What Are You Reading Now?

[happyone]

And the book I am going to read next: A Dawn Like Thunder by Robert J. Mrazek

I really liked that book. If you haven't already bought it, and want to read it before adding to your collection, I got the Davis County Library to get a couple of copies.

[happyone]

These are three books I've got on the shelf to read during the Christmas break - I like use or lose annual leave

Redcoat - Richard Holmes
The British Army during the age of horse and Musket

To Try Men's Souls - Newt Gingrich
A historical novel about Washington crossing the Deleware

Order in Chaos - Jack Whyte
Third novel in a trilogy about the Templars

[John McClain]

No Shortcuts to the Top

By Ed Viesturs - about his quest to summit all 14 8,000 meter peaks without oxygen. Very good read.

[LA Ute]

I unthinkingly started a new thread - about Christmas gift books. I'm re-posting here:

For those who like baseball and its impact on the culture, [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Game-Six-Cincinnati-Triumph-Americas/dp/1401323103/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260513295&sr=8-1"]Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series: The Triumph of America's Pastime[/ame] is a terrific gift. The book uses that amazing World Series as kind of a lens through which to see the sport of baseball and the USA's 20th century history. It is not written for Red Sox or Reds fans, it's for all baseball fans and history buffs. A great read.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I unthinkingly started a new thread - about Christmas gift books. I'm re-posting here:

For those who like baseball and its impact on the culture, Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series: The Triumph of America's Pastime is a terrific gift. The book uses that amazing World Series as kind of a lens through which to see the sport of baseball and the USA's 20th century history. It is not written for Red Sox or Reds fans, it's for all baseball fans and history buffs. A great read.

It is perfectly OK to start a new thread like that. We don't need everything book-related in this thread.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

It is perfectly OK to start a new thread like that.

I like the idea of making new threads meet some kind of approval for a couple weeks. I think that would drive exUtelujah off.

[SuperGabers]

Just finished Grisham's The Associate.

It was... eh...

[LA Ute]

I am going to try to read Game Six over the holidays as well as Super Freakonomics. I might start another Dickens book, maybe Hard Times.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

I am going to try to read Game Six over the holidays as well as Super Freakonomics. I might start another Dickens book, maybe Hard Times.

I was about 3 chapters into Super Freakonomics and was really enjoying it, I think I left it on the plane because I have not been able to find it. Grrrr.

[Flattop]

Mrazek's A Dawn Like Thunder was fantastic. Even if the subject of the book is not something an individual would ususally consider reading about, this is a book they should read.

Right now I am reading The Med by David Poyer. It's a novel about a amphibious ready group in the Mediteranean. The group has to rescue some American being held hostage in Syria.

[happyone]

Mrazek's A Dawn Like Thunder was fantastic. Even if the subject of the book is not something an individual would ususally consider reading about, this is a book they should read.

Right now I am reading The Med by David Poyer. It's a novel about a amphibious ready group in the Mediteranean. The group has to rescue some American being held hostage in Syria.

I agree on A Dawn Like Thunder. I thought it was an interesting comparison of leadership styles. The first commander was beloved, the second detested, maybe even hated. They both built effective squadrons.

I really liked The Med also. In fact as a fiction author, I've liked most of what he has written, even the non modern Navy stuff.

The next book of the series is out, The Crisis. I am waiting for the library to get it in.

You probably already know about this guy, but if you don't another author about the modern Navy you might enjoy is P.T. Deuterman. He is a retired Navy Capt and has two topics he writes about. One is the modern Navy and the other is a "conventional" crime series set in North Carolina.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Mrazek's A Dawn Like Thunder was fantastic. Even if the subject of the book is not something an individual would ususally consider reading about, this is a book they should read.

Right now I am reading The Med by David Poyer. It's a novel about a amphibious ready group in the Mediteranean. The group has to rescue some American being held hostage in Syria.

This looks good. I just ordered it from Amazon.

[Aristides]

I'm finally getting around to reading the "Wheel of Time" series. I'm on book 6 and am wondering if there will ever be an end.

[SeattleUte]

Imagine a novel set during the French Revolution, at the same time gripping and permeated with verisimilitude and philosophical depth, that is Tolstoyan in its creation of life and rendering philosophical discourse. (It is wonderful to be reminded how much the French admired the Americans for taking the first plunge into representative government, how they lionized Lafayette, etc. Mendicants bear signs in Paris, "Veteran of the American Revolution.") A novel in which the primary players on history's stage do not make cameo appearances but are the central characters, along with their intelligent and liberated women. Robespierre, Desmoulins, and Danton are the protagonists, lifelong friends, their intertwined fates developing like a Greek tragedy--they lead the toppling of the monarchy, and the beheading of the King, only to have Robespierre, drunk with power and puritan fervor, bring about the guillotining of his two best friends. Bad karma; he follows them to the guillotine.

This would be as good as it gets for me, and there is such a novel! Hilary Mantel's "A Place of Greater Safety" is fabulous. It was long overlooked (I wasn't aware of it, at least) until Mantel won the Booker Prize in England for her epic about Henry VIII. Now it is gaining greater appreciation. If you are a student of the forces and material that created our age, and love a great, literate story, this huge novel is worth the effort.

[LiveCoug]

I just started Michael Crichton's Airframe.

Has this ever happened to you guys before? You've read a book before, but when you read it a second time you have no idea what is going to happen in the book, so it's like reading it for the first time. That's how it is with Airframe. Usually when I read a book for the second time, I definitely remember at least a little something from the book. Not so with this one. It's kinda weird.