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Wallace Sellars
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I'm rereading Juanita Coulson's THE WEB OF WIZARDRY… for the umpteenth
time!
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Robert Cosgrove
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THE GENERALS by Thomas Ricks. How the brass has run the military from WW II through the book's publication early in Obama's presidency. Per Ricks, George Marshall designed a military where failing commanders were relieved but often given a second shot where they proved more successful. In the modern military, relieving a general has become unthinkable, to the detriment of the ranks and the American people. At the same time, the military has become excellent tactically and inept at strategic thinking. Candid assessments with few in the modern military winning Ricks's admiration. Villains/goats are Douglas MacArthur, William Westmoreland ("stupid"), Stormin' Norman Schwarzkopf, Tommy Franks ("few generals manage to lose two wars"), and most of all, Max Taylor. Winning kudos are Marshall, Eisenhower, O.P. Smith, Matthew Ridgeway, H. R. McMaster, David Petraeus, and "Mad Dog" Mattis. Civilian leadership, particularly Lyndon Johnson, Robert Mcnamara, and Donald Rumsfield, do not escape criticism.
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Robert Bradley
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Reading TY COBB: A TERRIBLE BEAUTY which, in part, tries to give a more accurate picture of Cobb's life than the hatchet job Al Stump did on him in his books from 1961 and 1994.
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Thom Price
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L’Homme Diabolique
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SLEEPING GIANTS, book #1 in the THEMIS FILES series, by Sylvain Neuvel.
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James Best
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Final book in Greg Iles' "Mississippi" trilogy, and the first of his novels to ever reach #1 on the NY Times Bestseller List. I hope it finishes as well as it started...
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John Byrne
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Drifted away from DODGE CITY. I found the writing to be kind of dull, especially after the first hundred pages, where the writer slipped into a pattern of "then they did this, then they did that, then they did this..."
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Robert Kowalewski II
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Thrawn by Timothy Zahn, from his initial "appearance" in Heir to the Empire I've enjoyed reading his stories.
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Matthew Chartrand
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Bloody Ridge and Beyond: A World War II Marine's Memoir of Edson's Raiders in the Pacific by Marlin "Whitey" Groft and Larry Alexander.
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Robert Cosgrove
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Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes by Michael Sims. Enjoyed it. The inspiration, to the extent there was a single human inspiration, has never been a secret, as witness ACD's dedication to The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes:
To my old Teacher Joseph Bell, M.D., ETC., of 2 Melville Crescent, Edinburgh
Doyle's literary debts (Poe, etc.) are also traced.
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Wallace Sellars
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I'm rereading THE MAN WITH THE GETAWAY FACE… yet again.
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Michael Arndt
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WONDER WOMAN by GEORGE PEREZ VOL. 1
Never have read any of these issues by Mr. Perez. Looking forward to enjoying myself.
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Wallace Sellars
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I jut finished rereading Richard Stark's THE OUTFIT (again), and will be starting
his THE MOURNER (again) soon.
If you haven't read any of Stark's PARKER novels, I recommend all of them.
Some are better than others, but even the worst of them is great reading. The
books are best read in order since characters and plots overlap, but can be
enjoyed as standalone stories read in any order.
Mr. Westlake certainly gives Walter Mosley a run for his money when it comes
to my favorite author in the crime fiction department. In fact, if I had to choose
right now, he might just edge Mr. Mosley out for the top spot. It truly depends
on whose work I last read.
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