[Swazi Spring]

I finished reading Tunnel in the Sky a few days ago, I must say I really enjoyed it and would like to read more of Heinlein's works.

Now I've gone back to reading Dune by Frank Herbert.

[StarSlayer]

Wrapped Up:

Isaac Asimov's First Foundation Trilogy

John Scalzi's Old Man's War

Picking Away At:

Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter: Barsoom Series

[StarSlayer]

Wrapped Up:

Frank Herbert's Dune
Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama

Continuing to Pick Away At:

Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter: Barsoom Series

[NGTM-1R]

Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter: Barsoom Series

I am contractually obligated to make a Martian Daywear joke, but then I would be unable to explain it adequately...hmmm...

[StarSlayer]

Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter: Barsoom Series

I am contractually obligated to make a Martian Daywear joke, but then I would be unable to explain it adequately...hmmm...

Since its handled in such a matter of fact way in the books I don't really notice it.  I find I'm overlaying the art direction from the film anyway.

[Rodo]

Foundation and Empire, Asimov.

[LordMelvin]

'Starman Jones,' Bobby Heinlein (hilariously dated in the tech, intriguingly composed in the sociology, vividly compelling in the characterizations)

'Mistborn' & sequels, Sanderson (brilliantly world-built epic highfantasy, with all the standard tropes played just differently enough to seem new again)

I finished reading Tunnel in the Sky a few days ago, I must say I really enjoyed it and would like to read more of Heinlein's works.

Heinlein's Juvvie novels always make for a fun bit of light adventure. I commend your reading choices.

[Rhymes]

Just finished:

E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime

Next up:
Not sure yet.

[Mongoose]

Rereading The Hobbit, since it's been far too long and I saw the movie a month or two ago.  It's something just how much of the text is now burned into my memory.

[Gray113]

Journey to the End of Night (Voyage au bout de la nuit) by Louis-Ferdinand Céline.  Nihilistic, pessimistic, and savage I was quite enjoying it until I found out that the author was a Nazi collaborator

Seriously though it is up there with catch 22.

After this I will re read The war of the end of the world (La guerra del fin del mundo) by Mario Vargas Llosa which is a novelization of the Canudos conflict in 19th-century Brazil.

[StarSlayer]

Wrapped Up:
Arthur C. Clarke's Fountains of Paradise
Joe Haldeman's Forever War

Started Up:
Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers

[StarSlayer]

Wrapped Up:
Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers

Kicked Off:
Charles Stross' Rule 34

[The E]

Just finished Scalzi's Redshirts.

Started it at 2300 yesterday. Finished it ~0200. I regret nothing.

[StarSlayer]

Took a quick sidestep from Rule 34 and plowed through

Avigdor Kahalani's The Heights of Courage

[NGTM-1R]

I'm reading a book called If Mahan Ran The Great Pacific War.

...it's a terrible book.

[StarSlayer]

I'm reading a book called If Mahan Ran The Great Pacific War.

...it's a terrible book.

Considering Japan embraced many of the tenants of The Influence of Sea Power upon History I suppose you could argue he already did.  Though I suppose the book is arguing he commanded the USN?

[NGTM-1R]

Considering Japan embraced many of the tenants of The Influence of Sea Power upon History I suppose you could argue he already did.  Though I suppose the book is arguing he commanded the USN?

It's making the argument for both sides, but having actually looked at Japan's warfighting strategy, their operational planning, and their tactical doctrines, you're never going to convince me the IJN were more than cursory students of Mahan. He would have a had a heart attack had a he viewed any of their annual fleet exercises or any operational plan save that at Philippine Sea.

It also tends to make unsupported assertions as if they were already-accepted fact, ones with which I find it difficult or impossible to agree.

[StarSlayer]

So it's not actually a "Replace Nimitz with Mahan what would happen?" book.  More of an analysis of IJN and USN decisions being influenced by Mahan.

[NGTM-1R]

So it's not actually a "Replace Nimitz with Mahan what would happen?" book.  More of an analysis of IJN and USN decisions being influenced by Mahan.

More or less.

[StarSlayer]

Recently Read:

William Goldman

• The Princess Bride

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• Sir Nigel
• The White Company
• The Complete Brigadier Gerard

Frank Herbert

• Due Messiah
• Children of Dune
• God Emperor of Dune

Currently Reading:

Frank Herbert

• Heretics of Dune

Now I'm rapidly approaching a quandary.  Next up will be Chapterhouse: Dune which is the last written before Frank Herbert's passing.  Now from what I understand the general consensus is the original works of KJA and Brian Herbert deserve only to be translated within the internal fires of Shai-Hulud.  That said, supposedly the two books they wrote to complete the main Dune story line were based on Frank Herbert's outline for Dune VII.  Is it worth forging ahead after Chaperthouse or should I slip my maker hooks and call an end to my time as a sand rider?