What Book Are You Reading? Issue.8

[Eran of Arcadia]

I am pretty sure I read Paris 1919 - it was the only one I have read yet that goes into such detail about all the treaties and deals that were made. Man, Germany was far from the worst screwed over.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I'm about to finish Stephen Tanner's A Military History of Afghanistan from Alexander the Great to the Fall of the Taliban, will then delve full-force into finishing Thomas Legler's (ed) Promoting Democracy in the Americas in time for the Model OAS in a few weeks.

 

[WhiteEagle22]

I currently have finished a five book series by Joel C. Rosenburg about the end times. Quite a dramatic finish to the last book, Dead Heat.

 

[musekick]

Wolf Speaker by Tamora Pierce. I read it in 8th grade and I had a bit nostalgia for it, so I'm re-reading now.

 

[Moss]

His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman (half way through the final book)

Quite good reading.

 

[Dachs]

Having completed the American Gods reading some time back, am now reentering A History of the Byzantine State and Society, beginning with Konstas II Pogonatos.

Wolf Speaker by Tamora Pierce. I read it in 8th grade and I had a bit nostalgia for it, so I'm re-reading now.

You and my little sister both.

His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman (half way through the final book)

Quite good reading.

I don't think I could get over the sophomoric name innuendo.

 

[WhiteEagle22]

I'm currently reading my copy of Canadian Printer. Great magazine!

 

[kuukkeli]

Song for the Basilisk by Patricia A. McKillip: I've read about half this far and to be honest it's rather boring. Uninteresting characters in a dull story about revenge and power struggle between noble families that's poorly mystified by overemphasizing the role of music. Way worse than Ombria in Shadow, the other book by the author I've read.

His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman (half way through the final book)

Quite good reading.

I liked the first book quite a bit but the rest of the series was actually pretty bad.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Read Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul, by Kenneth Miller, over the weekend. Thought it was quite good.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I picked up a few books today:

four books by Noam Chomsky:
Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians
Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
Profit Over People: Neo-liberalism and Global Order

plus :
Alexander of Macedon by Peter Green
Making Globalization Work by Joseph Stiglitz

 

[Chukchi Husky]

The Dark Tower Volume 2: The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King

 

[Babbler]

I been on a fictive mood lately:

The Time Machine and the Invisible Man by H. G. Wells

The Pride of Baghdad by Brian Vaughn

 

[twansalem]

Texas, by James Michener. The small town library where I grew up had a hard cover copy with a picture of the Alamo on the spine, and it always intrigued me, but it looked like a little more than a 12 year old could handle, as it has 1300+ pages.

So fast forward 15 years to a couple weeks ago. I was wandering through the library looking for something to read, and I stumbled onto Michener's Alaska, and remembered that I'd always been curious about Texas. I mentioned it to my wife, and she pointed towards a paperback copy of Texas. So I checked it out, I'm now about 200 pages into it, and so far it's a really good book.

 

[1889]

The Anti-Politics Machine by James Ferguson

I just finished a class on African history and got interested in why 'development' projects usually fall flat on their face. Ferguson gives a surprisingly readable account of one World Bank project in Lesotho that ran from 1974-1985. Having a hard time putting it down actually.

 

[Yui108]

Frederick the Great: The Magnificent Enigma
And Islam for Jews and Christians

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance

I have that book lying about and I mean to read it. Let me know how it goes.

 

[King of Town]

The Gift- Poems by Hafiz

I love this, I've never liked so many pieces by one person before.

 

[Phlegmak]

I'm reading The Confidence Man by Melville. It's not good.

 

[downtown]

Beyond the Writers Workshop by Carol Bly.

 

[Kyriakos]

Edouard Driault "Greece and world war 1".
In reality it is a history of Greece from 1908 to 1922, which means that it includes the balkan wars, the first world war and the greek-turkish war. Should be interesting