What are you reading these days?

[LowSpeedHighDrag]

Just picked up The Strongest Tribe by Bing West on the current situation in Iraq.

[OuchThatsSharp]

"Dispatches" by Michael Herr

[Doc Pyres]

Orientalism by Edward W. Said

Yes, that's a great one. :)

[Doc Pyres]

Just picked up The Strongest Tribe by Bing West on the current situation in Iraq.

Another one from Glockfire to add to my list. Thanks! :)

[LowSpeedHighDrag]

Another one from Glockfire to add to my list. Thanks! :)

No problem, enjoy!

[LowSpeedHighDrag]

There have been a bunch of sniper books out over the past few years. Afong's book was good because it covered several different shooters and events.

Trigger Men: shadow team, spider-man, the magnificent bastasrds, and the American combat sniper by Hans Halberstadt.

Stalkers and shooters: a history of snipers by Kevin Dockery.

Shooter: the autobiography of the top-ranked marine sniper by Jack Coughlin (I've read several comments that Coughlin is full of baloney but never read any specifics statements as to why".

Stalkers and Shooters was a great book. I disliked Afong's book simply because I found the writing to be sub par. I'll have to pick up Trigger Men.

[dete]

I like classical literature...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_West

my favorite book when I was younger,
the famous manga & anime, Dragon Ball was loosely based from this.

When I can't get internet,
I've been rereading this gem and it's totally outrageous fun.
:D

[Doc Pyres]

I'm currently working on Where the Suckers Moon - The Life and Death of an Advertising Campaign by Randall Rothenberg. I picked it up on a recommendation from Joe Lorio, senior editor at Automobile magazine.

Rothenberg has some interesting comments on the advertising business, such as, "Away from industry meetings, off the written page, safely buried in the bar cars and bitterness of their sullied dreams, the advertising men knew their theories were Copernican claptrap....No lie, no subterfuge, no humiliation was too low to strike or too base to endure, so long as the client remained content."

[gac]

Battle Lines: the last good war by James Reasoner. Novel set in 1940 and 1941 in the US with four young people from Chicago joining the service. The first novel in a series of three that Reasoner wrote.

Reasoner is an easy read but doesn't skimp on the sex scenes.

[LowSpeedHighDrag]

In preparing for my upcoming deployment in October (i'll miss you guys) Ive bought the following:

Lone Survivor
The Count Of Monte Cristo
Crime And Punishment
A Leatherbound set of my favorite books of all time: The Odyssey and The Iliad
And a Large Leatherbound Bible in the Message Translation



....should keep me busy


p.s. has anyone read The Art of War by Sun Tzu? It looks rather drab so I skipped over it but if anyone can recommend it I will pick it up.

[Doc Pyres]

After discovering the existence of custom knives a few months ago, I had to pick up a copy of David Darom's amazing book, Custom Fixed-Blade Knives. It's a beautiful, high-quality coffee table book with great photography of the knives, and very interesting text explaining the 26 featured knife makers and their stunning creations. Best book I've gotten all year. :)

[gac]

I just read Bill Mauldin: a life up front by Todd DePastrino about the WWII and post-war political cartoonist and journalist. Killing Floor by Lee Child from the Jack Reacher series.

A neat picture book related to knives and guns is Armed America: portraits of gun owners in their homes by Kyle Cassidy.

[LowSpeedHighDrag]

^I really liked Armed America, although I dont think it helped make us look any better in the liberal left's eyes.

[gac]

Armed America was neat in that it showed normal gun owners which are normal, everyday people. But, also showed a couple goofballs including that one guy with a bandanna covering his face and some poseurs in black fatigues.

Not to mention four different guys in kilts.

[OuchThatsSharp]

Just started reading two more. Yes, I read more than one book at a time.

A re-read of Lonesome Dove. An excellent read....anytime and everytime.

Picked up Wyatt Earp, The Life Behind The Legend by Casey Tefertiller. A real take on Wyatt Earp without the hollywood hype and hero worship from past Earp/ OK Corral authors.

[Agent Starling]

The Art of War.

Have been meaning to read that one for a very long time. It's going to be one of those slow reads, in between reading a bunch of other things...reading multitasking maybe? Could never stick with one book at a time, there's so much cool stuff to read out there... :D

Agent Starling

[Gibsoniam]

I am reading several books, alternating as the mood strikes me.

Pagan Chrirtianity: a review of the first century church and how it adopted traditions of nearby cultures and morphed into what it is today. Very interesting- and eye popping- look at the history of the church.

The Federalist Papers.

Scaling the Secular City by philosopher J. P. Moreland.

And... I'm slowly trying to learn Latin. I'd like to be able to read Cicero in his own words.