What Book Are You Reading? Volume 9

[Babbler]

Speak German! Warum Deutsch manchmal besser ist - Wolf Schneider
Speak German! Why German is sometimes better in German

Hmm. What's it about?

 

[Smellincoffee]

Hmm. What's it about?

From a review I read, it's the author's response to German being inundated by English words when there are perfectly good German words already in existence.

I'd do the library thing too except it charges €12.50 p.a. with a bad selection of books (don't mind the charge but for a horrible selection, no way).

What kind of library system do you use?


I just finished Captive Queen. It started off weak -- read like a harlequin romance novel -- but once Becket shows up it gets strong. The author, Alison Weir, said she was inspired by Henry and Eleanor's depiction in Lion in Winter and it shows. Enjoyable read overall -- now I'm going to finish La Belle France.

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

The Prisoner of Zenda, by Anthony Hope.
The Pearl, by John Steinbeck.

 

[helgish]

The Devil's Disciples: Hitler's Inner Circle, Anthony Reid
One Day on Mars, Travis S. Taylor
When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler, Glantz and House
The Order of the Death's Head:The Story of Hitler's SS, Heinz Hohne.

I'm not a skin head, with the exception of One Day on Mars, the rest were part of a reading list for an Anthropology class I took on Community Brainwashing and Sociological Disfunction.

 

[Danielion]

La Comédie Humaine by Honoré de Balzac

 

[Godwynn]

Hmm. What's it about?

I'll summarize it when I get through it. It'll be a slow read.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

 

[Kadazzle]

I just finished 1984 by George Orwell. The book has a lot of good ideas in it but the characters were poor and the writing style is a little out-dated. Good book, but not as good as some people make it out to be.

I also finished reading Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips. This book was a lot funnier than I expected it to be, but also more crude (which I like ). I really liked the characters in this book, but it's not that hard to create characters which have already been created (Greek Gods..). The ending was a fail, but overall I liked the book.

I'm going to start either Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman or The Art of War by noneotherthan Sun Tzu.

 

[Arriaga II]

Most recent nonfiction: Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Most recent fiction: Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell (from the Sharpe series)

 

[Whiskey_Lord]

Finishing up Vanity Fair for when class starts next month. Also reading Ovid's Metamorphoses for pleasure/expanded knowledge as a literary scholar.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler, Glantz and House

Excellent. A better read is the Stumbling Colossus/Colossus Reborn combo, but its easily a thousand pages.

I'm finishing up Russell, which I've been at for months. I think I will read one of the two next:

Marx: Capital, Volume 1

Riazanovsky: A History of Russia

 

[Masada]

Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Penders & Sundhaussen: Abdul Haris Nasution
Halsall: Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West 376 - 568
Kahin: Nationalism and Revolution in Indonesia

Excellent. A better read is the Stumbling Colossus/Colossus Reborn combo, but its easily a thousand pages.

*Salivates* That might soak up some night reading...

Marx: Capital, Volume 1

Isn't it a standing joke that everyone reads the Communist Manifesto and claims they've read Capital? Not judging or anything but by all accounts the latter is pretty drat dry.

 

[Methos]

The Gnostic Bible, though from what I've heard from Gnostics, using the term "Bible" isn't correct, since the Gnostics don't have any one specific book like other religions typically have.

 

[sammer]

Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
(4th book in the Southern Vampire series/Sookie Stackhouse series)

love love love it!Kindle Wireless Reading Device Electronic Book Reader

(its what the show TRUE BLOOD on HBO is based on)

 

[Dachs]

Kenneth Holum - Theodosian Empresses: Women and Imperial Dominion in Late Antiquity

Stewart Irvin Oost - Galla Placidia Augusta: A Biographical Essay

Dachs' sensitive side or planning for alternate history? You decide

 

[Frank Drebin]

Isn't it a standing joke that everyone reads the Communist Manifesto and claims they've read Capital? Not judging or anything but by all accounts the latter is pretty drat dry.

there's cut down worker's editions from the former warsaw pact countries floating around.

 

[GoodGame]

Just picked up an anniversary edition of Shelby Foote's Civil War narrative. Actually just the third volume. Was at my local buy-outs dollar store.

Just picked up several more volumes of this series. Apparently it's the 40th anniversary edition (gold paper covers). Got em for $5 each. Quite a deal.

Been reading about the circumstances of Lee's surrender and Davis's treatment while in jail.

 

[Godwynn]

Revolutionary Europe 1783-1815 - George Rudé

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Halsall: Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West 376 - 568 -/QUOTE]

Yummy.

*Salivates* That might soak up some night reading...

Glantz is awesome. I used some of his books for that article I post in WH a few years ago.

Isn't it a standing joke that everyone reads the Communist Manifesto and claims they've read Capital? Not judging or anything but by all accounts the latter is pretty drat dry.

I wish it were otherwise, Capital and The Manifesto really have little in common. By all accounts the former is much more useful than the latter. I'm sure in Marx's mind the former should naturally lead you to the latter, though.

The most I've done with it is three chapters of To the Finland Station that Edmund Wilson dedicated to Capital, plus other random stuff like Trotsky and Mandel, who just kind of alluded to or quoted specific parts of it. Reading it is a monumental task, which is why I might do Riazanovsky first.

 

[Smellincoffee]

I'm reading The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written by Martin Seymour-Smith. The author is highly opinionated and often wanders off on tangents berating random people. If the subject wasn't interesting I would've stopped bothering.

 

[Cutlass]

Torch of Freedom. David Weber and Eric Flint. Seems like Flint handled this one pretty much by himself. Ad he grinds his own ax a bit more than the plot calls for.