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The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius | 6 | 28.57% | |
Pitching in a Pinch by Christy Mathewson | 7 | 33.33% | |
Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna by Adam Zamoyski | 5 | 23.81% | |
The Beer Wench's Guide to Beer: An Unpretentious Guide to Craft Beer by Ashley V. Routson | 3 | 14.29% | |
This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women by Dan Gediman and Jay Allison | 3 | 14.29% | |
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe | 6 | 28.57% | |
Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell | 8 | 38.10% | |
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07-02-2015, 03:00 PM | #16 |
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$17.99 for the Kindle edition. That's lovely.
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07-02-2015, 05:39 PM | #17 |
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I do agree, it's expensive. Wonder if it's as bad in the UK? Hmmm, checking...
Might be time to do some travelling. It's only £3.80 at AmazonUK. |
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07-06-2015, 10:24 PM | #18 |
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Oddly, the same author has two different books both named Waterloo, one an historical fiction that's part of the Sharpe series and one the non-fiction with the extended title that we chose. I don't think it's likely but I'd hate for anyone to accidentally read the wrong one.
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07-07-2015, 11:24 AM | #19 | |
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07-07-2015, 12:58 PM | #21 |
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The kindle version is "not currently available for purchase" at amazon.ca.
My library has it though. I'm not a big non-fiction reader and even less of a history reader. Not sure I'll get to this one, but I might take a quick gander at the library and see how it reads. |
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07-07-2015, 04:15 PM | #23 |
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I envy you. It's not available yet in Canada as an ebook. The Ottawa library has 8 paper copies, and I'm 40th on the waiting list, so I expect to have it available sometime in 2016.
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07-09-2015, 05:42 PM | #24 |
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I just finished Rites of Peace. Thanks for the suggestion; it was very readable.
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07-09-2015, 06:03 PM | #26 |
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Thanks for the suggestion. I'm reading it (Pitching In A Pitch) now. It's mainly (at least so far) about Matthewson's experience playing for John McGraw's New York Giants in the dead-ball era. Matthewson had the third highest number of wins in MLB, and he was playing for arguably the best manager in MLB history. Matthewson wrote it at the peak of his career. It's very readable for a jock book (Matthewson graduated from Bucknell before going into pro baseball).
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07-09-2015, 06:12 PM | #27 | |
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I'm a Cornwall fan (Sharpe and the Grail Quest). I'll have a long wait to read Waterloo, but I have high expectations for it. I'm looking forward to reading the comments on it. Last edited by bfisher; 07-09-2015 at 06:15 PM. Reason: grammar |
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07-09-2015, 07:38 PM | #28 |
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I've just stopped reading Cornwell (25% through). I'm quite disappointed in the style he chose for this non-fiction book. There are numerous paragraphs that are more than one page long, and in my opinion, a lack of clarity generally. I will discuss further in the commentary thread.
I'm looking forward to reading Zamoyski (after I've finished Camus). |
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I was able to immediately obtain the ebook of What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions*by Randall Munroe from my local library and read about 10% of it before giving up. I just found it pretty shallow and silly regarding science. |
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07-13-2015, 01:14 PM | #30 |
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I ended up gagging on the price of this as an eBook, so I'm listening to it as an Audible book. Read primarily by the author, and he does a good job unlike most authors who should stick to their writing. Meanwhile, just for fun, I've also pulled out my copy of An Infamous Army, by Georgette Heyer.
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