What Are You Currently Reading?

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[Gunz]

I can't even put into words how angry that cunt is making me with his delay in finishing up Winds of Winter. Especially now as the show shall start entering spoiler territory for the book readers. He's a self indulgent cunt, more intent on going to poxy conventions and writing poxy novella's, then finishing the book that people have been waiting 4 years for...

And the word now from his publisher is that Winds of Winter will definately not be published in 2015 as previously announced. Somebody needs to put a .45 to that motherfucker's head and order his ass to finish the goddam book. Or else.

 

[AWP]

And the word now from his publisher is that Winds of Winter will definately not be published in 2015 as previously announced. Somebody needs to put a .45 to that motherfucker's head and order his ass to finish the goddam book. Or else.

At this rate the next thing published with his name on it will be an obituary...

 

[TLDR20]

I'm reading Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith. I am really enjoying, it is difficult to put down. It is both a great account of life in 50's Soviet Union, and a terrific crime novel.

 

[AWP]

The March of Folly by Barbara Tuchman. It discusses how governments/ leaders make horrible history changing decisions based on emotions, a whim, or exceptionally flawed logic.

 

[SpitfireV]

That must be an exceptionally heavy tome.

 

[Viper1]

I'm reading Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith. I am really enjoying, it is difficult to put down. It is both a great account of life in 50's Soviet Union, and a terrific crime novel.

It's getting turned into a movie with Tom Hardy and Gary Oldman. I'll have to check this one out.

 

[ThunderHorse]

Finished Golden Son, the second book in the Red Rising trilogy. Felt like game of thrones at the end with how many knives had gone into backs. Solid novel and can't wait until Morning Star comes out to finish it...the movies will be interesting.

 

[AWP]

That must be an exceptionally heavy tome.

It isn't bad at all. For example it has a brief section on Germany's expansion of the submarine war in WWI and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

 

[Gunz]

 

[RackMaster]

Finally picked up Level Zero Heroes again and power read it when I could; finished it in 2 1/2 days. Great read and a good example of why Afghanistan was/is doomed to fail. Thanks @Marine0311 for the book.

 

[RUBSUMLOTION]

I'm reading The Only Thing Worth Dying For by Eric Blehm. It's about Army 5th SF Group, ODA 574's support of Hamid Karzai's uprising againtst the Taliban in southern Afghanistan in 2001. I'm half way through it and it's great.

 

[JohnnyBoyUSMC]

Currently reading "Find, Fix, Finish: Inside The Counter Terrorism Campaigns That Killed Bin Laden And Devastated Al Qaeda" by Aki Peritz and Eric Rosenbach, "Damn FewL Making the Modern SEAL Warrior" by Rorke Denver and Ellis Henican, and "Modern American Snipers" by Chris Martin with SOFREP.com.

Up next is "Jaeger: At War With Denmark's Elite Special Forces" by Thomas Rathsack, "War Time: An Idea, It's History, It's Consequences" by Mary L. Dudziak, and "Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding" by Husain Haqqani (who I hope does not have any relation to the infamous network we all hate lol).

 

[amorris127289]

"You don't need a TITLE to be a LEADER" by Mark Sanborn

 

[CDG]

I started this thread and have been pretty lax with updating my own reads. Here's to getting back on track. "Failure Is Not An Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond" by former NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz. He lays out the failures, successes, power struggles, writing TTPs/SOPs/manuals on the fly, the pressure to keep up with the Russians, and the near misses that made up the early days of our space program. It's been a great read so far.

 

[Totentanz]

Currently reading The Sword and the Shield. It's slow, but thorough and fascinating. I was born toward the end of the Cold War and grew up shortly after it ended, so I'm gaining a new appreciation for the tensions that occurred at that time (as well as the sheer paranoia of the Soviet state). I know the broad strokes history of the Cold War, but seeing it in the detail that Andrew/Mitrokhin bring adds a lot of depth that generalized history books don't fully convey.

I tried to read The World Was Going Our Way on Kindle and couldn't keep focused on it in that medium so I ordered both in hardcover and I'm going through them that way.

The part I find the most fascinating about the whole thing is that Mitrokhin was one of the few people who saw EVERYTHING the USSR did, and was one of the few to see the reality of both West and East in the depth that he did without the propaganda lens... and it drove him not only to choose the West, but to defect with his entire archive.

 

[Totentanz]

I started this thread and have been pretty lax with updating my own reads. Here's to getting back on track. "Failure Is Not An Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond" by former NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz. He lays out the failures, successes, power struggles, writing TTPs/SOPs/manuals on the fly, the pressure to keep up with the Russians, and the near misses that made up the early days of our space program. It's been a great read so far.

It's a great book... highly recommended if you're interested in the Space Race. Krantz's writing isn't the best piece of literature ever created, but his perspective and his humility are fascinating.

 

[CQB]

It isn't bad at all. For example it has a brief section on Germany's expansion of the submarine war in WWI and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

It's a great read, you might want to check out August 1914 by the same author.

 

[AWP]

It's a great read, you might want to check out August 1914 by the same author.

I think I've read The Guns of August, but what hooked me on reading her books was A Distant Mirror. That book covers the 14th Century and is an excellent read covering a wide range of topics for that period. Anyone into Medieval Europe should grab a copy.

 

[JohnnyBoyUSMC]

I think I've read The Guns of August, but what hooked me on reading her books was A Distant Mirror. That book covers the 14th Century and is an excellent read covering a wide range of topics for that period. Anyone into Medieval Europe should grab a copy.

The Guns of August was an amazing book, truly a sobering account of those first few terrible months of World War 1. If your on a World War 1 kick or just want a good read about the makings of the modern Middle East I'd also suggest "Lawrence In Arabia: Deceity, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East" by Scott Anderson.