What Book Are You Reading? Issue.8

[eastsidebagel]

Dean Koontz - Lightning

Before opening that book I've never heard from this author, but now I'm totally not regretting that I bought this book in the first place.
He is close of toppling another favourite author of mine, Stephen King.

 

[1889]

I'm reading The Mountain People by Colin Turnbull from a recommendation in this thread. It’s really amazing even though it hasn't had any cannibalism so far.

 

[PoetLaureate]

Just finished:
Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare - Philip Short
War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky

Now reading:
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil - Philip Zimbardo
Young Stalin - Simon Sebag Montefiore
The Art of Strategy - Avinash Dixit and Barry Nalebuff
Why I Am Not a Christian - Bertrand Russell

 

[Mowque]

All at once? I could never handle more then two at once.

 

[PoetLaureate]

All at once? I could never handle more then two at once.

Yeah, I kind of have ADD when reading.

 

[Mowque]

Welcome to CFC btw!

 

[eastsidebagel]

Welcome to CFC btw!

Dude, look at his join date! We've encountered here a serious lurker!

Spoiler :

A smart one!

 

[GoodGame]

Dude, look at his join date! We've encountered here a serious lurker!

Maybe he was just coerced to join, and never read it until now. Maybe he is really a she.

 

[Integral]

Money/Macro:
John Taylor, Global Financial Warriors: The Untold History of International Finance in the Post-9/11 World
Paul Krugman, The Return of Depression Economics

Microdevelopment:
Mohammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor
Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom
Paul Collier, Wars, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places


...in varying states of completion.

 

[Ansar]

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

 

[downtown]

How Soccer Explains The World

 

[Pokurcz]

Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut, just finished it, one of his better ones, nicely packaged and short, just enough to convey what it was meant to.

 

[Red Door]

How Soccer Explains The World

Great book.

 

[JollyRoger]

My slow moving reading of the Bible has moved up to Judges. Pretty interesting stuff. The portion of the Bible that many scholars believe may be the oldest is a poem which mixes connotations of sex with a woman killing a king. Pretty wild sadomasochistic stuff. Perhaps we should keep this book out of the hands of the children. Place a content warning label on it or something at least.

 

[Arsonist]

House of Suns by Alistair Reynolds. A bit different from his other stuff but still just as good.

 

[soul_warrior]

Barak Obama - Dreams from my father.

about a quarter in.
written beautifully, sort of an insightful autobiography.
highly enjoyable

 

[Grisu]

Winter's Heart is done. Onwards to Crossroads of Twilight

 

[GoodGame]

My slow moving reading of the Bible has moved up to Judges. Pretty interesting stuff. The portion of the Bible that many scholars believe may be the oldest is a poem which mixes connotations of sex with a woman killing a king. Pretty wild sadomasochistic stuff. Perhaps we should keep this book out of the hands of the children. Place a content warning label on it or something at least.

Ruth is one of my favorite books of the Bible. Reads like an actual story with minimal redundancy.

 

[JollyRoger]

Ruth is one of my favorite books of the Bible. Reads like an actual story with minimal redundancy.

That's good to hear. So far, a lot of redundancy. I have liked Judges the best so far.

 

[Cutlass]

David Weber, "Storm from the Shadows".