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What books are we reading at the moment ?
MSeries:
--- Quote from: Really Ancien on March 31, 2008, 08:56:09 PM ---I am re-reading Holidays In Hell by PJ O Rourke, as in the following quotes.
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
P. J. O'Rourke
Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
P. J. O'Rourke
--- End quote ---
Good choice, I read that in Melbourne in 1990, must dig it out. It's gotta be showing it's age though, Belfast is very different now.
Really Ancien:
--- Quote from: MSeries on March 31, 2008, 08:59:11 PM ---
--- Quote from: Really Ancien on March 31, 2008, 08:56:09 PM ---I am re-reading Holidays In Hell by PJ O Rourke, as in the following quotes.
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
P. J. O'Rourke
Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
P. J. O'Rourke
--- End quote ---
Good choice, I read that in Melbourne in 1990, must dig it out. It's gotta be showing it's age though, Belfast is very different now.
--- End quote ---
I can't say that I ever read much for the content, Naples '44 by Norman Lewis gets a periodic re-read just to re-calibrate my style aspirations.
Cyclops:
A Soldier's War in Chechnya - Arkady Babchenko
An account of the brutality and suffering on both sides of the conflict.
Captain Zep:
My brother-in-law always buys me a couple of books for xmas - currently reading one of those: Legend by David Gemmell - thought, "Ho-Hum fantasy nonsense", but I'm actually finding it very enjoyable in a "switch your brain-off and enjoy the axe-battle" kind of way.
His other book was "Peace and War" by Joe Haldeman: a compilation of "The Forever War", "Forever Free" and "Forever Peace". "The Forever War", written in the 70's (sort of a sci-fi version of the author's experiences in Vietnam) is an absolute classic, and I can't believe that I hadn't heard of it before. What annoys me though, is why to they get cover-art illustrators who haven't read the book. The cover is very nice, but it shows a gun and a space-helmet. The soldiers in the book use neither guns nor space-helmets ???
These books aren't particularly high-brow compared to what most of you seem to be reading at the moment, but I do read more heavy-weight stuff too, honest!
RJMcB
andrewc:
"The Forever War" is a classic. I've not read the sequels.
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