Whatcha reading redux.

[Weetabix]

Just finished John Ringo's Hymn Before Battle.

What of his should I read next?

[randy]

Just finished John Ringo's Hymn Before Battle.

What of his should I read next?

Assuming you liked it and want to continue the series (in order):

Gust Front (Free Online Edition)

When The Devil Dances

Hell's Faire which finishes up the initial portion of the Legacy of the Aldenata series, and is a good place to stop if you don't want to continue along that universe. Once past those there are a whole bunch of others in that universe.

[Steamforger]

Yellow Eyes is flat out one of my favorite Ringo books.

Recently finished Into The Storm and Crusade, both from The Destroyermen Series. Have book three lined up and waiting for me to finish A Dance With Dragons, book 5 of A Song of Fire and Ice.

After that will probably be The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors.

[Rich]

Recently finished Into The Storm and Crusade, both from The Destroyermen Series.

Be aware that there are several novels titled "Crusade," including THIS one.

[SeekHer]

Ok guys, I've found the most magnificent small publishing house going!

I had ordered "With the Mounted Infantry in South Africa" by Frederick Crum about the 2nd Boer War from a Canadian dealer on sale and they had a list of other titles from the publisher listed...My interest lies in I had uncles/cousins who fought over there, then.

Deals primarily in military history, lots of memoirs & diaries, ranging mostly from French & Indian Wars to WW1 but earlier periods are covered as well as some fiction and every book is available in either paper or hard cover...Great thing is the prices are around $10 to $14 US for the oversized (NOT trade) paper version and a lot of the titles are available through Barnes & Noble and Amazon..

http://www.leonaur.com

They have Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's military books, "Sir Nigel & The White Company" and "The Illustrated & Complete Brigadier Gerard" available for £14 and £15 each which I just ordered.

They also have a book by a great, great cousin of mine called "Battle, Capture & Escape" by George Pearson which I've already had...It's not actually a bad read.

[Greg]

Yellow Eyes is flat out one of my favorite Ringo books.

That one is mostly Tom Kratman. If you enjoyed that one (I certainly did) you need to read The Tuloriad as well. And you're likely to get a kick out of Watch on the Rhine too.

I just read Captain Vorpatril's Alliance. It was a great deal of fun.

[HTRN]

What am I reading? Hurco conversational programming manual. Joy.

[Weetabix]

Just finished A Desert Called Peace by Tom Kratman.

Now I'm about 2/3 through Gust Front by John Ringo. This one doesn't seem to be moving as fast as A Hymn Before Battle. It seems like he's doing that thing Clancy did in his later books when he got too deep in his explanations, and it started reading like a user manual.

[MiddleAgedKen]

Finished The Aeneid (in English), about a third of the way into A Tale of Two Cities. All hail Project Gutenberg!

[308Mike]

My mom's getting close to the final door of this life and I'm reading Heaven is for Real to her.




I've only got a few more chapters to go, then she wants me to read to her (and is looking forward to it) another book in the same vein, titled: Proof of Heaven:



Here's the book's description:

A SCIENTIST’S CASE FOR THE AFTERLIFE

Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that NDEs feel real, but are simply fantasies produced by brains under extreme stress.

Then, Dr. Alexander’s own brain was attacked by a rare illness. The part of the brain that controls thought and emotion—and in essence makes us human—shut down completely. For seven days he lay in a coma. Then, as his doctors considered stopping treatment, Alexander’s eyes popped open. He had come back.

Alexander’s recovery is a medical miracle. But the real miracle of his story lies elsewhere. While his body lay in coma, Alexander journeyed beyond this world and encountered an angelic being who guided him into the deepest realms of super-physical existence. There he met, and spoke with, the Divine source of the universe itself.

Alexander’s story is not a fantasy. Before he underwent his journey, he could not reconcile his knowledge of neuroscience with any belief in heaven, God, or the soul. Today Alexander is a doctor who believes that true health can be achieved only when we realize that God and the soul are real and that death is not the end of personal existence but only a transition.

This story would be remarkable no matter who it happened to. That it happened to Dr. Alexander makes it revolutionary. No scientist or person of faith will be able to ignore it. Reading it will change your life.