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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? 
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
Empires of the Word: a language history of the world
The Homeric Hymns
The Greco-Persian Wars
All very interesting & highly recommended!
CountMRVHS
Class starts tomorrow. So definitely hitting the arabic textbooks. As for pleasure:
From Beirut to Jerusalem - Thomas Friedman
A Mentor Book on Gestalt Psychology
From Beirut to Jerusalem - Thomas Friedman
A Mentor Book on Gestalt Psychology
The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling, out of sheer curiosity.
The First Crusade - Thomas Asbridge
The Alexiad - Anna Komnene (penguin translation)
The First Crusade - Thomas Asbridge
The Alexiad - Anna Komnene (penguin translation)
"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
last book I read was "The First Crusade" just like Orb -- hope you're enjoying it! I found it very illuminating
The Illiad and The Odyssey switching between those books
Cromwell - Our Chief of Men by Antonia Fraser
getting ready to finish Warriors Of God (3rd Crusade)
For fun, I am re-reading "The Eagle and the Wolves" by Simon Scarrow and "The Afghan Campaign" by Steven Pressfield (both highly recommended for any TW fans who got nothing to do till the release of the Medieval). Also under progress is the "Iron Chef of Folk Dishes in Taiwan" and this really boring report on "SEC's Proposed Rules Relating to Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Reporting"
Exams in two weeks, so it's Croatian Legal History in the European Context.
Otherwise, I'm rereading Russia's War by Richard Overy (or WWII, Eastern Front, but starting a bit before that, with the officer purges, and ending later).
Otherwise, I'm rereading Russia's War by Richard Overy (or WWII, Eastern Front, but starting a bit before that, with the officer purges, and ending later).
Right now I'm reading "The Honourable Killer", by Jan Guillou, it's a swedish book and I don't think it is translated into other languages.
Otherwise I've read some books in the fantasy-genre (is that right-spelled? Or, well, the right words?) called Eragon.
Wiking.
Otherwise I've read some books in the fantasy-genre (is that right-spelled? Or, well, the right words?) called Eragon.
Wiking.
Freakonomics - Levitt & Dubner
Empire "The Death of Kings" - Iggulden
The Third Reich, A new history - Burleigh, This is hard going
Empire "The Death of Kings" - Iggulden
The Third Reich, A new history - Burleigh, This is hard going
I am reading
A Song Of Ice And Fire G.R.R Martin- just finished. Brilliant series. Anyone fancy making a mod for this? Pm me!
Phantom Terry Goodkind - not too bad. The good characters seem to be invincible. I don't think one has died yet. The militiary tactics in this series are mostly completely unorthodox.
When i acquire some modding skills, I will actually try to make ASOIAF (Song of Ice and Fire) mod.
A Song Of Ice And Fire G.R.R Martin- just finished. Brilliant series. Anyone fancy making a mod for this? Pm me!
Phantom Terry Goodkind - not too bad. The good characters seem to be invincible. I don't think one has died yet. The militiary tactics in this series are mostly completely unorthodox.
When i acquire some modding skills, I will actually try to make ASOIAF (Song of Ice and Fire) mod.
Originally Posted by stormbringer_951:
I am reading
A Song Of Ice And Fire G.R.R Martin- just finished. Brilliant series. Anyone fancy making a mod for this? Pm me!
Phantom Terry Goodkind - not too bad. The good characters seem to be invincible. I don't think one has died yet. The militiary tactics in this series are mostly completely unorthodox.
When i acquire some modding skills, I will actually try to make ASOIAF (Song of Ice and Fire) mod.
What is ASOIAF ?I am reading
A Song Of Ice And Fire G.R.R Martin- just finished. Brilliant series. Anyone fancy making a mod for this? Pm me!
Phantom Terry Goodkind - not too bad. The good characters seem to be invincible. I don't think one has died yet. The militiary tactics in this series are mostly completely unorthodox.
When i acquire some modding skills, I will actually try to make ASOIAF (Song of Ice and Fire) mod.
Historic, fantasy, space ?
Originally Posted by ShadesWolf:
What is ASOIAF ?
Historic, fantasy, space ?
Fantasy ... I've read them, four books (or is it five?) and it's still not finished. Medievel, but without the more fantasy stuff (I remember there only being a dragon or two, none mature, and not of the fire-breathing WMD type and undead ... or something, oh and a magical sword or two). Also, if you are disgusted by Byzantine court politics, I wouldn't suggest it.What is ASOIAF ?
Historic, fantasy, space ?
Makes a good reading, but I find it nothing special, a bit on the complicated side.
Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire by Caroline Finkel
Hello Ancient Warrios;
I'm reading E-Book version of "IMAGES of KURSK : History's greatest tank battle july 1943".I also read "Sinuhe : Special doctor of Pharaoh" last year summer.I highly recommend you to read this book.
I'm also looking for a book named "Sassanian Elit Cavalry" written by Dr. Kaveh Farrokh.Does Anyone have the E-Book of this book?
Thanks
-Kambiz
I'm reading E-Book version of "IMAGES of KURSK : History's greatest tank battle july 1943".I also read "Sinuhe : Special doctor of Pharaoh" last year summer.I highly recommend you to read this book.
I'm also looking for a book named "Sassanian Elit Cavalry" written by Dr. Kaveh Farrokh.Does Anyone have the E-Book of this book?
Thanks
-Kambiz
Saratoga: turning point of the american revolution
On Killing: the Phychological cost in learning to kill in war and society.
Legends II: (Robin Hobb, Gerorge RR Martin etc)
Einsteins monsters-post nuclear age angst fiction
On Killing: the Phychological cost in learning to kill in war and society.
Legends II: (Robin Hobb, Gerorge RR Martin etc)
Einsteins monsters-post nuclear age angst fiction
Re-reading one of my favourites: "The Heartland" by Stuart Legg...it is an interesting book about Nomad history in -well, pretty much- Eurasia.
Profiles of Courage ~ JFK
Robin Hobb - The soldier son - book I
Dan Simmons - Illium
Dan Simmons - Illium
Re-reading Zecharia Sitchin´s "The 12th planet". Great thoughexperiment that via archaeology, sience and some fantasy claims that earth was inhabited by astronauts from a 12th planet in our system and that homo sapiens derrived from them. Absolutely one of the 5 best books I´ve ever read. Being a bookstore owners son that says a lot, he he!
Wow, a lot of history and war books. Who'd have thunk it? 
George RR Martin's stuff is great, btw. I think he and Steven Erikson are the only readable fantasy writers writing now. Fantasy for thinking adults.
George RR Martin's stuff is great, btw. I think he and Steven Erikson are the only readable fantasy writers writing now. Fantasy for thinking adults.
currently i am reading "The Life of the World to Come", which is book 5 in Kage Baker's sci-fi "Company" series.
pretty interesting (and witty and slightly humorous) series involving time travel and cyborgs. the first 3 books were the best. the 6th book in the series just came out this month.
not been in the mood for much non-fiction the last couple months...
all you people sound very intelligent. my book is a little simple.
i am reading "men of iron" by howard pyle. it is an old book and written probable for teenagers so most of you could read it in a couple afternoons. i used to like a movie they made based on this book from the 1950s called "the black shield of falworth". it is also a simplistist kind of movie for teenage audience but try it you may like it.
you can download an ebook from www.gutenberg.net if you want to read it. i frequent the gutenberg project as they have a lot of books that are older. i really do not read very well anymore and i have the computer read to me using microsoft reader.
happy reading.
i am reading "men of iron" by howard pyle. it is an old book and written probable for teenagers so most of you could read it in a couple afternoons. i used to like a movie they made based on this book from the 1950s called "the black shield of falworth". it is also a simplistist kind of movie for teenage audience but try it you may like it.
you can download an ebook from www.gutenberg.net if you want to read it. i frequent the gutenberg project as they have a lot of books that are older. i really do not read very well anymore and i have the computer read to me using microsoft reader.
happy reading.
Originally Posted by CountMRVHS:
Wow, a lot of history and war books. Who'd have thunk it?
George RR Martin's stuff is great, btw. I think he and Steven Erikson are the only readable fantasy writers writing now. Fantasy for thinking adults.
Gods, I absolutely love GRRM. I am waiting rather impatiently for A Dance with Dragons (book five, of a seven or so book series) to be released. Amazing. If you like him, CountMRVHS, I also recommend R. Scott Bakker (http://www.princeofnothing.com/). He's got a three book series with similar complexity to GRRM, and is fairly magick free. If you're at all interested in the Crusades you'll really enjoy his work. Wow, a lot of history and war books. Who'd have thunk it?
George RR Martin's stuff is great, btw. I think he and Steven Erikson are the only readable fantasy writers writing now. Fantasy for thinking adults.
I myself couldn't get through Steven Erickson's first book, even though I was very intrigued by it...something just turned me off. *shrugs* I haven't finished.As far as what I am currently reading, it's a combination of GRRM's A Storm of Swords and Jefferey Deaver's The Cold Moon. Deaver is suffereing from John Grisham-itis, in that his early work was good, and his latter work not so much; if you like suspense thriller type novels, however, his earlier books with Lincoln Rhyme are tough to beat.
Nostradamus ate my hamster by Robert Rankin
and
The Luzhin Defense - Nabokov
and
The Luzhin Defense - Nabokov
Just finished "The Atrocity Archives" by Charles Stross, really fun stuff. The premise is that eldritch cthuloid horrors are held at bay by ... an in-fighting, dysfunctional bureaucracy. Sort of like Stanislaw Lem's "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub," but not as absurd.
Now I'm bookless. All I've got to read is "Three Men in a Boat ... to Say Nothing of the Dog" which I've started five or six times without getting very far, and the latest Chuck Palahniuk, which is composed entirely of short stories, which gets old fast.
Quickly Amazon, save me from my "to read" list!
Now I'm bookless. All I've got to read is "Three Men in a Boat ... to Say Nothing of the Dog" which I've started five or six times without getting very far, and the latest Chuck Palahniuk, which is composed entirely of short stories, which gets old fast.
Quickly Amazon, save me from my "to read" list!
Swapping through some books atm
Arthur, once and future king Terence H White
The Wheel of Time Robert Jordan
Oddysee Homer
Peloponesian Wars Thucydides
Arthur, once and future king Terence H White
The Wheel of Time Robert Jordan
Oddysee Homer
Peloponesian Wars Thucydides
Fortune's Favorites - Colleen McCullough.
Enjoying it a lot thus far
Enjoying it a lot thus far
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