What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

[pErvinalia]

I'm suffering through another indie book that reads as if it were written by a third grader, and that's being unkind to third graders. I don't know how I'm going to review it as promised. It will be a struggle to find anything positive to say about it.

Yeah. Aren't we all thoroughly sick of those books yet?

[klr]

Catastrophe by Max Hastings



In the Shadow of the Sword by Tom Holland:

[pErvinalia]

I finished that Michael Crichton book. Thoroughly stupid. Don't read it. I then decided for some reason to read a Matthew Reilly book called "Contest". It was so idiotic I stopped after about 70 pages. Then read political/terrorism thriller called "The Secret Servant" by Daniel Silva. It was pretty good for the genre, but took a ridiculous turn at the end.

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

They risked the deaths of hundreds/thousands of Londoners on Christmas day to get one person back. And the Brits just handed over control of the whole operation to the Israelis. Sure thing.

And just finished a John Grisham book. Can't remember the name, they all sound the same. But I've never not liked a Grisham book. He's like Wilbur Smith for me. Never misses.

[JimC]

"The Good Shepherd" by C. S. Forester, an account of destroyer escorts vs u-boats in WW2

[Clinton Huxley]

Catastrophe by Max Hastings



In the Shadow of the Sword by Tom Holland:

How do you rate the Max Hastings one, old chap? I've got the Tom Holland, may be next on the list

Currently reading In The Blink Of An Eye: The Cause Of The Most Dramatic Event In The History Of Life by Andrew Parker. I'm finding it a little annoying.

[klr]

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How do you rate the Max Hastings one, old chap? I've got the Tom Holland, may be next on the list

Currently reading In The Blink Of An Eye: The Cause Of The Most Dramatic Event In The History Of Life by Andrew Parker. I'm finding it a little annoying.

Catastrophe appears to be up to the standard of all Hasting's other books. He mixes very good high-level analysis with personal anecdotes from lowly soldiers and civilians.

[pErvinalia]

Just knocked another John Grisham book off. This one had three words in its title ("The Street Lawyer") so that was a bit different. Good book enjoyable book, as are all of his. Might have a break from Grisham now and read something else next. Haven't quite decided yet.

[Sean Hayden]

...still working on several

I should finish Mastering Regular Expressions this month. That's one I'll be going back to often.

I recently added A History of the Modern Middle East

[Svartalf]

Still working on the Bran Mak Morn volume of my Robert Howard retrospective

[Sean Hayden]

Finished Mastering Regular Expressions

gave up on two really bad Android books -thankfully the info at google is good

Working through Java Cookbook, added a History of Ethics to the mix as well

[Jason]

Making of the Atomic Bomb

[Clinton Huxley]

Absolute Friends by John Le Carre

[Svartalf]

Just gave a onceover to select passages from Kipling's Jungle Book... I remember the French version I read as a child and I want to slap the translator with a dead and smelly fish.

[pErvinalia]

Reading Tai-Pan by James Clavell. Enjoying it so far, except for his annoying habit of changing from 3rd person to 1st person in the middle of a paragraph.

[Sean Hayden]

I've added The Fifth Elephant