What are you reading right now?

sharkbit · 01-18-11, 08:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Platapus

Rereading Ed Beach's Run Silent Run Deep.

A true sub classic.

Make sure you read his followups in the "trilogy":
"Dust on the Sea"-starts out where "Run SIlent, Run Deep" leaves off.
"Cold is the Sea"-Cold War story with the same characters.

01-21-11, 04:25 PM

Picked up a couple of old paperbacks lost in a cross-country move many years ago:

A Ship of the Line by C.S. Forrester, one of the better (and earlier) Hornblower novels.

and

Three Corvettes by The Cruel Sea author Nicholas Monserrat.

For non-fiction about one-third of the way through The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-18 by Mark Thompson.

Platapus · 01-21-11, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by sharkbit

Make sure you read his followups in the "trilogy":
"Dust on the Sea"-starts out where "Run SIlent, Run Deep" leaves off.
"Cold is the Sea"-Cold War story with the same characters.

I have been meaning to order the other two books. He is a good writer.

Dowly · 02-02-11, 09:16 AM

Starting tonight Robert Harris' Fatherland. Heard many a good thing about this one.

STEED · 02-02-11, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Dowly

Starting tonight Robert Harris' Fatherland. Heard many a good thing about this one.

Germany won...Damn I gave away the...No wait it's not the plot.

Never read it Dowly but I saw the film.

STEED · 02-02-11, 01:45 PM

When Money Dies

The Nightmare of the Weimar Hyper-Inflation

By Adam Fergusson

Great read, now up to the point where the printing presses are going like the clappers and the first 100,000-mark note released in Jan 1923, it's purchasing power is little more than $2.

02-02-11, 01:45 PM	#6
STEED Lucky Jack Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Down Town UK Posts: 27,695 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 48	When Money Dies The Nightmare of the Weimar Hyper-Inflation By Adam Fergusson Great read, now up to the point where the printing presses are going like the clappers and the first 100,000-mark note released in Jan 1923, it's purchasing power is little more than $2. __________________ Dr Who rest in peace 1963-2017. To borrow Davros saying...I NAME YOU CHIBNALL THE DESTROYER OF DR WHO YOU KILLED IT!

01-21-11, 04:25 PM	#2
Randomizer Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Picked up a couple of old paperbacks lost in a cross-country move many years ago: A Ship of the Line by C.S. Forrester, one of the better (and earlier) Hornblower novels. and Three Corvettes by The Cruel Sea author Nicholas Monserrat. For non-fiction about one-third of the way through The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-18 by Mark Thompson.

02-02-11, 09:16 AM	#4
Dowly Lucky Jack Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 25,054 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	Starting tonight Robert Harris' Fatherland. Heard many a good thing about this one.