What Book Are You Reading? Volume 9

[QuoVadisNation]

Westlaw and e-court reporters mostly. The last book I read was Love Begins in Winter. It isn't anything famous or historical, but maybe that's why I liked it. The book is.. appropriately enough, about a bunch of dudes in this day and age who discover love after spending their early years in willful introspection with no real friends for various reasons. I only wish the characters were more real instead of violinists and doctors.

 

[Imaginos]

"Contact" by Carl Sagan

 

[Ansar]

Crescent and Star by Stephen Kinzer

 

[Cutlass]

"In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson", by Nobel E Cunningham Jr.

This is a relatively concise, and doesn't seem too bad, of a biography of Jefferson. The library in town didn't have a lot of choice on him for some reason. Does anyone know what would be a very good biography on him?

 

[Squonk]

a book about boer wars by M. Lesniewski.

 

[Fifty]

-Hell's Angels by Hunter S Thompson
-Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner
-Autobiography of Malcolm X
-Don Quixote

 

[thetrooper]

Sangen om den røde rubin by Agnar Mykle.

 

[GoodGame]

Been getting back to mah Genetics for Dummies in preparation for school.

 

[Fifty]

Rising Tide by John Barry (about the 1927 Flood of the Miss. River)

Against the God by something Buchanan (history of risk... turned out to be kinda boring)

 

[downtown]

Brookings Institute Report on Education, 2007 Still finding myself with some free time before school starts, so I'm trying to understand the policy side of things a little more.

Also, Consider The Lobster by David Foster Wallace

 

[Traitorfish]

The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell, part of the Warlord Trilogy, a (relatively) historically accurate take on Arthurian myth. Not going to get me any brainy points, but it's fun enough.
I'm also ambling my way through Spiro Kostof's History of Architecture, if that's any better.

 

[Onionsoilder]

"The Omnivore's Dilemma"

It's a good read, but you need a strong stomach. Some of the things in there are disgusting... and some are just sad. Basically, it talks about how a huge portion of our diets comes from corn, either in the form of, beef, chicken or other meat, corn itself, or the variety of food additives we consume everyday including High Fructose Corn Syrup, Xanthan Gum, Citric Acid or Natural Raspberry Flavor(Yes, your fruit flavored drinks are made from corn)

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I did some more used book store raiding today, picked up a bunch of cheap classics, plus some others.

Complete Works of Tacitus
Xeonophon - The Persian Expedition
Livy - The War With Hannibal
Julius Caesar - The Civil War
Friedrich Engels - The Condition of the Working Class in England
Raya Dunayevskaya - Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution
Peter Irons - A People's History of the Supreme Court

 

[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.

I'm about halfway through the book now, and into the really difficult stuff - day 2 of the civil war. It's amazing how much he was able to do with so little. It's not surprising that parts of the book have a very cynical tone to them.


*Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire was the head of the UN peacekeeping force in Rwanda at the time of the genocide.

 

[amadeus]

Finished excerpts from Area Handbook for Southern Rhodesia (1975), onto Area Handbook for South Africa (1981), both published by the U.S. Department of the Army.

 

[fugazi]

Return of the Crimson Guard by Ian C. Esslemont. I dig it.

 

[downtown]

Rising Tide by John Barry (about the 1927 Flood of the Miss. River)

I just checked this book out of the library, and its pretty good so far.

I also got Breach of Faith by Jed Horne. Its supposed to be one of the best Hurricane Katrina books out there. How anybody could like Bush after reading what really went down in New Orleans is totally beyond me.

 

[Erik Mesoy]

Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch

 

[Phlegmak]

Still reading Paradise Lost. It's truly like a Dungeons and Dragons story based on a Jewish myth story. It's a D&D novel 307 years ahead of its time. The only difference between it and modern D&D stories today is that Paradise Lost is written in poetic style.

 

[suiraclaw]

Just read Thief of Time by Prattchet (hope I got the translation correct). Loved it.

Now starting 1984...