What Book Are You Reading? Issue.8

[Julian Delphiki]

Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore.

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje

Very enjoyable piece of historical fiction.

 

[Ansar]

100 People Who Are Screwing Up America by Bernard Goldberg

The guy may be right-wing, but he's funny.

 

[I'm Cleo!]

The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon Wood, The Birth of the Republic by Edmund Morgan, and I have The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn on hold (it was not available at my local public library).

Cleo

 

[Fifty]

I started The Selfish Gene but am finding it quite boring, so I may quit. Its not that its not a good book--its very well-written and such--but I feel like I already know must of the stuff I've read so far (just by virtue of basic biology courses, reading Perfection KOs Creationism threads, etc.).

I think I'm going to start reading the Epictetus book I just got (containing The Discourses and the Enchiridion)

 

[Dr.Mindbender]

I think I'm going to start reading the Epictetus book I just got (containing The Discourses and the Enchiridion)

Do read that one. I have never given myself the time to look into Epictetus, and the equivocators who like to express their reviews on what they think is the correct way of explaining his views on many subjects.

 

[JollyRoger]

Charles R. Geisst, Wall Street: A History
Balzac, Le Père Goriot and Cousin Bette

Also still working on the Bible with a commentary and annotations. It's a slow project that I put down for a couple of months. Currently have made it to Numbers.

 

[thescaryworker]

Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
Butcher, Grave Peril

 

[Julian Delphiki]

Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano.

 

[Rossiya]

Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano.

I read the English translation of that a few months ago. I think the Italian version might be better.

Now, I am reading The Prince by Niccolo' Machiavelli.

 

[downtown]

A biography of Pat Moynihan.

 

[Dachs]

Alexander to Actium by the eminent Peter Green. I could not have asked for a better resource on the most awesome time period ever.

 

[Ansar]

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

 

[Red Door]

The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

[Japanrocks12]

Kokoro by Soseki Natsume

 

[philippe]

The Cathars: facts and fiction.

Rather well, despite it's title.

triple cheers for knowing the difference between vertical and horizontal dualism.

 

[Rossiya]

The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

How is it? Have you read The Idiot or Crime and Punishment? If so, how do they compare?

 

[ParangBoi]

"The Veil of Order" by Martin Meyer

A conversational/biography of pianist Alfred Brendel.

 

[Fifty]

How is it? Have you read The Idiot or Crime and Punishment? If so, how do they compare?

IMO, TBK>C&P>The Short Stories (Notes from Underground and such)>Idiot>Demons (aka The Posessed)

Haven't read The Gambler.

Just finished Six Degrees: Our Future on a Warming Planet by some guy. It was not well written.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

It took me three tries to finish that book, but I did enjoy it once I was finished. How are you finding it?

Life in a Medieval Village, Frances and Joseph Gies
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke....hmm, I forget who the author is.