Books 2014

Since the movie came out this year I read the "The Monument Men". Much better book then a movie. It just shows you how forward thinking we Americans can be when we all get behind a common cause, I.E. World War II. Of course back them we thought we could save the world and we did save part of it. I don't think were willing or capable today as a nation to do that although we tried on a smaller scale in Iraq and Afghanistan and we can see already how that's working out.

Book update time! I read a Covert One book called "Arctic Event", it's by James Cobb but Covert One is a series by Robert Ludlum. It was actually a great page-turner with good action (that was realistic) and a decent storyline (way more believable than a Bond arc, but still not totally "real"). I enjoyed it quite a bit, especially as the story was the major plot and they didn't get gory on the fight scenes. I recommend this one, especially if you like spy/special ops books.

The next one down the pike was "Iron Coffin" by John Mannock. This book was superb! I haven't read a WWII book this original (or true to life) in a very long time. The story was mesmerizing, the characters were deep, flawed, and made you want to know what happened to them, and the action was intense! I gobbled this one up in about 3 days, I just couldn't put it down. I will definitely seek out more books by this author!

"A Dance With Dragons" by George RR Martin. The 5th in the series of what is supposed to be 7 total. No. 6 isn't complete yet. I'm also watching the series on the tube. It's hard to imagine being able to come up with all those characters, religions, countries, cultures, etc.

Currently reading "High Fidelity", and loving it. The movie is one of my favorites, and the book is even better.

Just finished this. Left me humbled, and it is very well written:

Previously read this, a story that quite simply had my mind blown multiple times throughout. I'd have been dead after chapter one:

Best dog book I've ever read:

I also finally read Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. It's such a unique way of telling a story like this I can see why it became such a best seller.

So far for the year I've read Goes Like Hell, Against Gravity, and I'm about halfway through Berlin 1961.

I just finished 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb'. A tough read, but interesting. I grabbed 'Starship Troopers' off of Amazon, I last read it in my teens. Heinlein was a helluva writer, that's for sure.