Well, I had tried starting this some time ago in the "life as it happens thread" but it quickly died, so I thought I'd give it a thread of its own. The last good book I read was From the Corner of His Eye by Dean Koontz. Very enjoyable, especially since I'm a big Dean Koontz fan. Right now I'm reading Citizen Soliders by Stephen E. Ambrose. It's the story of the US army from D-Day to the fall of Hitler. Quite interesting. It's nice because it also mentions the British and Canadian armies quite frequently as well.



So, what has everyone else been reading???

[ This message was edited by: Hicks on 2002-01-24 09:21 ]

Im currently reading AvP: War

A really good, well written book. Im not normally and AvP man, normally just A

But i love it

Well I am busy reading Lord of the rings.

I haven't sat down and read a book properly since my g/f left for America about 9 months ago.



I guess some of the stuff on here could count though...



The very last book i read was Clancy's Rainbow 6 and it gets my vote as possibly the best book of all time (at a staggering 900+ pages)

"Game Design: Art and Business of creating games"

Harry Harrison "Stainless Steel rat joins the circus"

Textbook of Strategic management

just started the book wizardborn (book 3 of runelords) from ehm... damn...

I'm now onto "what if" by Cowley.



Military historians writing short essays analysing the "what ifs" of military history.

Like "how hitler could have won the war" or "how the 1st world war could have been over in 4 months"



some cool ideas there.

I guess you could say I jumped on the Lords of the Rings bandwagon too... I recently got through The Silmarillion and I am now breezing through The Hobbit. But after that it's back to NO reading fo awhile so I can write.

[ This message was edited by: dvVIII on 2002-03-19 14:26 ]

I am reading Aliens: Rogue at the "current time " and practically finished it. In the last 2 days I haven't been bothered to finish it. I guess I am too lazy huh? Or it could be the fact that I was on a writing spree?

I'm currently reading Sex & Drugs & Sausage Rolls by Robert Rankin. Before that I was labouring through Hard Merchandise (Star Wars Bounty Hunter Wars Book 3) which had a rather intriguing story, but the actual writing was excrutiatingly bad. K W Jeter could have condensed the entire Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy into one book and it would've been a lot better.



Then before that I was halfway through Screenplay by Syd Field and The Year 1000 (authors name eludes me) before being distracted.



So to answer the question the last GOOD book I read was Adventures In The Screen Trade by William Goldman.



Hicks, if you need an early Koontz books I got a stack of them I'm trying to offload...

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On 2002-03-19 17:18, SM wrote: Hicks, if you need an early Koontz books I got a stack of them I'm trying to offload...

Sure, what do you have???!!! Actually, since that post, I've also read Winter Moon and Sole Survivor by Koontz. Finshed the latter just last week actually. Right now I'm reading Maple Leaf Against the Nazis by David J. Bercuson, Canadian history professor and war historian. Details Canada's involvment in The Great War.



*Best Yoda Voice* War not make one great. *Best Yoda Voice*







Oh, and I guess I could count my text books for school - JavaScript for Beginners, and Photoshop 6.0.







[ This message was edited by: Hicks on 2002-03-19 18:58 ]

[ This message was edited by: Hicks on 2002-03-19 18:59 ]

**Yoda voice* Hmm... great warrior... jedi master... Yoda! You seek me! oops, that weren't in the script was it? **Yoda voice*



Javascript... too busy to even bother about it cause I just fiddle about with the html scripting, maybe i will go look for some javascript books someday?

I read a lot of Koontz when I was younger until I noticed same basic theme many of his books. Lead is usually single woman getting over recent trauma, goes someplace to find herself, gets caught up in mystery which will later threaten the whole town or building, what was thought to have supernatural or extraterrestrial origins turns out to be something man made, she defeats, happy ending.



However, I do not mean that to take away from him being a good author. I thought Phantoms was a great read. In fact, all of his stuff that I read, which was 7 or 8 books, was good. It just had a Scooby Doo same shit different day element that turned me off him.





[ This message was edited by: dvVIII on 2002-03-20 19:16 ]

dvVIII, What you said pretty much sums up why I stopped reading Koontz. Far too repetetive.



I reckon The Bad Place was probably my favourite but Phantoms was good too as was Watchers.



Must be 10 years since I read a Koontz book. I'll find the box I've got 'em stashed in and send you a list Hicks!

It's not the last book I read but it was definately good enough to mention and recommend. Gone South by Robert R. McCammon. Amazing story telling...

[ This message was edited by: dvVIII on 2002-03-20 19:22 ]

Instead of Koontz I prefeer Coonts

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On 2002-03-20 19:54, the_demigod wrote: Instead of Koontz I prefeer Coonts

Coonts with an 's'. That must mean more than one. I'll drink to that...

Stephen Coonts, you sex obsessed maniac.

new book:

Walter Schellenberg "Memoirs"



He's one of the few Nazi's that escaped virtually scot-free from Nuremberg [slap on wrist- 10 year sentence, came out after 5]



The guy ran the SS's internal intelligence directorate, the SD.



Some juicy stuff there- comments on other Nazi's, competiting agencies, etc.

Just finished Stephen King's 'The Stand' and I'm mid-way through 'It' also by SK. Both are a great way of showing how characters progress.



At the end of The Stand, I wanted more adventures. I'd grown quite attatched to the characters, which has never happened to me before. Obviously doing a gread characterisation job...