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IanCurtis

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I hear this is good but haven't read it yet, its a fairly short book - all about Hitler and his drugs:
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This is getting great reviews - quite long and detailed painstaking civil war history obviously (the appendix is like 1/5 of the book):
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Conflict - I've read about 200 pages - is an overview of how war's conducted globally and chapters are dedicated to reviewing why a specific battle worked or didn't and what should have been done differently or whether there were key achievements. Each chapter/battle is a short 2-4 pages, Vietnam was about 7 or so pages so pretty consumable and not to mentally heavy - might be a bit dry/lacking gore etc as its more about how battles are set up/managed/objectives achieved:
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Patrick O'Neal

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TorquieTwoBeers said:
If he's at all interested in this sort of thing (historical fiction, Japanese culture/history), Shogun by James Clavell is pretty good. They just made a Hulu (I think) series about it that I have not watched yet so I can't vouch for it. Not a whole lot happens in the last 1/4 of the book but the first 3/4 are great and a pretty brisk read despite being 1,000 or so pages. Bonus enjoyment if your cocksucker of a brother knows any basic Japanese and/or fetishizes subservient Japanese women.

edit: let me add this, since Folio society was mentioned, get your brother this: https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/blood-meridian.html
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He's literally read that book and watched and recommended the series to me. So this is 10/10 for accuracy.

Apart from the part about him having yellow fever (his loss).
 
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Patrick O'Neal said:
He's literally read that book and watched and recommended the series to me. So this is 10/10 for accuracy.

Apart from the part about him having yellow fever (his loss).
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How did he like the series? Is it worth watching? Weirdly enough I only read the book because one of the characters on The Americans recommended it to another character. Pretty solid. Apparently Clavell wrote several sequels but since the first book sort of peters out, I never bothered with them.
 
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How did he like the series? Is it worth watching? Weirdly enough I only read the book because one of the characters on The Americans recommended it to another character. Pretty solid. Apparently Clavell wrote several sequels but since the first book sort of peters out, I never bothered with them.
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He described it as 'a visual feast'.

I want to check it out but I only watch TV when I'm sober so... maybe next month.
 
Patrick O'Neal

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IanCurtis said:
Conflict - I've read about 200 pages - is an overview of how war's conducted globally and chapters are dedicated to reviewing why a specific battle worked or didn't and what should have been done differently or whether there were key achievements. Each chapter/battle is a short 2-4 pages, Vietnam was about 7 or so pages so pretty consumable and not to mentally heavy - might be a bit dry/lacking gore etc as its more about how battles are set up/managed/objectives achieved:
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Sounds like the kind of book a show-off would love. You read it and then go around hoping someone mentions the war in Vietnam so you can explain it to them.

Pretty much perfect.
 
UnPRePared

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If you have any interest in classic film and the themes behind it, books about Film Noir tend to hold up. None are better than Dark City, though.

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Eddie Muller is an expert on the subject and he's not boring at all. I can't recommend it more.
 
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TorquieTwoBeers said:
Apparently Clavell wrote several sequels but since the first book sort of peters out, I never bothered with them.
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They're not sequels, they're all set long after everyone is dead. In one of them a character is the descendant of Toranaga and one is implied to be the descendant of Aijin.
 
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They're not sequels, they're all set long after everyone is dead. In one of them a character is the descendant of Toranaga and one is implied to be the descendant of Aijin.
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Worth checking out? Like I said, I thought Shogun got pretty dull towards the end. Do the subsequent books get back to more action?

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He described it as 'a visual feast'.

I want to check it out but I only watch TV when I'm sober so... maybe next month.
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Well I'm sold. I'll squeeze it in when I get some time.
 
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Patrick O'Neal said:
He's literally read that book and watched and recommended the series to me. So this is 10/10 for accuracy.

Apart from the part about him having yellow fever (his loss).
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Clavell's other book Tai Pan is pretty good. It's about the founding of Hong Kong. There is also a movie based on it but it's hard to find. He may also like Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa. It starts at the end of the battle of Sekhigahara which is the climax of Shogun.

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How did he like the series? Is it worth watching? Weirdly enough I only read the book because one of the characters on The Americans recommended it to another character. Pretty solid. Apparently Clavell wrote several sequels but since the first book sort of peters out, I never bothered with them.
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The series started out good, got a little boring in the middle, and then the ending felt a little rushed. It was better than most slop that comes out these days but I like the old mini series better.
 
chewtoyrapist

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I always like to recommend Céline's Journey to the End of the Night or Death on the Installment Plan. The first one is a fictionalization of the author going through WWI, working in the Congo, then the Ford factory, then as a doctor in suburban Paris. The second is basically leading up to his enlistment at 15 or 16 and growing up in a struggling middle class family and falling in with an old school inventor/con artist. Vurry good. The best of all the french faggots. If he likes those books, he can read the hundreds of pages he published about the jews and communists, then thousands about how ruined his life became because he opposed them.
 
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Non-fiction, war stories? My favourite author is Antony Beevor. Sure, he sticks to XXth century so no lesser-known wars there but he does a great balancing between telling the big story and ground it with anecdotes (most of them haunting but some of them downright hilarious) of people in the field. Stalingrad and Berlin: The Downfall are masterpieces
 
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chewtoyrapist

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Which by the way, while Céline always advocated cowardice in his novels, his military record and the way he served people in his daily life speaks to him actually being a better man than he portrayed himself, which was a mix of bombastic egotism and cowardice.
 
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