What Book?

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Post what book you are reading at the moment. I'm currently reading Achtung Panzer by Heinz Guderian. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-book2.gif

[hrvojej]

Only many many scientific articles at the moment unfortunatelly. But once I'm finally done with this, I have Books of Blood by Clive Barker ready for the vacation.

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

Baudolino by Umberto Eco. Its quite a slow read to be honest http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-dizzy2.gif

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Quote[/b] (hrvojej @ July 15 2004,22:30)]Only many many scientific articles at the moment unfortunatelly. But once I'm finally done with this, I have Books of Blood by Clive Barker ready for the vacation.
Awesome-I love Barker. In the hills, the cities is my personal favourite from that collection.

[hrvojej]

Quote[/b] (Big King Sanctaphrax @ July 15 2004,17:38)]Awesome-I love Barker. In the hills, the cities is my personal favourite from that collection.
That's the Balkan one, right? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
I've read a few of his stories before, but I haven't read the whole collection. I can't wait to start reading, since that will mean that I don't have to read my dissertation any more. Yihaaa http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Quote[/b] (hrvojej @ July 15 2004,22:46)]
Quote[/b] (Big King Sanctaphrax @ July 15 2004,17:38)]Awesome-I love Barker. In the hills, the cities is my personal favourite from that collection.
That's the Balkan one, right? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
I've read a few of his stories before, but I haven't read the whole collection. I can't wait to start reading, since that will mean that I don't have to read my dissertation any more. Yihaaa http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
Yep. It's so original.

My Uncle is just about to finish his dissertation. He says he never wants to read anything by GA Henty ever again. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[hrvojej]

Quote[/b] (Big King Sanctaphrax @ July 15 2004,17:49)]My Uncle is just about to finish his dissertation. He says he never wants to read anything by GA Henty ever again. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
Yes, these things have that effect on you. The irony is that once you're done with it and should finally reap the rewards of your work, you're so fed up with everything that you wonder why you have even started doing it in the first place. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

Clive Barker, Thief of always, everville and Weaveworld great writer and a great books.

[Beirut]

The First World War by John Keegan.

Bought it as a shelf puppy for a rainy day. But it's a serious page turner. Truly astounding.

[Kaiser of Arabia]

The Plague by Camus. Really, really, REALLY bad.
-Capo

[Si GeeNa]

Just finished Mark Simpson's Sex Terror.

For whoever is interested, Simpson was the columnist who supposedly invented the word Metrosexual.

I'm going to start my next one soon... Its a biography on John Morrison.

[mercian billman]

Almost done reading Julius Caeser and will be start with
A Midsummer Nights Dream tommorow.

[Tachikaze]

I'm usually in the middle of more than one book at a time. I am reading about ancient ships and American Indian warrior equipment while reading Eiji Yoshikawa's Miyamoto Musashi.

The first two books are reference for my own novel.

[Voigtkampf]

Got “Witching Hour” by Anne Rice, a present from my better half, new grounds for me there.

I am also re-reading Thomas Szaz “Ideology and Insanity” along with some heavier stuff from Anatol Rapoport “N-Person Game Theory”, to complete something I’ve been writing on for a long time.

Sadly, I don’t have enough time to kick back and read to my full heart’s desire; too much work… https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/frown.gif

[Ja'chyra]

I'm reading David Eddings Redemption of Althalus, again, and I've just finished Simon Scarrow's The Eagle and The Wolves, I think that's what it's called.

[Ser Clegane]

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson - fun https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-smile.gif

Also just started Dance, Dance, Dance by Haruki Murakami (but cannot make any comments on it yet)

[frogbeastegg]

Currently reading:

Sharon Penman's Fall's the shadow - like all her books quite good but flawed in several aspects, not least her broken grammar and obsession with people eating 'wafers' whatever they are.

Elizabeth Chadwick's Falcons of Montabard - This author is Bad with a capital italic 'b'. She is unremittingly terrible; I have developed quite a liking for her work because nothing else makes me laugh myself silly as I read. She's very educational to a writer like me; I learn so much about what not to do...

Chadwick's Marsh king's daughter - again I am laughing myself silly while learning how not to write. I get her books from the library, which means they stink both figuratively and literally. You know Chadwick gets really good reviews; people go nuts for her and her characters, hard to beleive, really. A large part of my dislike is the fact I was told she was historical fiction but she is actually historical romance; I hate romance All those gaping plot holes, those convenient happenings to bring our soppy twits closer together, those pages of details I didn't want to know...but then again there are plenty of other things I don't like about her work, none of which have anything to do with that terrible label 'romance'.

Women in medieval life - actually a very interesting book on a very interesting subject, and one of a growing collection of Roman, dark age and medieval women's history on my bookshelf.

[chunkynut]

Reading: Rage of a Demon King, Raymond E Feist

Read it a while ago but have nothing else thats holding my interest. I need a good new fantasy author, i think Steven Erikson's most recent book is the way forward https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[shakaka36]

The Grass Crown by Colleen McCollouch

[King Edward]

Quote[/b] (mercian billman @ July 16 2004,04:16)]Almost done reading Julius Caeser and will be start with
A Midsummer Nights Dream tommorow.
https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/eek.gif https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/eek.gif https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/eek.gif I dont think i have ever read anything so terrible a A Midsummers Night Dream

Henry V and MacBeth were good.

I Am Currently Reading The Iliad.

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

King Edward, i have to agree, i can't stand Midsummers night dream. Not one of old Shakes best https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif

[Steppe Merc]

All I know about Midsummers night dream is that theres a dude named Puck in there. https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-jester.gif I'm reading a couple things, rereading the Wheel of Time series (quite good), and starting on a book about the history and culture of some of the American Indians. Seems quite interesting.

[Spino]

The Campaigns of Napoleon by David Chandler (a quick read... NOT)

Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield

[King Edward]

Quote[/b] (The Blind King of Bohemia @ July 16 2004,16:05)]King Edward, i have to agree, i can't stand Midsummers night dream. Not one of old Shakes best https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif
Too True

Seems to me like he tried to make a sort of kids story/play but it just doesnt work for me, not after some of the better ones like Julius Ceasar, Romeo and Juliette, MacBeth and Henry V (I've not really read much more than that but i cant Imagine they are as bad as A Midsummer nights Dream)

[Pindar]

I am curently reading: The Fifty Year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War by Norman Freidman.

It's well done. Quite detailed.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Finished Achtung Panzer, am now reading bury my heart at wounded knee. A history of the Native Americans in the western USA. It's really depressing... https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/frown.gif

[TheSilverKnight]

I'm reading Sharpe's Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell. Haven't picked it up yet, but I'm just about to...right....now..*picks up book and starts reading*

[mercian billman]

I will be starting on a Midsummer Nights Dream right after I get off the computer. Im reading it for school (summer reading list) along with Julius Ceaser.

Julius Ceaser was great I especially liked the ending alot.

I've also read Macbeth which was okay. I didn't really like Romeo and Juliet. We had to read it during my Freshman year and the end of the book concided with National Suicide Awareess Week. When one of our school councilers came into to class and counciled us not to commit suicide it made a depressing book even more depressing.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

My life and hard times by James Thurber...one of the funniest books I've read.

[Teutonic Knight]

1.Il Cavallo Rosso: (Eugeio Corti)(The Red Horse){novel} A chronicle and narrative of of Italian conscripts in WWII and later as resistence fighters against German occupation.

2. The Communist Manifesto: (Karl Marx, Freidrich Engels) Self-Explanatory https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

3. Regarding the City of God against the Pagans: (St. Augustine) Most of you should know what this is.

4. Utopia: (Sir/St. Thomas More) I haven't decided what it is yet, I'll let you know when I finish it. Basically the ancestor of Orwell's 1984.

5. A Refutation of Moral Relativism (Peter Kreeft) (Philosophy) just a philosophical dialogue.

So as you can see, my plate is rather full as far as reading is concerned, this partly explains my recent absence from the forums.


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