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#RESIST
Stated last Thursday.
Didn’t hear great reviews about it. Said it was better than the first mini-series, but anything with Whoopi in it is a pass for me.
Yeah, I just assumed it is ruined with wokeness.
#RESIST
Now, with even more wokeness.
On the bright side, Stephen King is vastly overrated, so you won't lose much. (And yes, I have enjoyed one or two of his books, but overall, quite meh, imho.)
There's nothing civil about this war.
I completely agree.
#RESIST
Just finished the The Forgotten Soldier which looks like has been mentioned a few times here. Really good book, but pretty depressing, especially if you consider war with Russia a possibility.
I’m reading The Ugly American now, also a really good book that feels all too true.
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I first read The Forgotten Soldier in grade school. I usually reread it once a year. One of my top five books.
Just a dog chauffeur that used to hold the dumb end of the leash.
A Higher Call by Adam Makos
https://www.amazon.com/Higher-Call-I...s%2C259&sr=8-1
“December 1943: A badly damaged American bomber struggles to fly over wartime Germany. At the controls is twenty-one Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown. Half his crew lay wounded or dead on this, their first mission. Suddenly, a Messerschmitt fighter pulls up on the bomber’s tail. The pilot is Frank Stigler and he can destroy the young American crew with the squeeze of a trigger...”
I saw Tara Ross’s post about this incident and bought the book. I’m almost done with it. It’s a fascinating story about the two pilots. They met after the war and became long time friends. A lot of the book focuses on Stigler who flew in Africa, Italy, and the Western Front. He was a 262 pilot near the end of the war.
Highly recommended!
Just a dog chauffeur that used to hold the dumb end of the leash.
IT was a great book, goofy movie
The Stand though, was a great read.
He has written both amazing things and some completely self-indulgent pap--The Dark Tower series shows off both sides. He could use an editor to keep him on track, sometimes, IMO.
I finally got around to reading Echopraxia, the sequel to Blindsight, a novel a few other folks here have read.
I could say a whole bunch about it, but for now I'll try to keep it short. It's not nearly the book Blindsight is, unfortunately. The 3rd person POV just doesn't work nearly as well as the POV from the previous book. Much of the interesting stuff here was covered better in Blindsight and the new ideas don't get developed very far. The hive mind people are interesting, and there is the beginning of a discussion about science vs. religion, but it goes nowhere.
The basic plot is fine, and I really hope we get a third book in the Firefall sequence soon. I want more Siri! (We get a little bit of him in Echo, but it's really just a teaser.)
On the bright side, Valerie, our new vampire, is pretty awesome, and only suffers from having "powers" that reach unbelievable levels in one area. Scarier than the vamp from book one, IMO. She seems far more predatory. I really wish the novel had been written from her POV in the first person the whole way through.
I wouldn't recommend it to folks who haven't read Blindsight, since it is mostly just a companion piece to it. If you loved Blindsight, I would suggest reading "The General" and the "presentation" on vampires on Watts's website, rifters.com, then reading Echo. Both pieces give some background that probably should be in the novel.
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