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Post by atomicfloozy on Jul 28, 2022 21:19:48 GMT
If Assumpta Serna hadn't have done such a good job as Comandante Teresa Moreno in the Sharpe series, I wouldn't have found out about Augustina of Saragossa, and I wouldn't have any interest at all in the Napoleonic Wars outside of a couple of movies.
Well, today, I received a 658-page book which is only Volume One of Oman's "A History of the Peninsular War." I visited Spain fifty years ago, so long ago that Franco was still alive and in charge of the government. We visited three port cities, Barcelona, Rota, and Palma de Majorca (we spent a lot of time in Palma, it was rumored the ship's captain had a mistress there). I'm eager to read the book as memories of a lovely country come flooding back.
I've been reading a lot of Erle Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason novels this Summer and am now ready for something different. It's been so hot where I live that reading is about the most strenuous thing, I've been able to do in this heat.
So, what have some of you been reading this Summer?
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Post by elgato1 on Jul 29, 2022 4:13:38 GMT
I've been getting ready for the release of the "02 Hundred Hours" game by reading lots of pulp-like books on Commandos. The first book in the "Commando" series by Jack Badelaire wasn't too bad so I bought the second. The first in the "Combined Operations" series by Griff Hosker was good and I look forward to reading the next. Sadly the "Heroes of World War 2: Murphy's Rangers" was terrible with so many errors that I had to force myself to finish it.
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Post by Shon Maxx on Jul 29, 2022 6:19:09 GMT
I’m on my 6th or 7th Discworld book. Awesome series. Now I have to figure out how to adapt it to THW rules.
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Post by Ed the Two Hour Wargames Guy on Jul 29, 2022 15:21:26 GMT
When's the next writing gig? November?
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Post by Shon Maxx on Jul 29, 2022 16:09:43 GMT
Yep, November. I’ll post a reminder in October, unless someone beats me to it.
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Post by claudiasboris on Jul 29, 2022 16:43:49 GMT
I’m currently reading the Harold Lamb megapack. Classic historical pulp stories. At the moment I’m going through the Khlit the Cossack (unfortunate name) stories. I believe they were an influence on Howard’s Conan tales, which I can see. Khlit is an old, greying Cossack, said to be a ferocious fighter, but it’s his wits that always see him through to the end.
I really like the megapack books on Kindle but sometimes they’re a bit too much to read all in one go. I may intersperse this one with other books, maybe even different megapacks.
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Post by claudiasboris on Aug 2, 2022 18:42:51 GMT
Quick little update. I’m still reading Khlit’s adventures and I’m now in the fourth story, Alamut, written in 1918, and it’s a great pulp adventure story. Our hero is on a mission for a mysterious lady and has travelled far from the Dnieper River to Iran. There hasn’t been much swordplay (yet) but it’s certainly hitting the right spot. The Khlit tales start off very small-scale but each one ups the adventure ante. I’m very much enjoying this now. If you like Robert E Howard’s heroic fiction (whether fantastical or not (he too wrote some great historical tales)), I recommend Harold Lamb!
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Post by raider4 on Aug 3, 2022 15:40:39 GMT
I have just finished and enjoyed the "First Law" trilogy by Joe Abercrombie. Very good. Very. very good.
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Post by crinklechips on Aug 3, 2022 20:08:10 GMT
I am reading ‘The Wisdom of Crowds’. Its the latest and last Joe Abercrombie book in his Age of Madness trilogy. Its very much a grimmest of grim dark version of the French Revolution. If you like to laugh at things you have no right to laugh at, Joe’s yer man.
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Post by claudiasboris on Aug 4, 2022 19:26:41 GMT
Abercrombie is my favourite of the current fantasy writers (though the First Law world seems to veering more to historical fiction than fantasy). I’m very much looking forward to the rest of the Age of Madness trilogy.
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Post by Ed the Two Hour Wargames Guy on Aug 4, 2022 22:20:04 GMT
Ordered First Law Trilogy. Thanks for heads up.
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Post by crinklechips on Aug 4, 2022 22:39:33 GMT
Its low fantasy for sure. There are no elves or dwarves. Magic hardly ever happens, but when it does its explosive. That’s the way I like it, otherwise it becomes mundane.
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Post by stryderg on Aug 6, 2022 2:40:32 GMT
I found some comics archives online, so I'm reading Judge Dread. Not heavy reading, just something to wind down at the end of the day. Finished a bunch of Conan's stories a few months ago. Before that, it was a few Doc Savage novels. The Gutenberg Project is your friend (sometimes): www.gutenberg.org/
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Post by tb76 on Aug 6, 2022 13:42:11 GMT
Lots of historical fiction. Read "The Red Path", about a British officer in the French and Indian War, and am reading " Carrying Independence " now, set in the Revolutionary period. Also a legal thriller called "Silent Witness". All good inspiration for game scenarios.
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Post by Ed the Two Hour Wargames Guy on Aug 6, 2022 15:57:00 GMT
I found some comics archives online, so I'm reading Judge Dread. Not heavy reading, just something to wind down at the end of the day. Finished a bunch of Conan's stories a few months ago. Before that, it was a few Doc Savage novels. The Gutenberg Project is your friend (sometimes): www.gutenberg.org/Thanks for the link.
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