I started ‘Game of Thrones’ at about the time I was reading
Bernard Cornwell’s the Saxon Series. Also, the TV show 'Vikings’
came out and Ragnar won out.
I will revisit ‘Game’ after a bit. I have avoided watching any of the
shows. For me it is always, READ first - Watch later.
Hope you enjoy them.
And yes, this is a Great Site. Welcome.
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One on the best reads if you are into living in Rome around the first century and like mysteries, could check:
Marcus Didius Falco
Wikipedia
Marcus Didius Falco is the fictional central character and narrator in a series of historical mystery crime novels by Lindsey Davis
Include a dozen of so:
- Silver Pigs. Historical MysteryHM, 1989, Buy. 2. Shadows in Bronze. Historical MysteryHM, 1990, Buy. 3. Venus in Copper.etc…
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Few more books. Finishing The Last One Out by James E. Parker Jr.
re: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/355646.James_E_Parker_Jr_
Very accurate narrative (In service portion) draft times.
I have read most of the Bolitho/ Kent novels and found a few that I may have or have not read before. I love sea - battle stories.
“The Midshipment” is next to try.
re: Adam Bolitho. Adam Bolitho is a fictional Royal Navy officer who is the main character in a series of novels written by Douglas Reeman (using the pseudonym Alexander Kent), succeeding the previous main character Richard Bolitho.
The Bolitho novels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bolitho_novelsWikipedia
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Thanks for the heads up on those novels. James E. Parker Jr’s
Novel sounds like one I might try.
I avoided the draft by signing up; Time marches on…
I admit I also can’t pass up a good Sea novel.
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On a side note, got a pretty nice raise at work, so…
I get another day off - working just 16 hrs now.
( Monday and Friday - Friday is free breakfast buffet for employees,
best part of the day! )
Still under the SS cap for the year.
See more books in my future.
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See topic – what’cha reading? what do you have to say about it? Favourite bits, weaknesses, how to sell it to others?
I’m re-reading the Dresden Files, on book 11 literally right now, currently listening. James Martson is a fantastic audiobook reader. The books. . .I really suggest skipping the first two in the series, 90% of what I absolutely hate about the series is just the taint of those two absolutely shit, shit books. I only read them because I had them, and then it got okay at book 3, and good by book 6.
The author is not a good writer – but the world is interesting, and for all his unfathomable faults (misogyny, bullshit super-hero syndrome, overpowered power fantasy surrogate bullshit, sexual tension and perversion that comes from just not engaging sex as an adult until like book 10, martyrdom syndrome, and so on) The series is very, very flawed – because it’s pulp fiction, the precursor to television series. It has lots of problems, but it is also lots of fun.
Main character is a nerdy, powerful wizard in modern times. The series starts off as hard-boiled detective knockoff stuff and then becomes what most tv dramas become over time – an unending melodrama. I can’t recommend this to someone who only wants literature – but those who like pulp fiction, garbage that isn’t Bad Garbage to use King’s terms – - well, it’s not bad. Tho King kicks this author’s ass with his mastery of characterization and serious issues with plot – and The Dresden Files is very much like The Vampire Diaries TV show, and dramatically better than the books., just as the show is. Also, Dresden Files had a single season show – not sure if it would have been better than the books.
solid 3 stars – but if you want something better in more or less the same vein, than you cannot go wrong with The Iron Druid series. That said – for all its faults, I like the Dresden Files almost as much. It’s bad, don’t get me wrong – but it is also just plain fun most of the time. Just, please, for god’s sake, skip the first two books. They’re complete shit. Period.
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I am currently reading (and have for a long time) “Children of Time” by Adrian Tchaikovsky - not much time to read though 
I have bought these 3 books to read during the summer:
By David Wong: “John Dies at the End” and the sequel, "This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don’t Touch It"
By Claire North: “The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August”
I can’t wait to relax and read 
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Sadly I read and talk all day at work. Beyond that I read the book called “Elr”. Only 100.0k posts read so far. It’s a pretty good book. Takes some twists and turns.
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Currently reading Fingersmith by Sarah Waters. Quite dark and gothic which isn’t usually my style. Very good read though. 
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Currently reading True North by Kelly Collins. More of a romantic love story but not really a romance novel.
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A 700 page brick called Caesar by Colleen McCullough. This one is subtitled: A roll of the dice, which is one book in the Caesar series. I wish this was a paperback, a hard back book is a pain to read casually.
Hornblower, Sharp, Aubrey, Bolitho, series have long been mostly consumed.
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Currently working through TIHKAL and PIHKAL (Tryptamines/Phenylethylamines I have know and loved) by Dr Alexander Shulgin. They’re the story of an ex pharmaceutical chemist, researching psychedelic tryptamines and phenylethylamines on behalf of the FDA. He was basically granted free reign to do what he wanted, and is responsible for a lot of the drugs people enjoy today, such as; Mdma (ecstacy), 4-Aco-DMT, and most of the 2C-x compounds. He was his own guinea pig, testing everything on himself. He did this for most of his life, into his late 70s and early 80s.
Bloody interesting, but maybe a bit too specific, if you’re not already into chemistry/pharmacology.
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Just got done reading this after 3 months… Its a great read with many twists and turns, highly recommended.
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One if my favorites!
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I’m reading two books at the moment; in the daytime I’m reading American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett about a little town called WINK that is nowhere to be found on any map and where really weird things are going on.
At night I listen to the audiobook The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins by Irvine Welsh.
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I’m all caught up on that series. It actually went a lot faster than I thought it would.
Currently eating up anything Zombie. Finished Mark Tufo’s Zombie Fallout and Bobby Adair’s Slow Burn series. Now reading some of the Peter Meredith books. I’ll burn out eventually, but not soon.
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Went thru a lot of Christian history books recently, best of them was God: A Biography by like, far and away.
Annd, I kinda ran out of books again so I’m reading the Heroes of Olympus series, which I wasn’t going to read past the first book, but I’m out of books.