Just finished "Ghost Force- The Secret History of the SAS". If half this stuff is true, or even if it isn't, it's a great book.

If you liked that, Guyute, you might like 'the phantom major' by Virginia Cowles..... the story of David Stirling and the founding of the SBS/SAS

I just found a book called Vamped in my office, by David Sosnowski--"Author of Rapture." Anyone ever read it? Is it total crap?

I just finished the worst book ever...The Hidden. Lucky it was a library freebie.

I finally gave in and decided to read some of the Heinlein books we have around the house. (Generally I don't like hard sci-fi, so though it obviously came highly recommended I kept putting it off.) I started with--don't ask me why--"Job: A Comedy of Justice," and this almost stopped me from reading any of the others at all. What a retarded book.

But then I moved on to "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress," which I definitely enjoyed but wasn't blown away by. I think it would have been better if I could appreciate firsthand how revolutionary it was at the time it was written. As it is, I can intellectually know it was an amazing book for its time, but it didn't awe me. I felt the same way about J.R.R. Tolkien.

Now I've just started "Stranger in a Strange Land." This one I'm liking the best by far, and I have high hopes that it will help Heinlein live up to all the recommendations everyone gave me. :)

Early Heinlein was very good. The Moon.. and Stranger... are probably his two finest works. 'Time enough for Love' is also not bad, but by this time he was letting his politics show. Check out his early stuff 'the puppet masters', The man who sold the moon, orphans of the sky.

I just finished Dance Dance Dance, having found out about it here. I was not really impressed.

I just started Going Postal, having heard about the Discworld books here. I hope it's a good one to start with.

I'm not too influenced by you guys, am I? Just don't tell me how good it is to jump off a bridge, kay?

diskworld?
Here ya go.

Wow, it looks like I've chosen the absolute last one to start with. Are they all independant? Or should stop on page 20 and start with the color of magic

Based on the chart, it looks to me like you'd want to pick up "Moving Pictures" first, then "The Truth," and then you could jump back into "Going Postal."

http://cellar.org/2006/movingpictures.jpg

Good idea.

Theyre almost all standalone novels in their own right, but colour of magic is the first one. I'd say finish Going Postal, then grab Colour of Magic.

Pratchet has never done it for me, though the Current Wife and Wicked StepDaughter are great fans. Still, he does help solve the Christmas present issue.

I just wish I could write to deadlines like that......

Tess Gerritsen "Vanish" My 1st by her so far ok.

Yes, 'The Short Happy Life of Francis MacComber' was written by Hemingway. It's one of my favorite stories. Like you, I didn't find "The Sun Also Rises" great, but I was also probably too young when I read it. Doesn't mean I'd like it now, though - what I can remember, I don't much like.

I just finished "The First World War" by John Keegan. Great book, very detailed. It made me both sad and furious, reading about the rigid thinking and ineptitude of the generals that resulted in casualties I could hardly comprehend. More than 250,000 just at Gallipoli! Agghh! Keegan stresses that they didn't use the communications technology available, i.e. radio. Unbelievable.

Currently I'm working through a number of P.D. James's novels. She's marvellous. And she's in her eighties and still writing the best crime fiction out there!!!