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BartMan

Anzacs by Fitzimmons good too - was given to me as present. Focus on the AUssies of course, but bloody god read all the same!

taniwharugby

wasnt I am Legend a remake?? 
 
Another book I read a year or few back which I really enjoyed; [URL="http://www.adam-williams.net/novels/the-palace-of-heavenly-pleasure/"]The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure [/URL]by Adam Williams. 
 
Set during Boxer rebellion in China, great read with some great characters

BartMan

dunno TR, and too lazy to look up. 
 
But book was bloody good, pretty short, took a couple of days to read, very clever, right to the last page! 
 
written by Richard Matheson

Sneakdefreak

[QUOTE]wasnt I am Legend a remake?? [/QUOTE] 
 
A remake of The Omega Man (starred Charlton Heston) which was also based on the book I Am Legend. Need to download I Am Legend onto my kindle thingeemebob.

BartMan

I might have to find that movie!

Crucial

I haven't read the Fitzsimmons book on Mawson but 'Mawson's Will' by Lennard Bickel rates up with 'Into Thin Air' by Jon Krakauer if you want a riveting read of astonishment and man's ability to (sometimes) survive. Right to the last you keep thinking 'this can't get worse' yet something else happens. 
 
In a similar vein, if you are interested in exploration, "Mr Stuart's Track" about John McDouall Stuart opening up the Australian interior is great. Modern day softies will be quite astounded at the lengths he went to to find and chart a passage north from Adelaide through some of the most inhospitable country imaginable. There are some very good books on the Burke and Wills clusterfuck as well. 
 
On a pulpy summer reading note, I have been reading more of the Sam Carver series of stories by Tom Cain. The main character is a hitman that only kills bad guys for good guys and does so by arranging 'accidents'. It obviously gets more complicated than that as the series goes on but if you like readable light 'spy/thriller' stuff this is quite good.

Tim

There was an even earlier movie adaptation of I am Legend too ([I]The Omega Man[/I] was awesome though). Vincent Price starred and Matheson contributed to the screenplay. 
 
[URL]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058700/[/URL]

BartMan

Crucial - sounds like my kind of trash!

Cactus Jack

An excellent but short book , about 130 pages , is Shane by Jack Shaefer . The one the Alan Ladd movie was made from . I have read it three or four times over the last ten years or so and enjoyed it every time .

Scorz

"Ten Fighter Boys" is basically ten stories by guys flying Spitfires in the Battle of Britain. It was assembled by their Sq Ldr, and it's a great little read. Cheap as chips too.

BartMan

I've got a couple of decent Spitfire pilot types books in storage Scorz if you want to read - they're coming out shortly!

BartMan

and on kindle, Forever War = forever boring... Avoid.

jegga

Finished reading a book abut Typhoon pilots a few months back, a bit slow in places it mentions one "Mac" McCaw a few times which is pretty cool.Got Alan Deere's book to read too at some stage.Halfway through Ghost soldiers which is about this, [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabanatuan_Raid[/url] 
 
Had to order a copy of Angels of vengeance in as the only book chain in NZ prepared to carry it is Poppies [url]http://www.poppiesbooks.co.nz/newplymouth.php[/url] .Whoever decided that Whitcoulls and Paper plus should buy in the first two books in a trilogy but not the third deserves to have their entire body covered in papercuts and lemon juice squeezed into them.

antipodean

Rereading [I]God Is Not Great:[/I][FONT=arial][I] How Religion Poisons Everything[/I] by the late Christopher Hitchens.[/FONT]

Crucial

[I]Ghost Soldiers[/I] is an excellent read. There was a movie made (which has shown on TV a few times) but the book is much better.

Crucial

[quote name='Scorz']"Ten Fighter Boys" is basically ten stories by guys flying Spitfires in the Battle of Britain. It was assembled by their Sq Ldr, and it's a great little read. Cheap as chips too.[/QUOTE] 
 
In that vein, there is an excellent trio of fiction books by Frank Barnard "Blue Man falling" ;"Band of Eagles" and "To Play the Fox" that follow a couple of charactesr through the early stages of the RAF. The second book was my favourite and is set around the defence of Malta. Good reads.

BartMan

I have learned that falling asleep in bed with a kindle is much more painful than with your normal paperback... But it does wake you up enough to keep reading...

taniwharugby

after a brief interlude with summer, when I struggled to find time to read, I finished the 3rd installment in the Conqueror Series about Genghis Khan, Bones of the Hills. 
 
Thoroughly enjoyed the read, given it is largely fact based (with some poetic licence) it is an amazing story about how he rose to greatness and how feared and respected he was, and despite all this, his own visions didnt look much further past having all his enemies fear him rather than building a lasting civilisation (when you compare the Mongols to the Romans, Egyptinas etc) 
 
Recommend it to everyone!

Bones

[quote name='taniwharugby']after a brief interlude with summer, when I struggled to find time to read, I finished the 3rd installment in the Conqueror Series about Genghis Khan, Bones of the Hills. 
 
Thoroughly enjoyed the read, given it is largely fact based (with some poetic licence) it is an amazing story about how he rose to greatness and how feared and respected he was, and despite all this, his own visions didnt look much further past having all his enemies fear him rather than building a lasting civilisation (when you compare the Mongols to the Romans, Egyptinas etc) 
 
Recommend it to everyone![/QUOTE]On that note, I'm well into the 5th in the series, Conqueror. I was going to say what's it about, but that might be a bit of a spoiler so will just say it's yet another fantastic read so far, if a little bit different in that it jumps between quite a few people and areas!

taniwharugby

wow, I thought there was only the 3, will seek out the 4th!!

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