What are You Reading?

**MaceWindu** · 12-20-06, 23:49

"Roberts Ridge"...bad-ass...

Mace

**Striker5** · 12-21-06, 06:20

I am currently enrolled in the distance Expeditionary Warfare School program and am reading "Warfighting" (the ginormous one, not the little one). Just reading this crap makes me want to get out before I have to do any of this staff tomfoolery.

I just finished reading Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" - a postapocalyptic novel about a father and son trying to survive in a world where the only eats are canned and other people. His "Blood Meridian" should be required reading for any American of a violent bent. It is my favorite fiction novel.

My Bn CO is having us read "The Devil's Guard" - about SS serving in the Foreign Legion in Indochina.

Killing Pablo is excellent and their is a movie in the works directed by Joe Carnahan ("Narc"), starring Javier Bardem as Escobar.

**TOrrock** · 12-21-06, 07:18

Striker, I read "The Devil's Guard" back in highschool and would love to get another copy.

I thought it was out of print.

Who's the author?

TIA

**VA_Dinger** · 12-21-06, 08:13

I must be the WWII geek.

Last Victory in Russia: Manstein's Kharkov Counteroffensive - February-March 1943 by George Nipe

**Lumpy196** · 12-21-06, 08:19

**Submariner** · 12-21-06, 09:00

French Women Don't Get Fat. Don't laugh, it's working! And why do you think the Germans invade France in every century?

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis on fascism in the U.S. during the 1930's.

ETA: The text of Devil's Guard is online. I have the link on my other laptop. Will post when I find it.

**Yojimbo** · 12-21-06, 09:03

I'm currently reading "The Afghan Campaign".

**FlyAndFight** · 12-21-06, 09:13

I'm currently not in the middle of any book but the last one I read was fantastic. "Firebirds" by Chuck Carlock. Amazing story of his time flying helicopters in Vietnam. It's got to be one of the most powerful books I've read in a long time. It's both sobering and hilarious at times. I highly recommend it.