What are you reading this summer?

[sabre1]

Well being a teacher, and with the economy in the trash can, I have LOTS of time to read. I like a good series, and last summer I read the Richad Sharpe series. This summer the Bolitho series is offereing a lot of fun to take my mind away from more important things.

So what is on your list?

[RedArgo]

I just finished The Three Musketeers. I didn't really realize there were more books after that, other than the Man in the Iron Mask, so I downloaded 20 Years After and eventually I'll get that one then the last one.

I just started the new David Weber Honor Harrington book Mission of Honor yesterday.

[bairdlander2]

Mostly matrix forums

[Jeffrey H.]

World War Z....gotta finish that one.

[D.Ilse]

this week I got in for my Bday. well in the last few weeks been placing orders w/ Amazon and Barnes and Nobles.

Dying for St. Lo, Read and Displayed next to III.Panzer Korps at Kursk on the Topself(along with Hell's Gate, Panzers in Finland, Fighters and Fighter Bombers over the Far North, Normandy 1944: German Military Organization, Combat Power and Organizational Effectiveness, Just to name a few.

Bitter Victory by D'Estes on the battle for sicily..kinda on hold for the moment.
Osprey Campaign Series, Op. Nordwind. well haven't started it yet.

Ordered yesterday, for my Panzer Lehr section of books/battles.
Bayerlein: After Action Reports of the Panzer Lehr Division Commander from D-Day to the Ruhr

[D.Ilse]

ORIGINAL: Jeffrey H.

World War Z....gotta finish that one.

you know I was kinda let down by that one esp with all the hype it gets.
The Audio Book is cool as it has a full cast of well known hollywood actors, but really the Book Day by Day Armageddon by J. L. Bourne is soo much better and more gripping than WWZ.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Day-by ... don+bourne

Plus the next chapter of Armageddon comes out tomorrow, which is the day after the bday.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Beyond ... don+bourne

[Arctic Blast]

Just started Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky.

[LitFuel]

1. The Passage by Justin Cronin
2. The Last Stand by Nathanial Philbrick

A little fiction and a little history to balance me out

[Plodder]

Currently reading Martin Middlebrook's Arnhem The Airborne Battle. I've had it on my shelf for 15 years or so and never read it so it was about time.

[Greybriar]

I am reading The Hornblower Books by C. S. Forester.

[parusski]

My reading consists of actual reading and listening to audio books.

I am just starting the final entry in Adrian Mckinty's "Michael Forsythe" trilogy, "The Bloomsday Dead". One hell of a story-check it out.

As for audio I get 60 unabridged audio books a year with my Audible membership, and I listen to 'em all. But there is one author's tale I have now listened to 6 times in 7 years---"The Civil War", by Shelby Foote. It is narrated by Grover Gardner and runs about 145 hours. I find it the most compelling civil war narrative ever.

You guy's who like reading but don't have time should try the audio book substitute. I almost never game without listening to one.

[sabre1]

ORIGINAL: Greybriar

I am reading The Hornblower Books by C. S. Forester.

If you like Hornblower you should like the Bolitho series Greybriar.

[JudgeDredd]

Currently reading With the Old Breed by E.B. Sledge and then have Helmet For My Pillow by Robert Leckie

Chickenhawk is waiting on my bedside table (to read for the 4th time) and after that, I have a couple of Afghanistan books

[Greybriar]

ORIGINAL: sabre1

If you like Hornblower you should like the Bolitho series Greybriar.

Thanks for the suggestion, sabre1. I am always on the lookout for books to read.

[sprior]

Cuyrrently reading Revelation

Listing to the Aubrey/Maturin series on audio books during my commute

[Plodder]

ORIGINAL: JudgeDredd
Chickenhawk is waiting on my bedside table (to read for the 4th time)

Brilliant book.I usually read my battered 1983 publication once a year.So i've read it at least 25 times [:D].If you can find it, check out it's sequel Chickenhawk: Back in the world.

[JudgeDredd]

ORIGINAL: The Plodder

ORIGINAL: JudgeDredd
Chickenhawk is waiting on my bedside table (to read for the 4th time)

Brilliant book.I usually read my battered 1983 publication once a year.So i've read it at least 25 times [:D].If you can find it, check out it's sequel Chickenhawk: Back in the world.

Absolutely the single best book I've ever read (that I can recall [:D] ). His description of a helicopter pilots role in Vietnam was breathtaking and actually put you there. Can't wait to read it again.

I did find his new one, but this is what I find in the UK - pity really, as I'd love to read it. I have no idea why it's in such short supply - I can get Chickenhawk from most half decent book sellers in the UK!

[ilovestrategy]

I just finished the Harry Potter series. I'm a Harry Potter nut. I tried reading a WWII book by a German named Sven Hassel but I can't stand it. I thought it would be like "The Forgotten Soldier" by Guy Sajor but I was wrong.

I read Toland's book again about the Japanese Empire for the umpteenth time and it finally fell apart. Literally. I LOVE that book!

I may read David Eddings "The Belgariad" again. I read it at least once a year, that and "The Lord of the Rings".

[comte]

I just finished reading Semper Fi Vietnam by Edward F. Murray. I just started reading James A. Michener's Tales of the South Pacific. And after that I'm gonna read Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific by Eric M. Bergerud. That should cover most of the summer [:)]

[PunkReaper]

Fields of Death by Simon Scarrow..... last in a fictionalised version of the lives of Napoleon and Wellington. And Armies of the Napoleonic Wars