What are you currently reading ?

Started by goat major, 03 November 2012, 06:40:05 PM

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skywalker

Just started The English Civil War by Peter Gaunt, it is not a subject I know much about but the book has sparked my interest  :)

fsn

I've just read the Osprey book on WWII Polish Armour. Not that I'm going to get sucked in by the new range or anything ...
Lord Oik of Runcorn (You may refer to me as Milord Oik)

Oik of the Year 2013, 2014; Prize for originality and 'having a go, bless him', 2015
3 votes in the 2016 Painting Competition!; 2017-2019 The Wilderness years
Oik of the Year 2020; 7 votes in the 2021 Painting Competition
11 votes in the 2022 Painting Competition (Double figures!)
2023 - the year of Gerald:
2024 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!

kipt

Finished "the Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944" by Ian Toll.  This is volume 2 of the Pacific War Trilogy.

Narrates Guadalcanal to the Marianas and is very well done.  Overall history but with several in depth discussions of both sides.

Great book.

Malbork

QuoteBen Kane. Spartacus. Library Book. Fiction.

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

Couldn't a

Malbork

Sorry about that, don't know what happened :o

Was going to say, couldn't agree more. I plodded on to the end but thought it was pretty poor stuff. I bought it in a two-for-one with his novel about Hannibal.  Got about 50 pages in before giving up on that one.

He seems to be very popular but doesn't do it for me

fsn

Quote from: Malbork on 14 April 2016, 08:17:02 AM
Sorry about that, don't know what happened :o
Bad language filter kicked in?


Lord Oik of Runcorn (You may refer to me as Milord Oik)

Oik of the Year 2013, 2014; Prize for originality and 'having a go, bless him', 2015
3 votes in the 2016 Painting Competition!; 2017-2019 The Wilderness years
Oik of the Year 2020; 7 votes in the 2021 Painting Competition
11 votes in the 2022 Painting Competition (Double figures!)
2023 - the year of Gerald:
2024 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!

Malbork

Hmm, can't say I noticed that particularly.

More like bad writing/story-telling filter :)

Westmarcher

Went along to the library looking for a horse & muskety book, particularly League of Augsburg or William/James in Ireland kind of thing and came back with The Korean War (yes, the 20th Century one) by Max Hastings.   :-[

Can't explain it either. Phew! It doesn't half pen and ink with tobacco smoke.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

fsn

Good book. I have it and it's a great read.

Might make you want to lobby for Korean War infantry!
Lord Oik of Runcorn (You may refer to me as Milord Oik)

Oik of the Year 2013, 2014; Prize for originality and 'having a go, bless him', 2015
3 votes in the 2016 Painting Competition!; 2017-2019 The Wilderness years
Oik of the Year 2020; 7 votes in the 2021 Painting Competition
11 votes in the 2022 Painting Competition (Double figures!)
2023 - the year of Gerald:
2024 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!

Roy

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Techno

Listened to......The Lord of the Rings......All five series of H2G2.....and now almost at the end of 'Raising Steam'.

(Over the past few weeks !)

Cheers - Phil

Fenton

Quote from: Fenton on 10 April 2016, 08:24:29 PM
Currently listening to Dominion by CJ Sansom

Very good so far

Well I spoke too soon. Was pretty average in the end
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Ithoriel

Quote from: RoyWilliamson on 15 April 2016, 09:10:09 AM
Ancient Rome on five denarii a day

This explains it easier than me

Just bought it second hand from Amazon for 1p + postage!

Hadn't been aware of this so thanks for the heads up!
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cameronian

Listening to Evelyn Waugh's 'Sword of Honour' trilogy on BBC R4x, still available on listen again. Just finished the complete BBC R4 Smiley with Simon Russell Beale, excellent.
Don't buy your daughters a pony, buy them heroin instead, its cheaper and ultimately less addictive.

Leman

'What, are you currently Reading?'

'No, this week I have mostly been Ipswich.'
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