Lost Sundays: A Season in the Life of Pittsburgh and the Steelers by Sam Toperoff My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is an interesting experiment of a book about the 1988 season of the Pittsburgh Steelers, a disaster of a season if there ever was one. The author, a New Yorker who is a …
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This is my 600th blog post on WordPress. Yay! My wife is from Maryland and her parents, grown sons, and many friends still live there and she rarely gets up there to visit, so we went up last week for Thanksgiving. She had been looking forward to it for a long time. It was an …
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Mao Tse-Tung On Guerrilla Warfare by Mao Tse-tung My rating: 5 of 5 stars I can't believe I discovered this treasure in a Maryland antique store last week while visiting the Eastern Shore from Tennessee with my wife. As a long time student of the Vietnam conflicts and Ho Chi Mihn, and to a lesser …
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The Lifeship by Harry Harrison My rating: 4 of 5 stars I so thoroughly enjoyed this small sci fi novel that I was and am completely mystified as to its horribly low online rating. I found it action packed, tension filled, and a unique mystery that was hard to uncover until the very end. Giles …
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A World Called Solitude by Stephen Goldin My rating: 2 of 5 stars This book sounded pretty good at first and read pretty well at first, but then it simply just degenerated into smut, so I gave up in disgust midway through and didn't finish it. Birk Aaland is a world class scientist who invents …
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