What Book Are You Reading? Issue.8

[Dachs]

Just acquired Goldsworthy's Caesar for frees, gonna start reading after I finish this here paper.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I will begin "Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland" by Christopher R. Browning tomorrow.

 

[Fifty]

Beginning The Hunting Sketches--a famous collection of around 25 short stories by Ivan Turgenev--tonight.

I think I'll also do a more serious reading of Orlando Figes' Natasha's Last Dance, since I'm on this Russian lit kick.

Cheezy: You should read Gogol's The Nose. Schoshtakovich (sp?) wrote an Opera based on it!

 

[Dachs]

Schoshtakovich (sp?)

Shostakovich is the usual transliteration there.

 

[Babbler]

Finished Across this Land and Chesapeake Invader by C. Wylie Poag. The latter book cover the author's discovery of a Chesapeake Bay crater and its implications of life in the Virgina Tidewater and Delmarva Peninsula (eg subsistence, groundwater brines, drainage patterns).

 

[Civfan333]

Dr. Slump.........................awesoem! it's so good, it made me spell awesome wrong!

 

[Phlegmak]

I finished reading "A People's History of the United States" very recently. Utterly ridiculous. Every fact in it is probably true, but the bias is just laughable. Any teacher using this as his history text should supplement his course with other history texts too.

I'm currently reading The Koran.

 

[Ansar]

I finished reading "A People's History of the United States" very recently. Utterly ridiculous. Every fact in it is probably true, but the bias is just laughable. Any teacher using this as his history text should supplement his course with other history texts too.

My teacher assigned it to us so we could get a "different perspective".

Note: My teacher is further left than your average CFC-er.

 

[Phlegmak]

My teacher assigned it to us so we could get a "different perspective".

Note: My teacher is further left than your average CFC-er.

It certainly has a different perspective from traditional history books, I'll grant it that. The people who would gain the most from this book are people who say American troops are "the good guys" or people who think the USA is the greatest nation god gave to humanity (Republican pundits). The only reason I say these people need to read the book is because they're living in a fantasy world. People who are living in reality can skip the book.

 

[Nylan]

Anselm's Proslogion

 

[downtown]

This Side Of Paradise- F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Finished. I felt like it lost a little bit of steam near the end, but that might have just been me becoming more distracted by other stuff as I was finishing the book.

time to find something else!

 

[Dachs]

Finished Tarn's The Greeks in Bactria and India on the way back from Pennsylvania. It's really an excellent book. Starting up again with Alexander to Actium with the Battle of Sellasia.

 

[Nylan]

Finished. I felt like it lost a little bit of steam near the end, but that might have just been me becoming more distracted by other stuff as I was finishing the book.

time to find something else!

Did you ever get around to Presidents and Prophets?

 

[downtown]

Did you ever get around to Presidents and Prophets?

No, although I'd like to. Neither the OSU library system, or my local bookstore have it, and I'm kinda banished for life from the Columbus Metro Library system

 

[Nylan]

No, although I'd like to. Neither the OSU library system, or my local bookstore have it, and I'm kinda banished for life from the Columbus Metro Library system

You could always buy it from Seagull Book, although it is a pretty penny. I haven't heard this library story though...

 

[Sephiroth]

Right now I am not reading anything, but my wife is going to make me read "Twilight" when she is done. (Groan)

 

[downtown]

You could always buy it from Seagull Book, although it is a pretty penny. I haven't heard this library story though...

Basically, I owe an obscene amount in fines to most of the libraries in the Columbus Metro area (I maaay have lost an Eric Clapton CD from one branch, and now that fine might be like, 80 bucks). The main library in downtown Columbus, has a "shoot to kill" order out for me.

 

[Nylan]

Basically, I owe an obscene amount in fines to most of the libraries in the Columbus Metro area (I maaay have lost an Eric Clapton CD from one branch, and now that fine might be like, 80 bucks). The main library in downtown Columbus, has a "shoot to kill" order out for me.

Nice

Here it is online, although I'm not sure you want to spend that much: http://seagullbook.com/store/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=500494&Category_Code=

I liked the way it put everything into perspective.

 

[Agent327]

Just finished Close-up by Esther Verhoef, a 'literary thriller'. Well written, a good read. (In Dutch, though.)

 

[El Koeno]

I recently finished "The Two Hearts Of Kwasi Boachi" by Athur Japin. That was an excellent book, and I highly recommend it.

Now I decided to try a true classic: "Crime and Punishment" by Dostoevsky. I'm liking it so far, a bit slow though.