Son of "What are You Reading" Thread

[Lord Avalon]

Finished:
With the Old Breed - EB Sledge
Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific - RV Burgin (Sledge's Sgt) with Bill Marvel
The Pacific - Hugh Ambrose
B.P.R.D. The Black Goddess - Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, Guy Davis
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Vol 6: Retreat - Jane Espenson, George Jeanty, Joss Whedon
Battlestar Galactica Origins: Adama - Robert Place Napton, Jonathan Lau
Hellboy: The Wild Hunt - Mike Mignola, Duncan Fegredo

Reading:
China Marine - EB Sledge
Wasteland Book 5 - Tales of the Uninvited - Anthony Johnston, Christopher Mitten with Carla Speed McNeil, Joe Infurnari, Chuck BB
The Ultimate Cyberpunk - Pat Cadigan, editor

[Dinner]

THE BIG SHORT by Michael Lewis. I picked it up at Barnes & Noble yesterday.

[Tuberski]

Finished:
The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of WWII, by Andrew Nagorski

Reading:
Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific, by Robert Leckie
Shadows in the Jungle: The Alamo Scouts Behind Japanese Lines in WWII, by Larry Alexander

Finished:
With the Old Breed - EB Sledge
Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific - RV Burgin (Sledge's Sgt) with Bill Marvel
The Pacific - Hugh Ambrose
B.P.R.D. The Black Goddess - Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, Guy Davis
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Vol 6: Retreat - Jane Espenson, George Jeanty, Joss Whedon
Battlestar Galactica Origins: Adama - Robert Place Napton, Jonathan Lau
Hellboy: The Wild Hunt - Mike Mignola, Duncan Fegredo

Reading:
China Marine - EB Sledge
Wasteland Book 5 - Tales of the Uninvited - Anthony Johnston, Christopher Mitten with Carla Speed McNeil, Joe Infurnari, Chuck BB
The Ultimate Cyberpunk - Pat Cadigan, editor

You watched The Pacific, too, huh?

ACK!

[Lord Avalon]

You watched The Pacific, too, huh?

ACK!

Indeed. I liked it, but felt 10 episodes was a bit short. After spending 3 on Peleliu, they breezed through Iwo Jima and Okinawa.

I think reading the books helped. I didn't feel quite the same connection as with Band of Brothers, which was more narrowly focused (a group of characters from one company).

[Imran Siddiqui]

I just read "The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief" by Francis S. Collins (who was head of the Human Genome Project)

[ColdWizard]

That book of the Uplift Universe. Not the first one.

[Lord Avalon]

Finished:
From Russia with Love, by Ian Fleming
The Ultimate Cyberpunk

Reading:
Flags of Our Fathers, by James Bradley with Ron Powers
Machine Gun: The Story of the Men and the Weapon that Changed the Face of War, by Anthony Smith

[Lord Avalon]

Finished: Doctor No, by Ian Fleming

Reading: Goldfinger

[Lord Avalon]

Finished: Goldfinger. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, by Stieg Larsson, trans by Reg Keeland

Reading: For Your Eyes Only.

[Lord Avalon]

Finished:
China Marine, by Eugene Sledge
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, by David Grann
HOGs in the Shadows: Combat Stories from Marine Snipers in Iraq, by Milo S. Afong

Reading:
Modesty Blaise: Last Day in Limbo, by Peter O'Donnell
Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles, by Anthony Swofford

[Elok]

Well, this is a seldom-bumped thread, it seems. I just finished Mary Renault's "The Nature of Alexander." After reading it, I tried watching the Oliver Stone version again and found I couldn't. It's too painful to see how he took a fascinating, emotionally commanding historical figure and turned him into a whinging, PC-advocating little emo *****.

Anyway, I've moved on to "The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy" by Peter H. Wilson. Tough going, not because the author is bad but because it's SO. FREAKING. COMPLICATED. I probably shouldn't have made this the first serious history book I ever tackled, but it was unintentional. I got it for my Dad for Father's Day, started reading it on the way home. He said, "Thanks, but I've got three books ahead of it on my reading list, so go ahead and finish it."

[Jon Miller]

I just read "The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief" by Francis S. Collins (who was head of the Human Genome Project)

I am reading this now.

JM

[Az]

started reading and heavily enjoying "General Systems Theory" by Ludwig von Bertalanffy

[Lord Avalon]

Finished:
Last Day in Limbo
Jack: Secret Histories, by F. Paul Wilson

Reading:
Sh*t My Dad Says, by Justin Halpern.
http://****mydadsays.com/

“We’re banned from the dog park. Well, I guess it’s okay to hump, and it’s okay to bark, but both at the same time freaks people out."

"You worry too much. Eat some bacon... What? No, I got no idea if it'll make you feel better, I just made too much bacon."

"Here's a strawberry, sorry for farting near you...Hey! Either take the strawberry and stop *****ing, or no strawberry, that's the deal."

[Nostromo]

Finished:

The Road, by Cormack McCarthy
The Invisible Man, by H.G Wells

Reading:

Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates
Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, by Bernard Williams