What are we reading?

[WallysWorld]

Just ordered Robert Massie's "Peter The Great: His Life And World" and Peter Wilson's "Europe's Tragedy: A New History Of The Thirty Years War".

About halfway through Massie's "Castles of Steel" book which I am really enjoying.

For those who recommended Massie's books here, thanks!

[Gusington]

The Peter the Great book by Massie is absolutely flawless. If you have not read his Dreadnought then stop whatever you're doing and grab a copy immediately!

[WallysWorld]

The Peter the Great book by Massie is absolutely flawless. If you have not read his Dreadnought then stop whatever you're doing and grab a copy immediately!

Actually I did complete "Dreadnought" before returning to "Castles of Steel". Both are very good books.

[MetalDog]

Which of the two Massie's covers the naval build up to WWI?

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

I just finished The Battle for Hell's Island, an account of SBD dive bomber pilots during the Guadalcanal campaign.  Good read and gave me lots of ideas for Wings of Glory scenarios (and an urge to try to come to grips with WITP again).  I started re-reading Bomber Command by Max Hastings as a form of therapy after the slaughter my RAF bombers suffered in my PBEM game of Wing Leader with Bart.

Just starting This Book is Full of Spiders as I've been hitting the WWII air war history books pretty hard lately so I figured a little light brain candy was in order.

[WallysWorld]

Which of the two Massie's covers the naval build up to WWI?

Dreadnought.

Lots of politics in the book with great details of German-Anglo relations from the late 1800's to 1914.

[Airborne Rifles]

The Peter the Great book by Massie is absolutely flawless. If you have not read his Dreadnought then stop whatever you're doing and grab a copy immediately!

+1

Which of the two Massie's covers the naval build up to WWI?

Dreadnought

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

The Peter the Great book by Massie is absolutely flawless. If you have not read his Dreadnought then stop whatever you're doing and grab a copy immediately!

Rats, ive been circling his books like a shark based on the reviews. Now i might not wait.

[MetalDog]

Which of the two Massie's covers the naval build up to WWI?

Dreadnought.

Lots of politics in the book with great details of German-Anglo relations from the late 1800's to 1914.

Which of the two Massie's covers the naval build up to WWI?

Dreadnought

Thank you gentlemen.

[Greybriar]

I am currently reading X by Sue Grafton.

[Gusington]

Kev do not wait on Massie. You'll kick yourself harder once you do start.

[BanzaiCat]

I actually was able to go into a B&N a few days ago (the wife even went) and I saw several nice things, but the prices were way, way over the top. A five-book collection of the larger Game of Thrones paperbacks was selling for $90, for chrissakes, where individually they were something like $19.95. How is that a deal? Why bother with a box set?

Also saw a really cool GoT book of history, but it was $50. Though it was pretty it wasn't that pretty.

I did buy several books through my Kindle. The one that's held my attention is Rain: Rise of the Living Dead. Yeah yeah, another Zombie book, but it's written well enough that it goes quickly. I'm already halfway done with it.

Also bought Tiger Tracks and The Last Panther, as well as The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, Project: Return Fire, and The Victory That Wasn't.

[Gusington]

Was this the GoT history you saw?

http://smile.amazon.com/World-Ice-Fire-History-Westeros/dp/0553805444/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1451588778&sr=1-1&keywords=The+World+of+Ice+and+Fire

[MetalDog]

Re-reading The Silmarillion.  I'll probably move on to LotR after that.

[Staggerwing]

I The Grasshopper Lies Heavy,

If you purchased it thinking it was about the 'book within a book' that anchors Phillip K. Dick's 'The Man in the High Castle' be forewarned that the former has nothing to do with the latter.  :(