What are you currently reading ?

[Techno]

"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.

[Hertsblue]

Currently wading my way through E.E. "Doc" Smith's complete Lensman series. Delightfully dated (they were written in the late forties) but still inventive and excellent story-telling. A good waiting-at-the-station-for-the-wife's-train time-filler.

[Hussargeneral]

The Lensman Series are superb.....read them when I was about 13 or 14....Loved them

[Techno]

Finished listening to....
"Hell Gate" by Linda Fairstein.......Thought it was great to start with......But it was just a little lame at the end.
"Paul Temple & The Margo Mystery " by Francis Durbridge....A nice change from some of the modern 'thrillers'.....thoroughly enjoyed it !
Now on to "The Thief" by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott....Seems quite promising.

Cheers - Phil

[slugbalancer]

The River War by that nice Mr W.S. Churchill.

[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