What book(s) are you reading now?

[Celtic_Guardian]

What books are you people reading now? Right now i am reading The Qur'an (i'm probably on some list for buying it at the bookstore) and Ethics for the New Millenium by the Dalai Lama. What about anyone else?

[CountMRVHS]

Rotating through 3 books at the moment.

Empires of the Word: a language history of the world

The Homeric Hymns

The Greco-Persian Wars

All very interesting & highly recommended!

CountMRVHS

[tripwirescars]

Class starts tomorrow. So definitely hitting the arabic textbooks. As for pleasure:

From Beirut to Jerusalem - Thomas Friedman

A Mentor Book on Gestalt Psychology

[Orb]

The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling, out of sheer curiosity.
The First Crusade - Thomas Asbridge
The Alexiad - Anna Komnene (penguin translation)

[macsen rufus]

"Agincourt" by Juliet Barker...

last book I read was "The First Crusade" just like Orb -- hope you're enjoying it! I found it very illuminating

[Patriarch of Constantinople]

The Illiad and The Odyssey switching between those books

[Augustus Lucifer]

I'm currently reading, The Black Order by James Rollins, The Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan, and of course Sun Tzu's Art of War by just about anyone who can take credit for the translation and not mention the skeptically existing military genius himself as proper.

[Lemur]

I've decided to read all of this year's Hugo nominees. Finished His Majesty's Dragon, which was okay, sort of a cross between Patrick O'Brian and Anne McCaffrey, you know, dragons in a Napoleonic setting. Kind of odd, really.

Now I'm reading a much better book, Old Man's War. It's hard-core military SF, but light on the cliches. Somewhere between Starship Troopers and The Forever War, but very original, very well-written.

I think there are five nominees, so I'll be needing to track the other three down.

[posty]

The Sling and The Stone , T.X. Hammes, retired USMC Colonel, making the case that the West hasn't yet devised a strategy to combat what he dubs '4th generation war'.

Well-written presentation of his position. Sadly, having read half-way through his 300-page tome, I haven't gleaned what his solution might be. Yet. Hope springs eternal. :)

[doc]

I am reading the Sword of Truth series, on book 3. I have read some books like what the other posters are reading but am currently only in the mood for something less studious.

[The_678]

I just finished reading The Last Kingdom and The Pale Horseman by Brnard Cornwell and am waiting for the third and final book of the series Lords of the North. It's a historical fiction about the Danish invasion of England and Alfred The Greats fight back very good.

While I am waiting for the last book I have just started reading Shogun by James Clavelle. I've already read it a couple of times but it is my favourite book so I love to read it again. It is an amazing book about 1600 Japan and an English pilot that got washed ashore on Japan.

[Motep]

Wheel of time book 8: the path of daggers
The Odessy

[Viking]

The Eye of the World, the first book I'm reading in the series.

[Avicenna]

The Last Don.

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

White Order, a Eye of a World Book, Black Hawk Down and a History Book..

[IrishArmenian]

Anything else, Tiberius, or just that one?

[Lord Condormanius]

I'm reading Self and Society in Medieval France: The Memoirs of Abbot Guibert of Nogent and Erewhon by Samuel Butler.

The first one is pretty cool. It is one of the only examples of a first hand account of everyday life in the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries. It is a very "human" story. That is, when we learn about history, we tend to look at people in the past as if they are stories in a book. This memior provides a much needed human element to the medieval peiod.

I just started the Butler book. It might be good.

[Tony Furze]

Macbeth by Shakespeare
To Kill a Mockingbird by H Lee
Poems by John Keats
The Afghan by Frederick Forsyth
Cloud of Sparrows by Takashi Matsuoka
Great Expetations by Dickens

[melvinio]

Lord Condo,
I've read most of the Guibert; good innit?
See my lasy post for another from exactly the same period, if you're interested.

[swell]

I have read, I'm reading and I will again :
"Iron coffins : a personal account of the German U-Boat battles of WW2" by Herbert A. Werner. The first book in english I read !
Fascinating, scary...

'Paulssen said, "Start up bilge pump, let's see whether they take that bait."
The impertinent grinding sound tortured us like a dentist's drill. Though it betrayed our position, it produced no response from above. The third enemy had also departed.'

Oh dear

[Lord Condormanius]

Lord Condo,
I've read most of the Guibert; good innit?
See my lasy post for another from exactly the same period, if you're interested.

Yes. I started reading Guibert for a Medieval Europe course I am taking and I kind of got swept up in it. I highly recommend it to anyone who would like to understand the Middle Ages from a different perspective.

...I didn't see the other one you were talking about.

[Cadmus]

What ye all should read... Persian Fire by Tom Holland. Wonderful book, about the Greco-Persian war.
He also wrote Rubicon, about Roman history.

Now I'm reading "Constantinople, the last great siege"