What Are You Reading, Again?

[steviejay]

Red Storm Rising is amazing, and I heard once that it's read in military circles as an example of a modern war but obviously I dunno if that's true.

if you loved that I seriously recommend you begin to read the Jack Ryan series. Read Patriot Games. it's amazing (just finished reading it again myself)

 

[Paalikles]

Todaro & Smith's Development Economics
Olivier Blanchard's Macroeconomics
A ton of litterature on comparative politics - several titles in Norwegian, which might not be interesting to you. David Arter's Scandinavian Politics today might be though

Fiction: no time

 

[AceChilla]

I also have to little time for fiction.

But I'm reading Iron Coffins, about a German u-boat commander in WW2. It's pretty good.

 

[mrtn]

Re-reading Five Hundred Years After by Steven Brust; I'm in a heavy Brust period ATM.

 

[Smellincoffee]

I just finished The San Francisco Earthquake and about to start rereading my favorite work of nonfiction, Good Life in Hard Times: San Francisco's Twenties and Thirties.

 

[Lord_Sidious]

I have just read Angels and Demons and I'm starting to read The Pearl of John Steinbeck(must read it for Portuguese subject)

 

[Grisu]

Red Storm Rising is amazing, and I heard once that it's read in military circles as an example of a modern war but obviously I dunno if that's true.

if you loved that I seriously recommend you begin to read the Jack Ryan series. Read Patriot Games. it's amazing (just finished reading it again myself)

I agree, the first few books of the Jack Ryan series are very good, but then he somehow loses it, the last book of the series I liked was "The Sum of all Fears", after that it got bad, IMHO. The Bear and the Dragon is just a horrible book

 

[steviejay]

alas, I would need to agree. TBATD didn't seem to have the same spark as the old ones, maybe it's cause Jack Ryan didn't take as hands on a role as the others. However I did enjoy his depiction on a 21st century war

However Debt of Honour was rather good, I liked several points in it and I dare anyone to read the ending and not feel a chill on how close to reality it became.

Sum of All Fears is probably the most gripping book I've ever had the pleasure to read, even the Da Vinci Code can't come near how hard it was for me to put that book down. I starter reading that book and before I knew it I'd discovered I'd read it all night, the only way I could put it down was when my mum came and shouted at me.

Don't even get me started on Teeth of the Tiger, which was truely dire.

To everyone interested in the Jack Ryan novels, go read them. however please don't say "oh I've watched the film and it wasn't all that great so I'll give the movies a miss", the movies are so different from the novels it's borderline criminal.

 

[RedWolf]

"It's the Crude, Dude - War. Big Oil, and the Fight for the Planet"
- Linda McQuaig

 

[Birdjaguar]

This review hooked me. I'm waiting for it to get checked in at the local library.

The Devil of Nanking
Mo Hayder

One of the characters in Mo Hayder's dazzling The Devil of Nanking tries this last trick, and soon his entrails are strung through the trees like party streamers. In this exceedingly creepy book, Hayder's third, the diabolically gifted British author spins a fascinating mystery from the legacy of Japanese atrocities during World War II. Grey, a troubled young Englishwoman, comes to Tokyo to track down an elderly Chinese professor, Shi Chongming, who is rumored to have film footage of particularly grisly Japanese war crimes. Chongming makes her a deal: Grey can screen the film after she infiltrates the inner circle of an octogenarian gangster whose security chief, the aforementioned Nurse, wears stiletto heels and pencil skirts, and does her best work with a butcher knife. Hayder alternates between Chongming's wrenching account of his experiences in 1930s Nanking and Grey's unwholesome adventures as a hostess in contemporary Tokyo, the two narratives becoming more and more engrossing as they gradually, ghoulishly intertwine. Grade: A

 

[WildFire]

I recently finished "Lost Souls" by Michael Collins and finished "The Remnant" after putting it off for ~2 years.

Over the next month I'll be reading "Armageddon" and "Glorious Appearing" and "A Clockwork Orange"

 

[Moss]

I've been reading a few books by Stephen White. I started with "The Best Revenge, then went on to "Manner of Death," "Missing Persons," and I just finished "Private Practices"

Now I'm going to start to read "Cold Case"

Very good author if you like psychological thrillers.

 

[Turner]

The Conclave of Shadows series by Raymond Feist. I've read the first two, but that was a while back so I'm rereading them before diving into Exiles Return.

Also reading By Order of the President, by WEB Griffin, who I just discovered bears an uncanny resembalance to my late grandfather.

 

[Nobody]

i was just reading a multi book book, and the story i was reading was the shawshank redemption. I want to read the godfather returns but no stores have it.

 

[Cilpot]

alas, I would need to agree. TBATD didn't seem to have the same spark as the old ones, maybe it's cause Jack Ryan didn't take as hands on a role as the others. However I did enjoy his depiction on a 21st century war

Jack Ryan wasn't in Red Storm Rising either... Or did I seriously miss something?

To everyone interested in the Jack Ryan novels, go read them. however please don't say "oh I've watched the film and it wasn't all that great so I'll give the movies a miss", the movies are so different from the novels it's borderline criminal.

Well, thats the problem. I've seen all Jack Ryan movies, and although I know the books are different, I can't read a book when I know how its going to end.

Currently I've started reading Red Rabbit. Looks promising.

 

[Fetus4188]

The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower by Stephen King, excellent book..

 

[steviejay]

Jack Ryan wasn't in Red Storm Rising either... Or did I seriously miss something? .

oops, no he's not. that book is outsdie the Jack Ryan Universe, my bad.

Well, thats the problem. I've seen all Jack Ryan movies, and although I know the books are different, I can't read a book when I know how its going to end.

Currently I've started reading Red Rabbit. Looks promising.

Unfortunately Red Rabbit ain't one of his strongest books imho however it is indeed a fun read. if you want to read a classic Tom Clancy novel then go read the Cardinal of the Kremlin. It's probably the only fully spy novel Clacny's done and it's not been made into a film....... yet.

I just finished reading Sharpe's Tiger by Bernard Cornwell. I was under the impression that it was the first Sharpe novel as it is set the earliest (1799) however it's actually one of the later ones that goes back and shows his early life. Still a really good book though.

now I've got 'Army of Dawn - the war in Northern Africa 1942 - 1943' by Rick Atkinson, 'The Crimean War - a Clash of Empires' by Ian Fletcher and Natalia Ishchenko and 'the Spanish Armada' by Winston Graham.

really need to get round to finishing Rivers of Gold too.

 

[Grisu]

alas, I would need to agree. TBATD didn't seem to have the same spark as the old ones, maybe it's cause Jack Ryan didn't take as hands on a role as the others. However I did enjoy his depiction on a 21st century war

However Debt of Honour was rather good, I liked several points in it and I dare anyone to read the ending and not feel a chill on how close to reality it became.

That's propably the problem I had with TBATD. It just didn't have the imagination of the earlier books. What especially annoyed me was how he discribed the Chinese army as huge and whatnot, and then in the end suddenly a few apaches and m1s mow just through them.....

Debt of Honour was the last book by Clancy that I liked. Executive Order and especially Rainbow Six were really bad IMHO.

 

[steviejay]

yeah. the Chinese army is just overpowering and then..... that's it. I think the use of the 'War Pigs' was a bit of a cop out. Clancy couldn't think of a good way to defeat the Chinese so as a result he just invented this super weapon which can kick ass. Saying that..... I'm not sure if those things actually exist, I suppose they might....

 

[Rik Meleet]

The Da Vinci code - Dan Brown.

Rereading it. I usually read books I like several times.