What Are You Currently Reading?

[racing_kitty]

Go ahead and light it up in the worst of... thread!

 

[Deleted member 2517]

Got through "Modern American Sniper" in about two days. It is one of the better military non-fictions I've read. The material detailing the recce types in JSOC was interesting and answered a lot of questions I had regarding that subject. From a wannabes perspective it definitely reaffirmed what I want to do and I would recommend it.

I'm now reading "Ham on Rye." I've really come to like Bukowski. Whether his works hold up for me over time is yet to be determined. I loved Palahniuk books in high school and feel a bit like Hank is just an evolution of that.

 

[Red Ryder]

Starship Troopers

 

[Totentanz]

Finishing up The Jesuits (Malachi Martin) - some really interesting stuff in there (especially insightful given Martin's background), some of it is repetitive and boring in discussions of philosophy. Worth the read, and especially interesting if you're following some the statements from the Vatican since the arrival of Pope Francis.

The Gift of Fear and Left of Bang are inbound (thanks, @Viper1)

 

[LibraryLady]

Gift of Fear. It's good and it's bad. Bad because the author pushes hard the anti-gun philosophy in the book. Good, because if you can get past that, you will find it an absolutely brilliant dissertation on developing SA. I highly recommend it for that reason but only with the caveat to beware the anti-gun crap.

LL

 

[LibraryLady]

The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs by Patricia B. McConnell Ph.D

Very readable explanation of the interactions between canines and primates (humans). She gives excellent real world examples. I'm going to be buying a copy so I can delve further into the topic.

LL

 

[Grunt]

Gift of Fear. It's good and it's bad. Bad because the author pushes hard the anti-gun philosophy in the book. Good, because if you can get past that, you will find it an absolutely brilliant dissertation on developing SA. I highly recommend it for that reason but only with the caveat to beware the anti-gun crap.

LL

My son is reading it now and I have read it multiple times.

Your take on the book is spot on....

I'll probably read it again when he is done.

 

[LibraryLady]

... Your take on the book is spot on....
...

Of course it is... I'm a Librarian!

LL

 

[CDG]

Made my first Kindle purchase today, Left Of Bang. I'm running the Kindle app on my laptop, so we'll see how it works. Saving it for the flight back to PA.

 

[CQB]

SAS Insider by Clint Palmer. Australian career soldier but still undecided on its merits. I'll let you know.

 

[digrar]

It's a cautionary tale of how if you want to be RSM of the Regiment, you can't spend your career drawing the crabs.

 

[busdriver]

Flying through Midnight. He touches on shelf checks in the BX, getting shot at, and doing the impossible. It's a strange read, but I like it.

 

[digrar]

Ride Like Hell and You’ll Get There by Paul Carter ( of 'Don't tell mum I work on the rigs... She thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse' fame).

Paul is an Oil and Gas man, with the gift of the gab, suffering the highs and lows of fortune and misfortune, all the while trying to break the land speed record for a bike powered with bio diesel.

 

[Gunz]

It's a cautionary tale of how if you want to be RSM of the Regiment, you can't spend your career drawing the crabs.

Honorable Mention for best book review to date on SS. ^^^

I just started Shadows of a Forgotten Past: To The Edge with the Rhodesian SAS and Selous Scouts, by Paul French, another @pardus recco and so far burning the midnight oil with this one.

 

[Dame]

Lions of Kandahar. Finally. I've had the book forever and just haven't made time to read it.

 

[CDG]

The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind-And Changed The History Of Free Speech In America by Thomas Healy. Just started this but it's very interesting so far. The book is about Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and his change of opinion regarding what was protected under the 1st Amendment. He wrote an opinion in 1919 that essentially was the first time the SC had truly ruled in the favor of free speech. Up until this point, people were regularly imprisoned for speaking out against the government, especially during the war. No one ever knew why he changed his mind, as he had written several opinions expressing the lack of belief in individual freedom of speech. But they found new letters and memos that revealed the events leading up to his historic opinion.

 

[AWP]

Since I'm on book 4 of the year I guess I'll only post if I don't plan on writing a review.

Look for Hastings' Das Reich: March of the Second SS Panzer Division Through France in a few days.

 

[pardus]

Just finished Grey Ghosts, New Zealand Vietnam Vets Talk About Their War.

Those guys were so bloody good in the bush, such an inspiration to me when I was a young Infantryman.

Example after example of how the Kiwi's were fucked by their own govt from the time they stepped foot in Vietnam to the present day.

 

[AWP]

Example after example of how the Kiwi's were fucked by their own govt from the time they stepped foot in Vietnam to the present day.

At least they don't have the market cornered on those misfortunes...

 

[pardus]

At least they don't have the market cornered on those misfortunes...

Put it this way, they were using Australia and the USA of an example of how the veteran's organizations wanted the NZ govt to act towards vets.