What Book Are You Reading? Issue.8

[Ansar]

Eva Luna by Isabel Allende (Spanish Version )

For English: Fast Food Nation
For History: The Jungle (I've heard it sucks? )

 

[Gilder]

For History: The Jungle (I've heard it sucks? )

Yeah, it does. It's a boring read, stuff happens but Sinclair kind of makes it a drag.

I finished The First Man in Rome (finally!), and have started The Grass Crown.

 

[jeps]

Beat It - MJ

 

[Fifty]

For History: The Jungle (I've heard it sucks? )

I thought it was OK... neither the best nor the worst of the "books they make you read in high school" list.

 

[pau17]

Theory and Reality -- An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science by Peter Godfrey-Smith

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche

Logic for Philosophy by Theodore Sider (thanks Fifty)

 

[carmen510]

Personal: An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson (Book about North Africa during WW2)

English: Black Boy

 

[Firestorm94]

I'm reading the book Brisingr, the third in the inheritance series by Christopher Paolini, it's really interesting if you're in to fantasy novels

 

[Smellincoffee]

Nemesis, Isaac Asimov

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

On Guerilla Warfare - Mao Tse-Tung

 

[LightFang]

I'm reading the book Brisingr, the third in the inheritance series by Christopher Paolini, it's really interesting if you're in to fantasy novels

Oh God no. Paolini is an awful writer.

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Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett.
The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett.
Collapse by Jared Diamond.
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond.
I Am A Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter.
Breaking the Food Seduction by Neal Barnard, M.D.

Yeah, I tend to read a lot of books at one time.

 

[warpus]

re-reading Heretics of Dune now

 

[CCRunner]

Paradise Lost only online. It really sucks (the online part, not the book). My library won't have it for a few months and I don't feel like buying it so online it is though.

And Guns, Germs, and Steel

 

[Dachs]

A History of France by Maurois, and With the Old Breed by Sledge (the latter being an autobiography in the Pacific War).

 

[GoodGame]

I just picked up a bunch of Dummies's guides to get re-lurned for post-secundairy skool.
I reason that they may be for Dummies, but they're written by post-docs.

 

[Red Door]

Paradise Lost only online. It really sucks (the online part, not the book). My library won't have it for a few months and I don't feel like buying it so online it is though.

And Guns, Germs, and Steel

Paradise Lost is awesome.

 

[Fifty]

The Kreuzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy

 

[Elrohir]

Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot, by Antonia Fraser. It's actually for school, but I chose this book because I wanted to learn more about the Gunpowder Plot and Guy Fawkes. It's OK so far, but I'm getting kind of impatient, since it's taking a long time to get to the actual plot; there's an awful lot of build up and introduction. ("And this woman was secretly Catholic, and this guy got sent to prison, and this guy went to fight in the Spanish Netherlands, and his brother became a Protestant, and....")

For History: The Jungle (I've heard it sucks? )

It's not that bad. I read it when I was in high school (Sophomore year, I think?). It's not my favorite book, but it's OK.

 

[El_Machinae]

I'm currently poking through Atheism Explained at about one page per day. I have other things to read. I intend to get Collapse fairly soon, since it's so recommended.

 

[Agent327]

Enrico Ascalone, Mesopotamia. Assyrians, Sumerians, Babylonians. University of California Press 2007.

 

[Civfan333]

The Invention of Hugo Cabret interesting story, but it's mostly illustrations........