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What are you reading?

Posted by ColeF on 17 May 2009, 16:37

It's been a while since this has been asked. I'm reading: "This war without an enemy: A history of the English Civil Wars" by Richard Ollard, "Napoleon as Military Commander" by James Marshall- Cornwall (again), and The Aeneid by Virgil. How 'bout Ya'll? ;-)
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Posted by west1871 on 17 May 2009, 18:11

Not quite as old school,but I have just picked up "APACHE DAWN".
Its about british attack helicopters in afghanistan.preface four royal marines strap themselves to the weapon pylons and fly into a compond to rescue a wounded comrade. :o

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Posted by Paul on 17 May 2009, 18:33

sorry benno, forgot that this is already a thread, please delete this :oops:
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Posted by Benno on 17 May 2009, 18:58

Why didn't you reply to the other topic Cole?
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Posted by ColeF on 17 May 2009, 19:11

I missed it. :oops: I looked twice, but my eyes are tired from painting. :tired: You can move this if you want.
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Posted by Benno on 17 May 2009, 19:13

I can't move it.
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Posted by efb on 17 May 2009, 19:24

One can be for the books you're actually reading.

The other can be for the books you're prentending to read.
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Posted by ColeF on 17 May 2009, 19:25

@ Benno: Why not?

@ efb: :lol:
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Posted by Benno on 17 May 2009, 19:31

I can only split topics, not add this topic to another.
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Posted by west1871 on 17 May 2009, 19:33

Ive pretended to read men are from mars and women are from where ever.Ive also read the kama sutra.If mrs west1871 should read this it should be posted in should be read! :oops:

ps benno its not the end of the world if a new thread is started.

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Posted by Benno on 17 May 2009, 19:41

It's not the end of the world, just want to keep the forum tidy.
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Posted by west1871 on 17 May 2009, 19:46

To benno,

And we love you all the more for it!

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Posted by efb on 17 May 2009, 19:57

I'm reading Ulysses at the moment...keeping Gifford's Annotated close to hand.
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Posted by Chasseur on 17 May 2009, 21:36

Victorian Colonial Warfare by: Don Featherstone. Interesting book about the Punjab, Sikh, and Indian Mutiny...Chass
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Posted by Taphouse on 17 May 2009, 22:18

Rumpole, which is an old friend, but a bit of a slog. I've just got Cornwell's Agincourt, which I will be starting after I finish my current book.
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Posted by efb on 17 May 2009, 22:53

I'm also reading Richard Lattimore's translation of the Iliad along with Christopher Louge's retelling...creating a cross reference for Little Steve Spurrier. He's half way through All Day Permanent Red and the questions are starting to become a chore.

Hopefully that'll keep him off of me long enough to finish my own translation of some of Baudelaire's better prose poems...into Manderin Chinese.
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Posted by Paul on 21 May 2009, 14:08

The complete works of shakespear in the original chinese, the collected works of poetry by Moa tse tung and the oxford concise dictionary, aremaic edition 4
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Posted by ONIRIA on 21 May 2009, 16:17

...Flashman and the Mountain of Light.

I returnhome so mind exhausted from work that I can't read anything more serious than Flashy...
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Posted by Chasseur on 22 May 2009, 05:13

I picked up The Waterloo Companion by Mark Adkin on an inter-library loan today. WOW :shock: what an incredible textbook! 432 pages and the color plates are excellent. If you are into modeling this battle this book is a must in your library.....Chass
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Posted by Siegfried on 22 May 2009, 15:11

Currently reading Mussolini's Island: The Battle for Sicily 1943 by the People Who Were There by John Follain, The reason for God by Timothy keller, Love and War in the Apennines by Eric Newby and Life and Fate by Vasili Grossman. Quite interesting.
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