What are we reading?

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

I'm also almost finished with a rereading (audio) of the Guns of August.  What has struck me this time through is that Lord Kitchener seems to be the only major figure at the start of the war that thought it would last for years and involve armies of millions.  The stupidity of the Kaiser is always there in any book on WW1 political/military situation.

It strikes me that we are in the same position again. If MAD is not working as a deterrent, you have the mass slaughter of WWI again. We very quickly need to get to a point where the power of defensive systems are an order of magnitude greater than offensive systems.

[Martok]

Having just finished my annual rereading of Allen Dean Foster's The Damned trilogy, I've now begun reading (again, although it's been a couple years) Patrick by Stephen R. Lawhead. 

I have been rereading Bimbos of the Death Sun for the first time in a decade.  It is a wonderful, light murder-mystery at a Science Fiction Con.  If you have ever been to a Con, you will see lots of archetypes in the book.

I really need to get my hands on a copy.  I read (and enjoyed) that one many years ago, and have long itched to read it again. 

[TacticalWargames]

Fire and Movement by Peter hart.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fire-Movement-British-Expeditionary-Campaign/dp/0199989273/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417102416&sr=8-1&keywords=fire+and+movement

[airboy]

I have finished Heritage of Cyador by L.E. Modesitt Jr.  Excellent read.

[OJsDad]

Just finished Red Winter by Colin Taber.  It's the second book in the United States of Vinland.  The writing is a little weak, but the story is good.  Would like it if he talked more about developing the settlements and what they need, besides more people, to start new settlements.  For $5, it's worth it. 

I cannot wait for the next book so I can throw more money at the author. 

[TacticalWargames]

Just finished Prague Fatale: A Bernie Gunther Novel by P Kerr.

Another great read in the series. Berlin Noir is well worth buying aswell.

[GDS_Starfury]

I was surprised to see this at B&N the other day.  chances are I'll pick it up before the weekends over.
http://www.amazon.com/Death-Leaping-Horseman-Division-Stalingrad/dp/0811714047

[Barthheart]

[JasonPratt]

^^ Or at glowing dots. :)

(Or at... whatever ePearl is? Like an etch-a-sketch?)

[Skwerl]

The Compleat Adventures of Jules de Grandin Volume 2.  Volume One was excellent and this one has been great so far.

[vyshka]

Currently reading Second Foundation, and Mark Fabi's Wyrm. In the past month I read Edding's Belgariad series, and 2 books of essays about Soviet Chess players by Genna Sosonko - The Reliable Past and The Smart Chip from St. Petersburg.

[MetalDog]

I liked the Belgariad, but, it was way too Lord of the Rings for me.

[GDS_Starfury]

did it baggins down a lot?

[vyshka]

I liked the Belgariad, but, it was way too Lord of the Rings for me.

A guilty pleasure from childhood.

[MetalDog]

I liked the Belgariad, but, it was way too Lord of the Rings for me.

A guilty pleasure from childhood.

That's when I read it, too.  I read fantasy almost exclusively as a youth.  I read Terry Brook's 'Sword of Shannara,' a VERY derivative series by Dennis L. McKiernan, that was commissioned to be as much like LotR as possible, 'Dragonlance,' by Weis & Hickman, Feist's 'Magician,' series.  A host of stuff.  Some good, some bad.