What are we reading?

[Sir Slash]

You're very welcome. Careful though. Lots of Yankee spies around here.  :(

[BanzaiCat]

Carpetbaggers, suh.

[Gusington]

Muckrakers and scalawags? My buddies and always thought that sounded like a breakfast cereal. 'Two scoops of scalawags in every box.'

[JasonPratt]

Don't do it Gus. It's a stinker.

I think I can fairly say it's an acquired taste. My opinion of it bounces around a lot every five minutes, whenever I catch parts of it (I've watched it all the way through at least 3 times -- still bounces around a lot). It doesn't help that I never believe one single thing written for the kid. "Watch out, don't trust him! He killed Mozart!" The writers fail in having me believe that kid ever watched Amadeus.  Heck, I've never watched Amadeus!

Gandalf's in it. Nuff said.

And Gandalf plays Death.

Which isn't as remotely as awesome as that sounds like it should be.

Which is emblematic of the movie.

[Gusington]

Hey look what I found.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/all-56-single-stephen-king-movies-and-tv-series-adaptat-1783887752

[Sir Slash]

Damn. Does that guy ever take a vacation? Oh, wait. He did and wrote a book while doing it.

[OJsDad]

Just finished Pillar in the Sky.  It was ok.  I was expecting a lot more.  The story is about building a space elevator.  Unfortunately, it is all from the perspective of just a couple of people, all working on the project.  It would have been better if there were perspectives taken from those opposing the project. 

[airboy]

I finished Monster Hunter Memoirs: Grunge less than 12 hours after I got it.  Very hard to put down.

[mirth]

Picked up used, good condition copy of Massie's Dreadnought yesterday for $4. Such an epic book.

Also recently started The Generals - https://www.amazon.com/Generals-American-Military-Command-World/dp/0143124099

[BanzaiCat]

I'm at about 86% with On Basilisk Station. The first 3/4 of the book is build up to the actual action, which you can see coming a mile away. However, it builds such anticipation up in me that I'm almost on the edge of my seat when reading it. I wish I had more time than to read just a few pages here and there, but it's damn good.

The only thing that I didn't like was the author just starting the Big Chase between the Fearless and the Sirius, and then goes into a multi-page, detailed description of the history of FTL travel. Not that the discussion didn't dovetail nicely into the actual action going on, and props to him for not just vomiting all of this out within the first 20 pages or so, but dammit, it was like breaking to commercial RIGHT at the good part.  ;D

Plus it was pretty boring. Authors that do that turn me off, but I'll keep going with this. The author of Snow Crash ruined the book when he started on and on and on with a religious discussion the protagonist (literally, Protagonist) had with some AI librarian. It might be central to that book, but I tolerated it for about a dozen pages before I moved on to something else.

[OJsDad]

I'm at about 86% with On Basilisk Station. The first 3/4 of the book is build up to the actual action, which you can see coming a mile away. However, it builds such anticipation up in me that I'm almost on the edge of my seat when reading it. I wish I had more time than to read just a few pages here and there, but it's damn good.

The only thing that I didn't like was the author just starting the Big Chase between the Fearless and the Sirius, and then goes into a multi-page, detailed description of the history of FTL travel. Not that the discussion didn't dovetail nicely into the actual action going on, and props to him for not just vomiting all of this out within the first 20 pages or so, but dammit, it was like breaking to commercial RIGHT at the good part.  ;D

Plus it was pretty boring. Authors that do that turn me off, but I'll keep going with this. The author of Snow Crash ruined the book when he started on and on and on with a religious discussion the protagonist (literally, Protagonist) had with some AI librarian. It might be central to that book, but I tolerated it for about a dozen pages before I moved on to something else.

Glad your liking BC. Just remember.  Keep in mind that Honorverse is in no small part Weber recreating blue water naval warfare in space.  You can think of OBS being at the beginning of WWI. 

[Airborne Rifles]

I'm at about 86% with On Basilisk Station. The first 3/4 of the book is build up to the actual action, which you can see coming a mile away. However, it builds such anticipation up in me that I'm almost on the edge of my seat when reading it. I wish I had more time than to read just a few pages here and there, but it's damn good.

The only thing that I didn't like was the author just starting the Big Chase between the Fearless and the Sirius, and then goes into a multi-page, detailed description of the history of FTL travel. Not that the discussion didn't dovetail nicely into the actual action going on, and props to him for not just vomiting all of this out within the first 20 pages or so, but dammit, it was like breaking to commercial RIGHT at the good part.  ;D

Plus it was pretty boring. Authors that do that turn me off, but I'll keep going with this. The author of Snow Crash ruined the book when he started on and on and on with a religious discussion the protagonist (literally, Protagonist) had with some AI librarian. It might be central to that book, but I tolerated it for about a dozen pages before I moved on to something else.

Glad you're enjoying it BC. I think the first several books are the best.

[CptHowdy]

I'm at about 86% with On Basilisk Station. The first 3/4 of the book is build up to the actual action, which you can see coming a mile away. However, it builds such anticipation up in me that I'm almost on the edge of my seat when reading it. I wish I had more time than to read just a few pages here and there, but it's damn good.

The only thing that I didn't like was the author just starting the Big Chase between the Fearless and the Sirius, and then goes into a multi-page, detailed description of the history of FTL travel. Not that the discussion didn't dovetail nicely into the actual action going on, and props to him for not just vomiting all of this out within the first 20 pages or so, but dammit, it was like breaking to commercial RIGHT at the good part.  ;D

Plus it was pretty boring. Authors that do that turn me off, but I'll keep going with this. The author of Snow Crash ruined the book when he started on and on and on with a religious discussion the protagonist (literally, Protagonist) had with some AI librarian. It might be central to that book, but I tolerated it for about a dozen pages before I moved on to something else.

Glad you're enjoying it BC. I think the first several books are the best.

read em all up until she got involved with the much older guy and she moved into the political arena. the series definitely has some intense fight sequences.

[airboy]

I'm reading Mr. Lincoln's Army by Bruce Catton.

I got it on a $1.99 Kindle ebook deal.  Just got finished reading about Pope getting crushed at 2nd Manassas and McClellan regaining command of the Army of the Potomac.

[bob48]

All the Catton books are worth reading, excellent indeed.