What are you currently reading?

[carthage_supreme]

Im currently reading the traveller by John Twelve Hawks

[Horst Nordfink]

I'm just about to finish Rubicon by Tom Holland.

[Arzeal]

ranges of books on hypnotize thing, suddenly got interested.

[Landwalker]

Walter Goffart's Rome's Fall and After. And about fifty other things. Damn thesis paper.

Cheers.

[Malik of Sindh]

Im currentely reading Thundering Zeus by Frank.L.Holt

[konny]

Just finished:



That is "The Roman Art of War" in English


And now started with



no longer available in German, therefore in English

[TWFanatic]

Right now? "Motor Trend."

I assume you mean book-wise though. The Camulod Chronicles, by Jack Whyte. The First book in the series is Skystone. Also reading The Roman Army at War, by Adrian Goldsworthy.

[Timoleon]

Yesterday I finished "Rubicon" by Tom Holland (which was great by the way) and I have just started "The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece" by Victor Davis Hanson.

[Geoffrey S]

I'll just quote myself elsewhere:

Currently reading (as coursework for the first semester...)
- Global Transformations,David Held a.o.
- Global Capitalism, Jeffry Frieden
- The Middle East and Central Asia: an Anthropological Approach, Dale Eickelman
- A Vision Unfulfilled: Russia and the Soviet Union in the Twentieth Century, John Thompson
- Writing History: Theory and Practice, collection of articles
- A Concise History of the Middle East, Arthur Goldschmidt (first half is good, modern history is rather biased imo)
- The Origins of the Modern World, Robert Marks
- The Enduring Vision: a History of the American People, number of authors

Those are ones from cover to cover. Also a lot of articles, and various books and articles for an essay.

[Long lost Caesar]

subtle knife by phillip pullman. nothin to do with antiquity in the SLIGHTEST

[beatoangelico]

I'm in the middle of "The Fall of the Roman Empire" by Peter Heather

[agua]

Alexander by Robin Lane Fox

[Strategos Alexandros]

This . The Gotrek and Felix novels by William King plus several hundred other books.

[Centurion Crastinus]

I'm reading "We Were Soldiers Once... And Young" by Lt Gen. Harold Moore, and I am reading "Mark Antony's Heroes: How the Third Gallica Legion Saved an Apostle and Created an Emperor" by Stephen Dando-Collins. I recomend all of Stephen Dando-Collins' books on different legions. They area all pretty good.

[Rhipsaspis]

just finished Asimov's "Foundation" series, now reading "The First Casualty" by Ben Elton, good stuff!

[Long lost Caesar]

i read some of 'we were soldiers once' but it was too heavy for me to be honest. it seems to be a very good run-down of the battles the company took part in, but it never really gripped me enough to keep me coming back.

[Maeran]

just finished Asimov's "Foundation" series, now reading "The First Casualty" by Ben Elton, good stuff!

I liked First Casualty. I'm sure Ben Elton has a thing for WWI.

Currently reading, well a few things, including Livy again (book 4 currently) because I decided to make a note of who Livy says are Consul/Tribunes and see if any other sources match. Alright, in all likelihood Livy is working off flawed sources and everyone else is copying Livy, but you never know.

The main book I'm reading now, because it is Halloween, is Dracula.

[Mouzafphaerre]

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[Rhipsaspis]

I liked First Casualty. I'm sure Ben Elton has a thing for WWI.

His grandfathers where on opposite sides during WWI (British and German). He dedicated the book to them

[Horst Nordfink]

I'm reading "We Were Soldiers Once... And Young" by Lt Gen. Harold Moore....

I read that a couple of years ago, and I've never been more bored by a book in all my life.

For some reason I also watched the film, and that was equally as cack. I hate Vietnam films, you'd never know they actually lost that war!!

I blame Mel Gibson!!

Does anyone have a recommendation on some books about the Diadochi?

[The Celt]

Does anyone have a recommendation on some books about the Diadochi?

I'm currently reading Micheal Grant's "From Alexander to Cleopatra: The Hellenistic World" Great read so far.(I'm at the Ptolemies) But don't expect a strait through chronological telling of the era.
He instead starts with an intro chapter that pretty much sums up the time period rather frankly,(I skipped it since I knew the general story.)and then goes into more detail about the actual life-styles of the Hellenistic peoples with the rest of the book.
It may feel alittle outdated re-search wise for some of our more "enlightened" members but for the rest of us it's a good summary of the successors. Especially considering how hard it is to find books about that period elsewhere.

I'm also reading "A Peace to End All Peace" and wrapping up Bernard Cornwall's "The Last Kingdom".

[Geoffrey S]

Does anyone have a recommendation on some books about the Diadochi?

Novel? A brilliant one is Funeral Games by Mary Renault, focusing on the time directly after the death of Alexander. Her books about Alexander are also near the top of my all-time favourites, her depiction of him and the period is the most vivid and memorable I've read. Great books.

[Centurion Crastinus]

I like we were soldiers thus far because it doesn't portray the American soldier as a stoned train wreck of a human being, like every other Vietnam war move or novel.

[Ozymandias]

"Winds of War" by Wouk and I just finished Tolstoy's "War and Peace".

[cmacq]

finishing Apache Nightmare: The Battle at Cibecue Creek. Charles Collins, University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. Its for work. Partly about the only recorded munity in US Army history.

[Megas Pyrrhos]

Xenophon's Anabasis for me....1/4 of the way through...read the book maybe 3 total times in my life, greatness incarnate in my opinion

even if Xenophon refers to himself in the 3rd person...

[Bonny]

Just have finished:
"Shadowplay" by Tad Williams
Waited two years for it and one week after amazon finally sent it to me I have to wait another two or three years until he has finished the next book of the Triology...gah

currently i'm reading:

"The World without us" by Alan Weisman
"From Sarmarkhand to Sardis" by Susan Sherwin-White & Amelie Kuhrt
"Wers Glaubt wird Selig" by Dieter Nuhr

Those are standing on my bookshelve waiting to be read next:
"My America" by Bill Bryson
"The Sword of Karthago" by Gisbert Haefs

[Hooahguy]

im currently sludging my way thru Plato's dialogs.....

[Cyclops]

I've gone all HA atm. Shadows of the Desert (persian warfare, incl. Parthians) and some book about Warriors of the Steppe (a bit general really "The Alans had armoured horse, but for the steppe it was a dead end"). It dioes seem a fair introduction for a beginner, but to much detail is washed aside in favour of grand adjectives like devastating and invincible.

Next is The Mongol Way of War by Tim May (not the Australian Cricket administrator). Thank goodness for a well stocked local library.

I won't be reading The Fall of Constantinople, which describes on the dust jacket how Constatiniple in 1450 was "impregnable..having only fallen to seige twice...". Thats like being a virgin after only your second bonk.

On the tram to work I'm reading Kim and next is Arrian's Alexander (more NAMBLA).

Alexander by Robin Lane Fox

He seems to know his stuff. I read The Classical Age and found it very impressive, even if the old queer is rather obsessed with the NAMBLA side of things. I'm certainly no expert but the few areas I had read a bit about for my degree he handled with aplomb, there's no false notes in his reduction of broad history to a single volume.

[Kurulham]

At All Costs, David Weber. Brain candy. Total brain candy. DELICIOUS brain candy.