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I. Curmudgeon wrote: "I said I needed to Work on it... jeez...::grumble, grumble:: it wasn't that bad was it?) "
I only read two lines and knew instantly what the original was ... love that song.
But I think they need bagpipes for the ground army!
Really want more of the submariners, now. And it's not fair ... I've got to wait for Firestorm and Iron Gray Sea from the Interlibrary loan. Then Storm Surge will be on my Kindle and so will Deadly Shores when it's published this year.
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I said I needed to Work on it... jeez...::grumble, grumble:: it wasn't that bad was it?) "
I only read two lines and knew instantly what the original was ... love that song..."
Firestorm is relly good. One thing I like about this series, even though USS Walker and the Destroyermen perservere and struggle through (most things) Anderson doesn't make it easy for them. The Tabby-Spanky thing was really sweet at the end of book five and I loved the Dennis Silva --> Becky (Rebecca) relationship came out in the fourth book (and continues).
This is also a book with very strong believable female characters, human and Lemurian. I think that I'm certain now that Taylor Anderson is also mirroring some aspects of the historical battles fought in WWII and in the USA's past very subtly. He's not copying them (how could he?) and I think it's a sign that he's as much an artist as a writer as he is a historian. (Historians can't help but write things that make us look at who we are as a people.)
Heck... it's just a darn good story that's all.
Oh, and did you hear? Sister Audry thinks Dennis Silva is on a missoin for God... (yeah, she's serious). LOL ... Silva's a fun, fun character (for a Chief Gunner's Mate). The "Doom-Whomper"... he considered that kidnapped as much as the others with him. The scenes with him always make me laugh wether we are in his head or he's talkin' smack. (yes, the lizard-bird still cusses... ."eat" )
Lots of fun in this.
I. Curmudgeon wrote: "Silva's a fun, fun character (for a Chief Gunner's Mate). The "Doom-Whomper"... he considered that kidnapped as much as the others with him."I love Silva and his Doom-Whomper, great character and I suspect we're going to see some interesting developments with the Catholic/Inquisition situation.
Anderson does a remarkable job with his alien characters, so many authors just don't manage to make them seem real and his aliens are definitely real and individual.
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Yes, and very different. Lawerence (Larry the Lizard...yeah, he's got a sense of humor too) is very different from the Grik and the Cats and Chak, Keje and Adar are wonderful characters. (and Tabby and Fred Renolds REO, well co-pilot). They are wonderful. I have even started to appriciate Jenks, though, I'm very glad we didn't start with him in the first book. I also suspect that there will be some wonderful characters coming from Respite and New Scottland too.
Even the what I call the second tier characters like Pam Cross and Lisa. We only see them in brief flashes now and then but Anderson has managed to make them wonderfully complex and human like we know them even though we spend most of our time with Keje, Reddy, Sandra and Adar.
Love the story... (even the love story is wonderfully done.)
I. Curmudgeon wrote: "Love the story... (even the love story is wonderfully done.) "
The relationship/s I really like to hear the snippets about is the one with Silva ... such a deft touch there, never quite letting the reader know what is really going on, but so much fun the way Silva *uses* it.
Another thing that continues to amaze me is how well he is managing to keep a series this long so very good ... new characters, new situations but never confusing and never a feeling that he's just throwing these things in to keep the series going. Very few authors seem to manage that.
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Love the story... (even the love story is wonderfully done.) "
The relationship/s I really like to hear the snippets about is the one with Silva ... such a deft touch there,..."
RISA! Yeah, and, by all acounts "She uses their relationship too" as does Pam Cross. That is a lot of fun. Poor Chak! The Bos'n and Jenks had some fun too. I like how Matt has to keep whispering under his breath
"Chief Gray, shut up. If I start laughing, it may cause an international incident."
The "fly-boys" are starting to get fun too. Fred Renolds and Ben. I loved when Ben was testing out the "Nancy" ... Priority 1 SEATBELTS!. Fred's cat crew Chief circling the bullet hole and writing "No" next to where Fredh shot his own plane with a pistol. (there is acutaly or real presidence for that.)
Anderson is very consistent and he doesn't forget where he left off, even with the very minor characters. They've only been in the tail end of the last book and this one but already Fred's co-pilot and Crew Chief have a lot of character that's all their own. Not to mention everyone else.
(For you lady readers of sci-fi, Rebecca is GREAT too...strong female character. Not a combat monster but very much a catalyst for the story... of course, she did beat up Silva.)
And the amazing part of the writing is that Anderson gives all this information without bogging the story down with excruciating detail. When he does give the "data dump" everything helps. Very well done.
Sandra's also "not a combat monster" but she announced her importance to the story first off when she put the Marine (later to become the big general) and sexist old "doc" in his place. That was in the first 5 chapters. Popped those boys to attention and chewed some BUTT....(I like her).
Somewhere there has to be a human female compliment to Silva.... boy, that's a scary thought...very scary.
I. Curmudgeon wrote: "I loved when Ben was testing out the "Nancy" ... Priority 1 SEATBELTS!."Loved it! And now they are not only going to have the submarine but more planes ... fun ...
So far I've bought the first two in this series, the next five are from Interlibrary Loan at my local library and the last two will have to be Kindle purchases.
However, I can see that the five ILL books are going to have to be Kindle budget items ... this is one I am going to want to re-read.
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Loved it! And now they are not only going to have the submarine but more planes ... fun ...
So far I..."
Another great Silva quote:
"Never send a man where a bullet can go."
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Who is Silva? In his own words:
"Chief Gunner's Mate Dennis Silva of the United States Ship Walker, DD rate, number one-sixty-three! Famous slayer o' Japs, Griks, Doms, super lizards, mountain fish, an' various other dangerous critters includin' a Dom Blood Cardinal I spattered at at most of a quarter mile! Protector o' women an' small princess, an' rescuer o' same! I'm the son o' Stanley an' Willa Silva who was actually married when I was born but passed on soon after, God rest 'em, an' I hale from Alabama--also in the U.S. of A!"
(Iron Gray Sea by Taylor Anderson)
I think James Rollins's Joe Kowolski (Sigma Force) has met his match... and God help anyone in a 10 block radius should the two ever meet.
I. Curmudgeon wrote: "I think James Rollins's Joe Kowolski (Sigma Force) has met his match... and God help anyone in a 10 block radius should the two ever meet. "
Or even more scary ... they would join forces and God help the world!
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I read that, and my mind's stuck on that part. (It's also a funy song).
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started Into the Storm"
I hope you like it as much as I have... Here's some inspiration
I. Curmudgeon wrote: "Ctgt wrote: "Ok.....Ok.....started Into the Storm"
I hope you like it as much as I have... Here's some inspiration"
I'm sure I will, our a/a tastes are very similar. Thanks Hugh.
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The battles and fights are still really nicekly done and I still like the religious tolerance, gender equality and ethnic tolerance themes either in here by the nature of the content, or on purpose.
above all... just fun to read.
Scott wrote: "I finished Hard Magic and started Something Wicked This Way Comes."Really loved Something Wicked, probably my favorite read from last year.
Ctgt wrote: "Scott wrote: "Really loved Something Wicked, probably my favorite read from last year."
I don't remember when I first read Something Wicked ... many, many years ago anyway ... and it is one of my enduring favorites as well.
Sharon wrote: "I don't remember when I first read Something Wicked ... many, many years ago anyway ... and it is one of my enduring favorites as well. "It's strange, I have read many other Bradbury books but for whatever reason I never got to this one. What a major mistake to wait so long.
Finished Into the Storm and really enjoyed it, thanks to Mudge and Sharon for pushing the series, never would have found it otherwise. I went into it blind thinking it was a standard alt/history, then a short time into the book thought it was time travel but it ended up being alternate world stuff. Just started Emperor of Thorns.
I enjoyed Solo the new 007 novel by William Boyd, great to set it in the late '60s with an aging Bond.
Ctgt wrote: "Really loved Something Wicked, probably my favorite read from last year."I'm glad to hear it. I'm not to far along yet though.
Something Wicked is best Bradbury I ever read.Finished Caliban's War if you like space opera this series is excellent so far.
Now working on Love and War for some true historical fiction
I just bought the e-book Ethan Justice: Origins from Amazon. I saw this on barginbookhunter as a freebie and followed the Amazon link. Has almost 4.5 stars with 94 reviews.I like to read the first few reviews of a book to get a feel for the book and see if I'm going to be interested. On this particular book I never made it past the title of the first review and I quote "Good plot, a little too much sex and language for me". Now that is the best review ever! I immediately bought the book. I wonder what that says about me? Ha.
I also discovered a very cool tool on tracker.kindlenationdaily. It is a tool that you can track the price and sales of your favorite book or author. Never heard of this before. Very cool.
Zipping thru
by Dan Brown. Another Brown thriller, but more Jason Bourne then Angels & Demons.And I am beta reading the 2nd book in the
series. This link is to the 1st book which I knocked out last week. End of the World, zombies, military and locations all over the place. Be interesting to see how the author ties all these characters together from all over the world.
Finished the last of the published books in the Destroyermen series and not ready to switch to a *quieter* read yet so picked up an old perennial favorite
for a re-read.Wish this one was available in Kindle ... my paperback copy is getting a bit tattered I'm afraid.
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it's not exactly an action filled yarn... but, it is interesting.. in a snooty English old guy sort of way.
Just started reading "Black Order" by James Rollins. So far am enjoying it immensely. Finding it a very interesting & fascinating read. Different subject matter than the usual adventure novels.Finished Black Order and thoroughly enjoyed the mystery and quantum theory involved behind the experiments of the Bell. Lots of action and good character development too. Great 5 star read!
Currently on a James Rollins-binge reading.... He's without a doubt one of my most favorite author, but I only read the Sigma Force novels and Deep Fathom previously. So right now I'm racing through his rest of the stand-alone works. Already finished Ice Hunt and Altar of Eden, and both of them are SUPREMELY entertaining and mindnumbingly AWESOME. Ice Hunt clearly became one of my most favorite Rollins novel ever; Altar of Eden was also superb in a more small-scale and more personal, there was no multilayered international intrigue and the story was rather streightforward, but its all the more interesting and entertaining read for that... The sheer suspense and thrill with cutting edge genetic manipulation & fractal science was vintage Rollins. Right now reading Amazonia, and from the looks of it, this is going to be another blissfully fantastic read!
On a history war kick now Red Flags Vietnam good read The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines & the Secret Mission of 1805 interesting and now Matterhorn back to Vietnam
Kim wrote: "Ctgt wrote: "Started A Wizard of Earthsea and Straw Men"Ctgt, A Wizard of Earthsea is fabulous."
About 1/2 through and am enjoying it so far.
I finished Up From the Grave and Deadlocked both had some action in the story. If you're into stories about zombies, Deadlocked was a good beginning to the series.
About 35% into
by Greg Rucka. Think Die Hard in Disneyland. I really enjoyed Greg's Queen & Country series of books/comics, such as:
and I am a Die Hard junkie, so I am hoping this combination will work for me.
David, I didn't like Alpha all that much but I do really like his Atticus Kodiak series, especially book 7, Walking Dead.
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Stumbled upon "Hunter" by James Byron Huggins. I'd read it years ago (published 1999) and have fond memories of a thrilling tale with an unusual protagonist (have you read any of the Deer Slayer novels by James Fennimore Cooper?). Anyway, Amazon was selling the Kindle version for $0.99, so I jumped on it. Wow! I'm really diggin it and will post me review soon.
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Dave wrote: "Stumbled upon "Hunter" by James Byron Huggins. I'd read it years ago (published 1999) and have fond memories of a thrilling tale with an unusual protagonist (have you read any of the Deer Slayer no..."Thanks, was $1.10 here in Canada on amazon, but still too good of a deal to pass up. Sounded really good.
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hmm... reminds me of a song?
"we fired at audible till the credits melted down
so we grabed a big ol kindle and we read another round
I read about the cannon balls and read about the Grik
and I read about the Walker who was sinkin' lots of Dom..."
(okay, it needs work... think of this
I said I needed to Work on it... jeez...::grumble, grumble:: it wasn't that bad was it?)