What you reading at the moment?

[arranandy]

I'm reading 'Nemesis - The Battle for Japan 1944-45' by Max Hastings. Really great read. Military history, particularly WW2, is quite an interest of mine.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

A Breifer history of time..steven hawkins

 

[beanzontoast]

Re-reading Alistair Cooke's America and getting into Obama's The Audacity of Hope.

Arranandy - I have Hoyt's The Invasion Before Normandy (about the Slapton Sands rehearsal / disaster) in my 'coming up soon' reading pile.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Arranandy - I have Hoyt's The Invasion Before Normandy (about the Slapton Sands rehearsal / disaster) in my 'coming up soon' reading pile.

Leslie Thomas' "The Magic Army" is pretty good on that subject too. It's a novel rather than a historical study, but it's well researched and very readable.

 

[Slowgrind]

My Grandfathers Journals-Farm Boy, Sailor,Blacksmith,Policeman, Pensioner.

 

[longers]

Currently reading Moby Dick.

I've just finished "The cruel heart of the sea" by Nathaniel Philbrick. It's the story of the whaling expedition that inspired Herman.

A hell of a story.

 

[swee'pea99]

Middlemarch - George Eliot. Good, but you could demolish a fair sized wall with the bugger.

 

[Melvil]

I'm reading 'Nemesis - The Battle for Japan 1944-45' by Max Hastings. Really great read. Military history, particularly WW2, is quite an interest of mine.

Read that a month or so back. His description of MacArthur was particularly good. Also good was the exposition on the firebombing raids on Tokyo which were quite a lot worse than the following atomic bombs. A fascinating and sobering read.

At the mo I've just read Paul McCauley's 'The Quiet War' as I remember FM talking about it on a thread very much like this and re-reading some Dickens, too.

 

[goo_mason]

Potty, Fartwell & Knob (as recommended on the silly names thread).

Need cheering up and it has me almost wetting myself

I'll get back to serious stuff in a week or so.....

 

[papercorn2000]

In what way?

I think he's pretty good. Not life changing reading by any stretch but thought he was a not bad story teller in the mode of Rankin, Grisham etc...

I can't really put my finger on it...
The story was fine. I think that it was the characters were a bit 2 dimensional. He didn't flesh them out like Rankin does...My next door neighbour (she's from Aberdeen) loved it.

Just read http://www.amazon.co.uk/Guns-Germs-...r_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1232440834&sr=8-11 on recommendation of NickM - of this parish.

 

[John the Monkey]

That's a great book, I've read it twice now. SF with humour.

I'm enjoying it, but the Bascule chapters make my head ache...

 

[Fnaar]

revolutionary road - richard yates... pretty good too, but I just accidentally read the ending on wikipedia

 

[papercorn2000]

I've always meant to have a shot at Banks' SF stuff. Some of his "straight" novels were a bit mental so the sci-fi stuff has to be somewhat leftfield!

 

[postman]

Ian Rankin - Detective John Rebus.- Very good. Got seven more books ready to follow.Read alot.TV crap.

 

[papercorn2000]

Ian Rankin - Detective John Rebus.- Very good. Got seven more books ready to follow.Read alot.TV crap.

He catches the bad guy in the end. Ha!