What are you currently reading ?

[mollinary]

"Master and God" By Lindsey Davis......'Fraid I found it dragged on a bit at the end.
"Nemesis" By Lindsey Davis (again).....Like this one.
Cheers - Phil.

Have always been a big Lindsey Davis fan, but I think she  has gone off the boil with the switch from Falco to Flavia as the central character. Odd really.

Mollinary

[Leman]

Blockade Runner by David Kent-Lemon, about running the Union blockade into Charleston and Wilmington. Written in the first person - an English shipping clerk - and very much in the Victorian style. Not as much action as I was expecting as our hero spends much time ruminating on his lurve of a southern belle, whilst at the same time romping with an ex-prostitute in Nassau between voyages. Maybe there was plenty of action after all 

[cameronian]

Started reading Michael Moorcock's Colonel Pyat series again; if you haven't read them you should; his cowardly publishers in the US withdrew the novels thirty years ago but they've just been re-released; highly recommended.

[toxicpixie]

The actual "Colonel Pyat as the hero" series must be about the only Moorcock I *haven't* read! I find his stuff a bit samey and a bit new age these days, but I still harbour a very soft spot for the Corum celtic-ish series (as opposed to the "...of Swords" series), Edward Bastable and especially Jerry Cornelius

I've just managed to finsih the first "Bolitho" book (as a newly posted Frigate Captain in the Americas Rebellion), took me seven months due to new baby. Reading time is... sparse I've just started "Island in a sea of time" again (by SM Stirling). Modern day (well, @2000ish) Nantucket is sent back to @1250BC Bronze Age, and fun* ensues. Good series, flags a bit on the third book where he retells Rourkes Drift almost minute for minute between a Nantucket Expeditionary Force and fascist-Mycenaean barbarian auxiliaries, even going so far as to call the leader of the Nantucketeers Captain O'Rourke...

He nicks a couple of other historical actions, but none quite so blatantly! Apart from that it's good clean alt-history fun

*By fun, I mean not at all fun, for pretty much anyone

[burnaby64]

I have given up on the Dorothy Dunnett six-volume Lymond Saga at the end of the second book: completely exhausted my supply of willing suspension of disbelief.

[fsn]

A History of Assyria.

So far I have leaned two main things.

1) They were a bit lackadaisical in the building of temples, which had constantly to be rebuilt after it rained.
2) The army was used to gain tribute and plunder. The tribute and plunder was needed to maintain the army, which was used to gain tribute and plunder ...

Riveting read with some tongue twister names.

[FierceKitty]

I'm rather looking forward to painting up an Assyrian army when I've recovered from my pike-and-pilum push. They do look good on the table, despite their piffling melee effect.

[Hertsblue]

A History of Assyria.

So far I have leaned two main things.

1) They were a bit lackadaisical in the building of temples, which had constantly to be rebuilt after it rained.
2) The army was used to gain tribute and plunder. The tribute and plunder was needed to maintain the army, which was used to gain tribute and plunder ...

..... and to rebuild the temples. 

[marie]

Malaria cures.....

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Aint one....

IanS

[FierceKitty]

Malaria cures.....

So do salt, woodsmoke, and sunshine. All good for bringing home the bacon.

[Hertsblue]

Didn't he write all Shakespeare's plays?

[FierceKitty]

No, the consensus of desperate Ph. D. candidates is that Shakespeare's plays were written by somebody else with the same name.

[Techno]

Just finished listening to "Raising Steam" by TP.
About to start "Vespasian....Rome's Executioner", by Robert Fabbri.
I'm going to really miss the library van when it stops visiting in a few months !
Cheers - Phil

[Fenton]

Raising Steam is the first TP book I havent bought, got it from the library and it was okish

Does your local library not have the overdrive or oneclick digital system that allows you to download audiobooks to your computer?

[Matt J]

'The Fall of Carthage' Adrian Goldsworthy

so far good overview of the Punic wars

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Raising Steam is the first TP book I havent bought, got it from the library and it was okish

Does your local library not have the overdrive or oneclick digital system that allows you to download audiobooks to your computer?

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Whoops - finger troubles. Meant to say - asking Phil to do something technical......

Got my copy of Raising Steam for free on my Kindle.

ianS 

[Techno]

I thought Raising Steam was only OK-ish too, Steve.
Not all that keen on the chap that was reading it, though.....
In some passages it sounds as though he's reading the words one.....at......a.....time, which is slightly irritating.

There is a download system at the library (which I see you've already spotted.... )......When I get the new PC.....and a new pair of speakers...(I blew the last ones up after fixing a new jack-plug onto a damaged lead*. ).....I'll probably give that a go.

* I was ashamed at doing that.....Sort of little soldering job that I can normally do with my eyes shut..... .....Perhaps that was the problem.

Cheers - Phil

[Leman]

Armies of Bismark's Wars by Bruce Bassett Powell. It's a pretty good and very readable account of the development and structure of the Prussian army from 1815 to 1867 with an extensive section on the appearance and armament of the army in the 1860s.