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  1. 28-Jan-2014 #166
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    have you ever read "The Western Way of War" by Victor Hansen? great book about how greek and roman military thinking influence western culture.
    No, but right off the bat that sounds really interesting!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Geordie9 View Post
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    Ah, another Richard Bachman classic! I quite enjoyed it.

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  4. 26-Feb-2014 #169
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    I am currently reading Great Dialogues of Plato (a Signet Classic).



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    Read Enders Game - Enjoyed the first 2/3rds but felt the last 1/3rd dropped off a bit.

    Currently reading Starship Troopers...
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    I've been revisiting some sci-fi classics. if you are a fan and have not read joe haldeman's "The Forever War" or james hogan's "Code of the Lifemaker", you probably should give them a look.
    "The bumps you feel are asteroids smashing into the hull."
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    Quote Originally Posted by stray View Post
    I am currently reading Great Dialogues of Plato (a Signet Classic).



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    Symposium or The Republic

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike70 View Post
    I've been revisiting some sci-fi classics. if you are a fan and have not read joe haldeman's "The Forever War" or james hogan's "Code of the Lifemaker", you probably should give them a look.
    I've got "The Forever War," so I'll read that soon!
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    I got another book the other day. "Macedonian Armes after Alexander - 323 - 168 B.C.", which is actually quite thin at 100 pages at best. It covers the macedonian armies during the period mentioned in the title up the dissolution of the Macedonian kingdom by the Roman republic.

    I don't know why I keep fetching these books, or why I find this interesting...
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    Quote Originally Posted by EvilNed View Post
    I got another book the other day. "Macedonian Armes after Alexander - 323 - 168 B.C.", which is actually quite thin at 100 pages at best. It covers the macedonian armies during the period mentioned in the title up the dissolution of the Macedonian kingdom by the Roman republic.

    I don't know why I keep fetching these books, or why I find this interesting...
    Hey, I also have a thing for Osprey books and their ilk. In fact, I just ordered one the other day on post-Roman Briton/Anglo-Saxon warfare.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    I've got "The Forever War," so I'll read that soon!
    that's been a fav of mine for eons. one of the few books that deals with time dilation/relativity and their effects on war and the people who fight it. and it is a great story to boot...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike70 View Post
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    I've got "The Forever War," so I'll read that soon!
    that's been a fav of mine for eons. one of the few books that deals with time dilation/relativity and their effects on war and the people who fight it. and it is a great story to boot...
    One of my all time favs!

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    true detective has directed my literary attention to "the king in yellow" by robert chambers, on deck after that are "the call of cthulhu and other stories" by hp lovecraft, then "the conspiracy against the human race" by thomas ligotti. pretty heavy and dark stuff from what i hear.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ProfessorChaos View Post
    true detective has directed my literary attention to "the king in yellow" by robert chambers, on deck after that are "the call of cthulhu and other stories" by hp lovecraft, then "the conspiracy against the human race" by thomas ligotti. pretty heavy and dark stuff from what i hear.
    Kind of heavy, but some of it kind of kooky and quaint by modern standards. Lots of purple prose in Lovecraft, but some of my favs...sort of an acquired taste. The Pulp greats from the early 20th (sounds like a term from a sci fi movie, eh) and their mid/late 19th century inspirations (Poe, Chambers, Bierce etc.) really captured a lot of what would later become great genre staples.

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