What Novel(s) Are You Currently Reading?

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Just finished Hannibal, the third and latest (and probably last) in the Dr. Hannibal Lector series. Also almost finished Oliver Sacks' An Anthropologist on Mars. And I've been (slowly) re-reading Gene Wolfe's Shadow of the Torturer series.

I've been putting together a collection of American history that will probably get me through next fall and winter. Here's what I've bought so far:

A People's Army : Massachusett Soldiers and Society in the Seven Years' War, by Fred Anderson;
The Glorious Cause : The American Revolution, 1763-1789, by Robert Middlekauff;
The Wolf by the Ears : Thomas Jefferson and Slavery, by John Chester Miller;
The Federalist Era 1789-1801, by John Chester Miller;
Battle Cry of Freedom : The Civil War Era, by James M. McPherson;
Over Here : The First World War and American Society, by David M. Kennedy;
Grand Expectations : The United States, 1945-1974, by James T. Patterson; and a couple of the Don't know much about... books.

I'm planning to order (when they each come out in paperback):
Crucible of War : The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766, by Fred Anderson; and Freedom from Fear : The United States, 1929-1945, by David M. Kennedy.

Anybody have any alternate suggestions, or suggestions for filling in the gaps?

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Dragon And Phoenix

Second book in a series by Joanne Bertin. Good series. Fantasy books are more my think. I am also working on When true night falls, By C.S. Friedman. She is a great Author and this is the second book in her Coldfire Trilogy. Ok I am going to read now :)
 
On the Oceans of Eternity by Stirling - lots
of interesting history and firearms.

Obsidian Butterfly - Hamilton - vampire, sex, firearms.

The latest by William Caunitz - Chains of Command - one of his best.
 
Don't have as much time for fiction as I'd like, but recently finished " Operation Damocles" by Oscar L. Fellows, a VERY Libertarian bent sci-fi! If we could just find soe way to come up with the device described!( in paperback by Baen books)
crankshaft
nralife, goa, jpfo, fcsa, smvfm
 
I read a Jack Reacher book, a while back, and he blew someone out of their shoes with a .50AE. New it was powerful, but that powerful?!LOL.

Currently I am reading The Price of Honor, by Hackworth. Great so far, lots of blood, guts, and swearing!

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"The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" -Heinlein

"The Shadow of the Shadow"
-Pablo Ignacio Taibo II
Based in 1922 Mexico City.
Characters: Newspaper Reporter
Lawyer
Carpenter/Labor Oraganizer
Poet/Villaista Cavalryman
Everybody's packin' when they play dominoes.
 
just finished Easy prey. and "its not about the bike" Lance Armstrong I'll have to get the book about earl swagger. clay Harvery did another book as well with the same cast.
 
I used to enjoy Michener, but haven't read novels for awhile.

Just finished 'The Gift of Fear' by Gavin de Becker ... sarcastic fellow re: the RKBA, and I do think I'll send a letter to him on that subject.

Starting the 'Federalist Papers' - cheap to acquire ... paperback for about $6 I think it was. I gather it is pretty rigorous, but I hear them discussed all the time, so I feel I need to make the effort. Besides, anti's sometimes claim there is a lot of talk in the Papers re: the 'collective' RKBA, so I'll be curious to see the truth with my own eyes.

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Thanks for the volume of replies. Whenever reading other posts, I've noticed currently read books somehow makes its way into the posts. Figured I'd test the waters.

So far, I'm hooked into War of the Rats. Lots of interesting, WWII era sniping information in that one. Definitely not Stephen Hunter territory, but it will do.

Some of you guys make me feel grossly under-read, especially in the history department, but I'm working on it. I did manage to read Plato's Meno, an interesting dialogue on the nature of technical knowledge and virtue. Worth a look if the Greeks are your fare. I also have already picked off the following novels earlier this summer: L'Amour's Walking Drum (excellent!) and The Quick and the Dead, Adam's So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, and Bradbury's Dandelion Wine (great book that must be read during summer).

After War of the Rats, I must re-read Pride and Prejudice. After that, I intend to read David Drake for the first time; Cross the Stars came highly recommended (I've noticed Hammer Slammers mentioned ofttimes on this BB, so I presume it's decent military sci-fi).

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For Gorthaur and anyone else looking for fascinating American history: Raising Holy Hell would be my pick. I don't recall the author but it's a novel/biography of the life of John Brown from his childhood to his death in Virginia that will twist you. I loved it. Brown's fanaticism is perfectly portrayed and I get the feeling it's pretty close to true, though the author admits that most of the dialogue is fiction.
 
Currently on The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester (for the umpteenth time), and just finished off The Belgariad series by David Eddings.

LawDog
 
Bout halfway thru Hot Springs by Stephen Hunter. Great book, as all of his are! Recently read Blackhawk Down, and was reading Gavin DeBecker's Gift of Fear also. Cooper's The art of the Rifle, was finished last week. EricO
 
Griffin's got a new one out?!? Off we go to the library...

(Mentioned in another thread a fatal flaw in "Point of Impact's" plot. Any one that's recently finished it find it? Hint: If you spotted it, there's no question in your mind; i.e. "Do you mean where...")

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I am reading "The Story of Civilization" by Will and Ariel Durant. This consists of eleven volumes. I am midway into volume 4 "The Age of Faith" Doc

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Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? .... Mae West
 
Gavin Duh Becker is one of those "save the children," types. One of the gun rags did an
interview with the puke, and he was saying how he didn't want to ban guns, but license and register them wouldn't be a bad idea.

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LawDog,

I read The Stars My Destination over the holidays last year and thoroughly loved it. Have you read Bester's The Demolished Man? Superb older sci-fi (I believe Bester was the first recipient of a Hugo Award).

Eddings is entertaining. Excellent use of dialogue to move the plot (and didn't you just get a kick out of Silk?).

Have you read Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series? It's getting heavy (ninth book should be released this fall/winter). The WoT books are worth reading for any apocalyptic flavored fantasy aficiandoes.

BTW, LawDog, WRITE A BOOK OF YOUR OWN! PLEASE! Just look at the fanbase you've already created with your TFL LawDog Files.

Sorry, I digress . . .
 
Don't forget the old guys---I periodically read Charles Dickens.I know he wasn't the most praised writer of all time but his descriptions of people are masterful.After having read everything he wrote I feel as if I could live in 19th Century England easily.
The Picwick Papers are good to dip into.Some of the others can be a little tedious.
 
Somewhere in the middle of Tolkein's Lord of the Rings. Finished the Hobbit last week. Next up is whatever catches my eye at the library.
Eric

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I haven't read much fiction lately. Biographies and history are consuming most of my reading hours.

Did anyone mention Clive Cussler? I found his Dirk Pitt novels to be a lot of fun.

I've read "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien numerous times. Also well thumbed is my hardcover of "The Complete Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

For humor, any of the "Jeeves" stories by P.G. Wodehouse.

For sci-fi, in addition to the ubiquitous Heinlein, the books written by Fritz Leiber and Philip K. Dick are excellent, thought provoking and not very often mentioned.

Just my half quatluu. :)

Cliff
 
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