What Book Are You Reading? Volume 9

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I just started Will Durant's Our Oriental Heritage, the first volume in his Story of Civilization series. The first book is over a thousand pages, so I've got a lot to look forward to.
That series is exhausting. There are more recent and correct books out there, you know...:p
"The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov.
(De Meester en Margarita/ Translation from Russian to Dutch)
Excellent choice.
I haven't had time to get too far into it. In thew early parts the Germans don't come off looking too good. Is the author objective there?
No, the author is not objective here. Doesn't mean the Germans come off looking too good with more objectivity, though. ;)
I found I have a copy of Fischer's Germany's Aims in the First World War, figured it's time I got around to reading it.
Ugh, you've got balls. You've read enough of other works to know he's wrong and why, right? :mischief:
 
That series is exhausting. There are more recent and correct books out there, you know...:p

On this scale? I'm reading it more for the author's approach than the content, as he tries to cover literature, art, and science -- not just politics.
 
He is certainly more tolerable than that Hunnophobe Germanophobe Tuchman.
Fischer goes farther than Tuchman and claims that instead of being merely incompetent, the Germans were incompetent premeditated warmongerers who wanted to rule the world.
 
We all know what it is your about Dachs!
 
lol brain fart, sorry about that
 
The Black Hand : The story of Rene "Boxer" Enriquez and his life in the Mexican Mafia - Chris Blatchford

Really good. Bloody, engaging, dirty and true.
 
My school textbooks this year are looking...readable. That is shocking. What is more shocking is that they were relatively less expensive. So two books detailing theories and application for family therapy, one book about working with older adults, and two books about group therapy. I'm already loving the family therapy books for their honest, enthusiastic styles. The two authors talk about the field's pioneers like true colleagues because they are. Feels like a nifty counterculture movement with its own true artists. For example, Irvin Yalom, an author for group therapy, seems to be awesome; he wrote a companion novel to illustrate techniques and client growth.

I'm definitely interested.
 
Gordon Rhea - To the North Anna

let's play "Dachs learns about the Overland Campaign"
 
Mossflower - Brian Jacques
 
Recently read Craig Ferguson's memoir (American on Purpose)...excellent read.
 
Gordon Rhea - To the North Anna

let's play "Dachs learns about the Overland Campaign"
Done, that was cool, if a little jumpy - bounced back and forth between small units and the operational level a lot, but whatever, that's what most of these things do.

Gordon Rhea - Cold Harbor
 
Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince

Thank God i found a class where the book assignments are not some Civil-War-historical-fiction-drummer-boy-Injun-nonsense.
 
Just finished up Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe

My current options are to read and write a thorough critical paper on The Inferno, Paradise Lost, or Metamorphoses in a few days or buying a new book and doing the same. Being that this is the last few days I have to spend of the summer I think I'll go for the latter option sadly.
 
The last 2 weeks I've read the following:

Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East - Earl Ziemke
A Time for Trumpets: The Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulge - Charles MacDonald
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 - David McCullough

Path Between the Seas is an incredible story. The tragic saga of Ferdinand de Lesseps and the Panamanian Isthmus was so totally engrossing that the later American intrigue that helped create the country of Panama and the canal felt like a letdown.

I enjoyed Time for Trumpets focus on individual unit engagements during the Ardennes Offensive. Stalingrad to Berlin is very dated as it was written during the Cold War, so nearly all sources were German. Even then it was still fascinating reading.
 
Indonesian Politics in Crisis: The Long Fall of Suharto, 1996-1998 - Lee Khoon Choy: Yet more evidence that the Chinese are terrible ethnographers!
A Fragile Nation: The Indonesian Crisis - Stephen Eklof: Succinct analysis of the fall of Suharto from a political standpoint. Rather good.
The Fall of Soeharto - Forrester & May (eds) - Much the same as Eklof. Well worth it.

I'm moving on to the economics side from Monday. After that I might have a break and devour some Chinese history. I picked up Fairbank and Fairbank and Reischauer for $15 each!
 
Fairbank is ok, but Spence is superior.
 
Anyone reading Blair's autobiography?

Should I get it? I'm tempted.
 
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