What Book Are You Reading? Volume 9

[Godwynn]

Thread 1: What books are you reading right now

Thread 2: What Are You Reading?

Thread 3: What Book Are You Currently Reading?

Thread 4: What Are You Reading Now?

Thread 5: Books, your favourite and current reading

Thread 6: Anyone reading any books recently

Thread 7: What Are You Reading? Vol.1 Iss.3

Thread 8: What Book Are You Reading? Issue.8

Currently, The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

[Irish Caesar]

Just finished Macbeth, which wasn't everything I was expecting of it.

Spoiler :

I suppose there's little need to spoiler this one, it's reasonably well-known anyway.

I love tragedies, and Shakespeare has written some great ones. But Macbeth... well, none of the characters really jumped out at me. Macduff would have been stronger and more likable if I could have believed he was acting nobly, but he just wanted to kill Macbeth for killing his family. Duncan's sons didn't get enough page time for us to really like them; there's just a lame scene where Malcolm says what a good kid he's always been. Also, Lady Macbeth's part didn't live up to my expectations, although perhaps that's my fault. Come on, a suicide offstage without a soliloquy? What is that!?

The action was fast-paced to the point where it made little sense; first Macbeth becomes king and quickly offs Banquo, next thing we know, Scotland is at war with England. Wait, what?

Of the (plot -> regicide -> war -> killer dies) tragedies I've read, Macbeth is behind Hamlet and Julius Caesar. Perhaps my high expectations hurt my review, though; it's not a bad play by any means.

 

[Camikaze]

The names are hellaciously confusing, but a very good book (so far.)

I cannot wait to start War and Peace.

If you don't like what would appear to be ten named characters being one in the same, you'll certainly have fun with War and Peace. I lost track of how many different names they called Pierre Bezuhov. But really, it is a fantastic book.

 

[ArneHD]

Just finishing up "Last Argument of Kings" by Joe Abercrombie.

 

[Mowque]

"The Crouching Future: A Forecast of American Foreign Policy" From 1976...This should be fun

 

[Julian Delphiki]

D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor. I'm so eager to finish the book to know who won!

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Still slugging through Trotsky. I read a few hundred pages in a day or two, but now I can't concentrate on it long enough to get through one chapter. Its very depressing to think about being more than halfway through a book but still having more than 500 pages left in it.

 

[Till]

A friend lend me "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman. Will have to find the time to read it this week.
Most of my reading time is taken up by non fiction these days. I am currently reading "Active Contours" by Andrew Blake and Michael Isard (excellent), "Hyperbolic Geometry" by James W. Anderson (just started), and "Mathematical Problems in Image Processing" by Gilles Aubert and Pierre Kornprobst (the understandable parts are great, but the mathematical preliminaries are insane).

 

[Azale]

You guys and your fancy book lernins

I'm up to Yuan Shikai's farcical Republic in In Search for Modern China.

 

[GoodGame]

Still reading some Robert E. Howard anthologies from Weird Tales. Pretty good writer and characteriser, though the period racism abounds in the background, from appalling to hilariously ridiculous. The original N-word gets used a lot, but some of those characters are actually pretty well done. The world-wide conspiracy of non-caucasians in 'Skull Face' is ridiculously ridiculous.

 

[Adria]

I just started Dallaire's Shake Hands with the Devil. I don't expect it to be an easy read; the movie was hard enough to watch.

 

[Mise]

Just finished reading Anna Karenina. I really liked, apart from the

Spoiler :

crappy Christian rantings at the end. I know it was supposed to be the kind of ultimate parallel/contrast to Anna, but it was just a bit boring. Other than that it was really neat.

 

[Imperialmajesty]

Contagious by Scott Sigler.

 

[Riffraff]

The Pickwick Papers by Dickens. Really like it up to now, narrator is absolutely hilarious.

 

[Pokurcz]

Dead Eye Dick by Vonnegut, His usual satire, perhaps not as fancy as can be, but it makes you think.

 

[JollyRoger]

Still reading the Bible. Just finished 2nd Chronicles. Moving on to Ezra.

 

[1889]

Just started "Legacy of Ashes" by Tim Weiner. Its supposed to be a history of the CIA but by page xviii I can already see that the author has a heavy bias against the agency. Its too late to get anything else tonight but I might have to look for something with a little more objectivity tomorrow.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I need to stop going to book stores. Its bad for my health wallet. At least these were from a used book store, and were thus like $5 a piece.

Massimo Salvadori - The Rise of Modern Communism (written in 1953)
Noam Chomsky - Deterring Democracy
A. E. Presniakov - The Formation of the Great Russian State
Thomas Walker, ed. - Nicaragua: The First Five Years (written in 1985)
Leon Trotsky - The Permanent Revolution, and Results and Prospects (combined volume)
Michael Harrington - The Twilight of Capitalism
Marfieli Perez-Stable - The Cuban Revolution: Origins, Course, and Legacy (basically a history of Cuba from 1902 to 1993)

 

[Mowque]

Cheezy- You are my hero

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

LOL. Why is that?