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Not sure how long its on for, but Das Reich - the march of the 2nd SS Pz Div through France 1944 is currently on sale for Amazon Kindle at 99p

ORIGINAL: rhondabrwn

This may not count as a book, but I got hooked on the "Girl Genius" steampunk online comic a couple of months ago and have now viewed nearly all of the 14 years of postings. I'm almost current. The strip has won a Hugo three times for best graphic novel of the year.

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/index.php

Following a link on the Girl Genius page I have also embarked on this fairly new story.

http://www.sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=1

It's called "Stand Still, Stay Silent" and is a Scandinavian vision of an apocalyptic future due to a deadly disease. The artwork is dark and very interesting as is the Scandinavian culture and geography used as a setting. Like I said, it's fairly new and I've already reached the latest posting and must now agonize over the next update

They are both pretty addictive.

Thank you for the links. [:)]

They got my imagination going. [:)]

ORIGINAL: Orm

ORIGINAL: rhondabrwn

This may not count as a book, but I got hooked on the "Girl Genius" steampunk online comic a couple of months ago and have now viewed nearly all of the 14 years of postings. I'm almost current. The strip has won a Hugo three times for best graphic novel of the year.

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/index.php

Following a link on the Girl Genius page I have also embarked on this fairly new story.

http://www.sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=1

It's called "Stand Still, Stay Silent" and is a Scandinavian vision of an apocalyptic future due to a deadly disease. The artwork is dark and very interesting as is the Scandinavian culture and geography used as a setting. Like I said, it's fairly new and I've already reached the latest posting and must now agonize over the next update

They are both pretty addictive.

Thank you for the links. [:)]

They got my imagination going. [:)]

Thanks I will look into this as well.

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: warspite1

Just pre-ordered this puppy [8D] Sadly won't be available until September but should be gooooood given the author! [:)]

warspite1

Two weeks to go!!! Can't wait for this.

warspite1

Just got an e-mail from Amazon - its been delayed by two weeks [:@][:(][&:]

ORIGINAL: berto


And then there were eight. Now reading:

The Story of Civilization: The Age of Louis XIV [volume 8], by Will & Ariel Durant

I love the Durant's Story of Civilization. Currently I am on volume 1, audiobook. I have ALL 8. Great stuff.

ORIGINAL: rhondabrwn

I bought the sequel "The Twelve" last year but haven't read it as I kinda need a refresher on "The Passage" to get back into the story. The Passage is a unique take on the whole vampire / plague / End of the World story line.

ORIGINAL: radic202

I am really enjoying this at the moment:

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rhondabrwn:

I finished "the passage" and about 100 pages into "The Twelve" now, I wanted to say no worries about not completely remembering the first book as there is a good part of the first chapter that recaps the major points from Book 1. Again I am so glad I did not read up some reviews or comments (spoilers) on the Twelve because there are some major surprises in the second novel.................let's just say, characters you had completely forgotten about make some appearances in all manor of ways........Still so amazed at the quality of the writing of Justin Cronin.

ORIGINAL: parusski

ORIGINAL: berto

And then there were eight. Now reading:

The Story of Civilization: The Age of Louis XIV [volume 8], by Will & Ariel Durant

I love the Durant's Story of Civilization. Currently I am on volume 1, audiobook. I have ALL 8. Great stuff.

But there are 11 volumes in the complete set!

I regret that I didn't read The Story of Civilization as a youth. Highly recommended.

Influx

Just ordered this..and starting Otherside of the Wire Vol 2 by R Whitehead..after overdosing on WH40K!

Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918 by Louis Barthas

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Poilu-Notebooks-Barthas-Barrelmaker-1914-1918/dp/0300191596/ref=pd_sim_b_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=1R4Y60W1XSGPM28K8WA2

"Along with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a thirty-five-year-old barrelmaker from a small wine-growing town, was conscripted to fight the Germans in the opening days of World War I. Corporal Barthas spent the next four years in near-ceaseless combat, wherever the French army fought its fiercest battles: Artois, Flanders, Champagne, Verdun, the Somme, the Argonne. Barthas' riveting wartime narrative, first published in France in 1978, presents the vivid, immediate experiences of a frontline soldier. This excellent new translation brings Barthas' wartime writings to English-language readers for the first time. His notebooks and letters represent the quintessential memoir of a "poilu", or "hairy one", as the untidy, unshaven French infantryman of the fighting trenches was familiarly known. Upon Barthas' return home in 1919, he painstakingly transcribed his day-to-day writings into nineteen notebooks, preserving not only his own story but also the larger story of the unnumbered soldiers who never returned. Recounting bloody battles and endless exhaustion, the deaths of comrades, the infuriating incompetence and tyranny of his own officers, Barthas also describes spontaneous acts of camaraderie between French poilus and their German foes in trenches just a few paces apart. An eloquent witness and keen observer, Barthas takes his readers directly into the heart of the Great War."

Looks like 480 pages of awesomeness.

"The Miracle of Dunkirk" by Walter Lord is on sale at Amazon for $1.99 (or free if you are on their "Kindle Unlimited" plan).

http://www.amazon.com/Miracle-Dunkirk-W ... bemailc-20

ORIGINAL: radic202

ORIGINAL: rhondabrwn

I bought the sequel "The Twelve" last year but haven't read it as I kinda need a refresher on "The Passage" to get back into the story. The Passage is a unique take on the whole vampire / plague / End of the World story line.

ORIGINAL: radic202

I am really enjoying this at the moment:

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rhondabrwn:

I finished "the passage" and about 100 pages into "The Twelve" now, I wanted to say no worries about not completely remembering the first book as there is a good part of the first chapter that recaps the major points from Book 1. Again I am so glad I did not read up some reviews or comments (spoilers) on the Twelve because there are some major surprises in the second novel.................let's just say, characters you had completely forgotten about make some appearances in all manor of ways........Still so amazed at the quality of the writing of Justin Cronin.

That's good to know... thanks [:)]

The Great Iron Trail: The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad by Robert West Howard.

Jutland: An Analysis of the Fighting, by John Campbell.

I'm previewing this:

http://www.amazon.com/Campaigns-Napoleo ... d+chandler

Haven't bought it yet but with the Kindle version you get quite a long sample. Interesting read and not as academically dry as I imagined. Not sure I want to pay $65 for an electronic edition though. I'd probably spend that on a hardbound version but they're in short supply and the last time I checked cost way more than $65.

I'll have to find my Napoleon fix somewhere else probably.

I've begun rereading Dragons of Autumn Twilight. It was one of the first books I read in English.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragons_of_Autumn_Twilight

ORIGINAL: Orm

I've begun rereading Dragons of Autumn Twilight. It was one of the first books I read in English.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragons_of_Autumn_Twilight

Be sure to read them all - great fun, great reads, great characters.

Darn you - now I'm going to have to break out my set and read 'em all over again!

Cosmos: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe by Alexander von Humboldt

ORIGINAL: Werewolf1326

I'm previewing this:

http://www.amazon.com/Campaigns-Napoleo ... d+chandler

Haven't bought it yet but with the Kindle version you get quite a long sample. Interesting read and not as academically dry as I imagined. Not sure I want to pay $65 for an electronic edition though. I'd probably spend that on a hardbound version but they're in short supply and the last time I checked cost way more than $65.

I'll have to find my Napoleon fix somewhere else probably.

I have it. Lucky me found in in a used book store for $25 years ago. The price on the cover was $90.

Swords around the Throne is worth a read.

ORIGINAL: Orm

I've begun rereading Dragons of Autumn Twilight. It was one of the first books I read in English.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragons_of_Autumn_Twilight

Great one Orm. Dragons of Autumn Twilight was my first fantasy book.

ORIGINAL: parusski

ORIGINAL: Orm

I've begun rereading Dragons of Autumn Twilight. It was one of the first books I read in English.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragons_of_Autumn_Twilight

Great one Orm. Dragons of Autumn Twilight was my first fantasy book.

I don't read that many fantasy books, but I really enjoyed reading this one (and its sequel too).