Just bought and downloaded Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets (2nd book). I just broke my Kindle a week ago and I'm reading from my PC until I get another mobile device (Kindle, Ipad, or whatever).

Kinda into WWI stuff right now. Winged Victory (Great), Winged Warfare (so so), High Adventure: A Narrative of Air Fighting in France (interesting look at training, mostly), Fighting the Flying Circus (Good).

My wife recommended a great book to me if anyone is interested. Its called "Unbroken" and its the true story of an American who was all set to run in the 1940 Olympics and be the first human to break the 4 minute mile. World War II breaks out and the Olympics are cancelled, he gets drafted and ends up in the Army Air Corp.

I won't give anymore of the story away but I am really, really enjoying this. Its an incredible tale of survival, and it sure makes you look at the Japanese behavour in World War II in a whole different light. I for one am certainly not sorry we dropped two A-bombs on them to end that horrible war.

If you are looking for something to read...give it a try. It has some fascinating facts that I was never aware of, for instance did you know the Army Air Corp lost more planes searching for survivors than planes lost in battle ?? I had no idea.

Tracy

Im still reading Zombie books and have become really good friends with author Shawn Chesser and John Obrien

im reading John O'Briens lastest A New World: Awakening

5th book in the series very good read lots of fun, tons of military stuff he is former AF pilot HC-130s

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008NFNN5S/ref=kinw_myk_ro_title

link to the book

Forge of Darkness - Steven Erikson (book 1 of the Kharkanas Trilogy)
ISBN: 978-0765323569

A prequel to the Malazan Book of the fallen series.

Six Frigates. About the founding of the U.S. Navy after Washington in 1794 signed legislation authorizing the construction of 6 heavy frigates. Amazing story of the politics involved in what it took to get them built. I'm up to the actions off Tripoli and what really happened vs what you see on old TV movies.

About to finish Kill Bin Laden by John Weisman.


Stephen White's Line Of Fire will be released on August 7 - the second to last Alan Gregory novel.

Ah ha! I see a new Jesse Stone is coming in September - the late Robert B Parker's police chief character is back again in a new novel written by Michael Brandman, who helped bring the series to CBS, starring Tom Selleck.


Stephen Hunter has a new one that I just got on Amazon - Soft Target, and a new one coming in January - The Third Bullet. Just finished Dead Zero.



Have you seen where Tom Cruise will play the role of Jack Reacher in the first movie of the book series? That is sooo lame that I doubt I'll read another Lee Child book. Child really sold out Reacher's soul on that stupid move.

WC

Unbroken is superb!! GREAT book. Let me second Mr. Tracy's recommendation.

Cheers,

Robert

"We are our brains": From the womb to Alzheimer's" by Dr Dick Swaab - a Dutch neuroscientist. Really very interesting book on our brains, how it reacts to our surroundings, and of course what can go wrong with it.

And at the same time reading "The Swarm" by Frank Sch�tzing, an eco-disaster novel about 'the oceans' striking back at humans.

DC Comics

I nearly yelled WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in the Theater when I saw the preview. I cannot think of a WORSE casting for Jack Reacher, who, as anyone who has read the books knows, is a VERY BIG MAN. I could never truly accept Tom Cruise in the Mission Impossible roles either though most of them looked so bad I don't think I watched past MI 2 if I made it that far.

King James version of the Holy Bible. From Genesis to Revelation.
Do not want to offend anyone in here, but I approach the read very much as a "novel", not a spiritual kind-of-thing.
Never did, so I thought I should give it a go.

Cheers,
Slug

Currently Max Brook's World War Z, with Mark Zuehlke's "The Liri Valley" next on the list...

-Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (i read the one about the atomic bomb, best history/science book I've read);
-QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (Richard Feynmann)
-A Dance with Dragons

I had to put aside Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, it's nice, but the narrative it's too prolix, and not in a interesting way. Besides, being a 1960 book, you have things like the author discrediting NSDAP members telling that they are "homossexuals".

Usually in August I have to attend College, but looks like half the country are on strike for better wages, so I have a lot of time to read. Probably I'll strike too so I can read all day long and get better wages too ;-)

1st and 2nd Kings, might go into 1st and 2nd Chronicles if I make good progress.

Junky, William S Burroughs, gritty

Last Exit to Brooklyn, Hubert Selby, Jr., double gritty

American Rust, Phillipp Meyer, gritty, with smoothness

Woe to Live On, Daniel Woodrell (excellent author), nails the Ozarks

Old Man's War, John Scalzi, scifi, pretty good, with a twist

And now reading Tree of Smoke, Denis Johnson, a literary Vietnam novel that is psychedelic in feel.

"Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline. Great little trip through the 80's, with a dystopian future twist. Lots of fun so far.

Great book! Just finished it a few weeks ago. Supposedly, there's a movie in the works too!

Sky Tiger: chronicle of the pilot Malan.I'm really enjoying this

Re-reading Wingless Victory: Sir Basil Embry's escape and evasion 1940.I absolutely love this book and find it truly inspirational

"Donnie Brasco" by Joe Pistone

You may have seen the Johnny Depp movie by the same name. About a FBI agent who infiltrates the Mafia.