Weekly “what are you reading” thread #27

I got a lot of reading to do for sundays thread

Listened to audiobook Devil Dogs: from gaudalcanal to the shores of Japan

It's a modern incarnation of the famed Old Breed by burger Eugene Sledge which described his time fighting the Imperial Japanese in the US island hopping campaign in the Pacific theatre. It showed the Marine Corpse and Navy as they struggled in using ampibian warfare on the islands, and the gruesome combat they endured.

The Old Breed was infamous when printed in USA in 1980 sometime, as it was considered one of the most accurate portrayals of the Pacific theatre, and brought a lime light over USA forces onto the Pacific, as the European theatre hogged most of american attention.

The Old Breed was very gruesome and vivid in its portrayal of the horrors of the pacific, especially with regards to US marines having to endure unknown hardships, like illness in tropical biomes, where they suffered malaria, fungus and other grotesque infections before they even arrived at the frontlines, including the discomfort of rotting bodies, pestilence by rats and giant coconut crabs.

Devil Dogs is sort of a repeat of Old Breed, but instead focusses on the company Sledge belonged to as it partook in every major island engagement of the Pacific, outside of Iwa Jima, and the relinquishment of the Philiphines. It follows specifically K35 company, with many characters completing their service, before being replaced for concurrent servicemen.

A Feast of Snakes by Harry Crews

Fantastic book and I'm only about finished with Part One but it captures the spirit of a dying Southern town. I'm from very close to the area in the story and this is one of the first books I can immediately recognize as being written by someone who is intimately familiar with spoken and unspoken customs of the South. Looked him up and he's from Alma, GA. Some of these characters feel too real to me.

The Rubaiyat of Khayyam. Definitely worth the time.

I am reading blood meridian now since I found out my library has a copy

I'm on like page 25 so I don't think I'll catch up before everyone else stops reading it but at least I'll have read it and it is a great book

The Bible same as always

After lobotomizing the Chinese guy, then burning him alive, the MC of Circle of inevitably is now killing some actress because she was trying to get into some lesbian orgy secretly ran by a cult of reluctant s.

Finished A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore and I have no idea how to break it to my friend that he's got shit taste in books. What a colossal waste of time, and just all around unfunny, uninteresting, lowbrow, terrible book.

Finished "The Dark Forest," cried at the ending.

There are a lot of questionable choices in these books, but that kind of chance-taking also lets something really special emerge.

Lonesome Dove

BM can die in a fire

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