Thread: What book are you reading right now?

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Next up will be "Alexander: Child of a Dream" by Valerio Massimo Manfredi.

I don't know if it's the fault of the original writing or the translation but I found the language in Manfredi's books to be quite stilted and lacking in 'flow'.

Originally Posted by endure

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Next up will be "Alexander: Child of a Dream" by Valerio Massimo Manfredi.

I don't know if it's the fault of the original writing or the translation but I found the language in Manfredi's books to be quite stilted and lacking in 'flow'.

I read that too, especially with regard to 'Sparta', but I've read nothing but acclaim for the Alexander series. I shall give it a go anyway.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by endure

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Next up will be "Alexander: Child of a Dream" by Valerio Massimo Manfredi.

I don't know if it's the fault of the original writing or the translation but I found the language in Manfredi's books to be quite stilted and lacking in 'flow'.

I read that too, especially with regard to 'Sparta', but I've read nothing but acclaim for the Alexander series. I shall give it a go anyway.

The trilogy "Fire from Heaven"/"The Persian Boy"/"Funeral Games" by Mary Renault are very well written historical novels about Alexander's life if you can get hold of them.

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Stephen Leather - "Birthday Girl"

I started reading this months ago, but I only ever read it at the car wash (have to wait an hour or so) - or at the beach. I keep having to go back 10 pages to get back into it. But it's a damn good read.

I started reading S. Leather after reading "Private Dancer", which I read in two sittings. Then I read "Tunnel Rats" and "Tango One".

Bernard Cornwell - I got 8 Sharpe books for 10 quid from a book club in the UK. Excellent stuff. (I did Europe 1789-1870 for my O levels so I'm quite keen on books about that era. Also Ancient Rome and Greece).

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I've noticed that Stephen Leather books are appearing on the shelves of UK supermarkets at the moment.

Originally Posted by endure

I've noticed that Stephen Leather books are appearing on the shelves of UK supermarkets at the moment.

Really? Bugger - don't want any more bloody tourists coming here. Nothing to see here, it's boring, stay at home. This is my beach

Originally Posted by endure

Bernard Cornwell - I got 8 Sharpe books for 10 quid from a book club in the UK. Excellent stuff.

I've read Sharpe at Waterloo and I thought it was great what with the mixing of fact and fiction, and this thread has just reminded me to look out for more of the ilk. I also like the Flashman books.

Originally Posted by danbo

Originally Posted by endure

Bernard Cornwell - I got 8 Sharpe books for 10 quid from a book club in the UK. Excellent stuff.

I've read Sharpe at Waterloo and I thought it was great what with the mixing of fact and fiction, and this thread has just reminded me to look out for more of the ilk. I also like the Flashman books.

I'm reading my way through them at the moment, presently 'Flashman and the Mountain of Light' about the First Sikh war. Book club bargain again, 5 books for 9 quid.

^Which book club is this?

Originally Posted by danbo

^Which book club is this?

Flashman Set - 5 Books at The Book People

Thanks endure, you're a star

Originally Posted by danbo

Thanks endure, you're a star

My pleasure

I've moved on from the really great read on Patton to a book titled:

John Wayne "American"

It's a damn good book.

"Perfume" by Patrick Suskind. A crazy story of an 18th century orphan in France who is obsessed with odor.

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Originally Posted by mad_dog

I am reading The Wind-up Bird Cronicle ... by some jap chap... can't spell his name...

another thread from TV what is next... What animal would you like to be ?? <yawn>

An excellent book, although I was close to throwing up because of the detailed description of some of the events in the book

'Imperium' by Robert Harris. An historical novel about Cicero.

I'm reading a book about the wives of Henry the Eighth.

I just started "The Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara, a historical novel about four generals in the Gettysburg battle, after finished the prequel "Gods and Generals."

Also, having just returned from New Orleans, am re-reading "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole. His mother got it published several years after his suicide. It's hysterically funny, yet one sees the depression and borderline insanity at the edge of the humor.

Originally Posted by Silent Ninja

I am reading The Wind-up Bird Cronicle ... by some jap chap... can't spell his name...

I believe it's Haruki Murakami....