What Are You Currently Reading?
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Saw this and was wondering if you finished it/what you thought of it. I just finished Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy and No Country looks like a really good read.
Maverick Soldier: An Infantryman’s Story by Brigadier John Essex-Clark.
"Brigadier Essex-Clark who has led in battle Malay, South African, Rhodesian, Vietnamese, British, New Zealand, US and Australian soldiers, writes particularly for today's young soldier to whom he can declare—'I have no angst about being a soldier'."
Not a bad read so far from one of the big names from my Regiment.
"Brigadier Essex-Clark who has led in battle Malay, South African, Rhodesian, Vietnamese, British, New Zealand, US and Australian soldiers, writes particularly for today's young soldier to whom he can declare—'I have no angst about being a soldier'."
Not a bad read so far from one of the big names from my Regiment.
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Re-reading the Harry Potter series......ya, I’m a nerd.
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Finished it and thoroughly enjoyed it. I love McCarthy’s style. Makes me think of Hemingway’s structure but with Bukowski like layman’s speak. It’s cool seeing how his style influences Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting, Marino Stork Nightmares). It takes getting used to not having quotations around dialogue but I like how it flows so easily.
Hey, no shame, she's a brilliant writer. I read em all too. My kids didn't (imagine that) they just saw the movies. So I was the resident Potter expert. Still amazed how she managed to seamlessly weave the complicated plot lines and back stories through all the novels.
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Glad you liked Shogun. Taipan is also excellent. I would also recommend his first novel King Rat...about an American corporal in a Japanese prison camp among a largely British prisoner population, who becomes a power-broker through his various schemes. (Clavell himself was a POW of the Japanese during the war.) The movie is excellent too, great cast.
You may find his later work suffers a bit. I think after the tremendous success of Shogun, he was under a lot of pressure to keep churning them out and some of them seem to lack the richness and depth of the first three.
McChrystal has another book out, I'll be reading that soon.
Leaders: Myth and Reality - Stan McChrystal
Leaders: Myth and Reality - Stan McChrystal
One Million Steps: A Marine Platoon at War.
The author is Bing West and the book is about 3rd Battalion 5th Marines and the ferocious deployment they had in Afghanistan.
The author is Bing West and the book is about 3rd Battalion 5th Marines and the ferocious deployment they had in Afghanistan.
Bing West is a fellow former Combined Action Platoon Marine. It was his 2nd tour in Vietnam and the subject of his first book, The Village. He's an amazing guy.
I’m about to pick up The Gulag Archepelago.
Seems rather apropos for this moment in time.
Seems rather apropos for this moment in time.
Kraut783
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https://www.amazon.com/Gulag-Archipelago-Aleksandr-Solzhenitsyn/dp/1843430851
Mmmmmm...looks pretty interesting.
Mmmmmm...looks pretty interesting.
I'm onto the 3rd grey man. I like them.
Charlize Theron will be playing the title character in the movie. This is not a joke. They've rejigged the gender during the script-write. It's part of the movement to give women more leading roles. Brad Pitt was originally slated to play the part.
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You beat me to the Cruise Reacher comment.
I'm not seeing any news on Theron getting the gig since 2015. It looks like the movie has stalled.
I'm not seeing any news on Theron getting the gig since 2015. It looks like the movie has stalled.
