Topic: What is everyone reading?

[762_XC]

knightstorm...if you want a detailed analysis of key naval battles and how they revolutionized warfare at sea, check out The Price of Admiralty by Keegan.

[knightstorm]

Thanks for the recommendation, although from the reviews on Amazon, I get the impression that he tends to limit his coverage of the eras I'm most interested in.

[Lieutenant_Q]

Admiral Alfred Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power on History.   Is another good one.  I read that one years ago, probably going to need to find it again.  I had borrowed it from a Library the first time, so it's not a part of my collection yet.

[Dracho]

Just finished "The Forever War".. a SciFi classic.. apparently.  It was interesting.

[Capt. Mike]

Just picked up "Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave"

I'll review it when I'm done

Mike

[Brush Wolf]

The one "problem" I have run into with reading these 19th century tomes is the writing style tends to make for slow reading. I am not saying they are bad books just that they take a little chewing to get through them. The two 19th century writers I have found that are exceptions to this are Theodore Roosevelt and Winston Churchill who both read more like modern writers.

[Bernard Guignard]

Now on STNG Novel Star Trek: The Next Generation: Indistinguishable from Magic
 

[Capt. Mike]

Well BW, I don't have that problem..probably the six years of Latin and year of Greek in HS and college..and Stephen will tell you, I'm probably from the 19th century   

I grew up on the Oz books, Tarzan books, and Gulliver's Travels (unabridged).

Finished Frederick Douglass, now starting on a reread of Dante's Inferno as translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Mike

[Brush Wolf]

It really isn't a true problem I was just remarking that many of the older titles read slower than most modern reading, they used more words.