What Book Are You Reading? Issue.8

[Camikaze]

Spandau: The Secret Diaries by Albert Speer. It is pretty boring, and a bit egotistic.

 

[Orange Seeds]

I just finished reading Le Grand Meaulnes.

It was brilliant. Any one else read this French classic?

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

Started Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler.
Similar to Animal Farm in the theme of ideological disillusionment, but from what little I've read, the personability of the main character Rubashov suggests a deeper impact.

 

[Firestorm94]

Animal Farm. Another Orwell book. So far this year, I've been required to read 2 Mark Twain books (Life on the Mississippi and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) 1 Charles Dickens book (Great Expectations) and 2 George Orwell books (1984 and Animal Farm).

I gotta say, I like Orwell's books a lot more than the other authors' books.

 

[Irish Caesar]

I don't think I was ever assigned Twain; I had to find him on my own.

As a side note, although I probably mentioned it, I recently started his A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court after finishing a robust collection of short stories, poems, and a delightful novel by Edgar Allan Poe.

 

[Julian Delphiki]

1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance by Gavin Menzies.

 

[Dachs]

Osman's Dream, by one Catherine Finkel. 'Know your enemy' and all that.

 

[1889]

Needed something travel size for an upcoming trip. I chose War and Reason by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita. Its political science based on game theory and statistics and it looks so awesome. Hopefully its easier to understand than his Logic of Political Survival which I assume was also great but too complex for me. I also got Introductory Statistics by Sheldon Ross from the library.

 

[Rossiya]

JD Salinger's The Catcher In The Rye

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance by Gavin Menzies.

Make sure you burn it when you're done. Or before.

Osman's Dream, by one Catherine Finkel. 'Know your enemy' and all that.

 

[Masada]

Make sure you burn it when you're done. Or before.

You exorcise demons; you burn witches.

 

[Atticus]

I finally got my hands on Stieg Larsson's Män som hatar kvinnor (Men who hate women). People in Nordic countries have probably heard about the writer to the saturation point already during last year or so... I was in middle of two other books, but couln't wait to start this one, and after 60 pages it's very promising. I must say that Larsson himself is very sympathetic guy also. Little like mixture of Jan Guillou and Arne Anka.

 

[thetrooper]

Larsson was a symphathetic guy.

I read all three in 2 weeks.

 

[Trajan12]

Re-reading a few favorites. Currently Les Champs Magnetiques. Next, Down and Out in Paris and London.

 

[musekick]

The Forever King. -Molly Cochran and Warren Murphy.

 

[GoodGame]

How to Build a Dinosaur by Jack Horner and James Gorman

Finally finished this one during a car repair. Mostly was what I thought---a good science, beach read for geeks. I take back my skim read thought that they didn't have a good grasp on developmental biology, as there's really a chapter on it and implications with evolution and the idea how that might help reverse engineer a chicken into a pseudo-dinosaur.

Pretty good read if you like paleontology, molecular biology, fossil evidence, and science---with the middle chapters being the best read.


Now starting The Secret Life of Germs by Dr. Philip Tierno.

 

[Kal'thzar]

Critical Mass -Philip Ball (AWESOME)
The Utility of Force- Rupert Smith (intresting, although nothing special, just added to what I already knew on "modern wars")
First 6 chapters of Jackson, Classic Electrodynamics.

 

[LightFang]

Chugging through The Guns of August. Wow, that élan vital was a pretty bad idea.

 

[Huayna Capac357]

The Conquest of the Incas - John somethingorother

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

The Conquest of the Incas - John somethingorother

You should read William Prescott's book about it, History of the Conquest of the Inca.