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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2016 3:02 pm
by sven6345789
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2016 7:21 am
by VPaulus
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2016 12:01 am
by warspite1
This looks like it might be interesting - although will wait for a review first.
The Extinguished Flame: Olympians Killed in the Great War
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Extinguished-F ... 1473877989
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2016 11:08 pm
by wodin
Against the Tommies, The War of the Spanish Succession and Sulla: A dictator reconsidered are the three reviews currently published over at A Wargamers Needful Things. We have a few beign read for review including the novel Team Yankee and Leaping Horseman Publishing latest Iron Storm Brigade.
So make sure you drop in every so often to catch a new review!
LINK TO BOOK REVIEWS
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2016 11:09 pm
by wodin
Naval and Military Press are excellent. A lot of my WW1 memoirs are published by them.
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2016 3:37 pm
by radic202
for those who love Fantasy like me! This is Fantastic!!!
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2016 4:09 pm
by Max 86
Ken Follet's Fall of Giants, book 1 of the Century Trilogy.
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2016 4:11 pm
by Max 86
"In The Way of Kings, #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson introduces readers to the fascinating world of Roshar, a world of stone and storms. It has been centuries since the fall of the Knights Radiant, but their mystical swords and armor remain, transforming ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for them. Wars are fought for them and won by them. One such war rages on the Shattered Plains where Kaladin, son of a surgeon, has been reduced to slavery, and Dalinar, commander of the armies, is plagued by dreams of ancient times, doubting his own sanity. Across the ocean, Shallan, a naïve but brave and brilliant young woman, plans a daring theft to save her impoverished noble house from ruin. The result of over ten years of planning, writing, and world-building, The Way of Kings is Book 1 of The Stormlight Archive, an epic fantasy masterpiece in the making."
Sounds interesting, I'll give it a try.
ORIGINAL: radic202
for those who love Fantasy like me! This is Fantastic!!!
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2016 6:05 pm
by radic202
ORIGINAL: Max 86
"In The Way of Kings, #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson introduces readers to the fascinating world of Roshar, a world of stone and storms. It has been centuries since the fall of the Knights Radiant, but their mystical swords and armor remain, transforming ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for them. Wars are fought for them and won by them. One such war rages on the Shattered Plains where Kaladin, son of a surgeon, has been reduced to slavery, and Dalinar, commander of the armies, is plagued by dreams of ancient times, doubting his own sanity. Across the ocean, Shallan, a naïve but brave and brilliant young woman, plans a daring theft to save her impoverished noble house from ruin. The result of over ten years of planning, writing, and world-building, The Way of Kings is Book 1 of The Stormlight Archive, an epic fantasy masterpiece in the making."
Sounds interesting, I'll give it a try.
ORIGINAL: radic202
for those who love Fantasy like me! This is Fantastic!!!
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I mean it, you will not regret it! And that is coming from someone who reads at least one Fantasy novel per month. This is a hell of a big read but worth every minute of it. If you want to try something lighter from Sanderson, "the Mistborn" series is also fantastic and he did complete the "Wheel of Time" series when Jordan died before completing it. His way of incorporating Magic and explaining it is simply phenomenal as well as his World Building.
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2016 7:02 pm
by Ranger33
Heard a lot of good things about Sanderson, even listened to his podcast about writing for a long time, need to dive into some of his stuff.
Right now I'm working my way through the complete works of Lovecraft. Read about half of it last year, which was mostly short stories (they are in the order written) but now there have been several relatively lengthy stories. Can't decide which I like better. The variety of the short stories was great, but also left me feeling more like I had experienced a dream rather than an actual plot.
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2016 6:24 pm
by Mylesmata
I just picked up two books from my local Oxfam, X Platoon by Steve Heaney and Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre. A bargain at £1.99 each! Mincemeat has been recommended to me several times, and X Platoon looks quite interesting; should scratch my SAS-itch, at least.
Anyone read either?
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2016 11:15 pm
by wodin
The armour sounds like the armour in Riftwar Trilogy by R Feist that turns the lad into a mighty warrior\god from the past, loved that part of the story..
ORIGINAL: Max 86
"In The Way of Kings, #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson introduces readers to the fascinating world of Roshar, a world of stone and storms. It has been centuries since the fall of the Knights Radiant, but their mystical swords and armor remain, transforming ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for them. Wars are fought for them and won by them. One such war rages on the Shattered Plains where Kaladin, son of a surgeon, has been reduced to slavery, and Dalinar, commander of the armies, is plagued by dreams of ancient times, doubting his own sanity. Across the ocean, Shallan, a naïve but brave and brilliant young woman, plans a daring theft to save her impoverished noble house from ruin. The result of over ten years of planning, writing, and world-building, The Way of Kings is Book 1 of The Stormlight Archive, an epic fantasy masterpiece in the making."
Sounds interesting, I'll give it a try.
ORIGINAL: radic202
for those who love Fantasy like me! This is Fantastic!!!
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2016 12:37 pm
by Ostwindflak
Just started
Pacific Crucible: War At Sea in the Pacific 1941-1942 by Ian Toll. I am on chapter 4 and really enjoying it. I is book 1 in a trilogy.
https://www.amazon.com/Pacific-Crucible ... c+Crucible
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2016 2:56 pm
by wings7
Looks like an excellent trilogy from an excellent author and naval historian! [:)]
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2016 8:07 pm
by Mylesmata
Saw Steel Inferno: I SS Panzer Corps in Normandy in a local bookshop window and couldn't resist. It seems to describe tactics in quite fascinating detail; I'm not particularly knowledgable about Normandy so this looks to rectify that.
I should probably stop buying and start reading!
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 2:36 pm
by Hotschi
Sounds interesting, but I fail to locate the 3rd book of the trilogy. There is this one, and "The Conquering Tide - War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944", but what's the title of book #3?
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 8:22 pm
by ezzler
i'm halfway through.
An interesting fact that he highlights that we have known for ages but never really thought about.
UK casualties caused by bombing 1939-1941 - some 45,000
German civilians killed by bombing 1939 -1941 - 950
And the UK's bomber command began the campaign conceived as a heavy bomber force to attack industry. mounted operations most nights, as did the Germans, and achieved almost nothing.
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 10:17 pm
by wodin
Reading Leaping Horsemen's new book Iron Cross Brigade, which will be reviewed on the blog. It's another Jason Mark classic.
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2016 11:19 am
by Ostwindflak
Hi Hotschi, the third book isn't out yet. Still being written/revised to my knowledge.
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2016 5:09 pm
by Hotschi
Thank you, will keep a note and wait and see...