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COD

COD

  • member since June 15 2008

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  • Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There
    • Rated 4 stars

    “There are still a lot of questions about the Vietnam War. Why we were there in the first place, what went wrong, could we have won? This book answers none of them. Instead, this book is a deftly edited narrative based on interviews with Vets. Nobody is named, and their stories from Vietnam are raw, gritty, profane, and horrifying. This is the phrase "War is hell" personified. However, it does provide some insight into how good people, when put into horrifying situations, can allow themselves to do horrifying things. I think we'd all be better off if we tried a little harder to stop putting our military into horrifying situations.”

    COD wrote this review 3 days ago. ( reply | permalink )
  • And Another Thing...
    • Rated 3 stars

    “Meh. It never really gets funny. I felt like I was forcing myself to finish it out of some weird loyalty to Adams. Colfer does a good job of sounding like Adams, without sounding like he is trying to sound like Adams. Unfortunately, he sounds like the Adams from book 5 of the trilogy, not book 1.”

    COD wrote this review 11 days ago. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Age of Misrule Omnibus (Gollancz SF)
    • Rated 4 stars

    “I loved this series. It's like Steven King decided to write a Lord of the Rings style epic quest story, built on a foundation of Celtic mythology.”

    COD wrote this review 3 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink )
  • Empire of Blue Water
    • Rated 4 stars

    “Captain Morgan's life was so exciting that this mostly true book reads like a grand adventure novel. The Pirate's role in breaking the Spanish hegemony in the new world and leaving colonial America is the power is something I had not considered before.”

    COD wrote this review Saturday, September 5 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • A People's History of the United States
    • Rated 4 stars

    “It's US History viewed through the looking glass. Every event that ever happened in the US can be attributed to the greed of the American aristocracy that has controlled the government since the days of Washington and Jefferson. Not that there isn't a lot of truth to that statement, but even Zinn himself admits it's an extremist view. However, given the whitewashed take on our history that we got in school it's probably a book everybody should read.”

    COD wrote this review Tuesday, September 1 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Belgariad
    • Rated 4 stars

    “With David Eddings recent passing I decided to re-read The Belgariad series. I last read it in college. I've been disappointed often when re-reading the sci-fi and fantasy of my youth. Luckily, this was not the case with The Belgariad. The first three books of the series still hold up well. The story is fast paced, the characters interesting, and just like 20+ years ago, Silk is still my favorite. My son has read this series multiple times but I've now passed it on to my daughter. Any book with a guy that can talk to horses is something she'll probably like!”

    COD wrote this review Thursday, July 9 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • ALWAYS LOOKING UP: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
    • Rated 4 stars

    “I actually bought this for Michelle, but she thought I should read it too, and she was right. It's not deep reading, just an entertaining look at how he has kept it together since the Parkinson's took out his full time acting career.”

    COD wrote this review Friday, June 26 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • A King of Infinite Space
    • Rated 3 stars

    “No deep meaning here - just a fun space opera that suffers from a "Scooby Doo" ending in which the preceding 420 pages are explained in about 6 pages.”

    COD wrote this review Saturday, June 20 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • Spindrift
    • Rated 4 stars

    “A first contact story in the Heinlein tradition. I stayed up late several nights this week to read Spindrift. Then again, I do that with all Allen Steele's books. Spindrift takes place in the Coyote Universe, but you don't need to have read the Coyote books to enjoy Spindrift. You should read the Coyote series though, just because they are great books.”

    COD wrote this review Sunday, June 14 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • World's End (The Age of Misrule : Book 1)
    • Rated 4 stars

    “What if the ancient Celtic stories of Gods and Fairies were actually all based on truth, and what if those Gods came back to modern day England? Technology starts to fail, magic begins to rule, and humans learn that they are no longer on top of the food chain. At it's core, the story is your standard group-of-unlikely-heroes-thrown-together-on-a-quest-to-save-the-land story, but the setting makes it much more entertaining that the stereotypical D&D style adventure story.”

    COD wrote this review Thursday, June 11 2009. ( reply | permalink )
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