I’ve read it, and its sequels. Good reads, but somehow less… filling than Heinlein, or even Haldeman. I don’t feel drawn to re-reading it.
Gotcha. Did you read “A Separate War,” too?
Meant to, but Haven’t found a copy yet. Nor The Forever Peace
I wouldn’t recommend Forever Peace. Not one of Haldeman’s best, and beware, it isn’t a sequel to The Forever War. But A Separate War and Other Stories has some great stuff, including the title story.
Finished Monster She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction, by Lisa Kroger and Melanie R. Anderson. It had some interesting-sounding titles I might read and also gave me some story ideas.
Now I’m reading A Horse to Remember, a YA novella by Sam Savitt.
I started reading Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, but returned the book when I realized I’d practically read the book already. I’ve read so many books on behavioral economics, and they cite many of the same studies and researchers. It made me realize that I really ought to expand my list of nonfiction books to read. So I bought Incognito: The Secret Lives of Brains by David Eagleman, which also cites many studies I’ve seen before but has enough new information for me to keep reading. And then I went on Amazon and spent a good hour or so gathering together a list of nonfiction books to read that weren’t psychology related. Or, at the least, seemed like psychology from a new perspective.
I am also reading Miracle Creek by Angie Kim, and holy crap, it is good! The plot is that one year ago, there was an explosion at a small business that killed several clients and injured several more. The story unfolds during the jury trial afterwards, where the mother of one of the dead clients (a child) is accused of murder. And as the trial goes on, you discover that a whole bunch of people are either lying or hiding stuff – not just from the jury, but from their spouses as well. And you get to wondering what is such a big secret that someone would be willing to impede a murder investigation in order to keep the secret? It’s very well-written and engaging. It’s written by a Korean-American with a law degree, and her background shines through in the writing. Her insights into the experience of being a Korean-American immigrant, as well as her familiarity with courtroom proceedings, is something I don’t often encounter in fiction writing. (A lot of fiction writers seem to have never had any career other than writing, and they make all their main characters into writers, and that gets old.) I haven’t finished the book yet, but unless the ending completely sucks, I’m going to go ahead and recommend this one.
Finished A Horse to Remember, a YA novella by Sam Savitt. Meh.
Now I’m reading The Court of Last Resort, by Erle Stanley Gardner. It’s not one of his mystery novels. Instead, it’s about how he and others looked into the cases of people who had been unjustly convicted of serious crimes. It was published in 1954, as a revised edition, but it’s not clear when this project started.
The satire was amusing at first, but grew tedious. I was glad to close the cover on this one.
Re Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Held my interest, but I couldn’t have gotten through it on paper. Katherine Kellgren is gold.
I also knocked off a star for an animal death that hit me hard.
Finished The Court of Last Resort, by Erle Stanley Gardner. Not bad overall, and parts of it were very interesting.
Now I’m reading The Rithmatist, by Brandon Sanderson.
*The Volunteer by Jack Fairweather
“The true story of the resistance hero who infiltrated Auschwitz”*
Incredible book. Absolutely grim, heartbreaking yet at the same time surreal. Youngsters need to be taught the story of Witold Pilecki. What a hero.
Finished The Rithmatist, by Brandon Sanderson, which was okay.
Now I’m reading Live and Learn and Pass It On, edited by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Started today on Old Man’s War, by John Scalzi (as I’ve been told to many times). Hey, not bad! 
Finished Live and Learn and Pass It On, edited by H. Jackson Brown, Jr. It’s a collection of advice from people 5 to 95, of which my favorite is from a 7YO. “I’ve learned that I like my teacher because she cries when we sing Silent Night.” (Sniff.)
Now I’m reading Tales of Adventure and Medical Life, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It’s previously published non-mystery short stories.
Oh, good! A military-sf favorite of mine. The whole series is worthwhile IMHO.
New thread: So? How ya doing?
I think I got a copy of that one for free awhile back from Tor. I should read it while I’m stuck home…
(Just got Redshirts recently as well)
Redshirts is a must-read for any Trekker. An affectionate meta take on the show, with (I thought) a surprisingly touching ending.
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CalMeacham @59: Nero Wolfe novels are always worth a re-reading. The mystery is usually the least memorable part, so it seems new again. And Fritz’s cooking and Archie’s quips are always worth revisiting.
I’m gonna reread Too Many Cooks pretty soon, and I haven’t read The League of Frightened Men since I was a teenager, when I thought it was the best one of all.