Out of Pod Experience

I've been on a "re-reading childhood favorites" kick lately. Watching John Carter got me to re-reading Burroughs' Mars stories and they're still a fun read.

Also re-read the Lensman series by Doc Smith.

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and Starship Troopers for the umpteenth time.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

And I always have at least one of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels open, narcissist that I am . Currently, "The Wine-Dark Sea."

I've started the Game of Thrones series just recently - want to get well into them before I start to watch the show. So far, so good.

Project Gutenberg is a godsend!

What's on YOUR Kindle?

Yeah, I've read the last 4, or parts there of. Thanks for the suggestions.






For those talking about Sun Tzu's The Art of War ... I'm afraid my opinion of that set of catch phrases isn't to high. A lot of it is either dead wrong or obvious. The guy spends a lot of time trying to be clever. The other thing is ... there isn't much to it. Over at the Planetside "Art of War" forum - someone posted the entire thing once in a thread. I've got a tiny little pocket version of it.

What I got a lot more out of - was Carl von Clausewitz' On War which is a much more in depth discussion of the subject.

One should also bear in mind that both works were written by people with an experience of a certain time and place - which doesn't always have applicability to other times and places.


I'll leave my little discussion of the two works there and just say that if someone is interested in reading classics of Military thought - reading both works and comparing them for yourself could be useful.

That ... and if you wanted to be pompous while trying to sound profound ... you could whip out phrases like "According to von Clausewits ..." or "As Sun Tzu said ..." and impress people who are easily impressed ...


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Cross-posting from another thread here, but... Reamde by Neil Stephenson. I really enjoyed that one and Cryptonomicon, by the same guy.