What book are you reading right now?

As a bit of a Francophile...

Two dozens of Special Forces are in charge of 5000 square miles in Afghanistan along the Pakistani border in 2004.  Led by Captain Ronald Fry, Hammerhead Six applied the principles of unconventional warfare to "win hearts and minds" and fight against the terrorist insurgency.

David Gemmell, Wolf in the Shadow, one of my favourite fantasy writers and sadly missed.  I've read this dozens of times and still love it.  Follows the usual Gemmell formula but with a twist in that the anti-hero is a gunslinger in a future world that has regressed following a world wide disaster.  A really enjoyable book from one of the great fantasy writers

This might interest one or two people on here...

He is a record collector -a connoisseur of vinyl, hunting out rare and elusive LPs. His business card describes him as the "Vinyl Detective" and some people take this more literally than others. Like the beautiful, mysterious woman who wants to pay him a large sum of money to find a priceless lost recording on behalf of an extremely wealthy, yet shadowy, client. So begins a painful and dangerous odyssey in search of the rarest jazz record of them all...

Graham.

Starting:

A favorite Le Carre from 1965, reading it for the third time.

About to start:

"Part memoir, part reportage, part military history, this powerful narrative captures the birth of today’s chaotic Middle East and the rise of a twenty-first-century type of war in which there is never a clear victor, and media images can be as important as the battle itself. Raw and beautifully rendered, Pumpkinflowers will take its place among classic war narratives by George Orwell, Philip Caputo, and Vasily Grossman. It is an unflinching look at the way we conduct war today."

Read "The Water Knife" over the weekend while camping.  It was . . . eh. 

Finally picked up this doorstop last week (with some trepidation) but it's very well written, and surprisingly compelling.

Recently read "Seveneves" by Neil Stephenson.  Meh.  Don't bother. 

Just finished this last night.  A good read - very hard to put down.  

Re-reading after 40-odd years...

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steve

Pictorial biography of the great movie master:

Actually I am not technically reading this, but listening to it, which is also an interesting ...

Clive Cussler - Poseidon's Arrow, standard fare Dirk Pitt story.

Gripping account of Europe and Russia under the Nazi yoke:

Kevin-W posted:

Gripping account of Europe and Russia under the Nazi yoke:

Hmm. Must get a copy of that. Thanks, Kevin.

M

Richard Williams has written a history of the album which for once does not rip it out of its wider cultural context. He evokes the essence of the music - identifying the qualities that make it so uniquely appealing - while making effortless connections to painting, literature, philosophy and poetry. This makes for an elegant, graceful and beautifully-written narrative.

Quad 33 posted:

 

Richard Williams has written a history of the album which for once does not rip it out of its wider cultural context. He evokes the essence of the music - identifying the qualities that make it so uniquely appealing - while making effortless connections to painting, literature, philosophy and poetry. This makes for an elegant, graceful and beautifully-written narrative.

Have you read Ashley Khan's book on KoB G?