What book on war have you enjoyed?
Do you have a particular war you like reading/learning about? Pauly enjoys reading about WWI because "It is not Napoleonic warfare anymore. With WWI you start to see tanks, planes, poisonous gas, trenches, and machine guns."
What do you like to read while working out? Do you gravitate towards the magazines or do you escape the burn with a book?
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It's kind of about the Vietnam War but it's focused on a redneck private who has major social and psychological issues, some CI/Psy Ops characters with interesting quirks and issues (also mostly psychological and ethical). It's a weird cross between Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow and Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon and definitely falls on the weird side of things.
BTW, one of my favorite books on war is The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. The first chapter is probably one of the best written things I have ever read.
This is totally cliche, but I loved, loved, loved All Quiet on the Western Front. It's definitely one of my favorite books on war.
Clearly, I'm not as talented as JP because I kind of like to shut down my brain when I'm working out. Reading plus elliptical is not good math for me. But I was reading Dave Eggers on the bike the other day. Sometimes I'll read Men's Health or Newsweek or Time.
Newsweek and Time are especially fun to read when they're several months old (i.e. a cover article about John Edwards as a man not to count out)
@jp clement Yes, I love that book, too. Makes me want to reread it now. Another one is Johnny Got His Gun. Read that one?
@katelyn which dave eggers are/were you reading?
and it's always nice to catch up on the past :)
my mags are piling up so i need to catch up on some time traveling reading, too
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