What are you reading?

[V_Dub]

I happened to be stareing at my bookcase will eating my lunch of ramen ( I really don't have much else to look at seeing it takes up 1/2 of my room)when I came to a realization: I read, I read a lot. I started to think about the philosophical meaning of reading and what different types of books people read. So I wanted to know what books AO reads in their spare time or not-so-spare time.

I'll start this off:

Thieves of Lives a random fantasy book I found in the UC bookstore, I liked the prequel to this one much better.

Audiocraft: An Intro to the tools and techniques of Audio Production I am trying to be in E-media at UC and I like audio production, hey it might help someday.

Catch-22 I happen to be looking over my bookshelf and found this little gem. I realised that I had never read it so I am now.

whats on your bookshelf?

[ReverseFlank]

The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: a marines accidental account off the war in iraq; great book to get an inside perspective on soldiers life

Jar Head; Soldier account on the gulf war, a bit wierd and off, but worth the time.

The Longest Winter; Grandpa gave it to me and i love it. Story of the battle of the bulge.

i know that there are more, ill edit them in if i can remember them..

[Thatfatmacdude]

Top 5

1. Grapes of Wrath - AP English...UGH

2. Le Petit Prince - Just because I can and it is in French.

3. The Federalsit Papers - I am quite bored.

4. Atlas Shrugged - Did I mention that I am bored...

5. Proud Legions - Great book.

[Falcon]

Band of Brothers and In company of heroes

Thats what I'm currently reading.

[vbtb110]

Jar Head; Soldier account on the golf war, a bit wierd and off, but worth the time.


Fore?

I am currently reading "Skeleton Coast" By Clive Cussler, it is quite an interesting read.

[kibbeyj_45135]

Reading Airsoft Ohio Forums is enough for me :)
Read childrens books to my kids alot.

[Revan]

Currently reading a book called Ghost Hunters.

[sniper J]

tom clancy and somthin somthin griffen

[TunnelRat294]

On my book shelf i have quite a few books.

my personal favorite is Art of War by Sun Tzu

otherwise i have...

Rainbow Six
Tom clancey

10,000 DAys of Thunder: A history of the Vietnam War
Philip Caputo

By The Sword
Richard Cohen

The Illustrated Guide to Tanks of the World
George Forty

and a bunch of Calvin and Hobbs :)

[British]

Anything by Dave Barry

All Harry Potter Books

Left Behind (entire series)

Calvin and Hobbes, Dilbert, Foxtrot, The far side.

Best book I've ever read: Dave Barry's Bad Habits

Most Mind Numbing: The Rise And Fall of the Third Riech by: William Shirer

Favorite Comic: Dilbert

[bnagley]

enders game series> very good series all 6 of them atleast

[BattlePriest]

The thing I am reading most right now is the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. I'm currently on book 4 of 12 called "The Shadow Rising"

Other books I read bits of when I find time are:

"Idiots Guide to Hinduism" by Linda Johnsen

"Suns of God, Krishna Buddha and Christ Unveiled" by Acharyas

"The Egyptian Book of the Dead" by Wallis Budge

The Tao of Jeet Kun Do by Bruce Lee

"Jewish as a Second Language" by Molly Katz

"Positive Magic" by Marion Weinstein

"The Jew in the Lotus" by Radger Kamenetz

"The Holy Bible" (My Father's Navy bible printed in 1960)

"Filthy Dirty Jokes, Uncensored Edition"

"Love in Vein" by Poppy Z Brite

"The Chronicles of Narnia" full set by C. S. Lewis

And the entire Harry Potter Series, by J.K. Rowling

(These are only a small part of my bookshelf)

[Son of Liberty]

Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

And I have yet to start The Last Full Measure by Jeff Shaara

I've also read recently Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally

Of course the 3 Halo books I have, The Fall of Reach, The Flood and First Strike by Eric Nylund...I'm a loser lol

And last but not least, an assortment of Search Books, my favorite is the Big Bug Search

[Zorak]

Currently reading Corps Commanders of the Bulge.

[CAR15A2]

Oh c'mon, nobody actually READS Marx. They just display it on their bookshelf. His stuff is unreadable!

[British]

I read Marx. It's actually kinda entertaining. That might just be me though.

[CAR15A2]

It puts me to sleep.

But, I haven't attempted reading Marx for 35 years or so. The Communist Manifesto is probably the most readable. Capital is pure BS, and he lays it on pretty thick so that you think he is just smarter than you are so that is why you don't get it. Instead, the facts don't support his thesis.

I tried to read a book he wrote with Engels about the American Civil War that purported to support their theory of progressive History. What a yawner that one was.

[Thatfatmacdude]

I read Marx. It's good stuff. I have also read Mein Kampf, Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong, Che Guevara, and many others. I feel that the hardest book to read is not by an author who is out there in whacky land, some of the most difficult books to read are on topics that you don't know much about or are in a different language and have been translated many times.

[FerretFace]

I don't have a book case, but right now I am reading A Brief History of Nearly Everything-Bill Bryson. I have to do a summer project for Honors Science (I'm a nerd lol). It's really intersting. Example: he talks about the early diving suits. The kind that had pipes that ran up to the surface and used a pump to control suit pressure. Occasionally the pump would fail, which could be catostrophic if the diver was in deep depths. The diver would be sucked up into the helmet and through the pipe. When they brought the suit up there would only be bones and a little flesh left.

[Mavrick]

Inappropriate magazines, lots and lots of those.

alot of CNN
alot of european news boards. I'd read other countries papers, but unfortunately i'm not a translator and google doesnt do a good job.
alot of Public records
alot of public government meetings minutes.

I like to read about where my tax money is going and what freedoms they are trying to take away next.

[wastelander93]

the outsiders, harry potter and tom clancy.

[CAR15A2]

I read Marx. It's good stuff. I have also read Mein Kampf, Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong, Che Guevara, and many others. I feel that the hardest book to read is not by an author who is out there in whacky land, some of the most difficult books to read are on topics that you don't know much about or are in a different language and have been translated many times.


Quotations of Chairman Mao ( AKA the little red book) is a pretty useful book. It deals mostly with practical matters. My favorite, "meetings should not go on too long".

Mein Kampf is an important read. Hitler told everyone what he was going to do, then he set out to do it. Practically no one believed him until it was (almost) too late.

Our enemies today have done the same thing. They have repeatedly declared war on us, told us we are too weak willed to beat them, for over twenty years. Still most Americans and Europeans do not want to believe it. We are making the same mistake the world made in the 1930s.

[high plains drifter]

Gone to Texas - by Forrest Carter - The story of the outlaw, Josey Whales.

Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy - subs and Commies

Splinter Cell Series - Tom Clancy and David Michaels - Sam Fisher at his best

1984 - George Orwell - Great read for anyone who hasn't yet!

Animal Farm - George Orwell

NIGHT - Elie Wiesel (sp?) - The Holocaust - almost cried :(

[Thatfatmacdude]

Quotations of Chairman Mao ( AKA the little red book) is a pretty useful book. It deals mostly with practical matters. My favorite, "meetings should not go on too long".

Mein Kampf is an important read. Hitler told everyone what he was going to do, then he set out to do it. Practically no one believed him until it was (almost) too late.

Our enemies today have done the same thing. They have repeatedly declared war on us, told us we are too weak willed to beat them, for over twenty years. Still most Americans and Europeans do not want to believe it. We are making the same mistake the world made in the 1930s.


Exactally. That is why I keep up to date on Extremists pamphlists internet information, videos... ect. To quote my wise History teacher, There is no such thing as a new mistake. Only new faces. Also Many new people in the world of weirdoes will follow everything that people like Hitler said to a T.

[Leiph]

My bookshelf contains-

- Most of the books written by Kurt Vonnegut
- The entire Dark Tower series by Steven King
- Zombie Survival Guide
- World War Z
- Feild Guide to the Apocolipse (sp?)
- Horror Movie Survival guide
- How to Survive a Robotic Uprising
- Lord of the Rings series

Dark Tower is perhaps the best book series I have ever read.

[Phat Al]

the zombie survival guide is a hilarious book:)
right now i am reading:
Band of Brothers
The Cave Painting (school assignment)
The Star Wars dark nest series
I read mostly sci-fi/fantasy stuff like lord of the rings and star wars

[sehret2010]

Patriot Games - Tom Clancy

and Catch 22 is a great book dub4lyfe

[icsuser2]

Tom Cancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theroy is a good book IMO.

[Blarney]

The Main Enemy; The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB -Milt Bearden (DCO during the final days of the Cold War)

Ghost Wars; The Secret History of the CIA during the Afghan-Russian War up until Sept. 11, 2001 -Steve Coll

Masters of Chaos

Boots on the Ground

Down Range

1776

Roughneck Nine-One

Everything Clancy

BHD

The Killer Angels

Everything by Orwell

[airsoftman]

band of brothers
enders game
farenheit 451
flags of our fathers

[Wraith]

We have so many books it isn't funny. We gave alot away before we came back to Ohio but we still have more books than shelves.
Right now I'm reading The Marines Of Autum. I don't have the book with me at the moment (I'm at work...um..working...) so I don't know the author right off the top of my head. However, it is a very good book about the Korean war. It picks up just before China entered into the fray. Well written by someone who was actually there. Other than that: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Struab, Robin Cook are all on our shelves in near tattered condition from being read and reread.

[vbtb110]

New book on the Shelf- Blackwater

Its really good.

[FollowMe]

Boots on the Ground

Down Range

Roughneck Nine-One


I have read those listed above, excellent books IMO. Also have read: The Heart of a Soldier (CPT Kate Blaise), This Man's Army (Andrew Exum), Jarhead, On call in hell : a doctor's Iraq War story (Richard Jadick with Thomas Hayden), Babylon's ark : the incredible wartime rescue of the Baghdad Zoo (Lawrence Anthony with Graham Spence), The blog of war : front-line dispatches from soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan (Matthew Currier Burden), etc; You get the pattern here don't you?

[Big Clips]

I just finished reading
"From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava"

Great book, I advise everyone should read it.

And currently on my nightstand is Mercedes Benz C Class handout as well as the Surplus Lines Insurance taxcode, The Ohio Department of Insurance Agent licensing act (About 1200 pages), Ohio House Bill 437 (I think its 437).

And in my office is Ohio Revised Code (Volumes 8 - 13) and a big old book entitled "Concepts and Principals of Risk Management"

My bookshelf is rather large (even though it is not on a shelf as I have no room for such things so I have a big big box o books) but on it is a first printing of "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich", signed by William L. Shirer himself. (My dad used to mow his lawn while he was writting it) and an original printing of "The Berlin Diaries" (Also signed by Shirer)

I also have close to 200 books elsewhere, ranging from non fiction to manga.

[Locutus]

You guys know you are allowed to read books about subjects other than war and the military, right? :)

[invisiblesword]

The red neck dictionary.

[BattlePriest]

Ghost Wars; The Secret History of the CIA during the Afghan-Russian War up until Sept. 11, 2001 -Steve Coll


I found it interesting that the movie "Rambo III" was dedicated to "The Valiant Peoples of Afganistan"

How many of you remember that little tidbit from the end of the movie?

[vbtb110]

You guys know you are allowed to read books about subjects other than war and the military, right? :)


Ok, I am now currently reading My Little Pony: The Path to Candy Mountain.

:)

[ReverseFlank]

the siege on candy mountain?