of music theory.

If I'd known that Andras Schiff's lectures on the sonatas were online I probably wouldn't have bought this.

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The day of battle - the war in Sicily and Italy '43-44, Atkinson. Brutal stuff.

An Army at Dawn was really good, but I didn't care for this one much. Not sure I'm motivated to read the last one now.

Agreed the first is better, but it will not preclude me from reading the third.

One of the things I liked most about the first one was the kind of global political backdrop to what was going on, especially the stories about Churchill and Roosevelt. If you liked that about the book, you might look into getting your hands on _The Burma Campaign_ by McLynn (I think?). A lot of that is around the personalities of the local commanders and their interactions with their bosses and Chiang Kai-Shek. Fascinating.

I looked for the burma book and the civil war history you mentioned up above and...was hesitant to buy as we have an iPad, and both were for other proprietary reader devices (nook and Kindle). I guess all it takes is a few bucks to buy one test it, but i still paused nonetheless...silly, i guess. I'm still not sold on a digital reader; a hard copy is much more comfort in hand.