What Book Are You Reading? Issue.8

[Huayna Capac357]

I did. I took them both out of the library for spring vacation

 

[Oruc]

Empires of the Sea by Roger Crowley. Haven't read very much so far

Just finished it, great book wonder how much of it is true. Also Ottomans are great.

 

[Atticus]

Stieg Larsson's Män som hatar kvinnor

Just finished it. I don't remember when was the last time I was so excited about a book. It wasn't at the end quite as good I anticipated at first, but I guess no book could have been. Probably gonna go and buy the next one tomorrow.

Larsson was a symphathetic guy.

It's funny, I knew he was dead, but thought present tense is more appropriate, since I'm not talking about man himself, but of his image.

 

[flyingchicken]

History of the Byzantine Empire 324-1453 Volume I by A. A. Vasiliev (1958).

 

[musekick]

The Broken Sword- Molly Cochran.

Second book in the trilogy.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Daniel Dor - Intifada Hits the Headlines: How the Israeli Press Misinterpreted the Outbreak of the Second Palistinian Uprising

 

[Erik Mesoy]

The Gulag Archipelago. It's the only one long enough for me to post here in a while. Usually I read books in an hour or two and by the time I get here they've gone from "am reading" to "have read".

 

[thetrooper]

@Erik: you should work for Xerox.

 

[Dachs]

Would that we all had your free time.

Just started Donald Nicol's The Last Centuries of Byzantium (1261-1453) after skimming it earlier for my paper and history article.

 

[Erik Mesoy]

@Erik: you should work for Xerox.

AFAIK they produce printers and copiers. How's that related? I don't have eidetic memory or speedwriting skills...

Latest book I read before this, FWIW: The Ball and the Cross.

 

[Japanrocks12]

Alan Paton's Ah, But Your Land is Beautiful.

You may remember reading Cry, the Beloved Country in high school. This book by him is far, far better. Maybe I'll post an excerpt later.

 

[Imperialmajesty]

A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind by Michael Axworthy

 

[Cutlass]

Watchmen. by Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons. The library had the graphic novel, so I thought I'd try that instead of the movie.

Next, House of Cards. William D. Cohen.

 

[Dachs]

In addition, I recently acquired How Rome Fell, Goldsworthy's newest. Splitting my time between that and the Nicol book right now.

 

[Ansar]

A History of the American People by Paul Johnson

 

[Gilder]

I'm almost done with Steinbeck's East of Eden, so I've started reading Kerouac's The Dharma Bums on the side.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I've decided on a reading list for myself this summer:

Herbert Marcuse - One-Dimensional Man
Edmund Wilson - To the Finland Station
Charlotte Bronte - Shirley
Geoffrey Hosking - The First Socialist Society
Leon Trotsky - History of the Russian Revolution
Georg Lukacs - History and Class Consciousness
Noam Chomsky - Failed States
Noam Chomsky - Profit Over People
Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead
Tom Clancy - The Hunt for Red October
Edward Crankshaw - The Shadow of the Winter Palace
Nick Salvatore - Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract
John Stuart Mill - On Liberty

 

[Dachs]

Haven't you read some of those books before?

Also, I finished Last Centuries a few days ago and now have started on How Rome Fell in earnest.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Only the Clancy book. I've started several of them but never finished because of outside forces acting on my life, so I'll be either finishing them or simply starting them over.

 

[kristopherb]

1984 George Orwell
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