What Are You Currently Reading?

[nobodythank you]

I know he is a whack job, but Battlefield Earth by LRH is pretty damn good. Nothing at all like the movie and it was a lot of fun to read. Highly recommended for those that like post-apocalyptic mixed with alien invasion. The movie only covered the first third or so of the book.

 

[SpitfireV]

I just ordered Shogun. Cost me more in shipping than the book itself...!

 

[CDG]

I just ordered Shogun. Cost me more in shipping than the book itself...!

That's because it takes forever to navigate Mordor.

 

[Kraut783]

Just finished one of my old favorites;

Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

https://www.amazon.com/Lucifers-Ham...id=1530141332&sr=1-1&keywords=lucifers+hammer

Great end of civilization type book.

Thinking of re-reading Footfall also...forgot how good their books are.

 

[ThunderHorse]

Read Foundation in Belize. Finishing up Foundation and Empire now. Wasn't much of an Asimov guy growing up, but great stuff.

 

[Gunz]

I just ordered Shogun. Cost me more in shipping than the book itself...!

Let me know what you think of it. I doubt you'll be disappointed.

 

[SpitfireV]

Let me know what you think of it. I doubt you'll be disappointed.

Will do mate.

 

[Ooh-Rah]

The network mini-series was a big mistake. There's no way they could convey the richness of that novel to the small screen with subtitles and a girlie-man like a Richard Chamberlain playing a total badass like Blackthorne. The book has incredible violence, obscenities, sex, torture, not to mention intricacies of thought that can't be conveyed to a screen.

In the book you know what all the Japanese Samarai are thinking, and each one is weaving some secret tapestry of deceit, plotting for power, revenge or political gain. Indeed feudal Japan in 1600 was every warlord for himself. The women in the novel are also shrewd samarai, with their own deceits.

It is one of the most fascinating books I've ever read.
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https://www.amazon.com/Shogun-Asian-Saga-James-Clavell/dp/0440178002


“A tale surging with action, intrigue and love . . . a huge cast . . . vast and dramatic . . . stunning . . . savage . . . beautiful . . . an extraordinary performance.”—Publishers Weekly

Just downloaded off of iTunes. Will begin reading it this weekend.

 

[Gunz]

A lot of dudes get their heads cut off with Samari swords. What's not to like about that?

 

[digrar]

I just ordered Shogun. Cost me more in shipping than the book itself...!

Free shipping from the book depository... A couple of second hand stores in NZ selling it too.

 

[SpitfireV]

Free shipping from the book depository... A couple of second hand stores in NZ selling it too.

I always forget about BD, I suppose Amazon just have me too firmly in their grip.

 

[digrar]

Shipping to Australia is retarded and Amazon can not into GST apparently, so they've never been my first port of call.

 

[Gunz]

Free shipping from the book depository... A couple of second hand stores in NZ selling it too.

This is the book, btw, that introduced the West to the Amida Tong and the "ninja"...a religious cult of assassins for hire. And bushido--the code of the warrior. The book is fiction, but, like C.S. Forester and Patrick O'Brian, painstakingly accurate from a historical standpoint.

Since it's publication, many books and movies have "borrowed" from it. Madison Avenue was putting the word "Shogun" on just about everything.

Feudal Japan was the strangest fucking place on the planet.

Btw, you can still get brand new copies. The book is still in print.

 

[BuckysBadger24]

I mean Christ, what choice is there? I ordered the book.

 

[SaintKP]

Just finished reading

The Last Battle: The Mayaguez Incident and The Last Battle of The Vietnam War by Ralph Wetterhahn.

All I had known before reading was that a US ship had been captured by the Khemer Rouge, what a complete and total cluster fuck it devolved into...

 

[Ooh-Rah]

Re: Shōgun.

Found this link, thought it was pretty cool and worth sharing.

Enjoy!

Learnings from Shōgun

 

[Gunz]

Just finished reading

The Last Battle: The Mayaguez Incident and The Last Battle of The Vietnam War by Ralph Wetterhahn.

All I had known before reading was that a US ship had been captured by the Khemer Rouge, what a complete and total cluster fuck it devolved into...

It was the doorknob hitting our asses on the way out...the final insult...with the exception of Carter pardoning all the draft dodgers. If I have one eloquent thing to say about that entire era, it's "fuck it."

 

[Gunz]

Re: Shōgun.

Found this link, thought it was pretty cool and worth sharing.

Enjoy!

Learnings from Shōgun

That's very interesting. That's an afternoon with Killians at the desktop which I will do. Thanks, J.

 

[AWP]

Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II by Jeffrey Cox. A little known campaign in the opening days of WWII as a motley, unorganized force from the American, British, Dutch, and Australian forces (ABDA) fleet tried to take on the early WWII Japanese surge. I'm only a few chapters in, mostly background to the war stuff, but it is very good and well written. One of the books I picked up through Amazon's Kindle book deals for 3-4 dollars.

 

[SpitfireV]

I'm about 30 pages into Shogun, enjoying it immensely. I always enjoy something that starts off with a beheading. I really don't read enough fiction these days.