What are You Reading Now?

[GCW]

 

[saltedplug]

Tractatus Philosophicus, by Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell

 

[J.Henry845]

 

[RonB]

I enjoy a traditional British mystery from time to time. Freeman Wills Crofts wrote some of the best, and many are now available in paperback and Kindle. Plus, Inspector French smokes a pipe throughout which helps him think about the problem.

 

[Franco]

"The Devil May Dance" by Jake Tapper. Tapper always delivers great insight! His book, "The Outpost" was made into an excellent movie about the war in Afghanistan.

 

[kcghost]

Now reading the 19th book in the Perry Mason series which has a sad title for pipe smokers; "The Case of the Empty Tin".

 

[edger]

E. B. White essays. He makes a great "companion" in these times.

 

[jewman22]

Pipe and gun forums. books are jerks.

 

[mithridate]

Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb.

 

[ukbob]

Masters of Rome by Robert Fabbri.

 

[mso489]

I'm still working on a massive scholarly work on the Royal Navy, about 88 pages to go, but am listening to Ben Rhodes "After the Fall," about geopolitics, with my wife, as an audio book. After centuries of sail, I'm finally up to submarines with the Royal Navy. On a trip to New England in the eighties, we stayed at a B&B run by a woman and her retired Royal Navy husband who, when I mentioned I'd be in the U.S. Navy, snorted with scorn, in a supposedly humorous way. Of course, the English Navy is entirely career sailors, whereas the Navy I was in was largely people doing their hitch of military service. The Brits are snappy and professional, and I admired their establishment at what was then the British Crown Colony at Hong Kong. But having worked aboard a minesweeper in operations with aircraft carriers, hospital ships, destroyers, oilers, et. al., the U.S. Navy of my era was formidable. We have fewer ships now, but much high tech; we probably need quite a few more.

 

[RonB]

I'm still working on a massive scholarly work on the Royal Navy, about 88 pages to go, but am listening to Ben Rhodes "After the Fall," about geopolitics, with my wife, as an audio book. After centuries of sail, I'm finally up to submarines with the Royal Navy. On a trip to New England in the eighties, we stayed at a B&B run by a woman and her retired Royal Navy husband who, when I mentioned I'd be in the U.S. Navy, snorted with scorn, in a supposedly humorous way. Of course, the English Navy is entirely career sailors, whereas the Navy I was in was largely people doing their hitch of military service. The Brits are snappy and professional, and I admired their establishment at what was then the British Crown Colony at Hong Kong. But having worked aboard a minesweeper in operations with aircraft carriers, hospital ships, destroyers, oilers, et. al., the U.S. Navy of my era was formidable. We have fewer ships now, but much high tech; we probably need quite a few more.

My father was in the Pacific during WWII on a Radar Picket Destroyer. They would hear the British ships docked nearby waking up their sailors with: "Wakey, Wakey, rise and shine, you've had yours and I've had mine. The cook to the galley long has gone, wakey, wakey, rise and shine." The US sailors thought it was hysterical, but of course, he used to sing this to us kids to get us up in the morning. I hated it.

 

[RonB]

Still working on finishing The Prize about the history of oil. Just started Bill Bryson's One Summer, America1927.

 

[brandaves]

For Whom The Bell Tolls by Hemingway.

A love story and a war story...the conflict that arises between the two. Also, the Spanish Civil War really brought to light the evils of fascism before WWII. We forget how many citizens of the world came to Spain for the sole purpose of fighting against fascism.

Another great book, Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's memoir of doing just that. He took a bullet to the neck and nearly died in fighting there.

 

[mikethompson]

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Decidedly a harder read, but interesting still.

That was probably one of the hardest books I've read. What a truly awful time to be alive.

On to this now.

 

[DAR]

Just finished "Revenge of the Lawn" and "Rommel Drives On Deep Into Egypt" by Richard Brautigan. Now on "Women" by Charles Bukowski. Both are favorite writers with interesting views on fiction and non-fiction.

 

[kcghost]

I am reading the last Philip Marlowe novel that Raymond Chandler ever wrote - "Playback".

 

[judcole]

Been working on Sir Winston Churchill's six volume history of World War II. Just started volume III, The Grand Alliance.

 

[ssjones]

Just started this military thriller.



Working thru this as well. It might be a bit too detailed, regarding Starz (chronicles Kiss, Aerosmith and Starz, Cheap Trick).

This was a great summer read, a mystery with a surfing storyline.

an

 

[mikethompson]