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@Wagga_Tiger said in [Book Club\.\.](/post/1145117)

Have you read any of David Gemmells stuff Cochise?

David Gemmell is my all time favorite author ever

I.have them all.

Read Legend. His protagonist is an aged warrior i. An un winnable situation.

Raw and realistic.

Everone will find themselves in one of the realistic characters.

Please do yourselves a favour.

Will see if my local library has Legend once this virus blows over a bit and the libraries open back up. Thanks for the tip, it sounds like an interesting read.
Love the Les Norton series by Robert G Barrett for a bit of escapism. Also love war books, they really knock home the things men and women faced during war. Makes you realise to be thankful for what you have.
We Were Soldiers Once...And Young is a magnificent true story about the Battle Of Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam. Very sobering.

Was that book that the movie was based around starring the Mel Gibson , Barry Pepper and Sam Elliott .....

Reckon Pepper is an underrated actor myself

Yeah mate, that was the one. Great movie, probably my all-time favourite, the 3 guys you mentioned all had great roles in it. The soldiers that survived that hell were so fortunate to have lived through that, they were up against insurmountable odds with the size of the NVA force they were up against. If you like the movie then I thoroughly recommend the book.
Barry Pepper is a great actor I agree: have you seen "25th Hour" with him, Ed Norton, Brian Cox and Phillip Seymour Hoffman? That was a great movie too IMO. Pepper always seems very real in the roles I've seen, he plays great haunted/harrowing characters.

 

[hugggarz]

I've read Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, many times, an absolute favourite, along with another by him 'Love in the Time of Cholera'. I recommend them both highly. With Solitude, there's a family tree at the front of the book which is rather helpful, as every generation likes to use pretty much the same names and it can get confusing who they're talking about.

Quite a recommendation that one. I don't think I've read a book more than twice. I have heard of the 'Love in the time of Cholera', it may have been made into a movie? I'm not sure but I didn't know both had been written by the same author.

Beevor writes brilliant factual military novels and he writes them warts and all, criticising commanders and the pure absurdity of war and the consequences(Berlin is a book about the consequences of total war).He also considers nearly every war movie to be rubbish.At the moment i am reading a book by Svetlana Alexievich which is all about women during the 2nd world war in the soviet union who served in military units and the appalling treatment by the then soviet government who refused them any official recognition until communism was dying.It is called “The unwomanly face of war”,she conducted countless interviews with many women and tells their memories.
I can recomend it

I know Antony has written a number of others besides those mentioned. If you may have read them, are they as good as those two?

 

[jadtiger]

I've read Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, many times, an absolute favourite, along with another by him 'Love in the Time of Cholera'. I recommend them both highly. With Solitude, there's a family tree at the front of the book which is rather helpful, as every generation likes to use pretty much the same names and it can get confusing who they're talking about.

Quite a recommendation that one. I don't think I've read a book more than twice. I have heard of the 'Love in the time of Cholera', it may have been made into a movie? I'm not sure but I didn't know both had been written by the same author.

Beevor writes brilliant factual military novels and he writes them warts and all, criticising commanders and the pure absurdity of war and the consequences(Berlin is a book about the consequences of total war).He also considers nearly every war movie to be rubbish.At the moment i am reading a book by Svetlana Alexievich which is all about women during the 2nd world war in the soviet union who served in military units and the appalling treatment by the then soviet government who refused them any official recognition until communism was dying.It is called “The unwomanly face of war”,she conducted countless interviews with many women and tells their memories.
I can recomend it

I know Antony has written a number of others besides those mentioned. If you may have read them, are they as good as those two?

The book on D Day was good the one on Crete was ok both highlighted the problems in command on the defensive side leading to defeat.Crete was a battle the allies should have won easily except for poor decisions by the commanders at critical times.I still have another 6 of his books at home to read including Ardennes campaign,Operation Market Garden and his history of ww2.The other 3 books are peripheral to WW2 Spanish civil war,Paris from liberation till 1949 and one on a woman who was spying for Russia (she was russian) and was close to Hitler, she was an actress in nazi era movies.If you like accurate and intersting books on WW2 he is the best i have found.Crete is a little drier to read than DDay but i think that was because it was written earlier in the career both are worth reading

 

[JD Tiger]

I've read Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, many times, an absolute favourite, along with another by him 'Love in the Time of Cholera'. I recommend them both highly. With Solitude, there's a family tree at the front of the book which is rather helpful, as every generation likes to use pretty much the same names and it can get confusing who they're talking about.

Quite a recommendation that one. I don't think I've read a book more than twice. I have heard of the 'Love in the time of Cholera', it may have been made into a movie? I'm not sure but I didn't know both had been written by the same author.

Beevor writes brilliant factual military novels and he writes them warts and all, criticising commanders and the pure absurdity of war and the consequences(Berlin is a book about the consequences of total war).He also considers nearly every war movie to be rubbish.At the moment i am reading a book by Svetlana Alexievich which is all about women during the 2nd world war in the soviet union who served in military units and the appalling treatment by the then soviet government who refused them any official recognition until communism was dying.It is called “The unwomanly face of war”,she conducted countless interviews with many women and tells their memories.
I can recomend it

I know Antony has written a number of others besides those mentioned. If you may have read them, are they as good as those two?

I have enjoyed those books so much, the characters are like friends to me. These days I like to pick up the book open it at random and start reading and go from there. Cholera was made into a movie yes, pretty true to the book too which is rare. I've watched that many times as well. It's more probably an addiction really.

 

[Tiger_Steve]

I’m an avid reader - couple of hours a night (maybe not so much since I joined this forum😀) and I have a huge library as I’ve bought and kept every book. I’m building a house and my study will house all my books - sounds stupid but I love it. Great thing is I start reading them for a second time and it’s been so long it’s like new again!!

 

[jadtiger]

I’m an avid reader - couple of hours a night (maybe not so much since I joined this forum😀) and I have a huge library as I’ve bought and kept every book. I’m building a house and my study will house all my books - sounds stupid but I love it. Great thing is I start reading them for a second time and it’s been so long it’s like new again!!

Steve that is something to be proud of and keep on nurturing it.i love expanding my knowledge and trying to keep an open mind.As a wise man once said "Drink deeply from the well or not at all because a little knowledge is a dangerous thing"

 

[Wagga_Tiger]

@Wagga_Tiger said in [Book Club\.\.](/post/1145117)

Have you read any of David Gemmells stuff Cochise?

David Gemmell is my all time favorite author ever

I.have them all.

Read Legend. His protagonist is an aged warrior i. An un winnable situation.

Raw and realistic.

Everone will find themselves in one of the realistic characters.

Please do yourselves a favour.

Decided to give ebooks one last try and downloaded legend tonight, will start reading in tomorrow.

How did you go with Legend mate?

 

[Spartan117]

I'm hanging to know also???

Druss the legend....

 

[Wagga_Tiger]

I'm hanging to know also???

Druss the legend....

All time favorite book character, I kind of wish they would make a movie of it but not sure if anyone could do it justice.

 

[cochise]

@Wagga_Tiger said in [Book Club\.\.](/post/1145117)

Have you read any of David Gemmells stuff Cochise?

David Gemmell is my all time favorite author ever

I.have them all.

Read Legend. His protagonist is an aged warrior i. An un winnable situation.

Raw and realistic.

Everone will find themselves in one of the realistic characters.

Please do yourselves a favour.

Decided to give ebooks one last try and downloaded legend tonight, will start reading in tomorrow.


How did you go with Legend mate?

I'm actually going to buy the physical book tomorrow, as couldn't get into reading the ebook, has always been an issue for me with ebooks.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Bit of a bump. Got "Letters from an Astrophysicist" by NdT and "How to Build a Universe" by Professor Brian Cox and Robin Ince (I'm a fan of the Infinite Monkey Cage pod.)

 

[old_man_tiger]

Feist advice please.
Finishing the riftwar saga (re-reading after 15 or 20 years).

What should I get next? Read them in the order written, or something else?

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Got to the end of the letters from an Astrophysicist. Great read highly recommended.

 

[bathursttiger1]

I started reading John Grisham's books and got hooked I've read all his books.
Other than "A time to kill" I enjoyed "The confession" the best.
Read a lot of James Patterson 's novels, now retired I'll be reading a lot more now.

 

[TillLindemann]

Don't have a favourite author but tend to gravitate to historical Non-fiction (particularly wartime) novels.

Currently just started reading *Grant* , a biography of Ulysses Grant the U.S. Civil War Union General/two term president.
Can draw a lot of parallels in character, values and personal challenges to John *Monash* (as a nother book I've read recently by Roland Perry, heartily recommend and especially for reading about one of our own).

Recently read:

* *Hitler* - John Toland (Massive volume takes time but incredible read, especially of interest was seeing the workings of a fledgling politcal party and just how low the man was in society before the rise).

* *Roadside Picnic* - Boris/Arkady Strugatsky (Sci-fi is the opposite of what I normally read but due to this book I will be looking for more. A great read and essential reading for any fans of the incredible *S.T.A.L.K.E.R* series of computer games - games were based on this book).

* *Berlin* - Antony Beevor (Another solid book wartime book from Antony of which I've also read *Stalingrad* of his both which are excellent and really put you in amongst the action).

Future books wanting to read that some may have recommendations

* Anything Warhammer 40k. I've been a fan of the 40k universe since I was a very young lad. Looking to finally read one of their novels. Any suggestions?

* Feudal Japan or any interesting life/character accounts from that era.

* *100 years of solitude* by Gabriel Marquez - anyone read it here?

* *Atlas Shrugged* by Ayn Rand, Loved the Bioshock computer games of which the games were based on this book but I don't know if its worth reading or not.

Beevor writes brilliant factual military novels and he writes them warts and all, criticising commanders and the pure absurdity of war and the consequences(Berlin is a book about the consequences of total war).He also considers nearly every war movie to be rubbish.At the moment i am reading a book by Svetlana Alexievich which is all about women during the 2nd world war in the soviet union who served in military units and the appalling treatment by the then soviet government who refused them any official recognition until communism was dying.It is called "The unwomanly face of war",she conducted countless interviews with many women and tells their memories.
I can recomend it

I think I read Beevor's book on Stalingrad several years back.

 

[TillLindemann]

Asimov - Foundation series

They're good

 

[Wagga_Tiger]

Feist advice please.
Finishing the riftwar saga (re-reading after 15 or 20 years).

What should I get next? Read them in the order written, or something else?

Read in order, definitely the way to go.

 

[TillLindemann]

Another good one, reading at the moment - The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett. I can't put it down.

His two follow up books on kingsbridge are also really good. Love his 20th century trilogy as well.

I read the rest of the Kingsbridge series this year. Best books I've read in years.

 

[old_man_tiger]

Feist advice please.
Finishing the riftwar saga (re-reading after 15 or 20 years).

What should I get next? Read them in the order written, or something else?


Read in order, definitely the way to go.

Thank you!

 

[SeanT]

Nearly finished Rhythm of war. The 4th book in the Stormlight Archive. Good read