What Are You Currently Reading?

[Gunz]

Just finished Dune Messiah. Wow. I've never read the Dune sequel books until now. Starting Children of Dune. Damn, I'm sure glad my kids weren't Pre-Born. They woulda been hell to deal with.

I need to find a source for Melange. That's some wild shit.

 

[Viper1]

Y’all knew this was coming. I love this series.

#5: Heretics of Dune - Frank Herbert

#6: Chapterhouse: Dune starts tonight!

 

[shoe_lacy]

Warrior Mindset - Michael J. Asken, Ph.D

Very humbling and insightful read. Applicable to both military and civilian career fields.

 

[SpeakSoftly]

The Mission, The Men, And Me - Pete Blaber
US ARMY Ranger Handbook
and for mental health, Good Clean Fun - Nick Offerman

 

[Stretcher Jockey]

Just finished Foundation by Isaac Asimov. While I enjoyed how religion and economics were used as methods to control and leverage different planets, it was just a strange beginning for me. Tried to instantly sell me on a mathematician that could predict everything in the future up to 30,000 years based off statistics (known as Psychohistory) in the books and then spends the remainder of the book time jumping around to different crisis without elaboration on Hari Seldon. Wasnt really my style, but I appreciate it as one of the most intiguing conceps in sci-fi that Ive read in quite a while.

Looking into The Grey Man by Mark Greany. Was a big fan of the Mitch Rapp novels, and a few people on the board have discussed the Grey Man series before as being similar to that. Will report back when done!

 

[Board and Seize]

...it was just a strange beginning for me. Tried to instantly sell me on a mathematician that could predict everything in the future up to 30,000 years based off statistics (known as Psychohistory)...

To be fair, this wasn't around when Asimov wrote Foundation, but Psychohistory is pretty much a real thing.
Check out Bruce Bueno de Mesquita:
Here's a link with various articles of his or commenting on his work
And an article titled Can Bruce Bueno do Mesquita predict the future? (Spoiler: "Yes, sometimes, with limits he can predict the future")
And a paper of his laying out the predictive theory

...spends the remainder of the book time jumping around to different crisis without elaboration on Hari Seldon. Wasnt really my style, but I appreciate it as one of the most intiguing conceps in sci-fi that Ive read in quite a while.

Here you're probably being let down having only read the first book in the series. The scope of the full series is seriously staggering, Hari is an individual (and as Psychohistory teaches us, individuals don't really matter predictively, just like a single molecule of H₂0 doesn't really impact the temperature of a given volume of water - it gets lost in the aggregation, hence stochastic results), and he really isn't the protagonist - or even really a main character - he's background.

Great series, give the next one a shot!

 

[Stretcher Jockey]

Honestly they are pretty short books (finished this one in about a week or so) so it may be worth revisiting. I can definitely see a lot of potential in the series, but it just left me with a strange after taste. Maybe after digesting for a few days I will reconsider. Thanks for the recommendation, @Board and Seize

 

[Viper1]

Just finished Foundation by Isaac Asimov. While I enjoyed how religion and economics were used as methods to control and leverage different planets, it was just a strange beginning for me. Tried to instantly sell me on a mathematician that could predict everything in the future up to 30,000 years based off statistics (known as Psychohistory) in the books and then spends the remainder of the book time jumping around to different crisis without elaboration on Hari Seldon. Wasnt really my style, but I appreciate it as one of the most intiguing conceps in sci-fi that Ive read in quite a while.

Looking into The Grey Man by Mark Greany. Was a big fan of the Mitch Rapp novels, and a few people on the board have discussed the Grey Man series before as being similar to that. Will report back when done!

I'll put that on the list. I really enjoyed the Robot Series.

 

[digrar]

Looking into The Grey Man by Mark Greany.

The Grey Man goes alright, good mental fairy floss.

 

[Gunz]

The final three books in the Dune series arrived today along with Atkinson 's "The British are Coming."

Just finishing up Children of Dune and Leto is metamorphosizing into a giant worm.

 

[digrar]

With David Bellavia getting upgraded to the MoH, I've started re-reading House to House: An Epic Memoir of War by Sgt. David Bellavia and John Bruning.

 

[Viper1]

While waiting for Chapterhouse: Dune to arrive in the mail from my dear mum, I read Mister Roberts by Thomas Heggen. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Anyone who has served will appreciate the shenanigans, leadership challenges, and boredom on a Navy cargo ship at sea.

 

[Devildoc]

While waiting for Chapterhouse: Dune to arrive in the mail from my dear mum, I read Mister Roberts by Thomas Heggen. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Anyone who has served will appreciate the shenanigans, leadership challenges, and boredom on a Navy cargo ship at sea.

Great book, great movie.

 

[Gunz]

While waiting for Chapterhouse: Dune to arrive in the mail from my dear mum, I read Mister Roberts by Thomas Heggen. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Anyone who has served will appreciate the shenanigans, leadership challenges, and boredom on a Navy cargo ship at sea.

One of my favorites.

I'm finishing up God Emperor of Dune. I regret not highlighting some of Leto's (Herbert's) most profound passages. The author is incredibly deep and sometimes I feel I'm not up to deciphering or interpreting every philosophical passage. But some of the most unique and thought-provoking works I've read. I'm looking forward to the last two books.

 

[Gunz]

While waiting for Chapterhouse: Dune to arrive in the mail from my dear mum, I read Mister Roberts by Thomas Heggen. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Anyone who has served will appreciate the shenanigans, leadership challenges, and boredom on a Navy cargo ship at sea.

The Good Shepard, by CS Forester. This is a study in command...about a US Navy destroyer captain in the North Atlantic during WW2, charged with the escort of a convoy. As senior in grade, he's placed above the more experienced captains of the British, Canadian and Polish corvettes that make up the escort. Menaced at every turn by German U-boat wolfpacks, frigid weather, high seas, no sleep, constant alerts and alarms, he never deviates from his duty...which is also based on his faith. I highly recommend it. (For that matter, anything by CS Forester).

 

[“The Old Man”]

Finishing The Official U.S. Army Combat Skills Handbook. Revised and updated by Sergeant First Class Matt Larsen.
Recently acquired a 7 volume set of The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. It is one of the things I have from my Son.
Then a re-read of Miguel Cervante`s, Don Quixote.

 

[Kraut783]

re-reading "Lucifer's Hammer" by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven. Great survival/post-apocalypse book....

 

[barnesm44]

Just finished With The Old Breed by Eugene Sledge, now reading Dear Mom by J.T. Ward. “You stay teachable most by reading books, by reading what other people went through,” General Mattis.

 

[Stretcher Jockey]

Finished up The Grey Man a few weeks ago. Was a simple read, and seemed like a new age knock off of The Bourne Identity. Still a good time waster since I've got plenty of that.

Just finished up State Of Fear by Michael Crichton and wow, that was the most thought provoking read I've had since Shogun. There were a ton of footnotes on the science provided in the novel and its definitely going to give me some things to look into here in the near future regarding climate change, the history of eugenics, Yellowstone and a few other things. Highly recommend it!

 

[CQB]

Just finished The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray. Thoughtful & incisive appraisal of the mass immigration to Europe & its consequences. Worth it for anyone working in security.