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    Tago Mago
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    Light Holiday reading, in part inspired by @steelworker

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      Giles
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      I'm doing a load of Simon Winchester this trip. So far, Land (which amply illustrates what a horrible race we are), Precision and Atlantic (quite apposite because of where we are)....

      "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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        ARNC
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        Following on from this discussion, @EdH and @endo might enjoy the novel “Q”, set in the time of the German Peasants’ War and the Münster Rebellion. It’s been a while since I read it but it left an impression!

        “Every day that you survive you get a free sunset“

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          endo
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          @ARNC said in Books:

          @endo might enjoy the novel “Q”,

          ✌🏻 It's already on my bedside table, going to be one of the next I'll read.

          si tacuisses

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            Aetas
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            “Q” is definitely a great read @ARNC
            Have a second copy laying around. If any German is interested, just drop me a PM. I’ll send it out for free!
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              Tago Mago
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                hbg1
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                @Tago-Mago great one, my favorite Stephen King book by far!
                Might have to pull this off the shelf tonight and revisit.

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                  SKT
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                  @Tago-Mago one of, if not THE first book I ever read by him and still one of my favorites. Reread it just last year. Classic

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                    tody
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                    Read some newer Stephen King lately and enjoyed that. The thought of revisiting the classics crossed my mind more than once. Might start with the Dark Tower series...

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                      Tago Mago
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                      @tody enjoyed the Dark Tower, especially book 4

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                        flannel slut
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                        @tody The Dark Tower is a great ride. The second book, Drawing of the Three and the introduction of Eddie Dean hits a personal soft spot

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                          endo
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                          si tacuisses

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                            endo
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                            one of my favourites

                            si tacuisses

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                              Mizmazzle
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                              I was hanging out with @mclaincausey once and he showed me a book called Musashi. It’s taken me a while to finally get a copy and start reading it…I’m about 2/5ths into it and completely enthralled.

                              I know this book has been shown some love here before, but damn if I couldn’t add my admiration for it as well.

                              In the easy chair with my boots on, melted whiskey in my hand. Could'na been asleep for more than three hours...time to go to work again...

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                                goosehd
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                                @Mizmazzle Look for the Art of War by Sun Tzu if you enjoy that one. There are tons of books out there that also analyze those books that are quite enjoyable as well.

                                "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

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                                  mclaincausey
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                                  The subject of Musashi also wrote the Book of Five Rings (Go Rin No Shō), a book on strategy a la Art of War. Great read as well

                                  Think it, be it.

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                                    Mizmazzle
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                                    Thanks for the recs guys. I love this style of writing so these should keep me busy for a while.

                                    In the easy chair with my boots on, melted whiskey in my hand. Could'na been asleep for more than three hours...time to go to work again...

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                                      SKT
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                                      After fits and starts, I was finally able to read James by Percival Everett and by sheer luck, I had reread Huckleberry Finn just last year. Reading both so close together made James more powerful I believe. Highly recommend. @popvulture

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                                        mclaincausey
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                                        “Reading” We Are Legion: We Are Bob by Dennis E Taylor, read by the incomparable Ray Porter, who also breathed incredible life into Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.

                                        This is a similarly nerdy piece of hard sci fi and while the book would read well, the voice performance on Audible is absolutely brilliant.

                                        The premise of this series is a man has his brain cryogenically frozen in today’s time and place to be reawakened as an intelligence to drive a von Neumann machine in the future. It is very funny and an excellent story so far in book 1. A fascinating take on one of the more plausible ways an advanced civilization might colonize the galaxy, with a swarm of self-replicating probes.

                                        Think it, be it.

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                                          popvulture
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                                          @SKT for sure one of my favorite books I've read this year. Inventive, enlightening, funny, terrifying, and heartbreaking in equal measures. I definitely would recommend that one and Babel by R.F. Kuang for anyone willing to give their perceptions of history a proper wallop.

                                          WTB
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