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Goblin -> RE: Book you're reading now... (4/19/2008 5:22:30 PM)

Duplicate post - sorry.


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Belphegor -> RE: Book you're reading now... (4/19/2008 5:58:07 PM)

US Navy Against the Axis: Surface Combat 1941-1945 by O'Hara

First description I've ever read about the naval action at Casablanca



ilovestrategy -> RE: Book you're reading now... (4/20/2008 3:53:46 AM)

John Grisham's "The Chamber"

I've always loved his books.



thegreatwent -> RE: Book you're reading now... (4/20/2008 7:02:22 AM)

Bloody Shambles Volume 2 by Shores, Cull and Izawa.

Additionally I just picked up Japanese Destroyer Captain by Tameichi Hara.



terje439 -> RE: Book you're reading now... (4/20/2008 8:32:05 AM)

Sir Basil Lidell Hart's "history of the second world war".



z1812 -> RE: Book you're reading now... (4/20/2008 4:31:53 PM)

Hi All,

Barry Lyndon by W.M. Thackery

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig

My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk

Regards John



sabre1 -> RE: Book you're reading now... (4/20/2008 7:17:51 PM)

Terje439, that is/was a great book.  I love the way Hart explains things.



Arctic Blast -> RE: Book you're reading now... (4/21/2008 2:50:30 AM)

Just finished The One Percent Doctrine by Ron Suskind. Next up...The Blueprint by Christopher Price.



robpost3 -> RE: Book you're reading now... (4/21/2008 4:49:06 AM)

The Black Company goes South-Glen Cook
The Vegetable Gardner's Bible-various
2008 edition Journeyman's electrician...
Slate and flag stones for structure, aesthetics and preventing foundation run off...
The Daily Comics...the news papers best thermometer on current events...[;)]





robpost3 -> RE: Book you're reading now... (4/21/2008 4:51:39 AM)

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
[8D]must read...
may I suggest also Benjiman Hoff: The Dao of Pooh and follow with the Tae of Piglet...
great reads both...



terje439 -> RE: Book you're reading now... (4/21/2008 5:33:07 PM)


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ORIGINAL: sabre1

Terje439, that is/was a great book.  I love the way Hart explains things.


Yea, and I also like the fact that he got to interview german officers. Kinda makes me believe what he writes more than some kid born in the 80s [;)]



Barthheart -> RE: Book you're reading now... (4/21/2008 6:01:32 PM)

Just finished Ender's Game.
Just started On the Beach.



PunkReaper -> RE: Book you're reading now... (4/21/2008 6:15:50 PM)

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Just started On the Beach.


Just listened to BBC Radio Four poll for the best post apocalyptic book and On the Beach came 2nd. Great book, haunting, some of the scenes stay with you for a long time. Try playing Defcon to put you in the mood.



Barthheart -> RE: Book you're reading now... (4/21/2008 6:22:50 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Punk Reaper

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Just started On the Beach.


Just listened to BBC Radio Four poll for the best post apocalyptic book and On the Beach came 2nd. Great book, haunting, some of the scenes stay with you for a long time. Try playing Defcon to put you in the mood.


Yeah, I read this maybe 20 years ago and felt like a re-read. As for Defcon, I find it a little detached/sterile to get that creeped out.... maybe that sould bother me more....[&:]

Favourite book on the subject of nuclear war is Fail Safe.



Mark VII -> RE: Book you're reading now... (4/22/2008 12:30:32 AM)

Just finished "The 47th Samurai" by Stephen Hunter, my first fiction work in a couple of years. Before that was Midway Inquest by Dallas Isom and Australian Commandos by A. B. Feuer. Next will be The Night Stalkers by Michael J. Durant.



reg113 -> RE: Book you're reading now... (4/22/2008 12:47:53 AM)


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Favourite book on the subject of nuclear war is Fail Safe.

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Great book.

Now reading "Shattered Sword"



Canoerebel -> RE: Book you're reading now... (4/22/2008 1:09:36 AM)

Titans of the Sea (excellent overview of carriers in the Pacific in WWII):  Finished this a month ago
Do-or-Die Men (very good history of 1st Marine Raider Battalion):  Finished two weeks ago
This Terrible Sound (by Peter Cozzens; exceptional history of the Battle of Chickamauga:  reading now

Best work of history I've ever read:  We were Soldiers Once...And Young (and I'm not even a fan of Vietnam War history)

Best works of historical ficiton I've ever read:  Killer Angels (about Gettysburg) and Arundel (by Kenneth Roberts, about Benedict Arnold's seige of Quebec)



Adam Parker -> RE: Book you're reading now... (4/24/2008 2:59:28 PM)

Here it goes....

"Parties and Elections in America The Electoral Process 5th Edition"

Hey, gals find me attractive! Though the one that married me wondered, when Amazon turned up with this one the other week [:D]



HansBolter -> RE: Book you're reading now... (4/24/2008 3:19:49 PM)


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ORIGINAL: JudgeDredd


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ORIGINAL: Grell


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ORIGINAL: HansBolter

Reading now: The Lttle Giants...U.S. Escort Carriers against Japan by William T. Y'Blood

Favorite last few years: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy of course...I have read it at least once a year for the past 35 years.....


Wow Hans,

That is what I call staunch.

Regards,

Grell

I know...I probably get 1 maybe two books read a year!!! Too many other things going on in my life!


I've been an incorridgible bookworm since my mother taught me to read at the age of 5 (yes I grew up in a time when mothers actually taught their own choldren to read BEFORE pawning them off on school teachers).

My house is literally overflowing with stacks of books in every room. Twice a day I take daily "constitutional" walks to get out of the office environment and allow my "head" to go somewhere else. I invariably spend these walks with my face buried in a book. The people who live in the neighborhood around my office regularly make comments about my multitasking skills with regard to walking and reading and I am well known as "that guy who reads while taking his walks".

On average I read about 4-6 books a month.



Reiryc -> RE: Book you're reading now... (4/25/2008 5:18:30 AM)

Currently reading:  Rebels and Redcoats by Ranking and Scheer.

http://www.amazon.com/Rebels-Redcoats-American-Revolution-Paperback/dp/0306803070

Excellent read so far...



Kuokkanen -> RE: Book you're reading now... (4/25/2008 8:31:07 PM)

I read comics. I get every translation of Commando serie that comes out, every month, every year + some old ones that hit my eye on shops.

Other serie I read right now, is Yoko Tsuno made by Roger Leloup. At first I was amused about belgian comic, where main character is japanese woman. But serie is one of the best I've read! First english translations are coming out right now, over 30 years after the first release in Belgium. For those who know other European languages, I recommend make visit to library's comic bookcase [;)]



Kuokkanen -> RE: Book you're reading now... (4/26/2008 7:13:06 PM)

I just got En Garde (written by Michael Stackpole). Gonna start reading it this evening.



Dixie -> RE: Book you're reading now... (4/26/2008 7:17:07 PM)

The Battle of the Atlantic by Andrew Williams
U-boat Killer by Capt Donald MacIntyre in my spare time at work



YohanTM2 -> RE: Book you're reading now... (4/27/2008 4:29:43 AM)

check our S.M. Stirling's "Dies the Fire" series...awesome reads



Agrippa -> RE: Book you're reading now... (4/28/2008 5:31:50 PM)

Gender's Game is one of the best in Sci-Fi



Agrippa -> RE: Book you're reading now... (4/28/2008 5:34:16 PM)

Just going to start 'Sword Song' by Bernard Cornwell.  This is a great series!



leastonh1 -> RE: Book you're reading now... (4/28/2008 10:11:43 PM)

There are some good books listed in this thread!! I especially like the Terry Pratchet ones [:D]

I'm currently reading Midnight's Lair by Richard Laymon. A no brainer, formulaic horror. Next on my very long list is Das Boot by Lothar-Gunther Buchheim. The mini-series was exceptional, so I'm hoping the book will be better.



JudgeDredd -> RE: Book you're reading now... (4/29/2008 12:25:05 AM)

Yes, I bought the Das Boot DVD after watching the mini series...truly an atmospheric and excellent programme.



Frido1207 -> RE: Book you're reading now... (4/29/2008 1:42:23 AM)


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ORIGINAL: Jim_H
Next on my very long list is Das Boot by Lothar-Gunther Buchheim. The mini-series was exceptional, so I'm hoping the book will be better.


The book is better than the film or the series, because it describes in a better way the eyeryday routine on board & how the crew get "trigger-happy" after waiting a long while to meet & engage an allied convoy etc.

at Judge enjoy the dvd, but i highly recommend to read the book. [:)]



sprior -> RE: Book you're reading now... (4/29/2008 3:35:09 AM)

Currently reading "Head On", Ian Botham's autobiography. Just finished Alexander Kent's "Passage to Mutiny".



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