What Book Are You Reading? Volume 9

[Godwynn]

Five Days in London May 1940 - John Lukacs

Not as good as I had hoped. It should have been titled Chamberlain, Halifax, and Churchill Arguing with Each Other: See Footnotes!

Now reading: An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power - John Steele Gordon

 

[downtown]

I just finished Killing yourself to live: 85% of a true story by Chuck Klosterman. This is now one of my 5 favorite books. This is the book I would have written if
a) I was a good writer
b) I was a rock music junkie instead of a basketball junkie

I'm now starting HST's The Rum Diary, which is the only HST book I have yet to read.

 

[Birdjaguar]

My wife brought me "A Game of Thrones" from the library. Is it worth reading?

 

[Smellincoffee]

Recently finished A Walk Across America, about to finish The Andromeda Strain. The latter is by Michael Crichton. I may read Steinbeck's Travels with Charley after that.

 

[Julian Delphiki]

My wife brought me "A Game of Thrones" from the library. Is it worth reading?

If you like fantasy even a little, absolutely. And even if you don't, give it a try.

 

[Cutlass]

My wife brought me "A Game of Thrones" from the library. Is it worth reading?

If you like high fantasy and have the time and patience to read a huge series that may never be completed

 

[Babbler]

I've been reading A History of Brazil by E. Bradford Burns. It's alright, although I am now somewhat unmotivated to finish it.

 

[sophie]

I'm reading The Two Towers by J.R.R Tolkein. You might have heard of it?

 

[kulade]

Charles Mann's 1491

Gregory Clark's Farewell to Alms

 

[Birdjaguar]

Thanks, I do like long series. Tad Williams "Otherland" series is one of my favorites.

 

[kill fire]

The Eye In The Pyramid - Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson.

 

[Dachs]

Paul Cartledge - Agesilaos and the Crisis of Sparta

I always wanted to learn about the Korinthian war and Agesilaos' Eastern campaigns. Other works always alluded to them but never outright said much, and attempting to wade through Xenophon, the "Oxyrhynchos historian", Ploutarchos, and Diodoros is just frustrating.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Wait a minute.... who is that claiming to be Dachs?

 

[Dachs]

Mass Effect 2 fanboy who reads about Greeks and stuff? Same old Dachs.

 

[tycoonist]

"A Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe" - Roger Penrose

its hella long, but i want to do physics at uni, so i'll have to learn it all eventually, plus the maths especially is very well explained, and for the most part distinctly different from the standard A level double maths syllabus.

 

[Godwynn]

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain

 

[GoodGame]

Great Battles of WW2 (simple coffee table book with nice illustrations).

 

[Lord of Elves]

Currently plowing my war through post-War of Souls Dragonlance. Or rather, trying to find the net book, and then making plans to plow through.

 

[Dachs]

Beate Dignas and Engelbert Winter - Rome and Persia in Late Antiquity: Neighbors and Rivals
Ian Wood - The Merovingian Kingdoms, 450-751
Parvaneh Pourshariati - Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran
Hugh Kennedy - The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East
Penny MacGeorge - Late Roman Warlords
Averil Cameron and Lawrence I. Conrad (eds.) - The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East: Problems in the Literary Source Material
Guy Halsall - Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West 450-900

 

[Smellincoffee]

I should be reading Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution. And I am, sort of.
Last night at the emergency room I read the first 300 pages of The Life of Elizabeth I, by Alison Weir.