What you reading?+favorite books/characters?

I just finished Cold Mountain, Hellboy Emerald Hell and I'm reading an anthropological essay on the American Indians of the Delmarva Peninsula. Trying to get through a Hunter S Thompson book. Bought Thank you for Smoking. All were bought at the library, for about 50 cents each, except for Hellboy, and the Delmar book, which was a gift.
 
Horned Toad said:
Robert E Howard with Bran Mak Morn being about my favorite. Although the Cormac Mac Art ones are good and I think Carl Edgar Wagner fleshed out a whole 5 or 6 books about Cormac.


David Gemmel pretty much everything that he has written

G R R Martin I have just read his Fire and Ice series, its long and takes a while which is good since I read pretty fast.

I don’t do much non fiction but one of the last I read that I really liked was called “The Devil knew how to ride”. It was about William Clark Quantrell
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If you like Howard, check out the Black Stanger. I've read his Solomon Kane books, and his Conan books, but those short stories are his best.
 
do you like stephen ambrose?

i really liked "band of brothers" and "citizen soldiers".
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Stephen ambrose is great- ive read all his stuff on world war two- just great writer really gets into the people aspect- lately i finished the coming of third reich and the third reich in power by richard evans and cant wait till the third reich at war comes- until then ive read lost horizon which is a good book with a better message- i also read War is a Racket by butler which was pretty good
I'm reading Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo right now.

I've tried to read it a few times, get a couple pages in and stop.
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tell me how u like that book- ive been thinking about picking it up for a while just need the time
 
I just read "Choke" which is a book by the author of "Fight Club". It is as twisted as Fight Club, but we won't talk about it. :D
 
I just read Cormac McArthy's "Border Trilogy," as it's called, which consists of:

All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, and Cities of the Plain.

These are westerns set in the 1940's and '50's, and are a sort of elegy for the demise of that life. Like his other works, McArthy seems very interested in depicting the best and worst that people are capable of.
 
longbeachguy said:
I just finished "All the Pretty Horses" by Cormac McCarthy this evening. I'm going to launch into "The Crossing" next.

I almost feel like re-reading Horses over again right away. The book seems so rich and full of ideas that I feel like I barely scratched the surface the first time over.
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Whoops - I didn't notice this when I made my last post. "Horses" was my favorite in the Border Trilogy, both for the beautiful prose and for its ideas.
 
Currently readin' Janis Joplin biography and I'm very fond of the characters in the Dune series by Herbert.
 
Well right now, I'm skimming through Metallica and Philosophy. I'm also reading Point of Impact. Good books!
 
MORIMOTOM said:
do you like stephen ambrose?

i really liked "band of brothers" and "citizen soldiers".
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For anyone who likes "band of brothers", two of the Vets who were main characters in the mini series/book are writing their own story... SSgt. William "Wild Bill" Guarnere, and Edward Heffron: "Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends:"

Looks like it might be a good read (I too read all the Ambrose I can find!).

You can't miss with Tom Brokaw(s) series "The Greatest Generation" either.

If you like first person accounts, I also HIGHLY recommend "WAR LETTERS Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars." Edited by Andrew Carroll

Featuring Approximately 200 Previously Unpublished Letters from the Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korea, the Cold War, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, Somalia, and Bosnia.

(My Great-Great Grand-pa has a letter published in the War Letters book!)

Abbreviated copies were sent out to Veterans for free. Another abbreviated version was sent to active duty military for free. Andrew Carroll is a great guy! If you want to know what war "is like", these letters are all from THE soldiers in the trenches, written to "the folks back home".

AN EXCELLENT read for those who read "first person" accounts (which I prefer... a history book, written and presented by a historian, will contain his "perspective".... First person accounts allow YOU to develop your OWN perspective by reading the "history" from those who where their and living it).

If you've never read "first person" stuff... you are missing out on a unique perspective... I can recommend many titles if anyone is interested.
 
zenheretic said:
I just read "Choke" which is a book by the author of "Fight Club". It is as twisted as Fight Club, but we won't talk about it. :D
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Choke is my favorite book ever. The author is Chuck Palahniuk. Some other nice novels he wrote are: Survivor, Haunted and Rant.
Highly recommended if you liked "Fight Club"!

Other books i really liked are: Tokyo and Pig Island by Mo Hayder or anything by Irvine Welsh.
 
WOw. Kinda ashamed to be posting this but this is how an eleven year old in 1985 began falling in love with guns and knives...I re-read the whole series from time to time, as a sort of time machine for me whenever I am stressed out from being a grown-up.

The Survivalist series by Jerry Ahern

Of the more recent books I've read, I cherish Without Remorse by Tom Clancy
 
I am leaving tomorrow for a 3 week hitch on a tug on the Illinois River and am bringing a few books to read. Moby Dick, The Old Man and the Sea, Nights of Ice by Spike Walker (author of Working the Edge) about commercial fishing in Alaska, and The Living Great Lakes by Jerry Dennis.

One of my favorite books is fiction (although I'm not a fiction reader) called Far Tortuga by Peter Matthiesen about Cayman Island green turtle fishermen in the 1960's.
 
"One of my favorite books is fiction (although I'm not a fiction reader) called Far Tortuga by Peter Matthiesen about Cayman Island green turtle fishermen in the 1960's. "

Far Tortuga is great-for max enjoyment you have to read at least sub vocally to get the patois going in your head.

Matthiessen wrote several books the are top notch:
At play in the Fields of the Lord
The Snow leapord
Killing Mr. Watson
Along with Elliot Porter's photographs he wrote the text for a great tour of the African rift country called The Tree Where Man was Born.
 
adorable_harree said:
WOw. Kinda ashamed to be posting this but this is how an eleven year old in 1985 began falling in love with guns and knives...I re-read the whole series from time to time, as a sort of time machine for me whenever I am stressed out from being a grown-up.

The Survivalist series by Jerry Ahern
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Ashamed? I loved the Survivalist. Jerry Ahern's probably the only author who didn't make me grind my teeth every time a scene with a firearm came up. I loved the John Rourke character and his personal arsenal(esp. the coated and Mag-Na-Ported Python!).
Most of these guys need some serious technical help.
Shoot, I had to have had a couple hundred of the Mack Bolan books when I was younger. 1000+yd. sniping with a Marlin .444 and Weatherby .460...don't know what that Don Pendleton guy was smoking.


Between Amazon and B&N I just ordered:
Brian Haig:
Mortal Allies
Secret Sanction

Vince Flynn:
Term Limits(which I've already read, but want the hardcover)

Bernard Cornwell: first two are from another series about King Arthur
Winter King
Enemy of God
Harlequin-which better be the original version of The Archer's Tale in the Grail Quest series:mad:

Stephen Ambrose:
Band of Brothers
Citizen Soldiers

Audie Murphy:
To Hell and Back

Brad Thor:
Lions of Lucerne
Path of the Assassin
Plus the DVD to Robert Parker's Sea Change that I had pre-ordered shipped today. Today's a fine day:D
 
just finishing "The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815" by tim blanning ... excellent book

i am trying to finally finish "Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations" by martin goodman ... this book has been a disappointment

i will start "What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848" by david howe tommorow :)
 
Yeah, anything by Lincoln Child/Douglas Preston, Lee Child, Stephen King. I

like old Dean Koontz but his new stuff is kind of repetitive.
Barry Eisler "Rain" series is great.
Anything by Stephen King (currently reading 'Duma Key', Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is classic; if you like Lee Child and Barry Eisler check out John Sandford, he has a huge series with the same character in them (Lucas Davenport), also Chuck Logan-he's very similar to John Sandford. One final note, if you want a book that will scare you into buying more guns/knives (like we need that!) check out Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"-particularly good read for father's who have sons. Sorry for the rambling, I get fired up about books!
 
Dean Koontz, pretty much all he writes, mostly his recent offerings such
as the Odd Thomas series, he never writes trillogies but for this character
he broke tradition and published a set of three;

Odd Thomas

Forever Odd

and lastly

Brother Odd

Good stuff,
G2
 
Gary, don't count Odd out yet!
Odd Hours is due out in May. I'm still waiting for the third Frankenstein book Dead and Alive that was originally supposed to be out in 2006, but now maybe late '08(?).
Have to agree with Clint that Koontz's newer stuff does get a little repetitive(though the Odd Thomas books are an exception, and especially enjoyable, IMO), but I buy them all, and am hoping that he hits another monster home run again. I still re-read Watchers and Strangers a couple of times a year.

Got the two Haig books I'd ordered Friday and Saturday...the first two Sean Drummond books. Already read Secret Sanction, and am almost done with Mortal Allies.
Hopefully today there'll be a full mailbox:)
 
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