No Quarter
Very detailed, but a bit drawn out.
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Kind of a weird one – Ampersands disappear in labels, unless you set the UseMnemonic property to false.
Gomorrah
A 200 page run on sentence. Quite an effort to make this topic dull.
Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples’ Organized Crime System
The Art of the Heist
Underwhelming and depressing. To paraphrase Lily Tomlin – No matter how cynical you are, you can never catch up.
The Art of the Heist: Confessions of a Master Art Thief, Rock-and-Roller, and Prodigal Son
Soldiers and Slaves
Nasty bit of forgotten history repeated countless times throughout the slave camps of Nazi Germany.
Soldiers and Slaves: American POWs Trapped by the Nazis’ Final Gamble
back Story
A bit of an alternate reality when characters from different series interact. Stone and Spenser make for quite a combination.
Night and Day
Jesse finally figures it out.
Hark!
Palindromes, anagrams and Deaf Man – oh, my.
Devil’s Garden
I rarely put a book down after 100+ pages, but this book broke me. Going nowhere fast.
Black Edelweiss
An unusual memoir written by a machine gunner for the Waffen-SS during his captivity in an American POW camp in 1946.
Black Edelweiss: A Memoir of Combat and Conscience by a Soldier of the Waffen-SS
The Increment
CIA genre – starts out ok, but has too many characters, which seems to be what international intrigue demands.
The Ride
Brutal story. The political component is a bit stilted, but the human element is compelling.
The Ride: A Shocking Murder and a Bereaved Father’s Journey from Rage to Redemption
The Day Of Battle
What a slog. Not talking about the book.
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (Liberation Trilogy)
Killer Summer
A little too transparent.
Joker One
Brutally honest. If you read this book and don’t fly the flag on Veterans day, something is wrong.
Joker One: A Marine Platoon’s Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood
Terminal Server
If you have reached the two connection limit for Terminal Services, you can disconnect one of the sessions by using the console session.
To use the console session, click on Start, Run and enter “mstsc /admin”, then click on OK. This will open the RDP window and you can connect normally from there.
Michael Crichton
Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity……Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their ‘beliefs’……The reason is that beliefs guide behaviour, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behaviour may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.
An Army at Dawn
In depth and interesting. Quite a thick book, but never seems to drag.
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy
VB vs C#
As a 15+ year VB coder, I found this podcast to be pretty enlightening about the future of VB along with some myth busting.