What Are You Reading?

[Rushman2112]

"A Small Band of Men: 20 years in the Hong Kong marine police" by Les Bird.

One of my friends here recommended it, written by a guy I know of, but don't really know. He was with a group of people I know in HK at the 7s when we were busy getting trousered in the Captain's Bar at some stage over the weekend. It's a cracking read, with some great stories, although some quite poignant and particularly so now given what's happening there. All the characters are real although he has changed the names - all the gweilos are given his mates' names most of who I know well so it's quite funny to me. I have been told that it is 100% true.

 

[The Knize]

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

This was my favorite novel for decades. I think I read it twice and listened to it on audible once. Fabulous book.

 

[oc_in_fw]

That one blew me away.

This was my favorite novel for decades. I think I read it twice and listened to it on audible once. Fabulous book.

Very enlightening so far

 

[JWCowboy]

Currently laboring through Le Morte d'Arthur. It is... boring. Which I didn't expect as a huge fan of every movie or show based on Arthurian legend. Especially the 80s film, Excalibur.

I recommend Bernard Cornwell's Warlord Triology, The Winter King, Enemy of God, & Excalibur

It's an excellent retelling of the Arthurian legend. I'm also a big fan of Cornwell's other work, especially his Sharpe novels.

The Arthur Books | Series | Bernard Cornwell

www.bernardcornwell.net

 

[Legion]

Just finished another Cormac McCarthy book, Child of God. Liked that one.

Today I'm starting in on Ozzy Osbourn's autobiography.

 

[shoelessjoe]

Allies, Axis, Allies... Axis is up & as the dust cover states, Soldaten is a fascinating compilation of covertly recorded coversations between wartime German POWs that had been kept under wraps in the British National Archives & the National Archives (Washington D.C.) until the early 2000s.

 

[jdp93]

I decided to man up and stop procrastinating - War and Peace.

 

[oc_in_fw]

I decided to man up and stop procrastinating - War and Peace.

Good luck. I have tried that and Anna Karenina at least 4 times each. Tolstoy just doesn’t grab me.

 

[sternej]

"We" by Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin Written in 1920. Set in the twenty-sixth century A.D., Yevgeny Zamyatin's masterpiece describes life under the regimented totalitarian society of OneState, ruled over by the all-powerful "Benefactor." Recognized as the inspiration for George Orwell's 1984, We is the archetype of the modern dystopia, or anti-Utopia: a great prose poem detailing the fate that might befall us all if we surrender our individual selves to some collective dream of technology and fail in the vigilance that is the price of freedom.

 

[oc_in_fw]

"We" by Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin Written in 1920. Set in the twenty-sixth century A.D., Yevgeny Zamyatin's masterpiece describes life under the regimented totalitarian society of OneState, ruled over by the all-powerful "Benefactor." Recognized as the inspiration for George Orwell's 1984, We is the archetype of the modern dystopia, or anti-Utopia: a great prose poem detailing the fate that might befall us all if we surrender our individual selves to some collective dream of technology and fail in the vigilance that is the price of freedom.

Read We a couple months ago. Great book.

 

[Kilroy6644]

 

[Leo501]

On Hoopla

 

[RookieGuy]

I started Covenant by James Michener when we first went on Covid lockdown. That was March 13. Still plugging away at it.

 

[brians_myth]

Fall of Giants (Ken Follett). It's the first book in the Century Trilogy; damn fine read.

 

[fella]

We Few: Special Forces in Vietnam


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[noodles hovar]

1984.

Like picking up a newspaper...

 

[ChiefHA]

A Column of Fire by Ken Follett, the 3rd in the Kingsbridge Cathedral series another master piece from Follett

 

[beginish]

After almost four months of fitful reading, Moby Dick is now done. I haven’t decided what comes next, but I have put the notion of tackling Ulysses right out of my head.

 

[mio_cuggino]

Just finished "Extreme Leadership" by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin.
About to start "Fresh off the boat" by Eddie Huang

 

[Whilliam]

"Norco '80." A true-crime, busted caper account of 1980's Riverside County bank job. Required reading for fans of the motion picture, "Heat."