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Old 06-30-2013, 09:33 PM
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Speaking of the military, Jim Webb...the ex-senator from Virgina, wrote some kick ass novels about his experiences in the Naval Academy and US Marines during the Vietnam War era. Webb's Fields of Fire is probably the best novel about Vietnam, along with Greene's The Quiet American.
Thanks for the heads up on Fields of Fire. Will check it.

BTW I am a fan of Graham Greene and grew up with the THIRD MAN with its Harry Lime saga.



HMS Ulysses: ALISTAIR MacLEAN

MacLean's first book, his best and a great one.

Deals with almost suicidal convoy duty to Murmansk WW11.
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Thanks for the heads up on Fields of Fire. Will check it.

BTW I am a fan of Graham Greene and grew up with the THIRD MAN with its Harry Lime saga.



HMS Ulysses: ALISTAIR MacLEAN

MacLean's first book, his best and a great one.

Deals with almost suicidal convoy duty to Murmansk WW11.
I really loved his novel Travels With My Aunt which I read while I was in Iraq.....
it is a wonderful story of how an aged aunt teaches her boring and very timid nephew, an accountant, how to break the rules and live. Nothing outlandish but a marvelous work.
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Bob I love WW2 stuff, thanks!

Ice I recently read the Foundation again after quite a few years.

I was surprised at a couple of things, how light a read it was and its' almost a simple story. Still good, I like the good doctor.

How was Kim? I've been considering it.

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Bob I love WW2 stuff, thanks!

Ice I recently read the Foundation again after quite a few years.

I was surprised at a couple of things, how light a read it was and its' almost a simple story. Still good, I like the good doctor.

How was Kim? I've been considering it.

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Kim is great.......very modern to me. You may need to use google to translate some of the colloquial terms that were used in India at the time. I really liked it.

Foundation may seem a bit dated after Star Trek, Babylon 5, the second Battlestar Galactica, and all of the other science fiction after it but of course Foundation was what started all of those to one degree or another.
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Graham Greene would probably be at home with this Snowden stuff.
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Just a shoutout about how awesome icenine is!

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Thanks!


He gets a bad rap about the white man's burden comment, but you can tell from Kim he had a great love for India and its people
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actually looking at old photo albums and having fond memories of someone I wish I could have said "Hi" to and "I love you" just one more time......
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actually looking at old photo albums and having fond memories of someone I wish I could have said "Hi" to and "I love you" just one more time......
I know that feeling........a mixture of nostalgia, angst, happiness.
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