Rising Sun and Tumbling Bear - Russia's war with Japan - Richard Connaughton

Not really sure why I picked this book up. A history of a military conflict that occured 100 years ago that I was vaguely aware of as a pre-curser to the Russian revolution.

This book reveals a war that was undoubtably the first modern war. Massed machine gun fire, artiliary, barbed wire, modern logistics, electronic communications, all came into being, not on the western front, but on the Korean penisula between 1904 and 1905.

This conflict wasn't only significant because it revealed man's new capacity for destruction. It was the first time an eastern power had stood up to a western empire and won. It gave an omminous preview of the new expansionist road that Imperial Japan was travelling, a road that would lead to further horrors in WW2.

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The New Pearl Harbour - David Ray Griffin

Excellent Review of this book which includes:

...a detailed examination of Griffin's claims about the attack on the Pentagon. It is designed to illustrate how Griffin has uncritically accepted the claim of conspiracists while ignoring the ample evidence that refutes their claims. It also lists the Fallacies of Logic utilized by Meyssan and Griffin.

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Sorcery - Discworld 5 - Terry Pratchett

Pretty average "Rincewind" story.

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The Wizards first Rule - Terry Goodkind

urlllghh ... shudder ...

Really didn't like this book. I am not sure if it is the richness, quality, maturity, whatever of some of the other stuff I am reading at the moment, but this book really paled badly in comparison.

I was heartened to notice on GRRM's "From My Readers" email of the week (From My Readers):

Either she doesn't read at all, or she's a Terry Goodkind fan, and you can move on and find someone else. It's well known, mixed marriages don't work.

I am not sure if this is actually an criticism of Terry Goodkind or simply identifying that his books are vastly different to GRRM's books. In any case, I can definately identify with the sentiment.

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A Game of Thrones - George R R Martin

A re-read of this book, with a knowledge of where the story will lead and the fate of the many of the characters, it just gets better and better.

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