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Oh, and in reference to the Wheel of Time series...He did die before finishing the series but he has another author that picked it up and has actually finished writing the last book but it won't be released until January 2013. Seems I started a few months too early to not get cliff hung.

Job: Vice President of a small health care consulting firm
Age: 48
Residence: Brisbane, Australia and Austin, Texas
Family: wife, 3 sons (19,19, 0.5) and 2 daughters (2, 0.5)
Education: BA from the University of Washington, MHA from U of W
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Favorite Quote(s): Mark Twain: "Adam, at Eve's grave: Wheresoever she was, THERE was Eden."
Reading: Hobbs, British Pacific Fleet; Burt,British Battleships, 1919-1945 ; Young, One of our Submarines.

ORIGINAL: Knavey

Oh, and in reference to the Wheel of Time series...He did die before finishing the series but he has another author that picked it up and has actually finished writing the last book but it won't be released until January 2013. Seems I started a few months too early to not get cliff hung.

Dude! I read The Eye of the World when it was new, in 1990! I've been waiting for "the next book" for 22 years. [:D]

Sanderson has done a fantastic job, IMO, of carrying the torch for Jordan. [8D]

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ORIGINAL: Knavey

Oh, and in reference to the Wheel of Time series...He did die before finishing the series but he has another author that picked it up and has actually finished writing the last book but it won't be released until January 2013. Seems I started a few months too early to not get cliff hung.

Dude! I read The Eye of the World when it was new, in 1990! I've been waiting for "the next book" for 22 years. [:D]

Sanderson has done a fantastic job, IMO, of carrying the torch for Jordan. [8D]

Sanderson is WAY better than Jordan!

Jordan should've designed the story and let Sanderson write it.

ORIGINAL: Historiker

ORIGINAL: USS America

ORIGINAL: Knavey

Oh, and in reference to the Wheel of Time series...He did die before finishing the series but he has another author that picked it up and has actually finished writing the last book but it won't be released until January 2013. Seems I started a few months too early to not get cliff hung.

Dude! I read The Eye of the World when it was new, in 1990! I've been waiting for "the next book" for 22 years. [:D]

Sanderson has done a fantastic job, IMO, of carrying the torch for Jordan. [8D]

Sanderson is WAY better than Jordan!

Jordan should've designed the story and let Sanderson write it.

Blasphemer!!!! [:-][:-][:-][:-] (Who may be right. [;)])

I'll go with whichever author can get to the point faster..... [;)]

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Favorite Quote: "And he says, 'Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.' So I got that goin' for me, which is nice." - Carl Spackler, Caddyshack
Reading: 3rd Game of Thrones book

Big hitter, the Lama . . .

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Work: School district
Favorite Quote: I stick my neck out for nobody. Rick
Reading: Collapse by Diamond, History of South Africa by Welsh and December 1941 by Shirley
Last battle field: Antietem

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Work: University
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Reading: 5 texts for the current class I am teaching.

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Edu: Lucky to have survived high school
Work: Veterans hospital
Quote: Boy,theres always going to be somebody a little bit tougher. My Daddy
Reading: Armageddon, Max Hastings
 
 

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Quote: My late father: If you want to lose a war You just have to ally with the Italians...
Reading (again): Shelby Foote, The Civil War and several SF/Fantasy novels in the office

ORIGINAL: Skyros
Reading: Collapse by Diamond

A really interesting book! If you enjoy it, and haven´t made the whole Jarred Diamond journey already anyways, I can reccommend
"Guns, Germs, and Steel" which is one of his very early works, but quite an eye opener.

ORIGINAL: LoBaron

ORIGINAL: Skyros
Reading: Collapse by Diamond

A really interesting book! If you enjoy it, and haven´t made the whole Jarred Diamond journey already anyways, I can reccommend
"Guns, Germs, and Steel" which is one of his very early works, but quite an eye opener.

I can second this recommendation.

ORIGINAL: Skyros



Job: ERP Manager
Age: 51
Residence: Blythewood SC
Family: Wife and 3 daughters
Education: BA history UR, MPA UCONN, MBA USC
Work: School district
Favorite Quote: I stick my neck out for nobody. Rick
Reading: Collapse by Diamond, History of South Africa by Welsh and December 1941 by Shirley
Last battle field: Antietem

Stop reading that dreck before it's too late! It's right up there with the movie that can't be mentioned.

ORIGINAL: dorjun driver

ORIGINAL: Skyros



Job: ERP Manager
Age: 51
Residence: Blythewood SC
Family: Wife and 3 daughters
Education: BA history UR, MPA UCONN, MBA USC
Work: School district
Favorite Quote: I stick my neck out for nobody. Rick
Reading: Collapse by Diamond, History of South Africa by Welsh and December 1941 by Shirley
Last battle field: Antietem

Stop reading that dreck before it's too late! It's right up there with the movie that can't be mentioned.

Damn you dorjun! I started laughing at your post about the movie that can't be mentioned and my wife gave me a look of disgust when I explained to her that I was laughing on a wargame site. [:D]

Is it possible to be anymore nerdy than a wargamer?

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Readings: History, literature, essays. (My must loved book is Ulysses by J.Joyce!! I am very disappointed that i cannot read it in original language without an enormous effort and that i cannot approach Finnegan's Wake at all due to my limited english knowledge. I console myself thinking that english people probably cannot swim in the Dante's Divine comedy as i do!! : )

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Family: wife and a female cat. I'm hopelessly dominated.
Education: Jagiellonian University, Kraków. Law. DOH!
Work: in court. I'm a Judge's assistant. I do nothing important and they pay me for this.
Favorite Quote: none
Reading: A History of Rome - Down to the Reign of Constantine - Cary, Hayes - Scullard.

ORIGINAL: ilovestrategy

ORIGINAL: dorjun driver

ORIGINAL: Skyros



Job: ERP Manager
Age: 51
Residence: Blythewood SC
Family: Wife and 3 daughters
Education: BA history UR, MPA UCONN, MBA USC
Work: School district
Favorite Quote: I stick my neck out for nobody. Rick
Reading: Collapse by Diamond, History of South Africa by Welsh and December 1941 by Shirley
Last battle field: Antietem

Stop reading that dreck before it's too late! It's right up there with the movie that can't be mentioned.

Damn you dorjun! I started laughing at your post about the movie that can't be mentioned and my wife gave me a look of disgust when I explained to her that I was laughing on a wargame site. [:D]

Is it possible to be anymore nerdy than a wargamer?

No. What's not funny about war?

But seriously, THAT book is the biggest waste of forest products I've ever had the displeasure of forcing my self to finish.

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Interests/Reading: football (Burnley FC), another George RR Martin fan here, but really, really, really disappointed with the latest one
Music: anything to be honest, though Arcade Fire get listened to the most