What book are you reading now?

[kkramar]

I tried reading Clancy because my father used to like him so, but Red October was the only one I ever did get through in its entirety.

And by recommendation from another thread on this site, I am almost finished "FOB Doc" by Capt. Ray Wiss.  Not a bad read at all..

On deck is "Choke" by Chuck Palahniuk (author of Fight Club), recommended by a friend.

I read "FOB DOC" just last month, absolute great read. I'm now currently reading General Rick Hillier's book "Soldier First", also a great read so far.

 

[Harrison]

I just finished 15 Days and it was a great read because right befor that I read Outside the Wire.  I really enjoyed both books.  Another book that is Two Wars by Nate Self.

 

[observor 69]

I just finished Sarah's Key. Great read, well written and very informative.
http://www.amazon.ca/Sarahs-Key-Novel-Tatiana-Rosnay/dp/0312370849

From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. De Rosnay's U.S. debut fictionalizes the 1942 Paris roundups and deportations, in which thousands of Jewish families were arrested, held at the Vélodrome d'Hiver outside the city, then transported to Auschwitz. Forty-five-year-old Julia Jarmond, American by birth, moved to Paris when she was 20 and is married to the arrogant, unfaithful Bertrand Tézac, with whom she has an 11-year-old daughter. Julia writes for an American magazine and her editor assigns her to cover the 60th anniversary of the Vél' d'Hiv' roundups. Julia soon learns that the apartment she and Bertrand plan to move into was acquired by Bertrand's family when its Jewish occupants were dispossessed and deported 60 years before. She resolves to find out what happened to the former occupants: Wladyslaw and Rywka Starzynski, parents of 10-year-old Sarah and four-year-old Michel. The more Julia discovers—especially about Sarah, the only member of the Starzynski family to survive—the more she uncovers about Bertrand's family, about France and, finally, herself. Already translated into 15 languages, the novel is De Rosnay's 10th (but her first written in English, her first language). It beautifully conveys Julia's conflicting loyalties, and makes Sarah's trials so riveting, her innocence so absorbing, that the book is hard to put down. (July)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

 

[TruckerJeff]

I think you'll enjoy it.  Excellent book!

I am presently reading Excalibur by Bernard Cornwell, third in a series called the Warlord Chronicles.

EXCELLENT!!
I was wondering what to read, i'm gonna start that serie again!!

 

[MikeL]

Blood makes the grass grow green: A year in the desert with Team America by Johnny Rico

Pretty good read so far.

 

[BernDawg]

EXCELLENT!!
I was wondering what to read, i'm gonna start that serie again!!

Have you read the Saxon books by Cornwell?  If not then try them out cause they put the warlord series to shame IMHO.  Utred is DA MAN!

 

[TruckerJeff]

Have you read the Saxon books by Cornwell?  If not then try them out cause they put the warlord series to shame IMHO.  Utred is DA MAN!

will do!

 

[BernDawg]

Cool.  Let me know how you like them.

 

[PMedMoe]

Have you read the Saxon books by Cornwell?  If not then try them out cause they put the warlord series to shame IMHO.  Utred is DA MAN!

I've read The Saxon Shore and am trying to locate the others to have the set.  But I want to read them in order.

 

[aesop081]

I just finished " The rescue of SREETCAR 304 : A Navy pilot's 40 hours on the run in Laos" by Kenny Wayne Fields.

Starting "The Soviet-Afghan War : How a superpower fought and lost" by the Russian general Staff.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

Gotta dig through some boxes and see if I can find any of my Sven Hassel pulps.

 

[medicineman]

The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon.

MM

 

[PMedMoe]

The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon.

MM

Love that series.  Can't wait for the next book to come out!

 

[Retired AF Guy]

Re-reading the The Wheel of Time series by the late Robert Jordan . I figure by the time I finish re-reading the series the last books in the series will be out.

 

[TruckerJeff]

Finaly I picked up a book about Gengis Khan....Bones of the hills - the epic story of the great conqueror  I'm at page 9, looks good so far!

 

[medicineman]

Love that series.  Can't wait for the next book to come out!

She was doing a speaking tour and caught her here a few months back - quite entertaining.  Funnier in that I could count the number of men in the audience on 2 hands...but 9D was with me (she who got me reading these books in the first place).  Would be interesting to see some of them come out as movies.

MM

 

[PanaEng]

Quote from: medicineman on May 12, 2010, 21:46:47

    The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon.

    MM

Love that series.  Can't wait for the next book to come out!

My wife is nuts for them. She has all the hardcover - a couple of them signed by the author. Maybe I should start reading them.

cheers,
Frank

 

[stealthylizard]

A Soldier First.

I was reading the Outlander books overseas.  My mom got me hooked on them, but I haven't read the first one, Outlander, ha ha.

 

[RangerRay]

Currently reading Mark Zuehlke's Operation Husky.

http://www.amazon.ca/Operation-Husky-Mark-Zuehlke/dp/1553655397/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276143310&sr=1-2

Recently, I've read Evan Wright's Generation Kill

http://www.amazon.ca/Generation-Kill-Tie-Evan-Wright/dp/0425224740/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276143406&sr=1-2

and The Chilcotin War by Rich Mole.

http://www.amazon.ca/Chilcotin-War-Tale-Death-Reprisal/dp/1894974964/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276143480&sr=1-1

 

[Joani]

'Ivanhoe' by Sir Walter Scott, for the second time - funny how you leave a book for five years, and then it almost seems like new!