i find this very hard to believe but …. in today’s world? see what you make of it.
on 10/20/2012 at 10:55 AM
what’s the title of the book that has the muslims at war with south?
Guns of the South was a good book.
Posted by rlabutis
10/20/2012 at 12:55 PM
You might try Turtledove’s WWII books:
In the Balance
Tilting the Balance
Upsetting the Balance
Striking the BalanceRight in the middle of WWII the aliens invade Earth. We fight them to a draw. Then the colonization fleet shows up a generation later:
Second Contact
Down to Earth
Aftershocks
Homeward BoundChris, yes. I have the list of all those and ordered three more today.
Not much interest tho in the alien thing. Least not yet. Still mired in ww1.RIABUTIS: muslims at war with south?
No. There isn’t a book with that subject. That was my point. I buried myself in his books and liked the idea that there weren’t any muslims in that time period.
Frankly, I wish there were no muslims anywhere in the west.Haven’t read the WWI stuff myself. I have them as ebooks. I know it’s nice to actually turn the pages, but I have gone to ebooks for escapist books. I still insist on actual books for stuff like Aristotle, Plutarch, Chaucer, etc…
If you’d like, I could zip ‘em all into one file and send them to you. I tend to read fantasy stuff either on the computer or on my iPad. I think you’ll like the alien stuff. He writes convincingly from both sides. While the aliens are indeed alien and different, you don’t just hate them. You mourn when the alien you’ve been following is KIA. The first series is pretty bloody, but it’s a war. The second series? Well, things have been pretty settled for a generation, then the colonizing fleet shows up. And there’s a problem: the invasion fleet failed to conquer the world. There’s not enough room in alien-occupied territory for the colonists. Sad.
Now you’ve done it! Now I have to go back and reread the whole series!
Harry Turtledove’s ‘Worldwar’ series kicks ass! Now the other series mentioned here is the Southern Victory series, aka Timeline-191. I have yet to delve into that series...once I get back on my feet.
Macker, Back on your feet? What’s wrong? Nothing serious I hope.
Christopher, thanks much for the kind and generous offer, but I must decline. You’ll understand when you get to be 75 plus. LOL.
I read stuff on the puter of course, but can’t handle books. Much of the posts I do have been read first in the hard copy editions. Not too easy much of the time reading a monitor. Am giving serious thought to Kindle but darn, there’s too much to choose from. Still haven’t got a cell phone. But then don’t have that lifestyle either.Still haven’t worked out the difference between what they’re calling a tablet and some other gizmo that looks similar but can’t remember what it’s called. Ha. Another thing to go with the hair loss. Memory.
Peiper: After being unemployed for almost two full years, not counting about ten weeks here and there of temp jobs and such, I finally got a new job, working for a healthcare provider tech company in a call center environment. The new job starts on Oct. 29.
I’ve also been in MI for seven months, having moved from AZ after splitting off from my wife, who refused to get help for her Hoarding sickness. In fact, my attorney will be filing the divorce papers next week.
So yeah, I’m getting back on my feet. What I am really hoping for my 52nd Birthday, which is the day after the Election...is for the SCOAMF to be voted out on his Filthy Communist ass!I’m very sad about the divorce Macker. But I might end up the same way. I’ve got job offers all over the place, but I can’t pry my wife out of Dayton. It’s not that we hate each other, but if she won’t follow me where the jobs are… what else can I do? The house is paid for, I’ll give her the house in lieu of alimony. At my age I don’t want a two-story, three-bedroom house anyway.
They’ve tried this crap before (taking kill out of the West Point lectures in the late 70s) - it is what you get when arrested development juveniles, still smarting from the putdowns in middle school, get into seats of power. Also - probably to offset the fact that a Military Times poll shows the military falling to Romney 2 to 1 and that 300 Generals have backed Romney - so of course they want to put forth the one ‘vile’ Officer punished for trampling on the sensitivities of the religion of perpetual rage.
I read that the big o is making a ‘deal’ with Iran, re Nukes - how convenient just the day before The Biggest Loser goes into a Foreign Policy Debate. Libya would kill him - and - oh look a squirrel!!!! - they go out and create this faux October surprise.
Bite Me - Nov 6th can’t come fast enough.
Peiper, give me a ‘heads-up’ on being 75. I’m only 23 years away from it. I don’t ‘understand’. Hoping I make it to 75, nobody in my family has. Mom’s made it to 68 and she’s the oldest I know of. Not counting mother-in-law who passed last May at 81. Not a blood relative.
Chris, My mom passed away at 68 also. Maybe I’ve been lucky. One of my aunts, mom’s sisters, passed away age 91 and last yr my uncle, her brother, died at 90. I can’t remember the age of my other aunt when she went. Not too certain of grandparents age either.
I guess every day is a gift. I’ve seen folks here that are way older than I am and who look younger and seem to be in better shape. I can only refer to my own experience which counts for nothing except that. Others will vary of course. But age ain’t fun no matter how many photos they show me in magazines of happy smiling golden oldies. Called OAPs here. Old Age Pensioners. I hear ppl say they would never want to go back to their 20s or even 30s they are sooooo happy to be 60 plus. Yeah well, they’re full of it and they don’t they wouldn’t want to go back only cos they know they can not do that anyway and so accept the inevitable.
Try getting health ins. especially with pre existing conditions. Hard enough at 30, impossible at 65 and worse at 70 and impossible at 75. There’s more too.Well, Mom hasn’t passed away yet. She is in a retirement home now. Not my choice: I’d rather have her under my roof, but she’s already lost a leg due to diabetes, and is always in danger of losing the other one. She needs 24/7 care. I can’t keep her at home because the only bathroom is on the second floor.
I know 52 is comparitivly young. My dad died at 34; my step-father died at 64. I just hope I make it to Mom’s age. Though I hope I’m in better shape—she tells me that if she’d known she’d live this long she’d have stayed in better shape!
I had a blind man who was one of my mail customers—seems he could always tell by sound that I was there. He’d always come out with his cane. I’d ask how he was. He always answered: “I woke up breathing.” You can’t get better than that!
