What are you reading at the moment?

**MemphisFred** · 02-18-2011, 03:42 PM

Mostly military books...just got through with several books of the Marines island hopping in the Pacific. I have several on the European theatre that I'm starting into.

Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz (Rudolf Hoss)

Just started it and it's already really really horrific.

**nhcigarfan** · 02-18-2011, 03:55 PM

This thread

**ukyfan** · 02-18-2011, 06:22 PM

Conscience of a Conservative
by Barry Goldwater

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**Eville** · 02-18-2011, 06:42 PM

Porkchop Hill

**Irish79** · 02-18-2011, 08:38 PM

1776 by David McCullough

**WinstonSpencer** · 02-19-2011, 02:48 PM

Slaughterhouse-Five

**prophetic_joe** · 02-20-2011, 01:11 AM

Day by Day Armageddon

**jimmy** · 03-21-2011, 01:37 PM

Last week: Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden Series=> all 12
This week: Ted Bell's Hawke Series: started and finished Assassin yesterday, and I'm about 1/2 way through Pirate today. Looking forward to 'Spy' and 'Tsar' next.

edit: Next week: going to re-read Daniel Silva's Gabriel Allon series!

**WinstonSpencer** · 03-22-2011, 07:17 PM

Just finished Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea.

**badwhale** · 04-11-2011, 07:51 PM

Read a couple books in between here:

Robin Hood
Pinocchio
Currently: Tom Sawyer

Will

**WinstonSpencer** · 04-12-2011, 07:46 AM

Just finished Cowboy Mafia. Great story, atrocious writing/editing.

Now working on Annapurna by Maurice Herzog.

**TachyCoventry** · 04-12-2011, 08:27 AM

Originally Posted by craig

Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

Public domain English translation at:
http://wikilivres.info/wiki/The_Little_Prince

I actually had to read this in french case in high school, a decent book but I only understood a third of it!

I just finished Frankenstein - Prodigal son by Koontz, I need to go and get the second book in that series now

**Devil Doc** · 04-12-2011, 09:58 AM

Col. Roosevelt, by Edmund Morris. Third and final book of the trilogy.

Doc.

**TachyCoventry** · 04-13-2011, 08:12 AM

Originally Posted by Smoked!

The Zombie Survival Guide
by Max Brooks

Originally Posted by prophetic_joe

Also reading this currently.

After seeing these I went and picked up this book last night. I ended up reading for like 2 hours and am half way through it already. Very amusing book but I can see some twisted moron thinking that it is a non-fiction (it's written in the belief that it is) and building an arsenal up for zombie defense...

**Tdre977** · 04-13-2011, 08:52 AM

Originally Posted by TachyCoventry

After seeing these I went and picked up this book last night. I ended up reading for like 2 hours and am half way through it already. Very amusing book but I can see some twisted moron thinking that it is a non-fiction (it's written in the belief that it is) and building an arsenal up for zombie defense...

That's no joke, just recently they arrested a guy at the port authority bus terminal with swords/knives etc.... They say he was getting ready for the zombie apocalypse.

That being said if your into zombies "World War Z", also by Max Brooks is IMO by far the best of the genre.

**mrtr33** · 04-13-2011, 10:24 AM

Originally Posted by WinstonSpencer

Just finished Cowboy Mafia. Great story, atrocious writing/editing.

Funny how that makes an impact on the story. Have you ever read Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk? It drove me to the point of putting the book down. In that instance, I thought the movie was much better than the book.

**TachyCoventry** · 04-13-2011, 10:29 AM

Originally Posted by Tdre977

That's no joke, just recently they arrested a guy at the port authority bus terminal with swords/knives etc.... They say he was getting ready for the zombie apocalypse.

That being said if your into zombies "World War Z", also by Max Brooks is IMO by far the best of the genre.

Actually I've never been that into zombies but all the people reading it made me give it a try. Very amusing so far, I may have to pick up World War Z once this one is done (although I did buy 4 new books last night... errr)

**MrPlatypus** · 04-13-2011, 11:21 AM

I've got a couple books going:
*1984 by George Orwell
*Serendipities by Umberto Eco
And one called "Blindness" by José Saramago.

**WinstonSpencer** · 04-13-2011, 11:35 AM

Originally Posted by mrtr33

Funny how that makes an impact on the story. Have you ever read Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk? It drove me to the point of putting the book down. In that instance, I thought the movie was much better than the book.

I have not read Fight Club; it was on my list but after your comment I might check out a sample first. I don't know much about him but in my head he is classified as a beatnik writer. Beatnik writers tend to be very hit-or-miss. It really pisses me off when I can't finish a book. Mark Twain's Autobiography is really testing my patience right now.

**mrtr33** · 04-13-2011, 11:44 AM

Originally Posted by WinstonSpencer

I have not read Fight Club; it was on my list but after your comment I might check out a sample first. I don't know much about him but in my head he is classified as a beatnik writer. Beatnik writers tend to be very hit-or-miss. It really pisses me off when I can't finish a book. Mark Twain's Autobiography is really testing my patience right now.

I thought Fight Club was written at about a 5th grade reading level. The subject matter may keep it from being used in that fashion, but that's what it looked like to me. That's what I was trying to say.

Does the Mark Twain Autobiography read the same way? I was hoping to dive into it once I find the box it's in.