What book are you reading

[nick1985]

Currently I am working through Gates of Fire

http://www.amazon.com/Gates-Fire-Nov...9752260&sr=8-1

Really enjoying this one. Its told from the perspective of a captured Spartan squire telling his story to Xerxes. Starts a tad slow, but overall I am really liking this one.

:thumbsup:

 

[Woosta]

Tai-Pan
Don Quixote
Conquest of Gaul
The Three Musketeers
War and Peace
The Brothers Karamazov
Les Miserables
Anna Karenina
Game of Thrones
Foundation Series
Time Enough for Love
Lolita

 

[drebo]

Currently reading The Terminal Man.

 

[OrByte]

Tai-Pan
Don Quixote
Conquest of Gaul
The Three Musketeers
War and Peace
The Brothers Karamazov
Les Miserables
Anna Karenina
Game of Thrones
Foundation Series
Time Enough for Love
Lolita

all at once?

that must be confusing...

 

[Xstatic1]

just started "True Blue" by David Baldacci.

anyone read "Level 26: Dark Origins" by Anthony Zuiker & Duane Swierczynski?

 

[Woosta]

all at once?

that must be confusing...

I started some and haven't finished and moved on to others, hehe.

 

[nageov3t]

The Neverending Story

I haven't read it since first reading it as a kid and decided to give it a re-read.

it's funny, as a kid, I never really picked up on how the childlike empress's indifference cuts both ways. I mean, she seems benevolent when she's talking with the protagonist, but it's all the same to her if he loses all memories and spends the rest of his life trapped in Fantasia or not.

after that, I'm thinking about reading Fried Green Tomatoes... my sister bought it for me for Christmas last year and I never got around to it.

 

[Squisher]

Book #9 of the Malazan Book of the Fallen - Dust of Dreams by Steven Erikson

 

[InflatableBuddha]

Born to Run by Christopher McDougall

 

[ahenkel]

Anarchy Evolution - Greg Graffin

 

[pontifex]

Swords of the Desert by Harold Lamb

Recently finished I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett (latest Discworld book) and Inside Delta Force by Eric L. Haney

 

[adairusmc]

"They Call me Baba-Booey" by Gary Dell'Abate

 

[shortylickens]

Two books, and I've been taking way too long.

1. The Self Esteem Trap: Raising confident and compassionate kids in an age of self-importance.

2. Whats the matter with California?

 

[olds]

Just finished "Point Of Impact" and started "ruthless.com".

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Cryptonomicon

Reagan: What did you do when you saw the Japs coming?

Shaftoe: I looked for the guys with swords and killed them first.

Reagan: That's smart, kill the officers, leave the enemy leaderless and confused.

Shaftoe: That's not why. Have you ever seen anyone run through with a sword?

 

[destrekor]

Currently I am working through Gates of Fire

http://www.amazon.com/Gates-Fire-Nov...9752260&sr=8-1

Really enjoying this one. Its told from the perspective of a captured Spartan squire telling his story to Xerxes. Starts a tad slow, but overall I am really liking this one.

:thumbsup:

Really good book! I had to read it one of the quarters of my senior year in ROTC.
Platoon Leader was also a pretty good book, an autobiographical tale of a 2LT and his platoon in Vietnam.

Currently reading:
The Dark Tower IV - Wizard and Glass (Stephen King)

last 6 weeks or so, I've read, from most distant to most recent:

Year of the Black Rainbow (Claudio Sanchez and Peter David)
Prey (Michael Crichton - a re-read, read it forever ago)
Under the Dome (Stephen King)
Dark Tower I - The Gunslinger
Dark Tower II - The Drawing of the Three
Dark Tower III - The Wastelands

Just finished DT III last night at work, got a few pages into the fourth novel of the series.

I have a ton of time to read at work, in fact, it feels like I get paid to read, and on occasion I do a little work. Being a security guard at a lumber yard brings a lot of downtime. And I can't do anything with electronics, not even an e-reader... but I can read all I want. Backwards and retarded policy (I get seriously engrossed in these books), but whatever - get to read a lot of things I've been wanting to read.

Next up, once I finish King's Dark Tower series: The original Dune series.

 

[SKORPI0]

The Myths of Security - What the Computer Security Industry Doesn't Want You to Know

How to Disappear: Erase Your Digital Footprint, Leave False Trails, and Vanish without a Trace

 

[destrekor]

Tai-Pan
Don Quixote
Conquest of Gaul
The Three Musketeers
War and Peace
The Brothers Karamazov
Les Miserables
Anna Karenina
Game of Thrones
Foundation Series
Time Enough for Love
Lolita

How would you rate War and Peace and The Brothers Karamazov ?

And more specifically, how would you rate them as translated works? Did they feel smooth and everything made sense together, as if written in English to begin with?

My level of Russian fluency is nowhere up to grade to tackle a novel in the language, so I'd have to settle for a translation.

Both Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky have been on my to-read list, but so have a lot of other highly-rated authors and books.

 

[Kreon]

Gates of Fire is an awesome read. Steven Pressfield is a great author. If you like that one, I suggest you also get The Afghan Campaign, which tells the story of a Macedonian in Alexander's army when they invaded Afghanistan. I've also read Last of the Amazons by him. It was decent, but not on the level of Gates of Fire or The Afghan Campaign.

Currently I am reading Three Cups of Tea. Its about a man who, while climbing K2, finds an impoverished village and vows to build them a school (which he does), and then has gone on to build a number of other ones (its a non-fiction book fyi)

I just finished a Ben Bova book about Mars (Red Planet I think? I don't recall the title tbh). I really like Ben Bova books, though I much preferred earlier ones (like Rock Rats) that focused on Fuchs, Humphries, Pancho, and Amanda.

Next, I will be reading The Longest Winter, which is a non-fiction about the Battle of the Bulge.

 

[fatpat268]

This is better with pictures...

I'm finishing up:

And recently started on:

 

[HybridSquirrel]

Finishing up "With the old breed"
Starting "The american way of war"

So far this semester i have read
a woman in berlin
a strange defeat (marc bloch)
the oxford history of modern war (townshend)
the drowned and the saved (primo levi)
aftermath: remnants of war


le sigh. no life.

 

[jayzds]

Just finished "American Assassin" by Vince Flynn.

Going to read "Pillars of Fire" and "World Without End" by Ken Follett

 

[TecHNooB]

Haven't read a book for leisure in a long time.

 

[Matthiasa]

None even though I have 2 books from an unknown trilogy on my desk lol.
Having greater then a 1000 pages to read on my desk makes me look less lazy... until they notice the bookmark hasn't moved in like over two years

 

[gorcorps]

Nothing right now, but I just finished The Giver. I think next up is The Road.