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    • Ex Populo: The Call of Duty -- 1422 words
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Archive for the 'book report' Category

Post XXI: Weapons of Choice

Posted by R. A. Michaels on December 22nd, 2006

On a recommendation from a friend of mine who likes to read alternate histories as much as I do, I picked up the first of John Birmingham’s Axis of Time trilogy, Weapons of Choice.

In the year 2021, the American-led Multinational Force flies the four-star flag of Admiral Kolhammer aboard the Bush-class carrier USS Hillary Clinton. [...]

Post XX: Semper Fi!

Posted by R. A. Michaels on December 21st, 2006

My first experience in reading Griffin’s work was actually in reading his Brotherhood of War series from end to end. I thought perhaps that I had read the crown jewel of his efforts, but I was sorely mistaken. Semper Fi kicks off a series that I found to be far superior to the [...]

Post XVIII: Reading and Review

Posted by R. A. Michaels on December 17th, 2006

If you ever scroll down a bit on the blog page, here, you might notice that there are little tidbits of information on the sides.  I spent some time working on the site last night, to remove the horrid-looking Amusements section and added in a Now Reading section, powered by Rob Miller’s Now Reading plugin.  [...]