Author Topic: Read any good books lately? (Read 1157 times)

Vulcan · « **Reply #30 on:** March 01, 2006, 06:43:26 PM »

I listened to the end of Neuromancer on the way to Singapore and started on the Puppet Masters on the way back. Got an MP3 player? Get audiobooks, they rock!

Gunthr · « **Reply #31 on:** March 01, 2006, 06:50:55 PM »

I bought an audio book last week to listen to when I go to bed: Wolves of Calla - Dark Tower V... the last one of the Gunslinger series by Stephen King.

Bad idea. Every night I listen to it when I turn off the light, and every night this week I have fallen asleep before I get out of Chapter one.

LePaul · « **Reply #32 on:** March 01, 2006, 06:57:15 PM »

I had a great conversation with a coworker whose big into reading. I havent read a novel in a long long time. Most of my reading has been some sort of electronics or programming guide as of late.

I decided to heed his advice and read Tom Clancy's "Hunt for Red Ocktober" and a few of his other books. I loved the movie (well, asides Baldwin being in there...)...I started the book a few days ago during my lunch breaks and already half way thru. Its very much unlike the movie in so many regards.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #33 on:** March 01, 2006, 07:01:55 PM »

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Originally posted by lasersailor184
Currently reading Atlas Shrugged.

I really enjoyed that book back in my teenage years. Ian Rand I believe? Fountainhead was good too.

Sikboy · « **Reply #34 on:** March 01, 2006, 07:06:36 PM »

I read The Unbearable lightness of being last spring. It really messed with my head. I'm better for having read it.

I read Larry McMurtry's "Texasville." I wasn't as good as "The Last picture Show" but I still liked it well enough.

-Sik

culero · « **Reply #35 on:** March 01, 2006, 07:27:54 PM »

I just finished "Patton: A Genius for War" by Carlo D'Este. Its a biography of George S. Patton, and IMO excellent, I really enjoyed it. Very detailed, extensively footnoted, obviously well researched. I learned a lot I didn't know about Patton and related subjects. Recommended.

culero

Vulcan · « **Reply #36 on:** March 01, 2006, 07:57:02 PM »

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Originally posted by Gunthr
I bought an audio book last week to listen to when I go to bed: Wolves of Calla - Dark Tower V... the last one of the Gunslinger series by Stephen King.

Bad idea. Every night I listen to it when I turn off the light, and every night this week I have fallen asleep before I get out of Chapter one.

Oh yeah, I'm sure I've listened to a couple of entire books in my sleep. But usually I can skip/rewind to the last bit I remember before I nodded off. I used to be an avid reader, but my work in front of screens with networking kit (ie lotta reading of configs/info etc) mean't my eyes were always tired. Then when I switched to audiobooks (MP3s on my treo pdaphone) it was like a reawakening, being able to rest my eyes while listening to a good book is awesome. Even driving listening to a book is awesome.

However, sometimes it does rely on a good narrator, I hate books who use people with irrating voices

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #37 on:** March 01, 2006, 07:59:29 PM »

A book I keep meaning to get because a ton of people keep recommending it to me is

"1776" by David McCullough - The battles for American independence from Britain form the latest chapter of American history to draw David McCullough's attention.

A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, McCullough reports on the reality of life at war in 1776. The author follows George Washington and his army as they fight to end British rule in America.

McCullough reaches beyond oft-told, often mythical notions of the colonies' struggle for independence to glimpse history through the lives of people from all ranks of society.

Hoarach · « **Reply #38 on:** March 01, 2006, 08:50:06 PM »

From what I hear Flyboys is supposed to be a good book by James Bradley. I have it in my closet but yet to get around to read it as I have all these magazines come in from WW2 and WW2 History and now have a few issues coming from Air & Space.

GreenCloud · « **Reply #39 on:** March 01, 2006, 10:15:45 PM »

Dark Waters

Nuclear research submarine..had a reactor the size of a VW Bug..it had wheels and rolled on ocean floor.....Tapped the russians phone lines
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0451207777/qid=1141272493/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-4648415-5119267?v=glance&s=books

FlyBoys..good book .

.About small radio island off japan..Chi Chi Jima old Bush senior..this is where he was shot down...japanese soldiers go canabil the rest of the pows

Flit · « **Reply #40 on:** March 01, 2006, 11:39:18 PM »

I m reading "SIEGE A novel of the eastern front 1942" by Russ Schneider
for the second time.Very dark, but a good and interesting perspective from the german side.

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #41 on:** March 01, 2006, 11:59:31 PM »

A short history of nearly everything --- Bill Bryson

Excellent flight reading.

flakbait · « **Reply #42 on:** March 02, 2006, 01:02:14 AM »

Cryptonomicon is a great book. I read it last week; that lizard had me roaring.

For those that want a more "kick oscar take names" read, try Secret Commandos. The same guy who wrote SOG wrote this (John Plaster). I'm about a third of the way through; he's had me nervous, laughing, and very intrigued so far. Not a bad read at all! Unlike SOG, this one is about his personal experiences.

For those that don't know, SOG is another great book. It's about a very clandestine group of Group 5 green berets in Vietnam running recon across the border. It covers most of the war; from the first 1965 landings of "agents" in north Vietnam to the end of the war. Some of what you read will make you shudder, some of it will send you to the floor... screaming with laughter. Those who remember "Pigpen" Ambrose's dirty little trick with a poster and a landmine know what I'm talking about.

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Flakbait [Delta6]

Thrawn · « **Reply #43 on:** March 02, 2006, 03:38:00 AM »

Still reading the Aubrey/Maturin series by O'Brian. Currently on "Letter of Marque".

Which brings to mind a book my dad read relatively recently. I forget the name but apparently the plot involves a US President wanting to go to war but Congress not letting him. So he issues a letter of marque and reprisal (which he has the Constitutional power to do), to a US Navy carrier task force.

...**** YEAH!

Bruv119 · « **Reply #44 on:** March 02, 2006, 04:20:30 AM »

First light by Geoffrey Wellum

had it for xmas excellent ww2 read, guy gets thrown into BofB at 19 years of age test pilot by 22 flew out of malta also.

Some accounts are boring but this guy adds an enjoyable narrative.

Bruv
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