What are we reading?

[Hofstadter]

D day, the battle for normandy by anthony beevor

I just finished reading this book a couple of months ago...it's an outstanding read.

Know any good games about the subject?   ;)

Depends on what type youre after. Hex and counter, tactical, fps.

Also got a couple of other books by him as well. Stalingrad, ww2 and ardennes 1944

[Gusington]

Bes if you want I can check my Library of Gus and forward to you, no charge.

[Martok]

Those Clancy books are fun as long as you skim them for the action parts. There's lots of unnecessary filler in his later books. It kinda reminds me of Stephen King, the more popular and well known he became the less anyone dared to edit him.

David Weber suffers from the same problem (which I've been forcibly reminded of while currently reading Hell's Foundations Quiver).  I love his work, but his tendency to interrupt conversations and/or action scenes with 5-10 pages of exposition regarding some new/secret weapon/plan/whatever drives me absolutely insane sometimes.    I really wish they'd rein him in a bit, if only for that reason. 

[besilarius]

Gus, thank you.  Let me hold on that for a bit, though.  May be some traveling coming up, and I'd hate to just hold your book without the chance of getting into it.
That's a very generous offer.

[Gusington]

Sure thing...I would hate to see someone try to find it at a library or fork over that kind of money when they don't have to.

[Gusington]

About to start Japan's Imperial Army - Its Rise and Fall, 1853-1945, by Edward J. Drea.

[mirth]

 Currently reading: In Mortal Combat: Korea, 1950-1953 by John Toland

[JasonPratt]

Currently reading the four books of The Wingfeather Chronicles or something like that, lent by my brother who received them several months ago on his birthday and has just now gotten around to reading and finishing them himself.

They have ALL THE WHIMSY ALL OF IT. Moreso than I usually care to stomach. But the whimsy is icing (lots of icing) on an occasionally dark story, and the author is a fellow Tennessean (or anyway he and his family live near Nashville now) who has succeeded a lot better than I in writing a popular fantasy series so... ;)

I'm enjoying it well enough. Bro and I both think it'd be a little too dark (ironically enough, considering Narnia is less than a 100th as whimsical) for the nieces yet. Actually made me want to go back and read the first part of The Eye of the World while hanging out at the hospital with Dad for a few days, which I did.

[Dammit Carl!]

Trench: A History of Trench Warfare on the Western Front by Stephen Bull awaits my hot, little hands.

[Gusington]

Is that a new title?

[TacticalWargames]

Bloody Stalingrad Trilogy Mr Andrew McGregor

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1516927230?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s01

[Dammit Carl!]

I honestly don't know and don't have the book handy at the moment.  But it's from Osprey Publishing is wonderfully illustrated and feels sturdy for a paperback type.

[Gusington]

Dammit Carl!

Ha

[Martok]

Have just begun re-reading Brandon Sanderson's fantastic Mistborn trilogy.  Am curious to see what clues I pick up on now that I know how it goes (although it's been a few years, so my memory's a bit foggy at this point). 

[Staggerwing]

Have just begun re-reading Brandon Sanderson's fantastic Mistborn trilogy.  Am curious to see what clues I pick up on now that I know how it goes (although it's been a few years, so my memory's a bit foggy at this point).

I've never heard of that series. Now I'll have to add it to the crushing weight already on my virtual nightstand. Thanks.