Holy snaps! Is it available in audio form or paperback? =o That sounds great!
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What's the last book you've read?
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I am restarting The Mallazan Book of the Fallen
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I'm going to pick back up a book I started and set a while back, Crucible of War, about the Seven Years'/French and Indian War. A super interesting time in American history that most people don't know a lot about (if they're like me anyway).
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it's available in paperback but no audiobook.Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2019 4:33 am Holy snaps! Is it available in audio form or paperback? =o That sounds great!
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You mean the war that directly leads to Britain imposing taxes on the american colonies, in order to pay for the debts resulting from said war about the american colonies? The one that directly lead to the Stamp Act and the taxing of tea? Can't imagine why nobody heard of it, especially in the US...ChiggyvonRichthofen wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2019 2:27 am I'm going to pick back up a book I started and set a while back, Crucible of War, about the Seven Years'/French and Indian War. A super interesting time in American history that most people don't know a lot about (if they're like me anyway).
May I also suggest Mike Duncan's Revolutions Podcast? The American Revolution
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It's part of high school history when I was there (the late 80's/early 90's), but the Revolution is not what it used to be in the American consciousness. It is an interesting time, but it seems nobody wants to talk about anything involving the birth of this nation and the natives who were here let aside the general opinion of dead white dude history.Madner Kami wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2019 6:01 amYou mean the war that directly leads to Britain imposing taxes on the american colonies, in order to pay for the debts resulting from said war about the american colonies? The one that directly lead to the Stamp Act and the taxing of tea? Can't imagine why nobody heard of it, especially in the US...ChiggyvonRichthofen wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2019 2:27 am I'm going to pick back up a book I started and set a while back, Crucible of War, about the Seven Years'/French and Indian War. A super interesting time in American history that most people don't know a lot about (if they're like me anyway).
May I also suggest Mike Duncan's Revolutions Podcast? The American Revolution
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A few indelible moments and the obvious aftereffects of the Revolutionary War are remembered well enough, as are some of the larger-than-life figures involved, but as far as most Americans are concerned the conflict with Britain started with the Boston Tea Party. As with Vietnam, the context garners more attention than the conflict proper. The Civil War and WW2 are the two that seem to get the most attention among the general public, although the former obviously gets a lot of attention regarding social context as well.
Compared with those four wars, Americans are woefully ignorant of the major conflicts and country-defining events throughout the last three centuries. Something like the Texas Revolution would be almost forgotten (outside Texas that is) were it not for the Alamo, and I doubt most are even aware of the Mexican-American War. Even something as recent as the Korean War gets next to no attention.
Compared with those four wars, Americans are woefully ignorant of the major conflicts and country-defining events throughout the last three centuries. Something like the Texas Revolution would be almost forgotten (outside Texas that is) were it not for the Alamo, and I doubt most are even aware of the Mexican-American War. Even something as recent as the Korean War gets next to no attention.
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I'm almost done with Timelike Infinity.
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Well time for an update I suppose.TexasRed wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2019 7:53 am I don't reading every thread in the forum, which is something I probably should do given the things that
I've seen popping up around here, but I haven't seen a "what's the last book you've read" thread in a while so I'm creating one.
Books I've read in the last... oh six months or so:
Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World's Oceans
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
On Basilisk Station: Honor Harrington, Book 1 (I've actually read this entire series, save for the last book in the series, I just like them so much I keep going back)
The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder
The Absent Superpower: The Shale Revolution and a World Without America
Book I'm reading right now:
The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
Books I've read since the above quoted post:
Uncompromising Honor: Honor Harrington, Book 14 Latest book in the series and the last book in this arc.
Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment
America: Empire of Liberty: The Complete BBC Radio 4 Series
And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future
The Empire and the Five Kings: America's Abdication and the Fate of the World
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
America's Secret War: Inside the Struggle Between the United States and Its Enemies
Elizabeth II: Life of a Monarch: An Audible Original
Christmas Eve, 1914
Twain’s Feast
Stephen Fry’s Victorian Secrets: An Audible Original
Horus Rising: The Horus Heresy, Book 1
The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
Book I'm reading now (listening to really, as my dyslexia makes it difficult for me to read for long periods of time.)
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I am loving Timelike Infinity so far.
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