What do you read? (Here's my recent list.)

[Jonesy9]

hmmmm

ACP- I'm with you, Roberts is great for historical fiction. I haven't read Oliver Wiswell but Arundel, Rabble in Arms and Boone Island are among my favorite books and I reread them every few years. Lively Lady was ok, Northwest Passage is great too!


Recently I've read:

The Prince of Providence- a book about Mayor Buddy Cianci of Providence, great book about RI's favorite mayor and his downfall. Just think what could have been if Regan had chosen him over Bush for VP back in 80 LOL!

Mystic River- by Dennis LeHane- great quick read, and as usual, 10X better than the movie

Wealth and Democracy- Another awesome analysis from nixonite Kevin Phillips, very dry and wonkish, much more so than Politics of Rich and Poor. I still haven't finished it, it takes a while digest.

 

[W Turner]

I will read anything I can get my hands on with Sci-Fi/Fantasy being a glaring exception.

Recently:

Stephen King- The Gunslinger, The Stand (5th time), Nightmares and Dreamscapes

Stephen Hunter- Dirty White Boys, Time to Hunt, Pale Horse Coming, THe Master Sniper

Patricia Cornwell- Southern Cross (hilarious)

Also on my bookshelf: William W. Johnstone's Ashes series (only missing three)- its pulp, but I like it anyway, multiple Stephen King novels, Dean Koontz, Bill O'Reilly, Jesse Ventura, Robert R. McGammon,

Its kind of odd, when I go to Books A Million I look almost exclusively at non-fiction, but my bookshelf is about 85% fiction.

Need to change that,

Mino

 

[glockten]

Last book read: Guarding The United States And Its Outposts by Stetson Conn, Rose Engelman, and Byron Fairchild. A volume in the series "The U.S. Army In World War II".

Currently reading Cartridges Of The World, 10th Edition by Frank Barnes and Stan Skinner; and Gettysburg by Newt Gingrich and William Forstchen.

Next up: Snakes In The Cockpit: Images Of Military Aviation Disasters by L. Douglas Keeney; and Strategy And Command: The First Two Years by Louis Morton.

 

[Kamicosmos]

Hmmm...I read a lot...let's see, I'll limit it to this year:

Currently reading the novel of Battle Royal (Yeah, the Japenese story about a jr high class put on an island and forced to kill in other in a sick game run by the gov't)

Before that read Book III of the War of the Spider Queen Series Condemnation

Then it was The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
Then Book II of the WotSQ, Insurrection
Diamond Dogs and Resivor Days by Alistair Reynolds (HardCore SciFi)
Redemption Ark also by A. Reynolds.

Books coming up are:
Book IV of WotSQ: Extinction
The Annonated Legends
Enemies: Forgien and Domestic
Unintended Consequences
and maybe finish Hot Springs, then Pale Horse Coming and Havana by Steven Hunter. (I think I'm the only Hunter Fan that isn't into the 'Earl' series...)
The next A. Reynolds book (If I can get it from England, otherwise, gotta wait a year)

 

[HankB]

I liked Turtledove's WorldWar series, and am eagerly awaiting the next volume in the Colonization series.

Sad to day, I believe he "closed out" the series with the last book . . . probably running out of ideas to continue this particular story line.

Anyway, what I've been reading lately are . . .

Saturnalia by John Maddox Roberts. Book number 5 in his SPQR series, it tells the story of Decius Caecilius Metellus, a Roman who often gets drawn into murder investigations, often with dangerous political overtones. Well, written, it gives a good insight into the dark side of Caesar's Rome. I plan to buy the followup books soon. (They're titled Nobody Loves a Centurion and The Tribune's Curse.)

Re-reading the Sten books of Alan Cole and Chris Bunch. Set in the 40th century, they tell of the recruitment and missions of a man named Sten, in the service of the Eternal Emperor, an immortal who controls the supply of AM2, the Empire's main power source. (Despite the EE's title, this is hard science fiction, NOT fantasy.)

And I'm waiting for the next installment of William Forstchen's "Lost Regiment" series, a chronicle of the battles fought by a Union regiment of the 1860's after being sucked through a vortex onto another planet, where humans from many cultures are "cattle" to the nomadic, Mongol-like aliens. (The Union soldiers decide to fight, and convince others to join them.)

For non-fiction, I'm trying to find something about WWII Air Commandos, especially anything that references the 3rd Air Commando Group, my Dad's WWII outfit.

 

[RobW]

I gave up reading temporary fiction, reminds me too much of Hollyweird.

Work in progress now is "Story of the Great American West" Great illustrations that show how a canestoga is designed, how a fort is organized, how the railroad was built etc. etc.

Goes from early mountain-men to Texas oil. Very nice made book! (Reader's Digest Association, 384 pages).

 

[Sharpdogs]

recently finished the Richest Man in Babylon (great finance book, but the wealthy barber is still my favorite)
currently reading The DaVinci Code, half way through, can't put it down
next The Black Book of Communism (all about the atrocities and crimes of communism through out history)

 

[larryw]

Love the Prey series by John Sanford! Great stuff.

Currently halfway through James Huston's books. Like Clancy, only not as technical and slow to start.

Clancy and King are always at the top of my list.

 

[Donkey Hote]

High Guys, I am a new poster, have lurked here for a while. I am also on one of the other well known sites, but with recent childish activity, I decided to register here and begin posting.
Anyway, back to the topic, I just finished reading "In The Company Of Heroes" by Michael Durant. Very good read, got me choked up a couple of times. It gives you a different perspective of the Blackhawk Down story.

 

[Hkmp5sd]

I am currently reading:

LEGACY: Paying The Price For The Clinton Years by Rich Lowry

Havana by Stephen Hunter

1000 Years For Revenge: International Terrorism and the FBI by Peter Lance

TIME: A Traveler's Guide by Clifford A. Pickover

Three Roads to Quantum Gravity by Lee Smolin

Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy by Kip S. Thorne

None Braver: U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen in the War on Terrorism by Michael Hirsh

The Secret Service: The Hidden History of an Enigmatic Agency by Phillip H. Melanson

 

[m.i.sanders]

I haven't been able to read as much lately as I'd used too, but I've been reading Ayn Rand. As soon as I can I'm going to pick up the following though,

Naked Empire by Terry Goodkind
The ABC's of Reloading
CISSP Study guide.
And the newest one from Terry Brooks, it's a fantasy but I don't remember the name.

 

[cpileri]

hmmm

I have read all of these (and more) at one time or another, and now want to get a copy of each as a base library for my kids.
C-

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Candide by Voltaire
Don Quixote: Cervantes
Les Miserables The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Hugo
The Count of Monte Cristo: Dumas
Crime & Punishment/The Brothers Karamazov: Dostoevski
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Verne
All Quiet on the Western Front: Remarque
Gulliver's Travels: Swift
Pride & Prejudice: Austen
Ivanhoe: Scott
Great Expectations: Dickens
Jane Eyre/Wuthering Heights: Bronte (even though these books SUCK, I think Nathaniel should be exposed)
Alice in Wonderland: Carrol
Treasure Island: Stevenson
Heart of Darkness: Conrad
1984: Orwell
Animal Farm, Orwell
Melville, Moby Dick
Dante, Divine Comedy
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Moore, Utopia
The Epic of Gilgamesh
"De Excidio Britanniae", St. Gildas
"History of the Britons" , Nennius

Plato’s Republic
On Human Nature, St. Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas,Summa Theologiae
Homer, Iliad and Odyssey
Hobbes, Leviathan
Virgil, Aeneid
Locke, Second Essay of Civil Government
Augustine, Confessions
Machiavelli, The Prince
Rousseau, Social Contract
Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

The Federalist Papers (all 85), Hamilton, Jay, and Madison
The Articles of Confederation
The Constitution of the United States, et al.
The Declaration of Independence, et al.
The Bill of Rights, et al.
Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of taking up Arms, July 6,1775
First Continental Congress
Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress
George Washington Farewell Address

Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
Marx, Manifesto of the Communist Party
Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

The Bible, several translations

 

[cool45auto]

Right now I'm on a John Grisham kick. The Testament, The Summons, A Time To Kill, The Firm...etc.