Post what book you are reading at the moment. I'm currently reading Achtung Panzer by Heinz Guderian.
Post what book you are reading at the moment. I'm currently reading Achtung Panzer by Heinz Guderian.
Co-Lord of BKS and Beirut's Kingdom of Peace and Love.
"Handsome features, rugged exteriors, intellectual chick magnets, we're pretty much twins."-Beirut
"Rhy, where's your helicopter now? Where's your ******* helicopter now?"-Mephistopheles.
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.
Some people get by with a little understanding
Some people get by with a whole lot more - A. Eldritch
Baudolino by Umberto Eco. Its quite a slow read to be honest
Awesome-I love Barker. In the hills, the cities is my personal favourite from that collection.Originally Posted by [b
Co-Lord of BKS and Beirut's Kingdom of Peace and Love.
"Handsome features, rugged exteriors, intellectual chick magnets, we're pretty much twins."-Beirut
"Rhy, where's your helicopter now? Where's your ******* helicopter now?"-Mephistopheles.
That's the Balkan one, right?
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
Some people get by with a little understanding
Some people get by with a whole lot more - A. Eldritch
Yep. It's so original.Quote[/b] (hrvojej @ July 15 2004,22:46)]That's the Balkan one, right?
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
My Uncle is just about to finish his dissertation. He says he never wants to read anything by GA Henty ever again.
Co-Lord of BKS and Beirut's Kingdom of Peace and Love.
"Handsome features, rugged exteriors, intellectual chick magnets, we're pretty much twins."-Beirut
"Rhy, where's your helicopter now? Where's your ******* helicopter now?"-Mephistopheles.
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.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.
Some people get by with a little understanding
Some people get by with a whole lot more - A. Eldritch
Clive Barker, Thief of always, everville and Weaveworld great writer and a great books.
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.
Unto each good man a good dog
The Plague by Camus. Really, really, REALLY bad.
-Capo
Why do you hate Freedom?
The US is marching backward to the values of Michael Stivic.
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.
Are you righteous? Kind? Does your confidence lie in this? Are you loved by all? Know that I was, too. Do you imagine your suffering will be any less because you loved goodness and truth?
Almost done reading Julius Caeser and will be start with
A Midsummer Nights Dream tommorow.
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.
Screw luxury; resist convenience.
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…
Today is your victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.
Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings, The Water Book
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.
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson - fun
Also just started Dance, Dance, Dance by Haruki Murakami (but cannot make any comments on it yet)
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.
Frogbeastegg's Guide to Total War: Shogun II. Please note that the guide is not up-to-date for the latest patch.
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
The Grass Crown by Colleen McCollouch
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Henry V and MacBeth were good.
I Am Currently Reading The Iliad.
Chelsea - Simply Champions!
RTK4Flintoff in multi-player
King Edward, i have to agree, i can't stand Midsummers night dream. Not one of old Shakes best
All I know about Midsummers night dream is that theres a dude named Puck in there.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.
"But if you should fall you fall alone,
If you should stand then who's to guide you?
If I knew the way I would take you home."
Grateful Dead, "Ripple"
The Campaigns of Napoleon by David Chandler (a quick read... NOT)
Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
"Why spoil the beauty of the thing with legality?" - Theodore Roosevelt
Idealism is masturbation, but unlike real masturbation idealism actually makes one blind. - Fragony
Though Adrian did a brilliant job of defending the great man that is Hugo Chavez, I decided to post this anyway.. - JAG (who else?)
Too TrueQuote[/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
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)
Chelsea - Simply Champions!
RTK4Flintoff in multi-player
I am curently reading: The Fifty Year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War by Norman Freidman.
It's well done. Quite detailed.
"We are lovers of beauty without extravagance and of learning without loss of vigor." -Thucydides
"The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage." -Thucydides
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...
Co-Lord of BKS and Beirut's Kingdom of Peace and Love.
"Handsome features, rugged exteriors, intellectual chick magnets, we're pretty much twins."-Beirut
"Rhy, where's your helicopter now? Where's your ******* helicopter now?"-Mephistopheles.
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*
"I'm like the Vikings -- I come here, I steal your women, your booze, your dough, and then I go back home." ~ Wiz
"Play RTW and wait till 1,000 people die and look at them from above. Then tell me it was worth the oil." - Byzantine Prince
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.
My life and hard times by James Thurber...one of the funniest books I've read.
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
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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