What Are You Reading, Again?

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Read a few while I was on vacation.

One that I particularly enjoyed was Car Camping by Mark Sundeen about a guy who travels around the SouthWest meeting all sorts of people, having a variety of different jobs. For some reason the protagonist reminded me of punkbass a bit (though not completely).

I also read a book called The Fool's Progress : An Honest Novel about a guy's trip East to his childhood home across America and his adventures and memories along the way. It was somewhat depressing but in a good way (like a movie that makes you cry). I didn't read the whole thing and skimmed parts because I had to leave the next day (and it wasn't my book). I thought it skipped around a bit too much and could have been somewhat shorter but I did enjoy it. There was a cool internal monologue in the book that I wrote down in my journal that I may quote later.

I also listened to Dreamcatcher (Stephan King) on audiobook in the car. It was a bit too verbose (as I read/hear King's later stuff I tend to agree that he quality has decreased with age, my favorite work of his, The Long Walk, he supposedly wrote in college, DreamCatcher was written in '97 I think). Still a good story though, actually I haven't finished yet, I'm on Disc 12 or 20.
 
I also listened to Dreamcatcher (Stephan King) on audiobook in the car. It was a bit too verbose (as I read/hear King's later stuff I tend to agree that he quality has decreased with age, my favorite work of his, The Long Walk, he supposedly wrote in college, DreamCatcher was written in '97 I think). Still a good story though, actually I haven't finished yet, I'm on Disc 12 or 20.
I never read the book but i saw the film and it was really really wierd. :crazyeye: I mean wierd in the bad way ...
Was it supposed to be horror ?
 
I am reading "Introduction into Empiricial Social Research" (:rolleyes:) and "Collapse" by Jared Diamond" besides many other texts in Scripts for university ... ;)


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EDIT: oh, and btw, after Hesse's short stories I moved on to his "Narcissus and Goldmund". I am reading it for the first time, and my thoughts are basically "why did it take me so long" :)
That's definitely my favorite of all of Hesse's works. I liked Siddhartha, too, but not as much as Narcissus And Goldmund.
 
Surprisingly Latino- Giuseppe Idabiraggi

Try finding that on the internet.
 
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That's definitely my favorite of all of Hesse's works. I liked Siddhartha, too, but not as much as Narcissus And Goldmund.

I loved both (Narcissus and Goldmund was really something special), but all things considered, I think my favourite would be The Glass Bead Game.

Right now I moved on to some lighter reading. Iain M. Banks - Against a Dark Background. So far it's been a nice read, though perhaps not as captivating as some of his other non-Culture works. The Algebraist is next in cue.
 
Finished Hitler: 1936-1945 Nemesis by Ian Kershaw, and it was a fantastic read. Anybody have any idea on similar books, this time about Stalin/Churchill, set during the war years?

Back to Rome now, and I'm reading Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire by Simon Baker. Seems simple enough a read :)
 
I'll ask my son when I get home. He's a big fan of dictators and WW2 too.

Reading Flight of the Nighthawks again so I can remember what's going on before diving into Into A Dark Realm.
 
I saw 'Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives', by Alan Bullock in a second hand bookshop. I'm still doubting to buy it. Has anyone read this? At least it has some great pictures of an almost hysterical, speaching Hitler.
 
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Truly one of the best books I have read in quite a while. The characters are fully developed, each scene has a purpose, and it shows the Second Punic War through the eyes of many different people, from Hannibal and his brothers to a common veteran in his army, to a slave woman following the army, even Roman Senators. I love it. The only disappointment is the Battle Scenes. Some of them are OK (I'm currently at Cannae, his best description so far) but other battles like the Ticinus and Trasameine he pretty much summarizes in half a page. The latter one he doesn't even tell what's happening, only what one character hears.
Has the potential to be a classic novel. I give it 4 stars.
 
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