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	05/12 Colin is currently reading: Nero's Killing Machine: The True Story of Rome's Remarkable 14th Legion (Hardcover) by Stephen Dando-Collins bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	03/16 Colin is currently reading: Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar (Hardcover) by William D. Mounce bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	03/16 Colin is currently reading: Biblia Sacra Latina Ex Biblia Sacra Vulgatae Editionis Sixtiv (Textbook Binding) by Latin. Vulgate Bible bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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May 12

New comment on Colin's review of Secret History of the English Language

Colin wrote: "Incidentally, I shall concede the point that my understanding of the author's hypothesis of the inva...more "

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Colin gave

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Secret History of the English Language (Hardcover)
by M. j. Harper
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recommended for: No one should read it! Well, linguists . . . but just so you can laugh at it!
read in March, 2008

Colin said: "What a trainwreck! This is one of the worst attempts at pseudo-linguistics I have ever read (and that's saying a lot). The main premise of the book is that English is not at all derived from Anglo-Saxon, but in fact is the indigenous language of Brit...more "

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Colin is currently reading:
Nero's Killing Machine: The True Story of Rome's Remarkable 14th Legion (Hardcover)
by Stephen Dando-Collins
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Colin added:
Blood of the Caesars: How the Murder of Germanicus Led to the Fall of Rome (Hardcover)
by Stephen Dando-Collins
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read in May, 2008

Colin said: " A very different book from Dando-Collins' prior works in this series, each of which was the history of an individual Roman legion, this book examines a millenia-old murder mystery and its effects - who killed Germanicus? The murder of Germanicus...more "

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May 05

Colin gave

to:
The Thirteen American Arguments: Enduring Debates That Define and Inspire Our Country (Hardcover)
by Howard Fineman
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read in May, 2008

Colin said: "A fascinating book focusing on the "Arguments" that define the USA as a nation. Some are obvious ("Who Is A Person" has moved from a racial argument to one about fetuses, stem cells, corporations, and such; "Who Is An America...more "

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April 26

Colin gave

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The War in 2020 (Hardcover)
by Ralph Peters
bookshelves: -junk-food-lit--, good-sci-fi-and-fantasy

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read in January, 1994

Colin said: "So, I read this back sometime in the mid-1990s, in 1994 I think. I had picked up a tattered mass-market paperback copy at a yard sale or Salvation Army, and I really loved it. As bad thriller books go, this one was well-done. Oh, it was a bit anachro...more "

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Colin gave

to:
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Hardcover)
by Jared Diamond
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read in January, 2005

Colin said: "An absolutely brilliant treatise that follows up on Diamon's previous work in Guns, Germs, and Steel, which had basically claimed that environment had determined the course of empire. In this work, Diamond examined how response to environmenta...more "

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April 25

Colin gave

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Variable Star (Hardcover)
by Robert A. Heinlein, Spider Robinson
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read in January, 2006

Colin said: "I just found this book, it had been misplaced on my shelves and forgotten. The eerie publication of a book by a long-dead author, Heinlein's "last book" as completed by Spider Robinson, this book capture's Heinlein's style amazingly well. H...more "

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April 23

Colin made a comment on Sharon's profile:

Colin wrote: "Yay Mom! I'm so glad you joined this website! It can be a lot of fun once you play around with it a ...more "

April 22

Colin gave

to:
Of Empire (Penguin Great Ideas)
by Francis Bacon
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read in April, 2008

Colin said: "Excellent little essays (to my mind an obvious model for those of A.C. Grayling) on philosophical and practical matters. "

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