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What are you reading this summer? - 7/13/2010 2:13:01 AM   
sabre1


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Status: offline 		Well being a teacher, and with the economy in the trash can, I have LOTS of time to read. I like a good series, and last summer I read the Richad Sharpe series. This summer the Bolitho series is offereing a lot of fun to take my mind away from more important things.

So what is on your list?
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RE: What are you reading this summer? - 7/13/2010 3:23:26 AM   
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Status: offline 		I just finished The Three Musketeers. I didn't really realize there were more books after that, other than the Man in the Iron Mask, so I downloaded 20 Years After and eventually I'll get that one then the last one.

I just started the new David Weber Honor Harrington book Mission of Honor yesterday.

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RE: What are you reading this summer? - 7/13/2010 3:32:48 AM   
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RE: What are you reading this summer? - 7/13/2010 3:38:54 AM   
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RE: What are you reading this summer? - 7/13/2010 4:01:17 AM   
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Status: offline 		this week I got in for my Bday. well in the last few weeks been placing orders w/ Amazon and Barnes and Nobles.

Dying for St. Lo, Read and Displayed next to III.Panzer Korps at Kursk on the Topself(along with Hell's Gate, Panzers in Finland, Fighters and Fighter Bombers over the Far North, Normandy 1944: German Military Organization, Combat Power and Organizational Effectiveness, Just to name a few.

Bitter Victory by D'Estes on the battle for sicily..kinda on hold for the moment.
Osprey Campaign Series, Op. Nordwind. well haven't started it yet.

Ordered yesterday, for my Panzer Lehr section of books/battles.
Bayerlein: After Action Reports of the Panzer Lehr Division Commander from D-Day to the Ruhr


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RE: What are you reading this summer? - 7/13/2010 4:05:32 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Jeffrey H.

World War Z....gotta finish that one.


you know I was kinda let down by that one esp with all the hype it gets.
The Audio Book is cool as it has a full cast of well known hollywood actors, but really the Book Day by Day Armageddon by J. L. Bourne is soo much better and more gripping than WWZ.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Day-by-Day-Armageddon/J-L-Bourne/e/9781439176672/?itm=4&USRI=armageddon+bourne

Plus the next chapter of Armageddon comes out tomorrow, which is the day after the bday.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Beyond-Exile/J-L-Bourne/e/9781439177532/?itm=2&USRI=armageddon+bourne

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RE: What are you reading this summer? - 7/13/2010 4:28:26 AM   
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RE: What are you reading this summer? - 7/13/2010 4:40:26 AM   
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Status: offline 		1. The Passage by Justin Cronin
2. The Last Stand by Nathanial Philbrick

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RE: What are you reading this summer? - 7/13/2010 5:48:57 AM   
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RE: What are you reading this summer? - 7/13/2010 5:50:35 AM   
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RE: What are you reading this summer? - 7/13/2010 6:27:56 AM   
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Status: offline 		My reading consists of actual reading and listening to audio books.

I am just starting the final entry in Adrian Mckinty's "Michael Forsythe" trilogy, "The Bloomsday Dead". One hell of a story-check it out.

As for audio I get 60 unabridged audio books a year with my Audible membership, and I listen to 'em all. But there is one author's tale I have now listened to 6 times in 7 years---"The Civil War", by Shelby Foote. It is narrated by Grover Gardner and runs about 145 hours. I find it the most compelling civil war narrative ever.

You guy's who like reading but don't have time should try the audio book substitute. I almost never game without listening to one.

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RE: What are you reading this summer? - 7/13/2010 7:30:29 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Greybriar

I am reading The Hornblower Books by C. S. Forester.


If you like Hornblower you should like the Bolitho series Greybriar.

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RE: What are you reading this summer? - 7/13/2010 7:36:13 AM   
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Status: offline 		Currently reading With the Old Breed by E.B. Sledge and then have Helmet For My Pillow by Robert Leckie

Chickenhawk is waiting on my bedside table (to read for the 4th time) and after that, I have a couple of Afghanistan books

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RE: What are you reading this summer? - 7/13/2010 8:16:28 AM   
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ORIGINAL: sabre1

If you like Hornblower you should like the Bolitho series Greybriar.

Thanks for the suggestion, sabre1. I am always on the lookout for books to read.

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RE: What are you reading this summer? - 7/13/2010 8:40:15 AM   
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Listing to the Aubrey/Maturin series on audio books during my commute

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RE: What are you reading this summer? - 7/13/2010 9:25:21 AM   
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ORIGINAL: JudgeDredd
Chickenhawk is waiting on my bedside table (to read for the 4th time)


Brilliant book.I usually read my battered 1983 publication once a year.So i've read it at least 25 times .If you can find it, check out it's sequel Chickenhawk: Back in the world.

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RE: What are you reading this summer? - 7/13/2010 9:44:18 AM   
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ORIGINAL: The Plodder


quote:

ORIGINAL: JudgeDredd
Chickenhawk is waiting on my bedside table (to read for the 4th time)


Brilliant book.I usually read my battered 1983 publication once a year.So i've read it at least 25 times .If you can find it, check out it's sequel Chickenhawk: Back in the world.

Absolutely the single best book I've ever read (that I can recall ). His description of a helicopter pilots role in Vietnam was breathtaking and actually put you there. Can't wait to read it again.

I did find his new one, but this is what I find in the UK - pity really, as I'd love to read it. I have no idea why it's in such short supply - I can get Chickenhawk from most half decent book sellers in the UK!





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RE: What are you reading this summer? - 7/13/2010 9:45:18 AM   
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Status: offline 		I just finished the Harry Potter series. I'm a Harry Potter nut. I tried reading a WWII book by a German named Sven Hassel but I can't stand it. I thought it would be like "The Forgotten Soldier" by Guy Sajor but I was wrong.

I read Toland's book again about the Japanese Empire for the umpteenth time and it finally fell apart. Literally. I LOVE that book!

I may read David Eddings "The Belgariad" again. I read it at least once a year, that and "The Lord of the Rings".


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RE: What are you reading this summer? - 7/13/2010 9:49:00 AM   
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Status: offline 		I just finished reading Semper Fi Vietnam by Edward F. Murray. I just started reading James A. Michener's Tales of the South Pacific. And after that I'm gonna read Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific by Eric M. Bergerud. That should cover most of the summer

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RE: What are you reading this summer? - 7/13/2010 10:00:21 AM   
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Status: offline 		Fields of Death by Simon Scarrow..... last in a fictionalised version of the lives of Napoleon and Wellington. And Armies of the Napoleonic Wars

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RE: What are you reading this summer? - 7/13/2010 11:35:31 AM   
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Several fiction and non-fiction sub books lately. Just finishing up Hostile Waters (about K-219 ... see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_K-219).  Last book was Submarine Commander by Paul R. Schratz, covering WWII and a bit of Korea. Etc.

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RE: What are you reading this summer? - 7/13/2010 1:38:14 PM   
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RE: What are you reading this summer? - 7/13/2010 2:47:28 PM   
Jevhaddah


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Very Good book, I didnae ken he wiz a sailor man

Cheers

Jev

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RE: What are you reading this summer? - 7/13/2010 3:04:10 PM   
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RE: What are you reading this summer? - 7/13/2010 3:13:30 PM   
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Status: offline 		In my current stack on my nightstand are Peter the Great by Massie, The Battle of the Frontiers Ardennes 1914 by Zuber, The Price of Glory by Horne, Tannenburg The Clash of Empires by Showalter, Breakthrough The Gorlice-Tarnow Campaign by DiNardo, and The Road to Serfdom by Hayek. That should keep me busy for some time.

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RE: What are you reading this summer? - 7/13/2010 3:26:30 PM   
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Status: offline 		3 books on the go just now.

Bloody Victory by William Philpott is a new history of the Somme. So far (page 160), he's covered the lead up, the opening phases of the war, the armies and the plans and we're just about to start the bombardment. Excellent reading. It's mostly closely-written narrative with just a smidegon of personal accounts. I find this old-fashioned approach much more interesting than the current trend for oral testimony masquerading as history.

There's one photograph included of General Rawlinson sitting at his field desk, working on his papers. A battered briefcase, a makeshift in-and-out-tray, a bottle of glue (the old white stuff you used at school) and a massive map on the wall behind his shoulder. For some strange reason, the whole thing seems really evocative to me. I believe Rawlinson was around my age when the photo was taken - I hope I don't look that old.

I'm also reading Michael Crichton's Pirate Latitudes, picked up in a charity shop for £1.50. Not like his previous fare (science pushed beyond its limits) but a nice, fast read. It's suffering from a lack of editing (Crichton died before he had a chance to polish the text) and it has every pirate cliche in the book. But, I'm enjoying it, possibly for those very reasons.

Last on the immediate-list (the main to-be-read-piles will keep me going for a few years yet), is Richard Dawkins' The Greatest Show on Earth. I've dipped into the first couple of chapters and it's... OK. I'm deferring judgement for a chapter or two.

Just cashed in £100 worth of 50ps and 20ps at the bank and I'm using that as an excuse to treat myself to another addition to the tbr pile. Now to spend a couple of hours on Amazon. Bliss.

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RE: What are you reading this summer? - 7/13/2010 4:05:13 PM   
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RE: What are you reading this summer? - 7/13/2010 5:11:35 PM   
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I wonder if I'm missing something?

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RE: What are you reading this summer? - 7/13/2010 5:56:47 PM   
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RE: What are you reading this summer? - 7/13/2010 6:23:33 PM   
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I picked that up in Waterstones today but I put it down again in favour of James Ellroy's Blood's a Rover.

I've read that Abercrombie's series is fantasy-for-adults. Would you go that far? I've been looking for a grown up fantasy for years. David Gemmell was close. So was Stephen Donaldson. Close, but no Clinton s*x-toy.

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