An evening at the bookstore...

[Jay Maynard]

I've gotta learn not to try to kill time at the bookstore. I went in there
to pick up _Armored Cav_. Found it first off. Sitting right next to it was a
hardcover _The Hunt for Red October_...since I wasn't smart enough to pick
that one up while it was out in hardcover the first time, I had to snatch it
up. Even if it was the 30th printing. Then, I saw Harold Coyle's _Sword
Point_ and _The Ten Thousand_...since I've read the rest of his works, had
to grab those, too... I walked out $54 poorer than I walked in. *sigh*

Did make for an entertaining weekend, though. If you haven't gotten _Armored
Cav_ yet, go get it, if for nothing else than the short stories describing
how armored cavalry would fight...

Tom, a writing style question, if I may: I'd always been taught that
repetition in wording was a thing to be avoided unless one was creating a
catchphrase, such as "I've got a bad feeling about this..." in the _Star
Wars_ universe. Just about every time you go from an overview or other
introductory material to an in-depth examination of something, the last
sentence is "Let's take a look.", or some minor variation of that. Is that
deliberate, or just a habit?
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Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jmay...@admin5.hsc.uth.tmc.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity.
The US Constitution: 1789-1994. RIP.