The Reading Corner.

[E_T]

Part of it deals with the Universe that Pournelle had created and had Niven join him on a few occasions...

[E_T]

I love the character of Kevin Reiner, by the way...

[Buster's Uncle]

Which sounds an awful lot like Kevin Riley, BTW...

[Elok]

Incidentally, I keep wanting to say Their Eyes Were Watching God instead of The Mote in God's Eye.  That would make an ... interesting mashup.

[Buster's Uncle]

I guess Sally's part would be a lot bigger...

[Elok]

The sad part was when Tea Cake went Crazy Eddie.

[Buster's Uncle]

Hey!  This implies that at the end, they be blockading Florida!  I'm sold.

[E_T]

I'm in Florida...

[Rusty Edge]

Besides diet and cookbook stuff I've been reading some world war two nautical fiction. I can't say I recommend any of it.

Harm's Way by James Bassett. As an avid reader of historical nautical fiction, I get that fictitious ships and battles are par for the course. That's not the issue. It has immersion breaking historical inaccuracies. Like corsairs at the beginning of the war, and a Civil War allusion that was incorrect. That sort of thing. I guess they were going for more of a "Here to Eternity" sort of Pearl Harbor romance. Several characters had depth, and there was an observation about war being a way for leaders to consolidate power, but it didn't work for me as historical fiction.

Duncan Harding's Flotilla Attack, Operation ( both about destroyers ) and Sink the Scharnhorst. Here there was more historical accuracy. He jumps around between high commands, ships, Germans, English, and the odd French and American. Sometimes they spoke in German or French without translation. The trouble for me is that when they weren't speaking foreign languages or English slang, the sailors didn't seem to have different voices to me. They blurred together. So did the officers, sometimes regardless of nationality. The exceptions being historical figures, and a womanizing Brit intelligence lt. commander named Ian Fleming.

Scharnhorst uses the pretentious story within a story technique, as in The Canterburry Tales and The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner. But not nearly as competently. The Brit chief petty officer couldn't possibly have known what was going on with Churchill's bunker, Hitler's mountain retreat, or occupied French gay brothels, to name a few. Maybe the technique was simply a way to end the historical drama half way through.

Next I intend to read some actual WWII history.

[E_T]

Scathing Reveiws, but sounds very accurate.  I read Red Storm Rising long ago and found that it was very good (and Clancy is one for doing his research).  Most of the Military style fiction that I have recently read (within the last few years) has been mostly Military SF (Ringo and others) and they have also been good.  That and a few Alternate History Military books, but they have to be fairly realistic or they lose my attention (once the belief factor is removed if not good).

Anyways, Happy Memorial Day!!

[Unorthodox]

Been burning through a bunch of series entries from a list of 'if you like Dresden files, you'll like this'. 

October Daye series: I'm a couple books in.  Ok.  Not great.  Dresden files for a teenage girl crowd almost.  Best thing is the cat/fairy. 
Felix Castor series:  VERY VERY BRITISH.  Nearly oppressively British, so not an easy read for me. Otherwise interesting setup for the supernatural. 
Sandman Slim series:  This is like a Satire on the genre almost.  First person format, but more like a drunken teenager giving play by play than a thoughtful retrospective most these books do. 

[E_T]

Try the "Halflife Chronicles " Series by William Mark Simmons.  1) "One Foot in the Grave", 2) "Dead on my Feet", 3) "Habeus Corpses" and 4) "Dead Easy".  There is a 5th book that is due to be published in April 2019, "A Witch in Time".

I'm actually re-reading the e-book versions now (Years ago, I had the dead tree versions, but don't have them now).

[Unorthodox]

Yikes...that is some horrible cover art on that series... 

[E_T]

Don't judge a book by it's cover...  :p

[Unorthodox]

I know...but were you not recommending, I wouldn't have gotten past THAT.   Might explain how they've escaped my attention.