What are you currently reading ?

[Chad]

Just finishing "Eagles Over The Alps: Suvorov's Capaign in Italy and Switzerland 1799".

Just like the books on Marengo and Hohenlinden, there is plenty of information for wargaming. Do not understand why the period 1792-1800 is so badly neglected by manufacturers in 6 & 10 MM. scale figures. There are adequate 15mm figures available and proxies in 6mm might be available but would require modifications to figures in some cases.

Chad

[Fenton]

Just about finishing off listening  to The Name of the Rose, then going to start on The Eastern Front (WW1) by Norman Stone

[fsn]

Just started re-reading the Elric books of Michael Moorcock.

Read them all in the 70's and '80s.

Seem very different now.  Perhaps it's me.

[Techno]

POD PERSON ALERT !!!!

Been listening to a Jeeves & Wooster story on the iPlayer.

Bertie came out with what sounded like a new insult for me to use on Nobby.
"A loathsome ******." (An apparently old word, that I'd never heard before.

I'd better look up what the definition of ****** is...Thought I.
I won't be using it.....It's not suitable for the forum, at all ! (Way beyond bad taste.)
Cheers - Phil

[Fenton]

Blister?

[kipt]

Finished "Moltke and His Generals: A Study In Leadership" by Quintin Barry.

VERY well done; I do like his books.  Great discussions of who his generals were and how they interacted (or acted irresponsibly).

Liked it.

[mollinary]

Just about finishing off listening  to The Name of the Rose, then going to start on The Eastern Front (WW1) by Norman Stone

Eastern Front is an amazing book. Stone was my supervisor at University when he was finishing it in the late 70s, and I have a nicely inscribed original copy.  He was a truly inspirational teacher.

Mollinary

[Roy]

Ben Kane. Spartacus. Library Book. Fiction.

Just read the second chapter last night. Already found two errors that should have been sorted by an editor. 

[Last Hussar]

POD PERSON ALERT !!!!

Been listening to a Jeeves & Wooster story on the iPlayer.

Bertie came out with what sounded like a new insult for me to use on Nobby.
"A loathsome ******." (An apparently old word, that I'd never heard before.

I'd better look up what the definition of ****** is...Thought I.
I won't be using it.....It's not suitable for the forum, at all ! (Way beyond bad taste.)
Cheers - Phil

Oh come on, Wodehouse used it therefore it is literature, not rude.

[Roy]

Ben Kane. Spartacus. Library Book. Fiction.

Just read the second chapter last night. Already found two errors that should have been sorted by an editor. 

Read first three and a bit chapters. Wasn't finding it very interesting. Have given up.

[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.