What are you currently reading?

[James]

Has anybody read any of Barry Sadler's "Casca the Eternal Mercenary series"?
Interesting story line.


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I read the first one and the one set in WWI. Meh. :|

[Dling]

That's a great book! He did one about the Great War too, called "Make the Kaiser Dance".

I'll haveta check that one out too then:)

[gaijinsamurai]

I read all the Casca books about 20 years ago, when I was a (semi-)dumb Marine Lance Corporal. I knew the author.

[gaijinsamurai]

Killing Pablo was good too. i read it while living in Guatemala, and could empathize with the frustration of having to work with Latin American law enforcement.

[Ivan1]

This Man's Army: A Soldier's Story from the Frontlines of the War on Terrorism by Andrew Exum

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[Hellfish]

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Started last night. So far really good.

[baboon6]

Ghosts of Everest- The Search for Mallory and Irvine.

[Herrmannek]

chosen volumes of Discworld series by Terry Pratchet... nothing demanding... just wanted to fill some gaps and have some fun...

[TacoDelRio]

Ghosts of Everest- The Search for Mallory and Irvine.

Any good?
Watched a special on it, trying to identify bodies and such.

[JKD]

About 2/3 of the way through Sole Survivor by Dean Koontz. I knew nothing about it when I started reading it. So far I'm pleasantly suprised

After that it's the Diamond Age
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I'm hit and miss with Stephenson so far. Cryptonomicon is one of the best books I've ever read. Quicksilver however was just a flat out struggle to get through. I kept hoping it would pay of in the end and justify my reading it but it never did.

I also need to finish The Arms of Krupp
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[Ria]

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Finished South of the Border, West of the Sun , by Haruki Murakami, last night. I'm still thinking about it, especially the ending paragraphs, which means I appreciated it. All thanks go to Hellfish for me reading this book. I can't wait to read more of Murakami.

I've continued reading The Language Instinct by Pinker.

[boone]

Re-reading "Gorky Park" by Martin Cruz-Smith at the moment.
If bored, I'll open one of his books at a random page and start reading. I like his writing that much.

[Hellfish]

^ I read two of his books. Pretty good stuff.

[kaibil1944]

"Los Marinos"
A book relating the history of Guatemala's Navy history, changes and its actual state.

[Solomonic]

starting to read "o jerusalem" ....

[tobigforyou]

90 Minutes in Heaven - Don Piper

Vid intro:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ElnQUVkWsQ

[TR1]

When Titans Clashed
Glantz.


thought it was a good time to re-read it.p-)

[RS_Leo1A5]

Metal Hammer June 2007
"Lautlos" by Frank Schätzing

[dolumberist]

I'm reading the books Darkly Dreaming Dexter and Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Lindsay.

[Laconian]

IF CHINS COULD KILL - Confessions of a B Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell. So far its pretty good, really pretty funny. His childhood was a lot like mine and it brought back pleasant memories..

[gaz]

IF CHINS COULD KILL - Confessions of a B Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell. So far its pretty good, really pretty funny. His childhood was a lot like mine and it brought back pleasant memories..

An excellent, excellent book, I love the part where he meets Paul Newman on The Hudsucker Proxy.

[Ivan1]

Dawn of D-Day: These Men Were There by David Howarth
Race for the Rhine by Alexander McKee

[MetroN]

Have anyone here read Without Remorse and/or The Teeth of the Tiger by Tom Clancy?

[Laconian]

An excellent, excellent book, I love the part where he meets Paul Newman on The Hudsucker Proxy.

That was a great part. I also liked how Charlton Heston kept forgetting him. I read it in two days; I haven't done that with a book in a long time.

[TheKiwi]

Just finished "The Spanish Civil War" by Antony Beevor which I really enjoyed.

Currently making my way through Robert E Howards Conan series of tales. Good stuff for the 1930's, lots of nudity and violence.

[spx]

I am in the middle of Chosen Soldier: The Making of a Special Forces Warrior by **** Couch
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[Quack of Doom]

Reading 'Jungle Warriors' from H. George Franks. Great propagandic book from 1946 about guerilla fought by Dutch and Australian troops in the Indonesian archipel.

[Johnny_H02]

Stuka Pilot - Hans Ulrich Rudel

[foxtrot023]

The "Song of Ice and Fire" series by George R. R. Martin.

you will love it!

[Ryan-John]

1776 - David McCullough :)

[Laconian]

THE FIRST MEN IN: U.S. PARATROOPERS AND THE FIGHT TO SAVE D-DAY by Ed Ruggero, so far it seems like a good read.

[muttbutt]

The World is flat: the globalized World in the 21st century by Thomas L Friedman


Conspiracy: Histories greatest plots,collusions and cover ups by Charlotte Greig



I have eclectic tastep-)

[Laworkerbee]

The World is flat: the globalized World in the 21st century by Thomas L Friedman

Great Book

[GeraldDuval]

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awesome book...telly you all you need to know about a federal soldiers life during the American Civil War, and I mean everything. Right now I'm reading about all the things guys would do to avoid burying the dead horses. One guy in his platoon faked rheumatism for four months to get out of fatigue duty...that's dedication

[SBL]

On Laworkerbee's recommendation, I went out and bought The Utility of Force.
I also bought Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green, partially because I liked the title and partially because it got good reviews. So, that's what I'll be reading in these next few days/weeks.

[JJC]

Finished reading today "Six days of War" by Michael B. Oren

Now will reread "Criminology" 3rd Ed. by Piers Beirne

[Ruledbyjames]

Just started Joseph Conrad's "Heart of darkness"!

[wormie]

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awesome book
he's the marine from generation kill, correct?

[Ria]

Just bought:

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The Kite Runner was great, hopefully this one will be too.
Cool video with Hosseini here:
http://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Splendid-Suns-Khaled-Hosseini/dp/1594489505


and soon going to start:

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[Ria]

Just started Joseph Conrad's "Heart of darkness"!

Have fun....eh. .ehh.e. ehehe..................e.

[Laworkerbee]

Well Ria any words on "A Thousand Splendid Suns"

I'm a big fan of the Kite Runner so keep me posted.



SnakeBiteLeader I hope my recommendation didn't fail you, I've come back to rereading it to grasp some of the essentials of the book and have found it even better I hope you think so as well.

[SBL]

SnakeBiteLeader I hope my recommendation didn't fail you, I've come back to rereading it to grasp some of the essentials of the book and have found it even better I hope you think so as well.

I've only read a few pages into it so far, but I can tell already I'm going to enjoy it. Thanks for the heads-up.

[jetsetter]

I am currently reading 32 Battalion: The Inside Story of South Africa's Elite Fighting Unit. So far it has been pretty good.

[Rictor]

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Man, colonialism rocked! Everyone was always having adventures and marching around scenic India with shady yet interesting people.

Though seriously, a really good book so far.


Just bought:
The Kite Runner was great, hopefully this one will be too.
Cool video with Hosseini here:
http://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Splendid-Suns-Khaled-Hosseini/dp/1594489505

I just don't know. A novel set in one of the fiercest nations in recent history, the graveyard of empires, yet the plot about the emotional journey of two women...something doesn't sit right. Shouldn't there be rampaging hordes and majestic rocky plains in there somewhere?

[nagant_m44]

vol. 1 of Lee's Lieutenants by Freeman.

[pfcsmith1371]

I read Killing Pablo, by Mark Bowden. Awesome book, about one of the most ruthless drug lord of all time.

[IDF_TANKER]

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Man, colonialism rocked! Everyone was always having adventures and marching around scenic India with shady yet interesting people.

Though seriously, a really good book so far.
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Great book, I loved it very much! Try "The Light That Failed" -more romanish and less adventurous then "Kim", but still a great book.

[ShotOver]

I gave up on World War Z, because it freaked me out too much. Have gone back to reading Tin Tin comics.

[MetroN]

Soon starting on The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury.

[gaijinsamurai]

"Collapse" by Jared Diamond (author of Guns, Germs, and Steel).

[MetroN]

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This book was great, I mean trully great. I finished it in three days. Now that I'm done, I want more.

[Laworkerbee]

"Collapse" by Jared Diamond (author of Guns, Germs, and Steel).

Boy thats a depressing book right there.

[Ivan le Fou]

American Vertigo Bernard Henri Lévy.

[gaz]

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This book was great, I mean trully great. I finished it in three days. Now that I'm done, I want more.

I made the mistake of buying it in a train station because there was nothing else avaliable and ended up thinking it was cack-tastic but I've been known to be wrong about such things.

I'm currently rereading (For the fourth time) A Man on the Moon - The Voyages of the Apollo Astonauts (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Man-Moon-Voyages-Apollo-Astronauts/dp/0140241469/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/026-9194695-6005229?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1181673515&sr=8-1) by Andrew Chaikin, a truly fascinating book.

[ronnieraygun]

Behold the books you find in old milk crates when you move...

I'm about to tear into Redneck Manifesto and Yanks, which is apparently a history of American involvement in WW1.

[titget]

This new book looks like a fantastic read!
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
Marcus Luttrell

you can read a chapter of it here
http://www.hbgusa.com/books/19/0316067598/chapter_excerpt24838.html

should be coming out tomorrow....

[MetroN]

This new book looks like a fantastic read!
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
Marcus Luttrell

you can read a chapter of it here
http://www.hbgusa.com/books/19/0316067598/chapter_excerpt24838.html

should be coming out tomorrow....




I'm sure that I'll buy this book in the near future.

But, why does so many American authors make such long titles for their books?

[Ratamacue]

I'm sure that I'll buy this book in the near future.

But, why does so many American authors make such long titles for their books?The first part is the title and the second part is the subtitle. The title pulls you in, while the subtitle gives more exposition on what the book is actually about.

[MetroN]

The first part is the title and the second part is the subtitle. The title pulls you in, while the subtitle gives more exposition on what the book is actually about.


Thank you.

[Kippari]

Jani Anttola: Mustat Lesket (The Black Widows)
Memoirs of a Finnish dude who went to FFL, but ran away during their commission to Bosnia during the early 90's. After his escape he joined with the Bosniaks to fight Serbs in Bosnia. He fought in a group called the Black widows. It seems that he made a lot of friends before he returned to Finland to serve the compulsory military service. His storytelling is great and the fights were very intense. Great book 9/10.woot

[spade216]

just finished Survivor and am moving on to Invisible Monsters
both are by author Chuck Palahniuk

[dez000]

Currently reading:

Charlie Rangers by Don Ericson and John L. Rotundo.

[ZhukovG]

Im reading Sun Tzu - The Art Of War
and when im done with that i would read a bookof Noam Chomsky hegemony or survival

[Waltzing_Matilda]

Julian - Gore Vidal

Publisher Comments:

The remarkable bestseller about the Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal's finest historical novels. Julian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest lights in the history of the Roman Empire. A military genius on the level of Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great, a graceful and persuasive essayist, and a philosopher devoted to restoring the gods of Hellenism, he became embroiled in a fierce intellectual war with Christianity that provoked his murder at the age of thirty-two, only four years into his brilliantly humane and compassionate reign. A marvelously imaginative and insightful novel of classical antiquity, Julian captures the religious and political ferment of a desperate age and restores with blazing wit and vigor the legacy of an impassioned ruler.

[gaz]

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller.

[D-gin]

The Genesis Protocol


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[Johnny_H02]

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[INAT]

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Unholy Terror: Bosnia, Al-Qa'ida, and the Rise of Global Jihad


The author is John R. Schindler—professor of strategy at the Naval War College and former National Security Agency analyst and counterintelligence officer.

Great read so far.Some things I already knew some things are very informative.

[Anthony91]

Tom Clancy and General Tony Zinni, USMC (Ret.) - Battle Ready

[Ratamacue]

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And when I'm done with that...

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[szr]

Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It
by Ken Alibek (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/002-8839043-0929647?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Ken%20Alibek) (Author), Stephen Handelman (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/002-8839043-0929647?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Stephen%20Handelman) (Author)

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It's about the Soviet bio-weapons program. Been waiting all week to get a chance to start this.

I'm on a bit of a 'bio' kick at the moment. Recently finished "Lab 257" about the Plum Island disease research facility off the tip of Long Island that I've always been curious about. And I've got a couple other related books in the pipeline.

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[Victor_S.]

Gates of Fire - about the battle of Thermopylae. Really good book. I also just got finnished reading Killing Pablo. Its about Pablo Escobar and the chain of events that lead to the colombian government killing him with the help of the US. Next I will probably read Lisey's Story by Stephen king.

[Ngati Tumatauenga]

"Good bye cobber, God bless you" by John Hamilton.

The story of the 3rd Light Horse brigade and the ill fated attempt to storm the Turkish positions at The Nek at Gallipoli on 7th August 1915.

Sobering stuff.

Next is "Ghost" by John Ringo. I'll need a pot boiler after this.

[Engine Mech]

I just tried to read"Brides in the desert". The Spirituality of the Beguines. By Saskia Murk-Jansen. I got half way through it and got so bored i wanted to kill myself. So i read Alton Locke by Charles Kingsley. A better read about social injustice in England.

[dsilva]

Betty and Veronica. Double Digest.
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[Labud]

Dobrica Cosic - Sinner (Грешник)
Not bad, but The Time of Death (from the same writer) is much better.

[Ria]

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The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago

Not a traditional view of the life of Jesus. So far very good.


Now making its US debut, a novel from noted Portuguese writer Saramago (The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, 1990) that—despite its provocative conclusions and sometimes irreverent tone—is a profoundly different but no less significant life of Christ. Here, the Christian story is told from the point of view of Jesus, a young man very much of his time and place in spite of his great destiny. And it is this emphasis on Jesus's appreciation for the ordinary joys and virtues of human life—****** love, family, nature, friendship, honor—that make the conflict between the desires of God, here indeed His father, and what He himself perceives to be earthly virtues, so tragic. All the familiar stories—the Annunciation, the Slaughter of the Innocents, the Miracles, and the Crucifixion—are related with a nod to postmodern sensibilities, but they're secondary to Saramago's main purpose—to suggest that Jesus had to live and die as much for the benefit of God as for the Devil, both of whom appear in person. Saramago's God, who resembles a successful CEO, wants to use Jesus and the church He will found to expand His dominions; and when Jesus wants to know, "How much death and suffering Your victory over other gods will cause?" God answers with a long list of martyrs, wars of faith, and institutions like the Inquisition. Even the Devil, an ambivalent figure who often intervenes positively in Jesus's life, is moved to repentance, but God rejects his offer: "Because I cannot exist without the evil you represent. Unless the Devil is the Devil, God cannot be God." Jesus goes on to His destiny, but with a caveat: in the hope of averting the bloodshed implicit inthe founding of Christianity, he asks to be crucified as King of the Jews, not as the Son of God. Fiction that engages the mind as much as the spirit as, in eloquently supple prose, it seeks to understand faith.

[Guggenmauer]

Donald Duck

[AgentX]

Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure.

[IDF_TANKER]

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The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago

Not a traditional view of the life of Jesus. So far very good.

I didn't like it. The other book of him, Memorial do Convento, I liked a bit more, but not too much.

[Ivan le Fou]

J.R.R. Tolkien Lord of the Ring, for the third time.


Along with L'assomoir E. Zola.

[Danik]

The Road to Kosovo: A Balkan Diary (http://www.amazon.com/Road-Kosovo-Balkan-Diary/dp/0813337674/ref=sr_1_1/103-1030473-9351056?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1183846612&sr=8-1) by Greg Campbell

[Kingswat]

The Ghosts of Medak Pocket by Carol Off.

[STEC06]

Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy... first fiction I've read in a long, long time.

Previous book was Bill Gertz' Treachery, which was okay. Nothing stellar. Damn journalists never cite anything and he makes so many accusations in that book...

[Pidyon Shevuyim]

The Gothic Line, Canada’s Month of Hell in World War II Italy by Mark Zuehlke

Canada’s best popular military historian resumes his epic chronicle of Canada’s seminal battles of World War II.
Stretching like an armour-toothed belt across Italy’s upper thigh, the Gothic Line was the most fortified and fiercely defended position the German army had yet thrown in the path of the advancing Allied forces. On August 25, 1944, it fell to I Canadian Corps to spearhead the famed Eighth Army’s major offensive, intended to rip through the Gothic Line.

Never had the Germans in Italy brought so much artillery to bear or deployed such a great number of tanks. For twenty-eight days, the battle raged as the Canadians, with British and Polish troops advancing on their flanks, slugged into the German defences. On September 22 the Canadians finally won, opening the way for the next phase of the Allied advance. The price was high—the greatest toll in casualties suffered during the long years of the Italian campaign.

The Gothic Line: Canada’s Month of Hell in World War II Italy brings the story of what renowned military historian Jack Granatstein hails as Canada’s most momentous World War II battle to vivid life by telling the story through the eyes of the soldiers. It is a suspenseful, dramatic book that gives back to Canadians a forgotten and neglected part of their historical heritage.

[Redguy]

The select writings/speeches of Ho Chi Minh.
and "The other side of the mountian" by Ali Ahmad Jalali

[Rictor]

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All-round excellent reading..

[American Patriot]

im reading the federalist papers

[Octavian]

"A History of the Middle East"

[SaberWolf]

"Mad Dogs" by James Grady.

I've never read anything by him before. I try to stay loyal to a few particular authors but was desperate for something to read. Nelson DeMille called it a winer and I highly recommend all of his books.

[kamarian]

Just finished "A Snipers Journey. The truth about the man behind the rifle." by Gary D. Mitchell with Michael Hirch. Good read with a section in the back about PTSD.

[GoSka37]

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Great book so far. I think it's the only natural science book you'd ever need to read.

My mom has that. She loves it. I'll probably read that next.

[MetroN]

Read 1500 pages in the holiday. Without Remorse, The Da Vinci Code (not that good) and a norwegian book.

Right now I've started on The Teeth of the Tiger by Tom Clancy

[Lancero]

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The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago

Not a traditional view of the life of Jesus. So far very good.


I didn't like it. The other book of him, Memorial do Convento, I liked a bit more, but not too much.

I didn't like any of his books. It has to do with is non-convential use of ponctuation - quite confusing.
There's not a middle term for him, either you like him or you don't.
And, looking at Saramago as a person and politic activist, I have nothing but despise towards him.

Re-reading:

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[Ria]

I didn't like any of his books. It has to do with is non-convential use of ponctuation - quite confusing.
There's not a middle term for him, either you like him or you don't.
And, looking at Saramago as a person and politic activist, I have nothing but despise towards him.

Re-reading:

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Hehe, I haven't talked to any Portuguese who really like him. I admit I kind of fell in love with him at first (book) sight because I was so surprised to see a Portuguese author who has such fame, besides Pessoa. It made me very proud. I adore his punctuation, or lack thereof. His humor is not hard to catch, but it's not loud either, and never fails to make me laugh. His way of expressing everything is beautiful and smart. As far as his political views, I don't know too much about him...all I know is that he is part of the Portuguese Communist Party, and that has no affect on how I view his writings.
Sometimes his messages are confusing, but I like it that way because it makes you think, and they are enjoyable to discuss with others.

Beijinhos Lancero:hug:

[steelfury]

Red coats and rebels...vey cool book that shows both sides of the American revolution..a must! How large parts of the colonies and the british public were torn about the war.

[Lancero]

Hehe, I haven't talked to any Portuguese who really like him. I admit I kind of fell in love with him at first (book) sight because I was so surprised to see a Portuguese author who has such fame, besides Pessoa. It made me very proud. I adore his punctuation, or lack thereof. His humor is not hard to catch, but it's not loud either, and never fails to make me laugh. His way of expressing everything is beautiful and smart. As far as his political views, I don't know too much about him...all I know is that he is part of the Portuguese Communist Party, and that has no affect on how I view his writings.
Sometimes his messages are confusing, but I like it that way because it makes you think, and they are enjoyable to discuss with others.

Beijinhos Lancero:hug:

Fair enough:)

Let me recomend you some contemporary portuguese authors:

António Lobo Antunes (very complex but just awesome, he was a communist to :))

Eduardo Lourenço

Francisco José Viegas

Agustina Bessa-Luis

Um abraço Ria:hug:

[gaijinsamurai]

1776, by David McCullough.

[STIG]

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[gaijinsamurai]

STIG, If you like "Musashi", I strongly recommend Eiji Yoshikawa's "Taiko", about the rise of Toyotomi Hideoshi, who came from humble beginnings to arguably the greatest Samurai leader of Japanese history.

[Octavian]

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Looked into that, seems like a very interesting book. How do you like it?

Thanks for sharing.

- Derek

[STIG]

STIG, If you like "Musashi", I strongly recommend Eiji Yoshikawa's "Taiko", about the rise of Toyotomi Hideoshi, who came from humble beginnings to arguably the greatest Samurai leader of Japanese history.

Thanks for the recommendation gaijinsamurai, will definitely look into it once I am done reading Musashi.

[STIG]

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[Ria]

Fair enough:)

Let me recomend you some contemporary portuguese authors:

António Lobo Antunes (very complex but just awesome, he was a communist to :))

Eduardo Lourenço

Francisco José Viegas

Agustina Bessa-Luis

Um abraço Ria:hug:

:D Muito obrigada, irmão! I found a lot on Antunes, and I am excited to see if the bookstore will have him. Unfortunately, the other searches weren't as popular...maybe I can order them online (in English) somewhere.

[Straker]

The Last Legion by Valerio Massimo Manfredi (The English translation) bought it cheap from a charity shop, not normally my thing but very engrossing.

The language in parts suffers from the translation a little, bits seem very long winded but I'm guessing the phraseology doesn't quite get carried through. However, it's still very good.

The film casting I just found on wikipedia does look very strange though, the actress for Livia and actor for Aurelius are nothing like I imagined.

[LibertyUnites]

the brothers karamazov by dostoyevsky...

for the last 6 months

before that i blew through "storm on the horizon" about the battle of khafji.

[Lancero]

Looked into that, seems like a very interesting book. How do you like it?



One of the few books refering to the portuguese war in africa 1961-1974 made by a foreigner. Balanced and acurate.

[gaijinsamurai]

Do you like "Snow Country", STIG? Personally, I found it to be a bit tedious. I did, however, visit the town where the story is set on a couple of occasions for hiking (in the spring) and onsen (in the winter). It's called Echigo-Yazawa, in Niigata Prefecture.

[Formby]

The "middle Sea: history of the Mediterranean.by John Julius Norwich.

a great read

[Toddy1]

"The Originals - The Secret History of the Birth of the British SAS" by Gordon Stevens

[Johnny_H02]

Just finished "The Spanish Civil War" by Antony Beevor which I really enjoyed.

Currently making my way through Robert E Howards Conan series of tales. Good stuff for the 1930's, lots of nudity and violence.

Conan books are quite good, I have the three volumes that are published by Del-Ray/Ballantine books, and they are really awesome so far.

[grenadier07]

Going back and forth between "The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors" by James Hornfischer and "Castles of Steel" by Robert K. Massie. Those destroyer guys had some serious guts to charge against the bulk of the Japanese surface force.

[Fee Fi Fo Fum]

Anybody read Born Survivor by Bear Grylls?

Thinking of getting it.

[gaz]

http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/5651/watchmenyl9.jpg

Alan Moore's Watchmen

[phasio]

i just ordered "Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing..." i hope it is a good book !

[LoboCanada]

A Company of Heros- Mike Durant

Best book, I love it so far.

[Formby]

just finished "storm of steel" by Ernst Junger

a good insight into the lives of the german soldier in world war 1

[Hellfish]

http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/Images/stories/2007/mar/hpdhcover.jpg

[Nugget]

just finished reading Hp and the deathly hallows ... i gota say that she is a master at story telling ... well written.

*awaits to be flamed*

[gaijinsamurai]

Imperial Grunts, by Robert Kaplan.
I actually bought the book a few months ago, but was waiting to finish a few others first.

[grimupnorth]

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[Dispatcher]

just finished reading Hp and the deathly hallows ... i gota say that she is a master at story telling ... well written.

*awaits to be flamed*


Finished it in one read. I liked it!

[spx]

Makeing a Killing the Explosive Story of a hired Gun in Iraq
by Captain James Ashcroft

[sucker4gurls]

I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max

[Delta82]

Makeing a Killing the Explosive Story of a hired Gun in Iraq
by Captain James Ashcroft

Is it a good book?

[scrybe]

Zombie Survival Guide, The Finishing School, and about 3 text books... well I should be reading the text books.

[Toddy1]

Get Rommel: The British Plot to Kill Hitler's Greatest General by Michael Asher

[Ria]

http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/11890000/11890368.gif

Just finished Devil's Teeth by Susan Casey. I liked it a lot, especially the beginning and middle when there's a lot of information about the sharks, birds, and the Farallones, but it kind of falters near the end.


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Just started reading Alentejo Blue, about a village in Portugal. So far it's really depressing and strange, and not in a good way...Hopefully it gets better. There's something strange about her writing, too. It gets confusing sometimes because it's like she hasn't finished the sentence or thought. She likes being vague. If it doesn't get any better, then at least it's a pretty short book.

[AmericanKaliber]

Im reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

[American Patriot]

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Written and Illustrated by Howard Pyle

[Dupontfan24]

Well, I'm actually reading two books right now.

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[Blackburn]

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quite good

[Ivan1]

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This title features three people, three stories, and a desperate race for survival in a country in the midst of war. Nick Scott fought in the SAS during the first Gulf War. Captured and tortured, he was left a broken man. His daughter Sarah Scott is a beautiful young scientist who has cracked one of the scientific secrets of the age. Now, she has vanished. Her lover Jed Bradley is one of the SAS's toughest young agents, dropped behind enemy lines in the build up to the Iraq War to find the truth about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. Caught up in a global power play, Nick and Jed must fight their way through a war-ravaged Iraq as the regime of Saddam Hussein collapses around them. It is a desperate race to find the woman they both love and to unlock the secret of the Ultimate Weapon.

[SBL]

^Sounds like a real potboiler.p-)

[spx]

yeah delta82 it was just got done reading it one of the best on PS stuff very informative
now i am reading Ultimate Risk: SAS Contact Al Qaeda (http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Risk-SAS-Contact-Qaeda/dp/0330413155/ref=sr_1_1/105-1913176-6240409?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1185679914&sr=1-1) by Mark Nicol

[grenadier07]

Just got "Where Valor Rests" about Arlington Cemetary put out by National Geographic. Beautiful book. This is on my list of places to see.

[Anthony91]

Mass Effect: Revelation (Drew Karpyshyn)

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[Hellfish]

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Actually a really, really good book. I highly recommend it.


Over a span of roughly twenty years, Joshua learns a great deal about human nature, and how he is able to translate that into his teachings. At each point, Joshua surpasses the Wise Men and their philosophy by incorporating his own beliefs into theirs. The story takes a fantastical twist on Joshua's miracles as well: he learns to multiply food from one of the Wise Men and learns to become invisible from another; however, his ability to resurrect the dead figures strongly into his first meeting with Biff when both boys are six years old. Biff, for himself, is sarcastic, practical and endlessly loyal; it is eventually revealed that he was cut out of the Gospels because everyone thought him a total asshole.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb:_The_Gospel_According_to_Biff,_Christ's_Childhood_Pal

[scrybe]

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Managerial Economics, 8th Edition. Christopher Thompson.



:(

[Laworkerbee]

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[Ravage]

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I have waited a long time for this book woot

[scrybe]

Sa-weet. Let me know how it is.

[orange]

I'm currently reading a book called "Brethren" written by Robyn Young but the next project is "Wolf of the plains" by Conn Igulden and the perhaps a reread of "Band of Brothers" by Stephen E. Ambrose.

[Ravage]

Sa-weet. Let me know how it is.

WORTH IT ! ! !

[Ria]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/23/Cover_lamb_christophermoore.jpg

Actually a really, really good book. I highly recommend it.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb:_The_Gospel_According_to_Biff,_Christ's_Childhood_Pal

I really like him. I read Fluke a while ago, it was great. I kept seeing that one in stores but never got it....it'll be the next book I buy.

[STIG]

Do you like "Snow Country", STIG? Personally, I found it to be a bit tedious. I did, however, visit the town where the story is set on a couple of occasions for hiking (in the spring) and onsen (in the winter). It's called Echigo-Yazawa, in Niigata Prefecture.

Sorry for the late reply. I liked it, atleast what I read of it, but like you said it is a bit tedious. I'm going to finish the rest of it some other time. At the moment I am reading

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and

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[Hellfish]

I bought After Dark and read the first chapter. I then ended up giving it away as an emergency birthday present to a friend of mine. I gotta go rebuy it.

How was Snakes and Earrings?

[STIG]

I bought After Dark and read the first chapter. I then ended up giving it away as an emergency birthday present to a friend of mine. I gotta go rebuy it.

How was Snakes and Earrings?

Its a good read. About an hours worth. However I wouldn't put it on the top of the "to read" list. If you want to read something along the same lines I would recommend Almost Transparent Blue by Murakami Ryu.

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[STIG]

. .

[Ria]

For some reason I lost the previous book I was reading....oh well, it sucked anyways.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows now.

[Seraphim]

Im buying Lone Survivor, I need another book to get aswell. Has anyone read No True Glory? Any suggestions?

[zonk]

rand mcnally road map...got to plan my escape to virginia

[spx]

Im buying Lone Survivor, I need another book to get aswell. Has anyone read No True Glory? Any suggestions?

Great book if you like that one look for the
The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the United States Marines

[Ratamacue]

Has anyone read No True Glory? Any suggestions?Excellent book. Tells the entire tale of Fallujah from the invasion until the post-Phantom Fury period. Has a great mix of the politics, greater strategic situation, tactics, and grunt-level stories all mixed together.

After you read it, I'd also suggest We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder With the Marines Who Took Fallujah by Patrick K. O'Donnell, which is a book told purely from the perspective of the Marines of 1st Platoon, Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines before Operation Phantom Fury and through the battle. Really shows just how brutal and destructive urban warfare is, even in a "low-intensity" conflict like Iraq.

[Jorge M.]

After you read it, I'd also suggest We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder With the Marines Who Took Fallujah by Patrick K. O'Donnell, which is a book told purely from the perspective of the Marines of 1st Platoon, Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines before Operation Phantom Fury and through the battle. Really shows just how brutal and destructive urban warfare is, even in a "low-intensity" conflict like Iraq.

hmmm I really enjoyed No True Glory, I might get that We were one book...

[Son of Damian]

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This is the tenth and final book in the series can't wait to see how it ends

[marek]

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Great one, I love it!

[Snoshi]

Anthony Beevor- Battle for Spain

[grabie_bis]

^^^^^ keeping on the previous topic...

"A Spanish Civil War chronicle no one will like" by Eslava Galan.

[Hellfish]

^^^^^ keeping on the previous topic...

"A Spanish Civil War chronicle no one will like" by Eslava Galan.

Out of curiosity, what do the Spanish people think of the Spanish Civil War? Are most of them happy the Nationalists won and Franco stayed in power for so long? It seems to me that Spain post-Franco has a lot more in common with Republican Spain than it does with Nationalist Spain.

[TheKiwi]

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This is the tenth and final book in the series can't wait to see how it ends

Whew, glad that's the final one. I used to quite like Turtledove, but this series has started to suck. I don't think he's all that keen on it anymore, his mind must be elsewhere (or elsewhen in his case). Will buy it and read it just to see how it ends.

Meanwhile, re-reading the Cryptomnicon by Neal Stephenson which is a very good read. Just got to the bit where "showered with pig excrement to improve shareholder return".

[scrybe]

Out of curiosity, what do the Spanish people think of the Spanish Civil War? Are most of them happy the Nationalists won and Franco stayed in power for so long? It seems to me that Spain post-Franco has a lot more in common with Republican Spain than it does with Nationalist Spain.

The war itself was really bad. A lot of people died in the fighting, often pitting brothers against brothers. Many cities were nearly demolished, specially with the addition of heavy equipment from Franco-allies like Italy. There's a really famous poem about the aerial bombing of Madrid. Search for the line "Venid y ver la sangre por las calles." Also, similar to what you read about areas transitioning into communism, people were pulled from there homes and killed or never seen again simply because someone accused them of being against the Nationalist party.

The Spaniards were very oppressed under Franco. From my experience, anyone with any notion of human rights or an appreciation for free speech hated the period under Franco. His reign completely changed the social dynamic of Spain. Even now, Spain is recovering from his control. One example is the birth rate in Spain. Right now, Spain has zero population growth. Under Franco's control, large families were encouraged. Families were given large tax write-offs (maybe even government support) for the number of children they had. Now, those that were raised in very large families are choosing to have only one or two children each. A zero growth rate isn't necessarily a bad thing, but an effect of his control nonetheless.

Everywhere I went I would see graffiti with slogans like "Anti-Facismo" and crossed out swastikas.

There is a WHOLE lot more too it. Those are just some of the things that pop into my mind in between Managerial Economics and Operations Management homework.

[American Patriot]

franklin the essential founding father James Srodes

[tomonator]

This is a pretty interesting book

[Fade]

A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking.

Interesting.

[STIG]

A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking.

Interesting.

A very good book. If you liked that one, I would recommend "THE UNIVERSE IN A NUTSHELL" by Stephen Hawking.


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5 Stars.

[Fade]

A very good book. If you liked that one, I would recommend "THE UNIVERSE IN A NUTSHELL" by Stephen Hawking.


I'll look for it, thanks :)

[Andreas]

http://www.freakonomics.com/images/cover.jpg

Very interesting and surprising at the same time.
Found it incredibly hard to put the book down when I started it last night.
A very good canidate for reading the whole book in one go.

- Did you know teachers and sumowrestlers both cheat?
- Guess what realy caused the drop in crime in the 90`s?

[grabie_bis]

Out of curiosity, what do the Spanish people think of the Spanish Civil War? Are most of them happy the Nationalists won and Franco stayed in power for so long? It seems to me that Spain post-Franco has a lot more in common with Republican Spain than it does with Nationalist Spain.

IMHO the war was between those loyal to the Government (republicans), those unhappy with the way the gvmt was handling the situation (riots, violence against the Church, supression of Nation simbols, discrimination of the Army, ...) and a bunch of communists and anarchists promoting the mentioned actions (who even fought the gvmt forces).

II Republica had good ideas for the country but failed putting them into practice...

I think we ALL are grateful the third part didnt got over any of the others...

[khukuri]

http://www.garretwilson.com/books/peaceendallpeace.jpg

A Peace to End All Peace
by David Fromkin
New York: Henry Hold and Company, 1989
ISBN 0-8050-6884-8

Review Copyright © 2002 Garret Wilson

8 August 2002 8:43am


Most contemporary discussions on the Middle East ignore how the current system of states there were formed. Modern debates often assume that the particular borders we see now—Iraq, Syria, Jordan, etc.—always existed in the arrangement we see now, with similar political structures. As David Fromkin points out in A Peace to End All Peace, such an assumption is displaced from reality. The system of states as we know it in the Middle East (a term only invented in 1902) (224), was crafted by Europeans around 1922 as a way to grab new expansions to their empire, to carve up the fallen Ottoman Empire and establish influence as they had done with other countries after previous wars.

[khukuri]

Andreas, Im gonna read that book right after this one.

[Andreas]

Andreas, Im gonna read that book right after this one.

You do that, its quickly climbing onto my top 5 list of good books.

I think I read to much fiction now that I think about.. "Freakonomics" is very suitable for changing gears from what I usually read.

I have another Economics book somewhat of the same caliber lined up, will keep you posted on how that turnes out..

[STEC06]

- Guess what realy caused the drop in crime in the 90`s?

This was Levitt's abortion argument, right?

I think he has since come forth and said it was a little faulty.

Here's an article from the WSJ about it: http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB113314261192407815-HLjarwtM95Erz45QPP0pDWul8rc_20061127.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top

I'm reading the Starfish and the Spider right now. It's okay. Rainbow Six was a complete let-down.

[gaz]

DC Confidential : The controversial memoirs of Britain's Ambassador to the US at the time of 9/11 and the Iraq War by Christopher Meyer.

[D-gin]

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/7128/0000kz0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)


Always a nice read.

[STIG]

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Good read.

[Hellfish]

I love Murakami. He makes the world make more sense to me.

[lightfire]

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51cSpCvq4bL._AA240_.jpg

So far, "A year in the Merde" seems to be better.

[GoSka37]

I'll admit it

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

[Mr.Vegas]

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Just started. Its pretty good so far. And Ludlum is a great author.

[STIG]

http://www.flavinscorner.com/rawquantum.jpg

5 Stars.

[Roldwin]

I'm reading again "The struggle for Europe", from Chester Wilmot. A MUST

[MEGR]

Just finished "Lone Survivor." Great read for anyone interested.

[GeraldDuval]

http://test.sthughs.ox.ac.uk/assets/Image/Course_images/dante.jpg

Dante's Commedia

as long as one has a good companion book to explain all the obscure stuff, it's an excellent read.

[STIG]

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[Pidyon Shevuyim]

Im currently reading Fundamentals of Astrodynamic and Applications, 3rd edition by David A. Vallado.

Im also reading Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer of Turbomachinery by Budugur lakshminarayana.

[grabie_bis]

Today im starting (for 2nd time) "The 10,000 Army", recent version of "Anabasis" by Jenofonte.

Great book!!

[capixaba]

Khartoum, by Michael Asher (Penguin History)
Detailed account of the Nile/Sudan campaigns 1883 - 1898. Very good account of the relief expedition and fall of Khartoum (and the politics that brought it about) and the later campaign to retake Sudan and the eventual defeat for the Mhadist army.
It's very well researched and detailed, but at the same time very readable.....the conditions and battle descriptions are graphically described.
Made all the more intense, knowing my Great Grandfather was there as a young lad (1st Gordons) in the front of the square at El-Teb and Tamaai facing the dervish hordes!

[D-gin]

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I picked up a copy today, Never heard of it before but it looked like it might be an interesting read.



Anyone know much about the author?

[Roy Batty]

The Other Side Of The Mountain :Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0JIW/is_3_56/ai_105210231

Informative so far.

[oswald]

Tobruk by Peter Fitzsimons

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[Ratamacue]

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/7771/51qjnfpe0lss500zt6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Hellfish]

http://www.freakonomics.com/images/cover.jpg

Interesting book.

Also,

http://images.google.com/url?q=http://www.thecollapsing.net/bestof2006/blindness.gif&usg=AFQjCNHa1Sz625n-BecZ_4lYFFuLBgyh9w

Pretty good so far. I like it better than All The Names.

[boone]

..............................

[LaoSexMachine]

Today's daily report.

[boone]

thx..........

[oswald]

..............................I read that. Didn't understand the plot.

[boone]

It sounds all turbine-y. Right up an old Steamfitter/Pipefitter's alley.

[Ria]

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Pretty good so far. I like it better than All The Names.

It is much better than All the Names. My favorite Saramago.

[Victor_S.]

I am not actually reading this, but a friend of mine is reading I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell. From what he tells me it would be right up the ally of a lot of people here.

[grenadier07]

Rereading two books that I read on deployment. Finished Starship Troopers Saturday and started Vortex by Larry Bond on Monday.

[Hellfish]

Rereading two books that I read on deployment. Finished Starship Troopers Saturday and started Vortex by Larry Bond on Monday.

Two of my favorite old books.

[grenadier07]

Yeah these two are right up there for me as well. After I finish Vortex I'll start on Red Phoenix by Bond, and then a book on the Battle of Kursk.

[IanSolo]

This one:

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n16/n81961.jpg


I just started to read it and it's a very good read; Manfredi is really an expert about the history and all the stuff about the 'classic age' , so reading his stories his like to see a documentary on history channel...but with more and more adventure!!!

It has been just released a movie from this book, with the same title.

[scottyboy]

At the moment im reading...

"A Day of Battle" by David Ascoli

About the Battle of Mars-La-Tour 16th August 1870 during the Franco Prussian war.

[SBL]

Understanding Regime Dynamics in North Korea By Chung-in Moon.

Not as dry as you might think.

-edit-

I forgot to mention yesterday that it's a few years old...1998. Still mostly relevent, though.

[PrinzEugen]

Stalingrad. Kessel und Gefangenschaft
By Horst Zank

http://www.amazon.com/Stalingrad-Kessel-Gefangenschaft-Horst-Zank/dp/3813207234/ref=sr_1_1/002-4867322-0653631?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188471384&sr=8-1

[Rictor]

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41GKRQ0ZS4L.jpg

Russian literature is teh roxxors.

[AmericanKaliber]

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Really good book.

[Nugget]

._. ........ how is it a good book?

[gaz]

There and back again : An actor's tale - A behind the scenes look at the Lord Of The Rings by Sean Astin.

It may as well be called My great big whine-fest and a small amount of stuff about Lord Of The Rings by Sean Astin.

[kawaiku]

Just started reading George Orwell's 1984 for my english class. Heard it was a good book that somewhat parallels today. And if anybody has already read it, is there anything I should be aware of?

[DoubleEagle]

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Really good book.
hahaahahah very funny
oh i am not reading any thing woot

[grenadier07]

Added another book to my stack yesterday. Bang Your Head: The Rise and Fall of Heavy Metal by David Konow.

[javar22]

Just started reading George Orwell's 1984 for my english class. Heard it was a good book that somewhat parallels today. And if anybody has already read it, is there anything I should be aware of?


yes there is, but i don't want to influence. It's a very good read.
However a suggestion: also read "Brave new world", Aldous Huxley. You'll understand why.

[[DVDF]Merlin]

Good book!Fantastic Book just finished reading it.In my opinion should be required reading for all.

[ABNINF]

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Really good book.


I got through about 10 pages and got tired of hearing him bitch about how much life sucked in Austria as a kid

I'm reading Roughneck 91 right now.

[Hutz]

I got through about 10 pages and got tired of hearing him bitch about how much life sucked in Austria as a kid

I'm reading Roughneck 91 right now.

I couldn't get past one page of Mein. It makes no sense. Is Roughneck any good? Just ordered it yesterday.

I'm reading 1066 about Hastings. Pretty good so far, not too dry.
http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/1066-Frank-Mclynn/9780712666725-item.html?ref=Search+Books%3a+'0712666729'&sterm=0712666729+-+Books

[AmericanKaliber]

._. ........ how is it a good book?

Its great oratoriclly.

[AmericanKaliber]

I got through about 10 pages and got tired of hearing him bitch about how much life sucked in Austria as a kid

I'm reading Roughneck 91 right now.

Yeah iv barly gotten into it...im on the part where he talking about when he got rejected from Art acadamy.

then he started whining about Marxism and Jewry.:bash: "Bad Hitler BAD!"

[I Love GWB]

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Really good book.

Really???? In Germany it's forbidden to own this book

[STIG]

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[Rekka]

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[ltrowley]

My latest traffic infrigement! The accuracy and attention to detail is stunning!

[ZhukovG]

Now Im reading
Lots of very interesting history and facts

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[Fade]

Splendid.
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[Hecatonchiros]

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[AgentX]

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[ABNINF]

I couldn't get past one page of Mein. It makes no sense. Is Roughneck any good? Just ordered it yesterday.

Roughneck was pretty good. I almost put it down after reading the introduction though. One of his statements, when talking about the armor engagement near Dibeka, was something to the effect of, "Any normal infantry unit would have cut and run against a force like that." Came across as pompous. But I read a little further and just realized that he was trying to get the reader to start anticipating the highpoint of the book. Over all, it was a good book, and has alot of good "lessons learned" in it as well as good and bad examples of leadership. It's worth reading.

[Beowulf]

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41HH6T7Y38L._.jpg

meh, a bit overrated in my opinion. Laughter in the Dark is a really good Nabokov novel.

Edit: I'm reading Daywatch right now. It's good to take a break and read something a little more entertaining.

[Pidyon Shevuyim]

Modern Quantum Mechanics by J. J. Sakurai.

[Lifeinasmallbox]

"I hope they serve beer in hell" - Tucker Max

HIGHLY HIGHLY Recommended...pretty much the guys college days and F'ed up stories...my fav chapter is Blowjobs gone wrong...

[AgentX]

meh, a bit overrated in my opinion. Laughter in the Dark is a really good Nabokov novel.
Overrated - yes, but a literary insight into the mind of a hopeless lover, his love, lust and passion for a girl, endless manipulations, betrayal/freedom, and an unsuccessful attempt at redemption of the self.

Overrated still, and partly because of its exploration and exploitation of readers' own guilty pleasure. It never gets old.

[boone]

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It gets kind of repetetive in parts, but some cool stories. Especially some of D.O.A.'s European tours.

[SkyUS]

Just finished reading The Utopia by Thomas More and Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prnce. Loved both of them.

[scuba]

John Sandford - Hidden Prey

[Clegg]

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"A poor family's home only takes five minutes to wreck" by Pernilla Ahlsén.

[chassem]

Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West

[SBL]

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STIG, have you ever read any of Mishima's work? That guy was seriously disturbed, but he had a way with words. Some of the most visceral prose I think I've ever read.

[BadKarma26]

Excerpt from "Blood makes the grass grow green":

Sergeant Riley turns to the easel and starts writing this down and then pauses. “How do you spell coalition?” I’m about to tell him when he realizes the marker doesn’t work. He throws the marker down and says, “**** it, well, you know its just what I told you. So were going to do a vehicle checkpoint, were going to stop all vehicles on the road, and we’re going to tactically interrogate them in a professional ****ing manner to see if they’re Taliban. Key word being ****ing professional. Any ****ing questions?”
Ryan raises his hand. “How do I get out of this chicken**** outfit?”
Sergeant Riley points at the ground as a few soldiers murmur quick morning laughs.
Ryan sighs and starts doing pushups.
“Anyone else?” Sergeant Riley asks.
Marciano asks, “Where are we doing this?”
Sergeant Riley reaches down, picks up his marker, and taps it on the easel a few times to get the ink flowing. Then he starts to draw a map on the easel board. “Well, we don’t have any maps of the area, but they say that like, if this is Cougar Base, then we go out south, and there’s a road that’s pretty well traveled, like somewhere, like if this is, if this circle is Dallas, and this circle is Denver, then its like over here, behind this hill.” Sergeant Riley pauses and realizes his map makes no sense and throws the marker back down. “Well, we find a ****ing road and stop some mother****ers, okay?”
“Jesus, we don’t even have any maps?” Marciano asks me.
I shrug, not knowing what to say.



Pretty damn good book. Very humorous.

[that_one_guy]

anyone here read Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green by Jonny Rico?

and i'm currently reading I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell by Tucker Max. ****ing hillarious.

an excerpt:

But it was El Bingeroso who stole the show. He grew up in a very small town in Nebraska, with about 700 people, one Dairy Queen and one gas station. He remembered his father making his brother and him run timed 100-meter races against each other. At age 6. When he got to elementary school he was fat and would constantly eat paste, so the teachers just assumed he was retarded and put him in the Special Ed class. He was in the Special Education program until age 8 when they finally gave him an IQ test, realized he was a genius, and moved him to the gifted class. He was actually upset about leaving the sped class, because he liked the coloring and frequent snack times. He also told us about the time he and his brother, then aged 9 and 11, watched from the locked car while their dad beat up a mugger, nearly killing him by repeatedly smashing his head into the hood and fender, spraying blood all over the car [I have subsequently met El Bingeroso's father, and believe me--he is not a man to cross. I have a healthy and robust fear of him].

[Ria]

Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales by Stephen King

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I enjoy short stories sometimes, and these are not too bad, but it's not really up to par with King's other stuff. I really liked The Man in the Black Suit and Everything's Eventual, though. I wish he could have made an entire book off of Everything's Eventual...that was really neat, but the ending felt almost abrupt and a let down...but I'm just complaining because I wanted more.

It's pretty good though; the spectrum of stories is interesting. So far I've skipped two because I had no interest in the kind of story it was, but I don't mind. There are others that appeal to me. I'm looking forward to reading 1408.

[muttbutt]

The Elephant and the Dragon (the rise of India and China and their impact on the World)

Just finished Artemis Fowl and the lost colony....yes I know

starting Terry Prachett's Nightwatch...love the discworld books:oops:

[grenadier07]

Rereading Death Ground by Daniel Bolger.

[ZhukovG]

Just finished reading The Utopia by Thomas More and Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prnce. Loved both of them.

Prince is pretty good!!!
woot

[Dupontfan24]

I'm almost done reading "You Can Run But You Can't Hide" by Duane "Dog" Chapman (aka. Dog The Bounty Hunter)

It's actually quite a good book, as it chronicles the many hardships he's had to endure to get where he is now. It also talks about his deep connection with the Lord and how that has helped him throughout his life.

Up next for me is "Lone Survivor" by Marcus Luttrell, and "Band Of Brothers" by Stephen E. Ambrose.

[Benny]

Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales by Stephen King

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I enjoy short stories sometimes, and these are not too bad, but it's not really up to par with King's other stuff. I really liked The Man in the Black Suit and Everything's Eventual, though. I wish he could have made an entire book off of Everything's Eventual...that was really neat, but the ending felt almost abrupt and a let down...but I'm just complaining because I wanted more.

It's pretty good though; the spectrum of stories is interesting. So far I've skipped two because I had no interest in the kind of story it was, but I don't mind. There are others that appeal to me. I'm looking forward to reading 1408.


Read it two years ago and just remembered I gave it to a friend to read and she forgot to return it! Damn!

Benny

[Ria]

Meh. That's probably the worst Stephen King book I've read. Some of the stories were good but overall it wasn't that great and I wasn't disappointed to finish it.


Just started:

Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
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The fashion-model protagonist of Invisible Monsters has just about everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But one day she's driving along the freeway when a sudden "accident" leaves her with half her face, no ability to speak, and next to no self-esteem. From being the beautiful center of attention she becomes an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists. Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from becoming a real woman; Brandy will teach her that reinventing yourself means erasing the past and making up something better. And that salvation hides in the last places you'll ever want to look.
In this hilarious and daringly unpredictable novel, the narrator must exact revenge upon Evie, her best friend and fellow model; kidnap M****, her two-timing ex-boyfriend; and hit the road with Brandy in search of a brand-new past, present, and future. Changing names and stories in every city, they catapult toward a final confrontation with a rifle-toting Evie-by which time the narrator will have learned that loving and being loved are not mutually exclusive, and that nothing, on the surface, is ever quite what it seems.

[mr.joe]

Freely translated from swedish: German Diary 1945-46, Notes of a soviet officer By Vladimir Gelfand

In swedish: http://ersatz.se/bok_gelfand.htm

[schwarz]

Dep Pqs.:|