It is odd that Glock don't make a .22 - I mean they made the G42 to be super concealable, but still chambered it in .380 ??? but yeah King just didn't check his facts (if he wanted a fancy european make in .22 why didn't he pick Sig) Also i just googled Glock conversion kits and discovered that you can get a conversion kit to .50 cal .... that has to sit under WTAF ?
There is - its probably my favourite Heinlein book. I just wondered how Wrey feels about the word choices etc in the composite Loonie language with his translator/linguist head on
I tried reading Lord Foul's bane, friend gave it to me yesterday, claimed it was "good fantasy." Well, fuck that book. Just, fuck that book.
or use japanese amazon 758 yen for kindle https://www.amazon.co.jp/Moon-Harsh-Mistress-Robert-Heinlein/dp/0312863551
The problem is my device is on a USA registry. Can't get "foreign" kindles without binning my whole Android OS and starting over.
you know you can buy another kindle for like 50 bucks, right. Or you can buy AMIHM kindle from amazon.com for about 7 bucks
I never liked Heinlein. I tried reading Friday, and... sigh... his sense of humor is just not a flavor that I appreciate. So, in answer, I'm not really familiar with the reference.
Donaldson knows how to string a sentence and a paragraph together, I'll give him that, but that book is the worst. Just the worst. I was a young teen when that book was still in its heyday in nerdy circles, and it was a very popular book. I tried to read it last year (maybe the year before that) and all I can say is that the only event in that book that I could pin down as being provocative was also deeply disturbing and everything else in that book was boring as fuck. When I thought back to all my dork friends in junior high and remember them all having a copy of that book as their badge of nerdy honor it made me realize that I was in close proximity to some sick fucks back in the day.
Currently slogging through The Devil's Diary, a book that claims to be about the diary of Alfred Rosenberg, one of Hitler's chief ideologues. Apparently he kept a diary, but the writers of the book are in love with the idea that it's a "thrilling detective story" written in the style of a Sunday newspaper human interest supplement. Not sure how many pages I am into it, but so far it has next to nothing about Rosenberg, the Nazis, or his diaries, just a whole bunch of clever cliffhangers and punchy descriptions of people who, one must assume, are in some way related to finding the damn thing. Not a history book, or not yet, and not sure I'll bother to finish it. The Death and Life of Schneider Wrack was a lot of fun though, I'll try and review that soon.
This is not a book. Today our local paper began a 6 part story about a 10 year old boy that was found hanging in a barn 30 years ago. It was ruled suicide, but many had doubts. The father was a sheriff's deputy. The case was quietly reopened after a coroner started looking into the facts. Pretty crazy story. Read the first of 6 parts today. It is also a 6 part podcast that I believe is titled 'Hanging'. If you are interested in true crime stuff, try to check this out; the first part has a wealth of inspiration for stories.
The Dark Side of Nowhere by Neal Shusterman. I read it as a kid but don't remember much. It's actually a really novel concept, well worth reading.
Just about to finish up Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers (the first Red Dwarf novel), and then I shall be starting on William Gibson's Neuromancer, which may not be the best idea, as from what little dipping I've done so far its tone and feel are very similar to my current WiP.
Hell in a Very Small Place, by Bernard Fall. Read it once before, about 21 years ago, which, coincidentally, ia about the same time this copy was checked out from my university library, 7000 miles away.
Today I started the first Dark Tower book, the Gunslinger. I'm about fifty pages in and already love it. No, I have not seen the movie.