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found this copy of It Can't Happen Here for 3 bucks at the ARC next to the VA.

Considering the times that we're living in I think it's appropriate. I'm convinced that not only can it happen here it's about to.

So the book next to it, I don't know how many of you remember the old TV mini series V.

According to the preface of the book A.C. Crispin wrote the original manuscript as a retelling of It Can't Happen Here.

When he submitted it to whoever he submitted it to in Hollywood They didn't really want the political content but Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica TOS were really popular.

So whoever ended up producing the miniseries told A.C. Crispin to rewrite it with the bad guys as space aliens.

It didn't show up so much on the miniseries but if you read the book the subplot is very obvious. They even have a few Jews as characters who are telling people "This has happened before."

I haven't read all of I can't Happen Here yet but I want to read it at the same time as I reread V so I can compare the parallels
 
Among other titles, I'm one hundred pages into Warren Zanes "Petty: The Biography." Highly entertaining. Walter Mosley and Michael Connelly are on-deck and "in the hole."
 
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There is a used bookstore not too far from my house that with a very few exceptions sells every book in the store for two bucks.

Right outside the front door there's a library cart full of books that are for sale for .25 cents.

If you buy a book from inside the store they usually don't charge you if you get anything off the cart.
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My cat doesn't give a damn about any of that she wants me to put down the phone and pet her.

Anyway I got

The Last Gunfight by Jeff Guinn
The Protector's War by SM Stirling
The Blue Knight by Joseph Wambaugh
and
Voices of the American Revolution (lesser known writings of the founding fathers).

For $4.35
 
The Night Rider said:
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There is a used bookstore not too far from my house that with a very few exceptions sells every book in the store for two bucks.

Right outside the front door there's a library cart full of books that are for sale for .25 cents.

If you buy a book from inside the store they usually don't charge you if you get anything off the cart.
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My cat doesn't give a damn about any of that she wants me to put down the phone and pet her.

Anyway I got

The Last Gunfight by Jeff Guinn
The Protector's War by SM Stirling
The Blue Knight by Joseph Wambaugh
and
Voices of the American Revolution (lesser known writings of the founding fathers).

For $4.35
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I do love S.M. Stirling books. And I did read the first three of The Change series but grew bored and not interested in following that story any further. Sometimes you just need to end a story without dragging it way out. Just my $0.02. Maybe it got better further on, but I guess I'll never know.
 
OldGrunt said:
I do love S.M. Stirling books. And I did read the first three of The Change series but grew bored and not interested in following that story any further. Sometimes you just need to end a story without dragging it way out. Just my $0.02. Maybe it got better further on, but I guess I'll never know.
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I've only ever actually read one book by SM Stirling.
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This was the first book in The Dominion of the Draka series. It's the one that got him labeled the racist. I bought it in the PX at Fort Lewis. It's almost impossible to find any of the books in that series. Every time I go to a used bookstore I go and look for them.

I didn't know anything about The Change series but I figured for two bucks I might as well check it out.
 
Sld1959 said:
The book I am reading is certainly not for everyone. It's not a novel and has nothing like a plot line. It is more like a lifetime research paper on the Eastern longhunters.

I have always been fascinated by longhunters, Trappers, expeditions to wild places etc. And one of the things I find most fascinating is what they wore, hunted with, ate etc, thier gear.

This book is huge on research using sutler ledgers, receipts, trapping company logs, all sorts of source material which tell you what they actually spent thier money on and used. Say Simon Kenton withdrew 1 pint of rum every day or took wool blankets for leggings each trip or that only one trapper in a dozen actually bought shoes. It shows a insight into how they lived. I find this stuff fascinating.

I loved reading the gear lists and food list and how they lived in thier tents with what gear, and broke things down of Will Stegers Trans Antarctica expedition in the 80s maybe,
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If you’ve not read it try “The dark and bloody ground”-it’s Kentucky during the days of the long hunters-actual accounts of events, with references to the exact locations. Good stuff.
 
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