What Are You Reading, Again?

[The Last Conformist]

I never understood why Swedish crime stories are so popular in Germany.

I read parts of Jonathan I. Lunine's Astrobiology; A Multidisciplinary Approach yesterday. Interesting, if not untouched by the curse of talkativeness so prevalent among American textbooks.

 

[Verbose]

I never understood why Swedish crime stories are so popular in Germany.

It's not just crime stories, it's Swedish novels in general. Big German publishing companies are looking to Scandinavia for things to publish. They seem to think the stuff coming out of there is more interesting than the German stuff.

 

[The Last Conformist]

Well, the Swedish books I saw for sale in Germany was mainly crime stories. Piles and piles of Mankell and Nesser.

 

[El Justo]

Homer's Odyssey

 

[Lord_Sidious]

Da Vinci Code

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(oh no the 9th grade is aproching, in 1 year I must read the....Lusíadas, the great masterpiece of Portuguese litrature, but it's so big)

 

[viper275]

On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace by Donald Kagan. The Bridges at Toko-ri was good and pretty short, unlike most of Michener's books (it was a Korean War story about bombing some important bridges. I don't think it's a true story. The one by Donald Kagan is about events leading up to major wars, and that is a true story.)

 

[Jack the Ripper]

Exodus
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Gods and Generals
The Civil War, a History
The Bible

 

[Bronx Warlord]

C.S. Lewis on death and dying, personal reasons.

 

[FriendlyFire]

When you ride alone you ride with binladen - Bill Mahre
Iron Fist - Hostory of armoured warfare

 

[WickedSmurf]

Just started reading The Annals of Imperial Rome by Cornelius Tacitus.

 

[The Last Conformist]

Exodus
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Gods and Generals
The Civil War, a History
The Bible

Exodus and the Bible?

 

[downwithgravity]

A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond
Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
America, the book - Jon Stewart

 

[Thadlerian]

Finally got my hands on Titus Groan, first book of the Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake

 

[Babbler]

My college Libiary asked for most of its books back, so I got only one book going for me The Truth of Science by Roger G. Newton, Ambushed by Ian Stwart and The Worlds of Galileo. Good books...

 

[wilbill]

The 9/11 Commission Report

 

[Jack the Ripper]

Exodus and the Bible?

Yeah... Exodus is a book by Leon Uris that was written in 1958; not the chapter in the bible

 

[Gunner]

The Grass Crown by Colleen McCullough.

The 2nd novel in a series of 5 about republican Rome starting at the time of Gaius Marius.

 

[The Last Conformist]

Das Glasperlenspiel by Hermann Hesse.

 

[Fifty]

I just bought or received the following, although I have only started two of them:

The Art of War by Machiavelli

Discourses of Livy by Machiavelli

The Prince by Machiavelli

The New Humanists by various authors (It's a collection of essays by scientists about various philosophical questions)

Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand by Leonard Peikoff (I just had to see what all the fuss was about after reading the objectivism thread)

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

I should be getting some more for Christmas. Hopefully.

 

[toh6wy]

I'm now reading The Eye of the World, by Robert Jordan, which if you didn't know is the first book of the Wheel of Time series. It's quite good so far - although I'm sure many others could vouch for how good it is too.