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Combat Corpsman: A Navy SEAL Medic in Vietnam
In which Siege climbs back on the CBR horse with a tale of a young medic’s adventures in Vietnam.
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FROM THE AUTHOR: This is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. I tried to write a long, third-person summary that would imply how great the book is and also sound vaguely authoritative – like maybe someone who isn’t me wrote it – but I soon discovered that I’m not sneaky enough to pull it off convincingly. So I decided to just make a list of things […]
Caught in the Shadows
This is not an easy book. It’s not an easy topic. Author Lawrence Wright has brought to life the history and people who created the most well known terrorist organization in the modern world: Al-Qaeda. In addition to the history behind the organization, Wright touches on the individuals and the political climate of a region unfamiliar to many Americans that birthed this movement. To read further, please head to my blog.
Puritan Prattle
We celebrate them at Thanksgiving, we revile them when we read The Crucible, but what do we really know about that first generation of religious malcontents to reach New England? Sarah Vowell’s The Wordy Shipmates gives us portraits of these strangers known as the Puritans who came to New England during the Great Migration, in between the Mayflower and the Salem witch trials. It is infused with Vowell’s pop culture references and Gen-X snarkiness. I like her style just fine, some people find it annoying. […]
A Brief History of Time – Review #2 for AamilTheCamel
This is my 2nd book out of the 130 books that I am reading for 2014. There is a certain joy in reading the account of something from someone who was intricately involved with it. Science is not something that was very popular a few years back. It has gained greater following thanks to the internet, but Physics (and more so mathematics) is still an esoteric enigma that still confounds many a netizen. Beyond a basic grasp of ideas of physics we usually don