Who's reading what? September's selection...

[Connavar]

While im waiting for my ordered copy of Chronicles of Amber i'm reading a few stories i have left in The Horror Stories of Robert.E Howard.

I seriously need more short story collections in my TBR pile when i can afford new books next.

 

[Allegra]

All Quiet on the Western Front.

 

[Fried Egg]

All Quiet on the Western Front.

Is that a metaphore for not currently reading anything or is it something you're reading?

While im waiting for my ordered copy of Chronicles of Amber i'm reading a few stories i have left in The Horror Stories of Robert.E Howard.

I thought you were looking for some his SF next?

 

[Connavar]

Is that a metaphore for not currently reading anything or is it something you're reading?

I thought you were looking for some his SF next?

I was but i decided to read first Amber along with Roger Zelazny group since its this month's group read. That group was created because i wondered why there isnt a Zelazny group to other fans of his. Thats why im one of the moderators in that group.


After that its Lord of Light,Jack of Shadows.

 

[Allegra]

Is that a metaphore for not currently reading anything or is it something you're reading?

LOL! I picked it up only because a German friend exclaimed - "Who hasn't read that book? (!)" I said, "Err...me."

 

[Nikitta]

LOL! I picked it up only because a German friend exclaimed - "Who hasn't read that book? (!)" I said, "Err...me."

and me.

 

[AE35Unit]

And me•••

 

[Taltos]

Reading two books at the moment:
Glen Cook Shadowline (a pretty horrible translation of it)
and
V. Rybakov Next Year in Moscow

PS: and I'm back - probably - at least I hope so

 

[Cayal]

The Janson Directive - Robert Ludlum

 

[AE35Unit]

PS: and I'm back - probably - at least I hope so

Welcome back!

 

[GOLLUM]

Seriously?... I mean All Quiet On The Western Front is one of the most famous novels and films of the 20th Century.

Needless to say I have a copy. It's by German author Erich Maria Reamrque who wrote it in the 1930s after his own WWI experiences as a soldier. It was also one of the books not surpisingly burnt by Hitler.

It's a modern classic and one of the best books written about WWI, although for that Title you have to look at Ernst Junger's Storm Of Steel, which I've also got.

As it became so popular overtime, you are correct in that the expression All Quiet On The Western Front has been integrated into the common vernacular to imply "all is calm" sometimes in a sarcastic mode e.g. on the "homefront".

Recommended reading.

Cheers.....

 

[thatollie]

Okay, I fully intended to read The Illiad, buuuuuut I got some Pohl from the library and I'm going to read that. I also have to finish reading The Godfather. My bookcases are full so I'm going to have to box up some recently read books until I have more room.

 

[Connavar]

All Quiet On The Western Front is to me one of those classic era movies you know by name but nothing else.

I never knew it was a classic War book.

 

[Nikitta]

Seriously?... I mean All Quiet On The Western Front is one of the most famous novels and films of the 20th Century.

Yes, seriously. I didn't even know it was a book, but thought that it was only an expression. We have that expression in Danish too.

If it's originally written in German, I might as well go for the Danish translation as I don't expect that anything is lost compared to the English translation.

 

[Nikitta]

I got some Pohl from the library and I'm going to read that.

Which title/s?

 

[starchildtrilogy]

I just finished The Initiate, the first in Louise Cooper's Time Master series. It was interesting. Looking to get the second.

 

[thatollie]

Which title/s?

Platinum Pohl
Platinum Pohl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[xenofon]

Philip K. Dick - The Man in the High Castle

 

[AE35Unit]

All Quiet On The Western Front is to me one of those classic era movies you know by name but nothing else.

I never knew it was a classic War book.

I used to think it was a Western

 

[Connavar]

I would have thought that too if not front was a typical war word. West Front,East Front in WWII history classes made that stuck in your mind.


I needed more hard-boiled crime and most importantly real page turners to make my days go faster with Ramadan being tougher than ever with almost 20 Hours without food.
So i have started reading The First Quarry by Max Allan Collins.

Dirty,very hardboiled and real funny cause of the slightly twisted mind of the main character Quarry. The book is set in 1970 with Quarry coming from Vietnam to get into work as hired Killer. Funny guy for a hired killer.