What Book Are You Reading? Issue.8

[Ayatollah So]

Recently finished The Political Brain by Drew Westen. Someone please clone this guy and replace every Democrat's campaign advisors with the clones.

In the middle of Radical Honesty by Brad Blanton. Self-help-type book. He's crazy - and quite possibly right.

In the middle of Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert. Dunno yet whether I'll like it. (Gilbert would of course say that if I claimed to know, I'd be a fool.)

Of the books in my sig, I only actually read the second (awesome) & fourth. The others are on my "hopefully soon" agenda.

 

[Firstlady]

Children of God by Mary Doria Russell

not sure if I like it yet or not.

 

[CurtSibling]

An H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, 'The Haunter Of The Dark' .

He's the master of Sci-Fi horror.

...

 

[Gooblah]

The Tao of Pooh...it's an awesome look at Taoism using Winnie-the-Pooh as the source...however, as the author points out, to truly experience the Tao, one cannot learn from a book.

 

[kuukkeli]

The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane by Robert E. Howard

It's a collection of all Kane stories by Howard. Only read two this far and they were okay. I expect them to get much better when Kane travels further from the civilization (at least the comics of his African adventures were good).

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I just bought several books I look forward to reading:

-a copy of the Qur'an with the Arabic next to the English translation (very helpful for my upcoming year of Arabic classes)

-Virgil - The Aeneid

- Mark Kurlansky - Salt: A World History

- Alistair Horne - A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962

- A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union

 

[Red Door]

Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail or Succeed - Jared Diamond

My last book for required reading before I can get into some pleasure reading stuff.

 

[Dame Edna]

'Byzantium. The suprising life of a Medieval Empire.' by Judith Herrin

'The Time We Have Taken' a novel by Steven Carroll and winner of the Miles Franklin literary award. It is a philosophical account of growing up in suburban Melbourne.

 

[Séamas]

Terry Pratchett's Making Money, just finished his Thud! and Night Watch.

 

[Fifty]

Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb... Whomp's Black Swan thread made me weary of this guy, but this book is actually fantastic. I think he's a bit wrongheaded when it comes to his Popper-worship, but the rest is awesome, especially the thrashing he gives to economists and journalists.

after this its Fear and Loathing on the '72 Campaign Trail as per Mr. Town's recommendation.

 

[cubsfan6506]

Lord of the rings the two towers.

 

[Red Door]

Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail or Succeed - Jared Diamond

My last book for required reading before I can get into some pleasure reading stuff.

Well, I finished this tonight. I have to say, my prejudices against Diamond for god-knows-what reasons were wrong. This book was a good read despite being about a broad array of subjects that I don't find to be particularly thrilling. It was in English, a rare find in those books.

Now onto Raiders and Rebels: A History of the Golden Age of Piracy - Frank Sherry

 

[Julian Delphiki]

I just bought several books I look forward to reading:

- Mark Kurlansky - Salt: A World History

Should be called Salt (how to mention Basques all the time): A World History.

It's still nice read.

 

[Enkidu Warrior]

I'm getting through Don Quixote very very slowly, and today I picked up 'What I talk about when I talk about running' by Haruki Murakami and 'Demons' by Dostoyevsky (which is almost as thick as Don Quixote).

 

[Aleksey_aka_al]

Lord of the rings the two towers.

Cool !

 

[The Last Conformist]

Way too many ... a non-exhaustive list:

Erik Petersson, Den Skoningslöse, a biography of Charles IX of Sweden. The title means "The Merciless One".

Homer, The Iliad, in Swedish translation. I don't like reading translations but my Ancient Greek isn't up to snuff.

Doug Macdougall, Frozen Earth; The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages. It's a cool book.

 

[the_dude]

I just finished up the world is flat by thomas friedman. My roomate handed me Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins and I started that up last night. I got 1776 to read after that one.

 

[Babbler]

- A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union

I think I might have asked you already, but is it a big coffee table book with tons of pictures? Because I remember look through that book at an aunt's house when I was a kid?

Doug Macdougall, Frozen Earth; The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages. It's a cool book.

I loved that book.

I been reading, among others:

*A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell - I started but stopped reading after picking it up on sale at Chapters, started it again as per Fifty recommendation. The first section on the pre-Socratics kinda drags, but it picks up once you get to Democritus and Socrates.

*How the Ocean Works by Mark Denny - it's a nice introduction to oceanography for the general public, although those with intro university science will find some parts repetitive.

 

[Gogf]

The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria.

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

I am presently reading CFC OT.