What Are You Currently Reading?

[Viper1]

Just bought Dune. I'll read it once I'm done with Behave

 

[Totentanz]

Just bought Dune. I'll read it once I'm done with Behave

I really can't say enough great things about Dune. Frank Herbert's ability to tie in deep aspects of cultural conflict and warfare, while simultaneously laying down seminal ideas in both sci-fi and fantasy genres that would permanently alter the face of both of them... is absolutely jaw-dropping.

Personally, I'm a short ways into the Cambridge translation of Kant's The Pure Critique of Reason.

 

[Gunz]

Just bought Dune. I'll read it once I'm done with Behave

Yeah, I loved Dune and it's sequels. In fact thanks for bringing it up...I'm long overdo for a Frank Herbert re-read.

 

[ThunderHorse]

Dune is basically the Standard all SciFi epics are judged against. Great book. I've never read Herberts Sequels, the Sci Fi reboot of the Dune movie and sequels were interesting.

 

[Ekwiduhudar]

200 pages into Once An Eagle. Sam Damon is the man.

 

[Ball N' Chain]

Almost finished with The Forgotten Solider - Guy Sajer. A first person account from a junior soldier in the German Army on the Eastern Front during WW2. It is an aspect of the war I never learned much about in school/university.

 

[Kraut783]

Almost finished with The Forgotten Solider - Guy Sajer. A first person account from a junior soldier in the German Army on the Eastern Front during WW2. It is an aspect of the war I never learned much about in school/university.

One of my favorites!

 

[r.nitrogen]

The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by a former US international debt relief financier
Ship of Fools by Tucker C
Choke and Fight Club both by Chuck Palanhiuk

 

[RoosterJ]

I am about to begin "About Face." I'll post again when I am finished and let you guys know if it is good!

 

[Ekwiduhudar]

I am about to begin "About Face." I'll post again when I am finished and let you guys know if it is good!

Have this one planned for a deployment read soon. Jocko Willink constantly talks about it on his podcast.

 

[RoosterJ]

Have this one planned for a deployment read soon. Jocko Willink constantly talks about it on his podcast.

That is where I heard of it as well. Finally found a used version on Amazon, and should be arriving today or tomorrow. Let me know what you think about it!

 

[Devildoc]

I just got some cashola for my 50th bday, so I am getting these for the queue:

Rogue Heroes
Special Forces Berlin
Full Battle Rattle
The Jedburghs

I am so tired--so tired--of pharmacology and nursing texts I need something different.

 

[TheDarkKnight]

Just finished three great books by Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Fooled By Randomness, The Black Swan, and Antifragile. Would highly highly recommend all three (and would read them in that order).

 

[Devildoc]

I'm drinking Maker's Mark reading Special Forces Berlin, clearly putting studying for final exams on the back burner.

 

[Chronicler]

Currently reading Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War by T. J. Stiles. It’s very eye opening on the details of the Civil War in Missouri. I had no idea the kind of atrocities being committed by Confederate bushwhackers, including Jesse James. A lot of Union sympathizers were murdered, some of them being German immigrants. I had ancestors in Missouri at the time who were German immigrant farmers that supported, one even fighting for, the Union. Luckily they lived just outside the area of operations of the bushwackers. Stiles also demonstrates how the nature of the Civil War in Missouri crafted Jesse James into the outlaw we all know him for. It’s a very good read and I definitely recommend it for anyone interested in Jesse James or the Civil War in Missouri.

 

[Devildoc]

Rumor of War by Phillip Caputo. Memoir of his time as a Marine officer in Vietnam and his increasingly disillusioned view of the war and the American presence in Vietnam. While not a bad book at all, it is clear that he was very much against the Vietnam War.

 

[Gunz]

Rumor of War by Phillip Caputo. Memoir of his time as a Marine officer in Vietnam and his increasingly disillusioned view of the war and the American presence in Vietnam. While not a bad book at all, it is clear that he was very much against the Vietnam War.

I read it years ago. It's hard to find any books written at that time by combat vets who weren't disillusioned by the war.

 

[Stretcher Jockey]

Just finished reading Shogun by James Clavell, given to me on recommendation from members of this site. Not sure what I was expecting, but that was a thouroughly interesting read! Took me a good 4 months to finish because I found myself backtracking to keep track of the hundreds of plots within suplots. It also reminded me quite a bit of the Tom Cruise movie the Last Samurai, but way more in depth and a greater emphasis on Japanese culture. Overall I absolutely enjoyed it and recommend it to anyone with an interest in political intrigue.

 

[benroliver]

I just read David Goggins book "Can't Hurt Me", and I love it. I think anyone from civilian to long tabers can get something out of it. It just has me pumped even more for my April CA selection

 

[Bunsickle]

Halfway through “The Hot Zone” by Richard Preston. Fantastic book on the Ebola Virus. Do anyone here use Amazon prime reading? I’m curious about the selection of books, worth the 9.99 a month?