So What Are You Reading Now? (Page 3 of 71)
| The two books for me right now are "POSTWAR", A History of Europe Since 1945,by Tony Judt,and" THE THIRTY YEARS WAR",Europes Tragedy,by Peter H. Wilson. I am really enjoying both of them,but Mr. Wilsons book is a book I read at the computer so that I can research people and places as I read. |
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I started reading Tom Clancy's latest fantasy novel, Threat Vector, a week ago. I'm now about 40% through.
As always he's a fantastic story teller. And there is no way this book is going to be made into a motion picture. Not unless the world changes mightily in the next decade. He should NOT have made Jack Ryan President, although having his son more or less taking his place in the adventures semi-works. I can understand passing the torch. But making him President doesn't really work. |
I hate going to funerals.
"He should have killed me. I would have killed me."
For God and Country: Geronimo! Geronimo! Geronimo!
"He should have killed me. I would have killed me."
For God and Country: Geronimo! Geronimo! Geronimo!
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I'm reading " Dye Trying" by Lee Child
The main character in this series is "Jack Reacher". It kind of kills me that they finally adapted one of these "Jack Reacher" novels to a movie, and cast F'in Tom Cruise as "Reacher". I will still support Lee Child, and go see the movie........ F-ing hollywood, they get most things of interest to me way wrong.... |
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I'm still stuck in "Gust Front" this book is weird, it will drag ass for 2 or 3 chapters and then there will be an amazing chapter and then it goes back to dragging ass. |
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you." - Nietzsche
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I just started the Nate Starbuck collection.
on the first book called "Rebel" right now.... so far it's pretty good. I hear this series is outstading. |
If you run into an asshole in the mornin', you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're probably the asshole.
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I read his short story collection a few years ago. GUNNING FOR HO. I stopped looking for new stuff after waiting a few years.
Originally Posted By dubBinSEA:
Reading this now........ https://d1ldy8a769gy68.cloudfront.net/180/978/080/323/448/2/9780803234482.jpg |
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Originally Posted By dubBinSEA:
Reading this now........ https://d1ldy8a769gy68.cloudfront.net/180/978/080/323/448/2/9780803234482.jpg that looks good...time to go visit Amazon.com or the local used book store. |
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I just finished The Great North Road by Peter Hamilton. I realized a couple weeks ago that I'd been so involved writing my last book this last year I hadn't actually READ anything new in SF the whole time (well, unless you count MHI Legion).
It was a good read, but not as good as it could have been. It was like 950 pages and it should have been about 700. The guy seriously needs an editor. |
There are four kinds of people: those who like you for the wrong reasons, those who like you for the right reasons, those who dislike you for the wrong reasons and those who dislike you for the right reasons. It's the last group you need to worry about.
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Originally Posted By dubBinSEA:
Reading this now........ https://d1ldy8a769gy68.cloudfront.net/180/978/080/323/448/2/9780803234482.jpg Yeah. I'm going to have to read that... |
If you run into an asshole in the mornin', you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're probably the asshole.
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I just finished Stephen Hunter's latest Bob Lee Swagger book, "The Third Bullet".
Hunter's books have been sliding the last few years, but this one is a come back with a roar. This one concerns the assassination of JFK and a fictional view of how it could have happened. It's mysteries within mysteries, but Bob the Nailer figures it out, and as usual a lot of people are real sorry. There's lots of interesting technical gun information, and real people we know, thinly disguised. This one keeps your interest right to the end. |