Thread: What are You Reading?

Originally Posted by Phrank

"The Bush War in Rhodesia: The Extraordinary Combat Memoir of a Rhodesian Reconnaissance Specialist" by Croukamp Dennis.

Then "32 Battalion - the Inside Story of South Africa's Elite Fighting Unit" by Piet Nortje.

Been taking an interest in the history of the region of late, and what an incredibly complicated, fascinating history.

We had a small contingent of the newly formed SOUTH AFRICAN SPECIAL FORCES come for training with the Project 52 (Delta) Recondo School in 1970 at Ninh Hoa, Viet Nam. They were some good boys...for sure and for certain!

I wouldn't mind reading that book!

After just finishing, "Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust", a book of nightmare's come to life, truly a terrifying book in every aspect, this almost seems light reading.

Reason I am reading about Rhodesia and South Africa, I went to University with a guy from SA, he did his mandatory service, he has some chilling stories about being in Namibia...the 32 Battalion guys, they were some highly trained, disciplined, scary individuals, I can't even imagine some of this stuff, and I think I'm glad I can't.

I blame pixelfixed anyhow, he got me on this non-fiction bender...going to take a few more books to shake it off and get back to swords and dragons or something...

Just wrapped up Frank Sinatra IN A Blender written by Matthew Mc Bride and starting Hand to Mouth, Living in Bootstrap America by Linda Tirado

Reading this and almost finished. Good book!

Two books right now, "Kill Decision" - Daniel Suarez.

A great new tech writer, this story is a wild adventure into Drone warfare, Artificial Intelligence, facial recognition software and how ants, specifically the Weaver ant, is one of the few organisms, like humans, that will actively seek out and destroy other organisms for territory and defense. The novel discusses "swarm intelligence" and how this could be applied to autonomous drone warfare - the next logical step. We also share with them that they are one of the few other species that raise livestock, these Weaver ants keep other insects in their nests. They are also considered one of the most deadly "insect armies", or armies period on the planet. Afterall, they've had over a 100 million years to get good at it.

Hence, just checking out this .PDF file from Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, "Ants and the Art of War" by Mark W. Moffett. Fascinating stuff!

http://xenophobiaworkshop.wikispaces...icAmerican.pdf

"Kill Decision" is a great read, his other books are fantastic as well if you like a Tom Clancy type story.

"Pilgrim's wilderness". So far pretty good. Slightly slow in the first couple chapters.

SRP...........

I got a book called Thor for Christmas, so I'm reading that.

It is an autobiography about the Norwegian cyclist Thor Hushovd, who won the World Championships and a dozen or so stages in the TdF.
Good read!

As usual, Science fiction of the near future by a prolific writer, and rereading it for the umteenth time since publication:
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Just as renowned author L.E. Modesitt, Jr. explored the connection between science and art in his widely acclaimed novel, Archform: Beauty (Tor mm May 2003), he now delves into the insidious relationship between science, advertising, and politics in his thoughtful and entertaining new SF adventure, FLASH.

Most of his science fiction books are in my library at home and are reread often. He has a canny knack of writing the future as a comment on the present...before it happens.
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~Richard

Just finished All the Pretty Horses. It took me a while to get used to the writing style, but I really liked it once I got into it.