What are we reading?

[Airborne Rifles]

Finished Beevor's Ardennes book a week or so ago. Now splitting time between his Crete and Spanish Civil War books.

I'm reading Crete right now as well.

[bob48]

Its definitely on my 'to buy' list.

[mirth]

Finished Beevor's Ardennes book a week or so ago. Now splitting time between his Crete and Spanish Civil War books.

I'm reading Crete right now as well.

So friggin good. His books are history crack.

[Sir Slash]

Just started, "Russia's Last Gasp" the last book of Prit Buttar's trilogy of WWI's Eastern Front. Be waiting on this one as the other two were... ex-cellent.

[Gusington]

Please post what you think!

About to start Outcast (graphic novel) by the guy who wrote The Walking Dead graphic novels.

[airboy]

I finished "Making Money" by Pratchett.  It is a shame he was never given a Hugo.  But he recused himself for "Going Postal" which is my favorite of the 10 or so books I've read in the series.  Making Money was good, but not as good as Going Postal which featured the same major character.

Reread "Tinker" by Wen Spencer.  Unfortunately had to repurchase because my 13 year old paperback made my allergies explode.  I reread because I was halfway through "Wood Sprites" and wanted to refresh my memory of the world.  Tinker is good, but too much romance for me.  I then deleted "Wood Sprites" by the same author that I was half way through because it has not been as good as Tinker and life is short.

I find a sharp dividing line in my SF reading.  If the story becomes too much about romantic relationships - the book becomes marginal even if very well written.  Tinker is a very interesting concept but went way too much into relationships.

I'm 50% through Mr. Lincoln's Army according to Mr. Kindle.  I think I read it 35 years ago or so.  It is good, but you just want to reach through the pages and slap McClellan for being such a doofus about Confederate troop strength.  I still think Lee was a great general, but he sure had a leg up on the competition before he had to face Grant.  McClellan and Pope so outnumbered the Army of Northern Virginia and they would not put their entire army (or even 80% of it) into action.  If Lee had taken the command of the Army of the Potomac as Winfield Scott wished him to do - he would have taken Richmond like a hot knife through butter within 24 months of the start of the war.

[Sir Slash]

Will do Gus.

[airboy]

Oops - Misread Mr. Kindle.  I finished Mr. Lincolns Army last night.  The other 45% of the book were references and excerpts from the next two books as an enticement to buy.

[Gusington]

Thanks Slash. Read Outcast in one night while drunk. It was ok...definitely not on par with The Walking Dead. Started The Fisherman by John Langan. Very good, 25 pages in. Vivid, engaging writing. I can feel that the creepy vibe on this one is set to go way up.

[besilarius]

Anyone hear anything about this
https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Reality-German-Warfare-Operational/dp/0813168376/ref

Always interested in serious treatments on German Operational work.

[Gusington]

^Have not heard of that one but while looking at your link Amazon recommended this one too:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1472813006/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

[JasonPratt]

I usually like or love First Things, but I'm reading that article by Peter Hitchens (brother if I recall correctly to the late Christopher Hitchens?) and thinking... um... yeah, this argument only needs a few topical switches to be an apologetic for the Lebensraum policy that arrived at those anti-tank teeth you noticed within sight of Ivan the Great's bell tower, Hitch.  ::)

The Russian culture (somewhat distinct from the Soviet culture) can be great, and also the Russian people, but that doesn't make Putin less problematically dangerous to other nations and to his own.

Also, someone who thinks there's no good excuse for the existence of the FBI, is so dangerously, wildly naive that, to slightly paraphrase one of his fellow countrymen, "After a man has said that, why need one attend to anything else he says about any political situation in the world?"

Pretty good article otherwise.  O:-)

[Pinetree]

I'm currently up to book 5 of the First Law series, The Heroes. Damn, what a book. I really enjoyed the trilogy and then the first standalone, Best Served Cold, but this is something else. It's basically the story of a single battle over 3 days and wow, brilliant characters and brilliant storytelling.  Minor spoiler ahead:


The chapter on the fighting of the first day is amazing, you start by following a character who gets killed and then you follow his killer, then he is killed and so forth until the climax.


END spoiler: It's a very brutal story but also can be very funny. Fantastic read.

[undercovergeek]

I'm currently up to book 5 of the First Law series, The Heroes. Damn, what a book. I really enjoyed the trilogy and then the first standalone, Best Served Cold, but this is something else. It's basically the story of a single battle over 3 days and wow, brilliant characters and brilliant storytelling.  Minor spoiler ahead:


The chapter on the fighting of the first day is amazing, you start by following a character who gets killed and then you follow his killer, then he is killed and so forth until the climax.


END spoiler: It's a very brutal story but also can be very funny. Fantastic read.

Sold - I loved the trilogy

[Martok]

Have begun reading Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Tales series; I just finished The Last Kingdom earlier today, and will start in on The Pale Horseman when I wake up tonight.  Technically, I'm actually re-reading the series (the first 6-7 books IIRC), but it's been so long that it's almost like reading them for the firsr time.  And I've not read the last 3-4 books at all, so I'm definitely looking forward to this.  :)