What are you currently reading ?

[Ithoriel]

Have to say I've found Ben Kane's stuff badly researched, badly written and badly edited.

YMMV

[Bodvoc]

I enjoyed the first 3 of Ben Kanes 'Hannibal'series.
I am currently reading the Joe Abercrombie novel, 'Best Served Cold', a fast paced, action packed fantasy, good characters in a believable world.

[mollinary]

Have to say I've found Ben Kane's stuff badly researched, badly written and badly edited.

YMMV

But other than that, how did you find the play, Mrs Lincoln?   

Mollinary

[Roy]

Have to say I've found Ben Kane's stuff badly researched, badly written and badly edited.

I enjoyed the first 3 of Ben Kanes 'Hannibal'series.

I enjoyed the bits he wrote from the view of the Capuan teenager Carbo. Family ruined by debt, him running away and wanting to join the army, but finding real life more difficult than his previous pampered life had led him to believe ... he's the only character I was interested in.
The character of Spartacus, however, I found as dull as dish water. 

[JaymisHawk]

At the moment I'm currently reading, Burton and Swinbourne Book 3: Expedition to Mountains of the Moon and The Saga of Dune Book 8: House Harkonnen.

Can highly recommend both 

[FierceKitty]

The first of those sounds worth reading.

[JaymisHawk]

The first of those sounds worth reading.

If you enjoy, Alternate History / Steam Punk it definitely is

House Harkonnen is worth it as well 

[Roy]

"Artemis" book 2 of the Kydd series, belonging the RN fiction books by J. Stockwin.

[Tawa]

Still chipping away at 'Das Boot'. Not really having much reading time atm 

[Leman]

Flodden 1513 by Niall Barr. A really good treatment of the Flodden campaign set in the context of Julius II's Holy League. It also presents James IV as a hard-headed and forward looking Renaissance monarch, rather than the traditional view of the chivalric dreamer and it explains why it was necessary for the Scottish nobility to be in the front ranks of the pike blocks. Furthermore it is very well illustrated, with some superb artwork by the late Rick Scollins (which originally appeared in a Military Modelling compendium many years ago), who was art teacher when I was at school.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Sounds fun Leman!

[Leman]

If you haven't yet been Will I can highly recommend it. The battlefield is so unspoilt, and the display boards so good that you can easily visualise the battle unfolding. Furthermore there are various battlefield walk books available which include the route up Flodden Hill where James initially camped and established the gun platforms, which later had to be abandoned as the English moved to the east and north around his flank (Sybil's well is still there too, where the Scots took their drinking water). About three miles from the battlefield is Etal castle, which houses a little Flodden museum, and Ford, Wark and Norham are also close.

[cameronian]

why it was necessary for the Scottish nobility to be in the front ranks of the pike blocks.

I'm not sufficiently interested in the period to buy the book but I'm intrigued by the above. I never could understand why they did it, so why did they ?

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Coz it looked good?

[Ithoriel]

I'd always assumed it was a combination of putting the best armoured and best trained in the front rank plus leading from the front.

Intrigued if some other theory is being proposed.