What Book Are You Reading? Issue.8

[Eran of Arcadia]

In the middle of The Ancestor's Tale, which is proving to be what I expected - a really interesting look at the evolution of our species, presented in an interesting way. And with random, irrelevant asides where he soapboxes about things for no reason, which I am trying to ignore as best I can.

 

[King of Town]

Love in the Time of Cholera

I don't like the ending. I found it a little disturbing. or maybe it was a scene towards the end.

 

[Shylock]

Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre

 

[Civfan333]

Watchmen by Alan Moore.........pretty good

 

[Masquerouge]

Reading a biography of La Fayette. The style sucks, but the matter is interesting.

 

[King of Town]

Reading Safe Zone: Gorazde the war in eastern Bosnia

It's decent, i'm not a fan of the art really. most of the people don't look right.

 

[Babbler]

I finished Mugabe: Power and Plunder in Zimbabwe.

Poor Zimbabwe.

 

[Ace of Gold]

Lord of the Flies, for English class.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Getting bogged down by Euclid's confusing language in Book V of his Elements. Should I just gloss it over?

 

[Japanrocks12]

A friend mailed me The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez about a week ago. It's not his best work, but it's creepy and well-told nonetheless.

 

[RedRalph]

The Age of Revolution, by Eric Hobsbawm. Great stuff.

 

[Phlegmak]

I finished reading The Koran, by Muhammed, and probably a bunch of other people. Man, talk about leaving a sour taste in the mouth! Bleah.

I'm reading The Satyricon, by Petronius.

 

[King of Town]

Have you guys ever read the syntopicon? I might have spelled it wrong, but it's close to that. It sounded really interesting, but I have a feeling it's probably not.

 

[sp1023]

The Joy luck Club, Amy Tan, for English.

 

[Whomp]

Just finished "The Siege of Mecca" by Yaroslav Trofimov after meeting one of the people written about in the book. Amazing detail on what seems to be under publicized piece of recent history.

 

[downtown]

I don't like the ending. I found it a little disturbing. or maybe it was a scene towards the end.

Just finished! I don't think it was the ending itself that disturbed you, but something near the end prob. did. I'm not really a love story kinda guy, but I really enjoyed the book.

 

[Luckymoose]

Dewey. It's a true story about a library cat and it is terribly depressing.

 

[Julian Delphiki]

Finished Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore, now going for The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy.

 

[Dachs]

My books will be ready to pick up in a few hours! I'll be starting on Teutonic Knights: A Military History.

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy.

I thought this was a solid book, but compared to Power and Plenty it was vague. I strongly recommend the latter to any student of geopolitical and economic history, or just somebody who wants to learn jack about that sort of thing.

 

[Julian Delphiki]

My libraries don't seem to have that.

Luckily I'm 4th in the reservation queue for 1434.