What are we reading?

[BanzaiCat]

I finished Invasion last night when I couldn't sleep. It was a great read. So good that grabbed the second one.

But, I'll go finish Invasion Alaska first.

[airboy]

I finished
Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett (a diskworld book).
Uprooted - this is a Nebula Novel nominee for 2016

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Not reading but I'm listening to some audiobooks by Larry Correia.  They're action pulp but quite enjoyable.  The first one is called Dead Six and the sequel is Swords of Exodus.  I thought they'd be more of Correia's weird mix of modern horror/fantasy with liberal amounts of gun porn but they're much more straight laced and there are no magic/horror/fantasy elements (except for the part where the anti-hero beats up Michael Moore at a secret terrorist convention).   And the best part is that they're narrated by Bronson Pinchot.  (kinda sad that he doesn't do the Balki voice though.)

Dead Six

Michael Valentine, air force veteran and former member of a private military company, has been recruited by the government to conduct a secret counter-terror operation in the Persian Gulf. The unit is called Dead Six. Their mission is to take the fight to the enemy and not get caught.  Lorenzo, assassin and thief extraordinaire, is being blackmailed by Southeast Asia's most vicious crime lord. His team has to infiltrate a terrorist network and pull off an impossible heist or his family will die. When Dead Six compromises his objective, Lorenzo has a new job: Find and kill Valentine. As allegiances are betrayed and the nation descends into a bloody civil war, Lorenzo and Valentine must face off.  Two men. Two missions. Only one will win.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Turns out Larry's also a gamer nerd as well as an author and a gun nut.  Cool! 

http://monsterhunternation.com/

[avrotim]

I am currently re-reading The Shiva Option by David Weber and Steven White, because I can't remember what happens in it from the first time I read it. :(  Getting old kinda sucks.

[Staggerwing]

Is that the novel where a nuclear sub gets repurposed into a spacecraft, or am I also suffering from Old Brain Syndrome?

[avrotim]

Nope...although that certainly sounds like a fun read!

This is part of a series of space-combat novels by Weber and White that was published back in the 1990's.  What I heard was that both authors were also enthusiastic players of the old Task Force scifi game called "Starfire", and that all the action in the books is based on the game.  I have the game too and its a lot of fun.

[Shelldrake]

Is that the novel where a nuclear sub gets repurposed into a spacecraft, or am I also suffering from Old Brain Syndrome?

That would be Vorpal Blade (book 2 of the Looking Glass series) by John Ringo and Travis Taylor.

[Shelldrake]

I am currently re-reading The Shiva Option by David Weber and Steven White, because I can't remember what happens in it from the first time I read it. :(  Getting old kinda sucks.

The next books in the series (Extremis and Exodus) are good reads too, although Charles Gannon has replaced David Weber as the co-author. A new book in the series - Imperative - has also just been released.

[JasonPratt]

Currently reading Bergerud's Touched With Fire: The Land War In The South Pacific, but haven't gotten much past the war's overview yet.

[Airborne Rifles]

Currently reading Bergerud's Touched With Fire: The Land War In The South Pacific, but haven't gotten much past the war's overview yet.

Excellent book!

[undercovergeek]

the recent dramatisation of the shanarra chronicles has me eyeing the books on amazon

[bob48]

I've read a lot of them and they are not bad. The later 'Voyage of the Jerle Shannara' books are OK as well.

If you like Terry brooks, then try the 'Word and the Void' trilogy.

[Staggerwing]

I am currently re-reading The Shiva Option by David Weber and Steven White, because I can't remember what happens in it from the first time I read it. :(  Getting old kinda sucks.

The next books in the series (Extremis and Exodus) are good reads too, although Charles Gannon has replaced David Weber as the co-author. A new book in the series - Imperative - has also just been released.

Thanks Barth. I remember reading the blurb a while back but forgot what book it was for.

[MetalDog]

the recent dramatisation of the shanarra chronicles has me eyeing the books on amazon

bob's vote notwithstanding, PLEASE don't read anything by Terry Brooks.  Except for maybe Magic Kingdom For Sale: Sold.  The Shannara books are shite.  Pure and utter.  And if you do read them, when you come back here to announce how crappy they were, I will be glad to say I told you so.