Hmmmm

Just finished reading Wilbur Smith's latest novel on the Courtney's in southern Africa--this one circa 1711. Smith's books on Africa are great reads; not always accurate in details but rich in a sense of time and setting..

Started W.E.B. Griffith's Hostage, his new series on DHS. On WEB, his best stuff was the Army and the Marine series with the Philly cops as a third. His new stuff is too openly political and he largely gets things wrong when it comes to many of the arenas he is discussing. Still I read them for what they are: entertainment.

Rudyard Kipling

The Cruel Sea is a classic I have read many times; the classic movie is also quite good

Starship Troopers the book

And the Lord of the Rings (with the Hobbit) has been on my bookshelf since the 5th grade

Alistair McClean's HMS Ulyssess

The Hornblower series

The Sharpe's Rifles series (and the mini-series with Sean Bean)

Michener until--like a later Tom Clancy--his writings became a committee effort as in his novel on Texas

Early Tom Clancy when he did his own research and writing


Some of Ralph Peter's fiction; it's better than his "non-fiction"; the novel set in Central America involving a Defense Attache was quite good

And others of course

best

Tom