What are we reading?

[Nefaro]

Nef - I'm going to be reading Ghost on a Throne very soon...post impressions!

Will do.

I was only in the middle of the second chapter when struck down by illness, so I've not been doing much of anything the last day and a half.  Curses!

Being vaguely familiar with all the murderous craziness which happened for years after Alexander's death, the subject matter is ripe for the telling.  Just wondering how well the telling is done here.

[Gusington]

^Feel better.

Ghost on the Throne has had some very good reviews on Amazon for years, FWIW.

[JasonPratt]

Halfway through 'when Christ and his saints slept'

I'm so ready for total war medieval 3

Didn't you get The Eye of the World a little while back? Can't quite recall, someone did who hadn't read WoT yet, and we were curious what you/he would think about it...

[JasonPratt]

Finished Unheralded Victory and The Ten Thousand Day War, which I read more-or-less in tandem. If I could clone myself temporarily I'd put one clone to work synthesizing the several Vietnam books I own into one coherent account, since those two books each exemplify ignoring data to follow a thesis.  :P (And yet are still good books, as are all of the several I own.)

[undercovergeek]

Halfway through 'when Christ and his saints slept'

I'm so ready for total war medieval 3

Didn't you get The Eye of the World a little while back? Can't quite recall, someone did who hadn't read WoT yet, and we were curious what you/he would think about it...

that was me, i have arc light next to the bed, 'saints' in the downstairs toilet, and malice in the upstairs toilet

thats not a bowel complaint, its the name of the book

EotW is next

[Gusington]

How's Malice? I have that on my shelf as well.

[undercovergeek]

How's Malice? I have that on my shelf as well.

Brilliant so far but don't want to let spoilers out

[Gusington]

I bet you say that to all the girls. Can you compare Malice to The Red Knight?

[Gusington]

Finally started Ian Kershaw's The End - The Destruction of Hitler's Germany.

[Toonces]

I friggin' love used book stores.  Honestly, I can just lose myself in a used book store for hours.

I went there today and picked up 4 books, each for about $10:

The Tolkien Companion by Tyler
Hearts Touched by Fire by McPherson and Holzer
Before Antietam by Priest
Return to Bull Run by Hennessey

I swear, I could have cleaned out their Civil War section, just amazing old books there. 

[bob48]

Then you'd love this place..

http://www.barterbooks.co.uk/

[Toonces]

^ Man that place is epic!   

[Toonces]

I Google searched the store and found some pictures.  Bookends in Kailua:









Not nearly as cool as that train bookstore, but still, a full-on treasure trove of used books and treasures to be found!  I even found some 2nd edition AD&D stuff mixed in with a Hemmingway book, and a book on heavy weather sailing!

[Ulfang]

Trinity (second of the War of the Roses series) by Conn Iggulden

[W8taminute]

Then you'd love this place..

http://www.barterbooks.co.uk/

Awesome!!  Thanks for sharing that.  I agree with Toonces that place is indeed epic.  I have to add Barterbooks to my bucket list.   O0