What book are you reading?

[Hooahguy]

just wanted to give an update after i finished The Hunt for Red October. it was great, and i highly recommend it.
although the ending scene where the Russian officers stay up late mezmerized by the tv sounds a bit silly, and reminds me of Borat.

[Centurion1]

The Hunt for Red October

Ah excellent novel. i recommend most of the books he wrote. i know you play a lot of rainbow six right, hooah (or is it counterstrike, sorry not sure)? You should read his rainbow six book then, big book but very good.

[OverKnight]

I just started "K Blows Top". It's a book detailing Nikita Khrushchev's nearly two week visit to the United States in 1959.

So far I'm greatly enjoying it. Any book that has the Soviet Chairman and Vice-President Nixon arguing over which sort of animal dung smells worse is a grabber.

[Hooahguy]

Ah excellent novel. i recommend most of the books he wrote. i know you play a lot of rainbow six right, hooah (or is it counterstrike, sorry not sure)? You should read his rainbow six book then, big book but very good.

yea rainbow six was an amazing book.

[Beskar]

Currently reading Assegai.

[Fragony]

Satanic Verses, I promised to give it another try but it doesn't change my opinion Salman Rushie is a terrible writer. Well not really terrible but absolutely overrated. Is the man capable of constructing a sentence I think not it's longwinded and it goes from here to there and I don't know where it started?

Get your fashion out of here I like to read I don't necesarily like writers.

[johnhughthom]

Ah excellent novel.

I was a big fan of Tom Clancy when I was younger, reading his stuff now now I find him difficult to take seriously. If he cut out his characters giving political lectures and stuck to what he does best I would still read his books. "Without Remorse" is probably my favourite Clancy novel, followed by "Rainbow Six" (that ruined any chance of actually studying during my first few weeks at uni!).

I'm currently reading "The Bell Jar", not enjoying it, and a biography of Edward I (the English King in Braveheart), loving it. Anybody else finding it difficult to enjoy fiction the older they get? The only fiction I have really enjoyed reading this year was "The Road" and Grisham's latest.

[Lemur]

Anybody else finding it difficult to enjoy fiction the older they get?

Nope, but then I'm immature. I'll admit, though, that some authors and books lose their shine as I mature. I tried to re-read the Elric of Melniboné books recently, and found that I have simply gotten too old and savvy to enjoy them properly. Yet another series of books that you either encounter young or miss the ride. I'd also include the Conan books, the Sherlock Holmes stories, the John Carter of Mars books, etc.

[Adrian II]

Anybody else finding it difficult to enjoy fiction the older they get?

Good point. I have the same experience. Reality is much more interesting than most fiction. I have never liked purely imaginary tales like scince fiction and my taste has narowed even more with age. The only fiction I read these days is stuff that is 'close' to reality, in the sens of (quasi-)autobiographic: Philip Roth, Heinrich Böll, Céline.

[Centurion1]

It's called "A Great and Terrible King", by Marc Morris.

Hmm, i will be sure to check that out.


I don;t know about fiction, i have always been more drawn to realistic fiction and things like alternative history. Can't say that i don't enjoy some total sci fi books like r.a. salvatore or the like.

[Xiahou]

I've had kind of a book drought for awhile, but recently, I've been getting back into it more. In the last few weeks I read Wilderness Navigation, World War Z and have almost finished A Game of Thrones. I have the next in the series, A Clash of Kings, in the mail from Amazon already.

The 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series promises to be excellent. I just hope the author doesn't go all Robert Jordan on me....

[Tratorix]

I've had kind of a book drought for awhile, but recently, I've been getting back into it more. In the last few weeks I read Wilderness Navigation, World War Z and have almost finished A Game of Thrones. I have the next in the series, A Clash of Kings, in the mail from Amazon already.

The 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series promises to be excellent. I just hope the author doesn't go all Robert Jordan on me....

The chance of him finishing the series is low by this point, methinks. He's been working* on the last book for about five years now.

I'm currently reading Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.

*By working, I mean blogging about football and eating pizza. But, hey, check out the series coming soon on HBO!

[johnhughthom]

although the ending scene where the Russian officers stay up late mezmerized by the tv sounds a bit silly, and reminds me of Borat.

I may be getting mixed up (around twenty years ago I read it and never watched the film) but doesn't Clancy reference Eisenstein throughout the book, and the Russian characters love of his work? Seemed like a nice way to end it to me.

[Centurion1]

and a biography of Edward I

Ah edward longshanks right. Is it good i have been looking for some good literature on the warrior kings of england.

[johnhughthom]

Ah edward longshanks right. Is it good i have been looking for some good literature on the warrior kings of england.

My knowledge of Edward I isn't extensive so I can't comment on the accuracy but it is well written and managed to suck me in. I sat down only planning to read the first chapter as I had to get up early for work and ended up reading 100 pages. I haven't got to his actual kingship yet, but what I have read about his early life is very interesting so far, so many cases of faction hopping and double crossings.

It's called "A Great and Terrible King", by Marc Morris.