What Book Are You Reading? Issue.8

[Thorvald of Lym]

The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists by Gideon Defoe.

It's witty. It's whimsical. Quote: "Enid Blyton might have written Pirates! after a night in an opium den".

 

[Dachs]

Those books complement each other nicely.. what do you suggest should have been left out to make them more reader-friendly?

It would have been nice if Shirer, for one, hadn't spent so much time on the course of the war, because if you really want to learn about World War II you can read Weinberg or Keegan or Gilbert or any of the other countless histories of the conflict. Sticking to the internal developments within the Reich and the reactions to outside events would have worked better IMHO. And the dude is just too wordy overall: fifty pages were spent on the events of ten days, for example. (WTH?) I mean, I love long books and informative stuff, but I can only carry around so many at a time.

In other news, I recently acquired a history of the United States Army and fully plan to read it in the coming days, once I finish reading about that madcap Rostam and his wild adventuring. Also, Sassanian Eranshahr.

 

[civ_king]

Six Frigates by Ian Todd

 

[Globex]

1984 by George Orwell and Hogfather by Terry Pratchett

 

[Julian Delphiki]

Wizard of The Crow.

And The Court Of The Caliphs.

 

[Sui Generis]

Plague Year

 

[Ansar]

The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids by Alexandra Robbins

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

Recently finished The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Better than I imagined, but if only it could have begun as powerfully as it ended...

 

[Fifty]

About to start Johann Sebastian Bach: Life and Work by Martin Geck

 

[CCRunner]

Stranger in a Strange Land and The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus

 

[puglover]

The Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell. Amazing so far!

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I finished Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front today. I can see why it's called "The Greatest War Novel of All Time."

 

[Annex]

1984 by George Orwell and Hogfather by Terry Pratchett

I am currently about 1/3 of the way through 1984.

 

[Integral]

The Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell. Amazing so far!

I love the Sharpe series!

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I'm reading Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (after abandoning his Moral Sentiments), J.S. Mill's On Liberty and Considerations on Representative Government, Milton Friedman's Essays in Positive Economics, and a friggin ton of Plato.

I've also recently purchased an excellent reference book: Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy.

 

[FlammableWaffle]

I Will Bear Witness, The Prince, All the King's Men

 

[Fifty]

I've also recently purchased an excellent reference book: Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy.

Russell's history is not an excellent reference book, being as its horrendously biased. It's still a fantastic read though, I just wouldn't characterize it as a reference work.

 

[Cashie]

Currently switching between 3 entirely different things

Mao: The Unknown Story (Jung Chang & Jon Halliday)
V for Vendetta (Alan Moore & David Lloyd)
The Essential Rumi

 

[Integral]

Russell's history is not an excellent reference book, being as its horrendously biased. It's still a fantastic read though, I just wouldn't characterize it as a reference work.

Fine, then. It's relatively good as a starting point, though I'm obviously not relying on it exclusively.

 

[Shylock]

Ulysses by James Joyce.

I took it out of the school library the first day of Fall semester. The librarian granted me a waiver on the renewal limit for the entire semester since he knows nobody is going to try to read it and it's long. Maybe he really likes that book and wants others to have a chance to enjoy it.

 

[Nylan]

Apology, Euthyphro, Parmenides, and Republic - Plato

I'll be rereading the Oedipus trilogy next.