I hadn't been reading much until Thanksgiving break, but my brother and I frequently use books to help us travel more easily on the roads and we did a lot of traveling on our way to Canada and back.
We started our selection this time with Starship Troopers. I'm not sure if I'd ever read Heinlein before or not, but his work was surprisingly good. Contrary to the nature of the cartoon show or (so says my brother) the recent movie, the book had almost nothing to do with the war against the Bugs. Any conflict in the story was really just a sideboard to bounce Heinlein's philosophy off, and I found it a very enjoyable read due to that. The only real bone I have to pick with his ideas was his assertion that everything worthy that humans do is based off their primitive survival instinct, an argument very similar to the one more common today that everything people do is selfish. While those ideas are hard to argue against and I'm not well-equipped enough to do so (we aren't taught much about that sort of thing in the CS department) I reject both concepts. Everything else, however, was insightful if not completely accurate. Anyway, we finished that one off. If anyone wants to borrow it, I'll try to get it back from my brother. It's probably still in his girlfriend's car.
After that we started reading Endgame, a new Battletech novel, but I haven't found anyone on the forum who has any experience with those, so there's not much to comment on. I'm curious to see how much they try to wrap up the entire storyline, however, in response to the totally revised Heroclix universe. It's difficult to see how they could just up and stop all the story threads they've built up to this point, but if they don't, the Battletech universe is going to have serious consistency issues soon.