The Hunt for Read October: A month when you try to actually finish reading that pile of books, but preferably none of Tom Clancy's later works where it's too plainly obvious that he was a right wing conservative bigot and you're sick of that shit.
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@liamvhogan @Ex_spurt @daedalus @allrite mate I carried James A Michener's SPACE around with me for about 18 months as a kid, reading and re-reading it I was a massive loser, still am.
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@Kels_316 @liamvhogan @daedalus @allrite at least you could read. I remember looking around at all the Army instructors in the 80s and realising how much Commando comics had to answer for
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@Ex_spurt @Kels_316 @liamvhogan @daedalus I wonder if these were the little war story books that used to be on the shelves of the farm stay cottages when I was a kid.
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@allrite @Kels_316 @liamvhogan @daedalus they were everywhere. Full of daring do, boys own heroics and lashings of racism
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@Ex_spurt @allrite @liamvhogan @daedalus we had probably 100 of them? Maybe more. Intermingled with Phantom and the 25c "western" paperback things that my parents referred to as "Larry and Stretch books". I read all of it.
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@liamvhogan @Ex_spurt @allrite @daedalus do the new stories still take place in WW2 or are they dogshit stories about RM commandos doing war crimes in Basra?
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@liamvhogan @Ex_spurt @allrite @daedalus I feel like I could still enjoy them in that case.