What are you currently reading?

[Ken B]

Twain's essay on James Fennimore Cooper.

Also rereading Winter, by Len Deighton.

[MN Dave]

Also rereading Winter, by Len Deighton.

I thought that was a good book back when I read it.

[MN Dave]

Ghost Music by Graham Masterton (horror)
The Shores of Space by Richard Matheson (short genre stories)
Various sequential art stories at all times.

[Sergeant Rock]

Currently reading (almost finished with) We Were Soldiers Too: The Second Korean War--The DMZ Conflict. It covers an almost completely unknown period of US military history and the first book I've ever seen recording it. It's the experiences and recollections of seven infantry soldiers who served on the DMZ in Korea between 1966 and 1969 when the North Koreans were at their most aggressive. I was there too, in that hostile fire zone, although my experience was considerably different than these grunts who patrolled the perimeter. Still, there are enough similarities and places mentioned to bring back memories, both good and bad.



Sarge

[NikF]

Currently reading (almost finished with) We Were Soldiers Too: The Second Korean War--The DMZ Conflict. It covers an almost completely unknown period of US military history and the first book I've ever seen recording it. It's the experiences and recollections of seven infantry soldiers who served on the DMZ in Korea between 1966 and 1969 when the North Koreans were at their most aggressive. I was there too, in that hostile fire zone, although my experience was considerably different than these grunts who patrolled the perimeter. Still, there are enough similarities and places mentioned to bring back memories, both good and bad.



Sarge

I've never had reason to ask you about your service. And it's none of my business anyway. But in this instance I'd like to ask if reading such histories is something you often do, that you seek out.
I hope it doesn't seem I'm prying.

[Sergeant Rock]

I've never had reason to ask you about your service. And it's none of my business anyway. But in this instance I'd like to ask if reading such histories is something you often do, that you seek out.
I hope it doesn't seem I'm prying.

I do seek out the histories (Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War) trying to make sense of not only my own history, but my country's. It's often not easy reading but most of these books have come out decades after the fact and that makes them somewhat easier to digest.

Sarge

[NikF]

I do seek out the histories (Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War) trying to make sense of not only my own history, but my country's. It's often not easy reading but most of these books have come out decades after the fact and that makes them somewhat easier to digest.

Sarge

Cheers, Sarge.
I can't imagine any of that. But i can imagine a desire to make sense of it.

[Karl Henning]

Thanks, Sarge. Deeply appreciate your sharing.

[SimonNZ]

Finished:



Started:

[NikF]

Not for the faint of heart, paid per word Miller (and/or Caresse Crosby) shocks for the sake of shocking, but imparted with enough wit to get away with it.

[vandermolen]

Finished:



Started:

KGB book looks interesting.

[Draško]

Not for the faint of heart, paid per word Miller (and/or Caresse Crosby) shocks for the sake of shocking, but imparted with enough wit to get away with it.

Interesting, I didn't know about that book. Recently have re-read Tropic of Cancer and it has put me in the mood for more of his Europe based novels. I was considering Quiet Days in Clichy or The Colossus of Maroussi, but this one looks very tempting.

[NikF]

Interesting, I didn't know about that book. Recently have re-read Tropic of Cancer and it has put me in the mood for more of his Europe based novels. I was considering Quiet Days in Clichy or The Colossus of Maroussi, but this one looks very tempting.

Tropic of Cancer was cool, whereas this one is so cheap and so grubby that the ink will come off on your fingers, even if read as an eBook.

[Draško]

Tropic of Cancer was cool, whereas this one is so cheap and so grubby that the ink will come off on your fingers, even if read as an eBook.

Cheap and grubby works for me. The cover of Serbian translation certainly doesn't try too hard dispel that notion.

https://static.kupindoslike.com/Henri-Miler-OPUS-PISTORUM_slika_O_85065089.jpg

[NikF]

Cheap and grubby works for me. The cover of Serbian translation certainly doesn't try too hard dispel that notion.

https://static.kupindoslike.com/Henri-Miler-OPUS-PISTORUM_slika_O_85065089.jpg

Oh my. . But I must add that it doesn't quite accurately represent the contents. Anyway, enjoy.

[ritter]

Good grief!  . Only sold in bookstores on the Belgrade equivalent of 42nd Street? 

Pity we don't have a "Worst looking Book Covers" thread...

[Karl Henning]

Good grief!  . Only sold in bookstores on the Belgrade equivalent of 42nd Street? 

Pity we don't have a "Worst looking Book Covers" thread...

42^nd Street has cleaned up since the days of that reputation.  Travis Bickel would almost not recognize it;  Times Square is practically family-friendly these days.

[ritter]

42^nd Street has cleaned up since the days of that reputation.  Travis Bickel would almost not recognize it;  Times Square is practically family-friendly these days.

Must update my information for my next trip to NYC, then? 

[Draško]

Good grief!  . Only sold in bookstores on the Belgrade equivalent of 42nd Street? 

In no bookstores at all, actually    It's 70s or 80s printing and there hasn't been any more recent edition at all. So I'll have to get it used, in only one way hopefully 

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Continuing Sherlock Holmes stories. Now tackling The Final Problem...which turned out not to be the final problem after all. Funny how they inserted the line about  "Napoleon of Crime" even in The Great Mouse Detective.