Off The Reservation

I read history books as well...so I would be interested

Rereading the Black Swan.

Probably going to continue the Malazahn Book of the Fallen afterwards.

how about military history with some spy stuff

-hunting eichmann-a book on the mossad operation to capture adolph eichmann
-decisions for disaster-the bay of pigs invasion and decisions made by the kennedy's that led the mission to failure
-the jedburghs- jedburgh teams were 3 man teams of OSS guys that went into occupied france to organize the resistance
-vengeance-the mossad mission to kill the black september terrorists behind the munich massacre
-patton's panthers-patton asked for reinforcements, he was told the only tank drivers available were black, his response "i didnt ask what goddamn color they were". a book about the 761st tank battalion....what patton told them before they saw their first action "I don't care what color you are as long as you go up there and kill those Kraut sons of bitches."
-just americans-442nd regimental combat team, made up of japanese americans mainly drafted from the japanese internment camps. they are the most decorated regiment in the history of the US armed forces. the men in the regiment were awarded 21 MOH's, 52 distinguished service crosses, 560 silver stars(28 w/oak leaf clusters, meaning 2nd time awarded), 22 legion of merit medals, 4000 bronze stars and 9486 purple hearts
-the eve of destrustion:the untold story of the yom kippur war-1973 on yom kippur(holiest day on jewish calendar) syria, egypt and jordan launched a surprise attack on israel
-first in-the story from the first CIA officer sent into afghanistan to help coordinate with the northern alliance
-gideon's spies-about the mossad and their origin and missions
-SOG by john plaster-studies and observations group, 12 man teams of about 3 americans and 9 montagnard tribesmen(guys following brando in apoc now) that went into laos, cambodia and north vietnam for recon, prisoner snatch, and rescue operations
-six silent men- 3 book series about LRRP(long range recon patrol) teams in vietnam. 6 man teams dropped off into enemy territory to observe trails and stuff. whole teams would get wiped out because they were on their own in enemy territory and backup couldnt arrive quick enough
-colditz-a POW camp where the germans sent the POW's who tried to escape over and over
-5 years, 4 fronts-a german soldiers story
-fighting in hell-germans fighting on the eastern front
-the fall of berlin-the capture of berlin and the aftermath
-breakout-the chosin reservoir battle in the korean war
-band of brothers-better than the mini series and thats saying something
-black hawk down-another that is better than the movie(most books are)
-given up for dead-battle for wake island
-do or die men-guadalcanal
-one square mile of hell-tarawa
-the rape of nanking-december of 1937 the japanese captured the chinese capital of nanking and proceeded to murder between 300000-400000 civilians while raping another 80000. they raped the young, old, pregnant and nuns, forced fathers on daughters, brothers and sisters, sons and mothers. the japanese were as bad or even worse than the germans
-ghost soldiers-the bataan death march and the mission to free the survivors

a few mob and true crime books
-wise guy-the made goodfellas off of this book
-underboss-sammy the bull biography
-war of the godfathers-the battle for las vegas
-blow-the george jung story
-killing pablo-by the same guy who wrote black hawk down-describes how the colombians and DEA(with spec ops guys) found and killed pablo escobar

sports
-fab five-mitch albom covering the 2 seasons the fab five were together(this book actually got me started on reading books for enjoyment)
-sole influence-how the shoe companies influence what aau teams and what colleges kids go to or get mainly recruited by
-blood on the horns-a book on the bulls during jordans run-very good
-friday night lights
-cane mutiny-cane program through their glory years
-meat market-any recruiting junkie should read, about the ole miss recruiting class of maybe 06 or 05(cant remember) and how ed orgeron got them to commit and all that stuff

randoms
-accidental billionaires- the book that they based the social network off of, mark zuckerberg facebook story
-bringing down the house- the movie 21 is based on it, where the MIT students learn to count cards. the movie is a joke compared to the book

The Girl Who Played With Fire. Pretty good so far.

I got about halfway through and it seemed really slow, so I'm taking a break from it.

Just started Catching Fire, the second book in the Hunger Games trilogy.

I just finished this. It's nuts! I just started C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia. Along with my microbiology and ecology books haha.

I hope its good...Feast for Crows was total crap

Just read the Hunger Games since the movie is out. A quick read but enjoyable. The whole time i was reading it though I couldn't help but think of the movie Battle Royale. I'm sure I will pick the other two books. Not sure what to read next.

Just got done reading this book today. Found myself getting choked up at times when I got to the parts about how they died.

Getting ready to purchase Black Hawk Down, heard that is a very intense book as well.

Now listening to "Under the Dome" By Stephen King. I don't usually like all of his stuff but this one is supposed to be kinda cool and is up my alley in terms of the type of sci-fi/horror I like to read.

Just finished "The Litagators", I'm starting "Tinker,tailor,soldier,spy"...thought the movie was great esp Gary Oldham.

Read the Strain and it wasn't very good. I kept reading it and hoping it would get better, but it never did. I was rooting for the vampires by the end of the book. Fortunately, I followed it up with Wolfbreed by SA Swann. I enjoyed this one. It's about werewolves in midieval Prussia being used by monks against the pagans.