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James Best
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Now taking a new British author out for a test drive...
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Robbie Parry
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Just started HOW WE WON THE MEXICO '86 WORLD CUP by Diego Maradona.
I'm looking forward to the insight, particularly any he has pertaining to that controversial goal.
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James Best
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Now starting another historical spy thriller novel by one of my favorite authors...
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Matthew Chartrand
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SPARK by John Twelve Hawks.
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John Leach
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Just finished GIANT OF THE SENATE by Al Franken, now getting into TROUBLE BOYS: THE TRUE STORY OF THE REPLACEMENTS by Bob Mehr.
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James Best
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Now starting a much anticipated sequel that hit the retail bookstores just a few weeks ago...
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Robert Cosgrove
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I am a hopeless sucker for lists of top ten (or whatever #) titles of any genre, or books setting forth such lists. Recently finished The Leader's Bookshelf by retired Admiral James Stavridis, USN, now the Dean of Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and R. Manning Ancell. The coauthors asked senior military leaders what they were reading and what books shaped them as leaders, then collated the lists and rank ordered them by numbers of mentions. Each of the 50 top books has a brief introduction by one of the persons who recommended it, then a quotation from the book, followed by an "About the Author" paragraph or two, then a page or two about the book, followed by a paragraph or two of "Leadership Lessons Summarized" by either Stavridis or Ancell. The number one book listed is one of the best books I ever read, Michael Shaara's Killer Angels, a fictional account of the battle of Gettysburg. A lot of the books are those you would expect, such as the #5 choice, The Art of War, by Sun Tzu, but others offer surprises, such as #39, The Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov or #44, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
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Matthew Chartrand
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DEAD WAKE: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, by Erik Larson.
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James Best
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A lot of the books are those you would expect, such as...
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Is it possible for you to post the list? Or provide a link to it? I enjoy reading those kinds of lists as well.
Sounds like it would make for a good topic for the forum :-)
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Steve Coates
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Just finished Tarzan of the Apes and now into The Return of Tarzan. Both are hardcover editions, printed nearly a hundred years ago. The feel of the books adds to the period of the stories quite nicely.
When ERB describes certain scenes there is invoked images dating from the 1960s and early 1970s, but Joe Kubert's style does not clash, but complements well the period the stories were written.
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Michael Hogan
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JOE STEELE by Harry Turtledove
Edited by Michael Hogan on 01 November 2017 at 8:20pm
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James Best
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