What are you currently reading ?

[General Greenman]

Just reading Secrets of the Fire Sea by Stephen Hunt . I have really come to love VSF and between Hunt and Cherie Priest I am really spoiled . I even broke one of my own rules and purchased a set of In her magestys Name rules.!

[Hertsblue]

Just begun Terry Pratchett's latest, Raising Steam. Not hard to tell that Pratchett is a steam fan. Looking good so far.

[Techno]

Snap, Ray !
Cheers - Phil.

[Hertsblue]

Ah, Christmas, what would would we read without it? 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Spend the money on lead instead?

[Hertsblue]

Not my money! 

[skywalker]

I must be going through an aviation phase at the moment
I have just read The Vulcan Story 1952-2002 by Tim Laming, which was a good read for anyone like me who used to love watching those gracefull beasts at airshows.
My wife bought me Goosepool, The History of RAF and RCAF Middleton St George and Teesside Airport by Stanley D Howes which gives a good history of the airport and the crews who flew from there.

[Elliesdad]

All the Countries We've Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To - by Stuart Laycock.
Quite enjoyable. It just goes to show how bellicose we Brits are.

It needed spell-checking though (the example that springs to mind is the word Napoloen/Napoloenic).

A fine addition my my porcelain library.

Geoff

[Techno]

Been listening to 'Bomber' by Len Deighton over the past couple of days while I've been pushing putty around.
(The Radio 4 adaptation from years ago.).....

I was MOST impressed....Got totally involved in it even though it was fictional.
That was a £3 bargain from the local market !....Looked up what people wanted for it on Amazon....Stroll on !!
Cheers - Phil.

[cameronian]

Been listening to 'Bomber' by Len Deighton over the past couple of days while I've been pushing putty around.
(The Radio 4 adaptation from years ago.).....

I was MOST impressed....Got totally involved in it even though it was fictional.
That was a £3 bargain from the local market !....Looked up what people wanted for it on Amazon....Stroll on !!
Cheers - Phil.

I found Bomber genuinely harrowing, fiction, well yes but every incident (including the bombed hospital decanting its occupants into the fire) was based in fact. I first listened to it with an old Bomber Command chum of mine, DFC DFM, the real deal; the only emotion he showed was when the poor pilot threw the towel in and was LMF'd all medals to be returned; so unfair, he said, they'd just reached the end of their rope, can't do better than your best, and that from a genuine hero, he understood what they'd endured, an insight not normally vouchsafed to shiny bums.

[Fenton]

Just begun Terry Pratchett's latest, Raising Steam. Not hard to tell that Pratchett is a steam fan. Looking good so far.

I knew there was something I forgot to ask for on my Christmas list

[Techno]

I found Bomber genuinely harrowing, fiction,

Definitely Cam.....But I couldn't stop listening.....It was so well done......In many respects far too well.....Although fiction, it was very uncomfortable (to say the least)....Certainly as I was assuming a lot of the 'plot' was 'lifted' from real events/happenings.

Cheers - Phil.

[NTM]

Just finished Al Murray's 'Watching War films with my Dad' a great read and much of it similar to my own experiences/outlook

[Russell Phillips]

I'm reading Devils With Wings by Harvey Black. It's about a Fallschirmjager platoon in WWII, first in Poland, then assaulting Eben Emael.

It's very good, a real page-turner.

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[fsn]

Just finished Al Murray's 'Watching War films with my Dad' a great read and much of it similar to my own experiences/outlook

Just started it. It's actually quite interesting - not what I was expecting at all!