What Book Are You Reading? Volume 9

[The Imp]

Guy Halsall - Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376-568

Peter Heather - Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe

Michael Grant - The Collapse and Recovery of the Roman Empire

Guess who has a paper on the Later Roman Empire to write!

How the hell do you do it? I mean, I simply can't force myself away from my precious pieces of fiction literature.

 

[Dachs]

How the hell do you do it? I mean, I simply can't force myself away from my precious pieces of fiction literature.

I don't have a whole lot of patience for most fiction tbh

also I thought that Besarionis was a much cooler name and excellent referential humor

 

[The Imp]

I don't have a whole lot of patience for most fiction tbh

also I thought that Besarionis was a much cooler name and excellent referential humor

Ehh, I got tired of having to type out the whole name every time I logged on outside of home. However, I have been thinking of changing my name again. I wonder if the mods would allow me to create a thread in which people can vote on my name.

And Dachs is a great name btw. Always liked it.

Is it after this ?

or

Spoiler :

 

[Dachs]

Finished the Halsall book. It's great - watching Halsall and Heather butt heads in book after book is both entertaining and informative!

 

[Masada]

I guess that should go on the list... Heather's account was a bit of a flash in the pan.

 

[Glassfan]

Michael Grant - The Collapse and Recovery of the Roman Empire

I read Grant's, The Twelve Ceasars back in college for RH II - fine writer.

 

[Smellincoffee]

I'm trying to start Jack London's The Iron Heel.

 

[Godwynn]

The Cold War: A New History - John Lewis Gaddis

 

[CivCube]

I have several books checked out from the library:

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Infoquake - David Louis Edelman (had to stop halfway when school got to be too much.)
Enough Rope - short stories by Lawrence Block
Spider, Spin Me A Web - Lawrence Block

Can you tell I'm on vacation?

 

[Godwynn]

I'm also reading another book since the end of the semester is nearing and I'd rather read than study.

To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World - Arthur Herman

 

[Archbob]

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter -- http://www.amazon.com/Abraham-Linco...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273030904&sr=8-1

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies -- http://www.amazon.com/Pride-Prejudi...=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273030904&sr=8-2

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters -- http://www.amazon.com/Sense-Sensibi...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273031020&sr=8-1


So I'm looking for something to read and these look like good books to read.

Anyone have opinions?

Moderator Action: Merged with regular book thread.

 

[JohnRM]

1. Never read it

2. Never read it

3. Never read it

 

[Perfection]

Needs more robots.

 

[Masada]

Apparently the authors just take classics insert the occassional scene and change some words. That's about it.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I'm also reading another book since the end of the semester is nearing and I'd rather read than study.

To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World - Arthur Herman

I enjoyed that one.

The Scar by Mielville is next for me.

 

[TheDanish]

Just wrapped up The Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie. That was my third read-through of the trilogy - yes, it's THAT good.

 

[Dachs]

I guess that should go on the list... Heather's account was a bit of a flash in the pan.

Which one, and of what?

 

[Smellincoffee]

Received Plato's Podcasts in the mail, so I'm currently enjoying that....Iron Heel can wait.

 

[Gilder]

I decided to take a break from Anna Karenina today. Its really good, Tolstoy has really drawn the characters out well, however the prose is thick and can get tiring to read. I've still got 600 pages to go.

So, for the interim, I've decided to start reading Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs. Most amusingly, my mum thought it was a cookbook.

 

[Masada]

Which one, and of what?

All of em' and The Fall of the Roman Empire.