What Book Are You Reading? Volume 9

[Arakhor]

And my dad's the Sultan of Dubai.

 

[holy king]

your mom's the sultan of dubai.

 

[Arakhor]

Wow, both my parents are the Sultan of Dubai! How come I never noticed that before?

(Bonus marks if you knew that Dubai has an Emir, not a Sultan.)

 

[sophie]

Ellis Peters's A Morbid Taste for Bones

That's a good book. I really like the Cadfael books, and the miniseries is awesome too! Derek Jacobi ftw!

 

[Lord of Elves]

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

 

[Arakhor]

That's a good book. I really like the Cadfael books, and the miniseries is awesome too! Derek Jacobi ftw!

Oh definitely! Sir Derek Jacobi is one of my favourite actors

 

[Dachs]

Everyone else is claiming to read all those weighty tomes!

My book is less than 250 pages

 

[IronMan2055]

Just finishing up Raisin in the Sun for light reading, parts of Perrine's Literature for school.

 

[Integral]

I just got back from Borders.

S. Kierkegaard, Either/Or (Penguin Classics version, lightly abridged)
S. Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety (Princeton UP version)
R. Olson, An Introduction to Existentialism
R. Marino, ed. Basic Writings of Existentialism

Basic Writings includes:
S. Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling, Problema I and II
S. Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death
F. Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals, First and Second Essays
F. Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, Part I
F. Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, The Grand Inquisitor
M. de Unamuno y Jugo, Saint Miguel Bueno, Martyr
M. Heidegger, Being and Time, Selections
J. Sartre, Existentialism
J. Sartre, Being and Nothingness, Self-Negation and The Encounter with the Other
S. de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, Ambiguity
A. Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
R. Ellison, The Invisible Man, Introduction

 

[cardgame]

All Quiet On The Western Front

Honestly, I don't know why I haven't read this before.

 

[Dachs]

Noah Andre Trudeau - Gettysburg

might as well get the more recent scholarship under my belt, wot

 

[Whiskey_Lord]

Reading Jane Eyre again for graduate school. I read it years ago in high school, but it's a lot more striking this time around for some reason(s).

 

[Smellincoffee]

Just finished Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir, and am still engaging Joel Carmichael's Karl Marx: the Passionate Logician. It's taking time because I've never had to try to understand Hegel and Feuerbach before.

 

[Takhisis]

I'm reading J. B. Alberdi's Bases y puntos de partida para la organización política de la República de Argentina from 1852… the man is a Nazi!!! I can't believe the supposedly egalitarian Republic of Argentina was founded by men who believed that Chinamen, Negroes and Arabs were the useless scum of the Earth!! if anyone wrote such a book these days it would be shunned by all

 

[downtown]

Tell me how this one is when you're done! It's sitting on my shelf right now.

Its a good, quick read. I think anybody who as expressed frustration at the insular nature of the social sciences can sympathize with the author. I won't pretend to be as close to the "inner city" as this guy, but my experiences with ghetto systems were somewhat similar as well.

I enjoyed it for what it was...a pretty good story.

 

[Sparthage]

Clausewitz's On War

 

[Furiey]

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

I read that at school a long time ago!

 

[BuckyRea]

I'm currently reading several books. I'm usually in the middle of 4-5 history books.

But I recently started listening to CD books in my car. Since mid-August I've been listening to Moby Dick. My trips to work and back each day are becoming remarkably epic.

 

[Masada]

A Short History of Australia - Manning Clark: Solid, readable and short.
China - Fairbank and Reischauer: A good reasonably short overview.
In Search of Southeast Asia: Revised Edition - Various: A brilliant read, much recommended. Still hasn't dated all that much.

 

[Dachs]

Frederic Wakeman - The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Order in Seventeenth-Century China, In Two Volumes

Why not?