What Book Are You Reading? Volume 9

[Mango Elephant]

Can anyone recomend me a book? I haven't read one in like, a month and I'm really bored. My favorite books are 'Gone With the Wind', 'Memoirs of a Geisha', and 'Sophie's Choice' so any books like those would be awesome.

I think this is a good place for this question.

 

[Smellincoffee]

@Mango: If you like southern literature, you might look into Cold Sassy Tree. It's set around the turn of the century..the last one, I mean. One of the book's characters is first in town to buy a car.

I just finished Our Oriental Heritage by Will Durant and Empire by Steven Saylor. I'm now reading Timeline by Michael Crichton. It's an odd mix of history and sci-fi.

 

[dgindra]

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

 

[Takhisis]

Can anyone recomend me a book? I haven't read one in like, a month and I'm really bored. My favorite books are 'Gone With the Wind', 'Memoirs of a Geisha', and 'Sophie's Choice' so any books like those would be awesome.

I think this is a good place for this question.

Start on Terry pratchett's Discworld series. There's so many of them!
I'm starting Making Money right now.

 

[Azale]

I just finished Our Oriental Heritage by Will Durant.

Whoah how fast do you read?

 

[Dachs]

Roger Bagnall (ed.) - Egypt in the Byzantine World, 300-700

Whoah how fast do you read?

Unlike you, Azale, he can concentrate on something for more than a few minutes at a time.

 

[Azale]

Unlike you, Azale, he can concentrate on something for more than a few minutes at a time.

The book he read in about a week was roughly 950 pages. How much information is he actually retaining?

I will concede that Durant is pretty readable for a historian (except the dreaded art sections), but that's still kinda crazy.

 

[Masada]

... I devoured a good 900 pages this weekend.

except the dreaded art sections

I skipped those

 

[Sparthage]

Stupid Wars- It's about, get this, Stupid Wars in history. Some of them aren't even wars, but it's funny.

 

[Godwynn]

Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe

 

[downtown]

gang leader for a day

 

[EmpressCaesar]

Caesar's Civil War by Adrian Goldsworthy

 

[Arriaga II]

Now reading:

A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - James Donovan

 

[Communisto]

Finished the Lost World finally, I loafted pretty hard. Gonna start Eaters of the Dead next but for now:

The Complete Western Stories of - Elmore Leonard

The Fall of Mussolini - Philip Morgan

and I keep trying to put dents in The Ring in Meiji by William Butler

 

[Azale]

Can anyone recomend me a book? I haven't read one in like, a month and I'm really bored. My favorite books are 'Gone With the Wind', 'Memoirs of a Geisha', and 'Sophie's Choice' so any books like those would be awesome.

I think this is a good place for this question.

Have you looked into The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? It looks interesting from wiki anyway, though it's a little...heavier in the content matter than the one's you listed.

gang leader for a day

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


I sold my french textbook, and with that money I bought more books:

Sources of East Asian Tradition, Vol. 1: Premodern Asia (Introduction to Asian Civilizations) by Wm. Theodore de Bary
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States) by James McPherson
Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective by Ha-Joon Chang

 

[Dachs]

Alison Deborah Anderson - On the Verge of War: International Relations and the Jülich-Kleve Succession Crises (1609-1614)

Owen motivated me to read about the seventeenth century, soooo...

 

[Smellincoffee]

The book he read in about a week was roughly 950 pages. How much information is he actually retaining?

I will concede that Durant is pretty readable for a historian (except the dreaded art sections), but that's still kinda crazy.

I committed myself to reading a hundred pages a day, although I skipped a couple of days to take a break. I just chewed over a bit of it at a time while taking breaks to read a Star Trek novel or (or in this case, Steven Saylor's Empire on the side.

As to how fast I read..I usually go through three or four books a week, both fiction and nonfiction.

Haven't started anything this week. I'm trying to get into Durant's Life of the Greeks, but it isn't clicking yet. I also have a biography of Marx (Karl Marx: the Passionate Logician that I'm interested in reading. I can't find any reviews of it, so I don't know what to expect.

 

[sophie]

Alison Deborah Anderson - On the Verge of War: International Relations and the Jülich-Kleve Succession Crises (1609-1614)

Owen motivated me to read about the seventeenth century, soooo...

On that vein, upon completion of All Quiet on the Western Front, I'm delving into 17th Cent. history (big surprise, amirite?)

Aaaaanyways, I'm starting with the broad

Joseph Bergin The Seventeenth Century

 

[Arakhor]

Everyone else is claiming to read all those weighty tomes! Other than copious amounts of CFC, TV Tropes and ME2, I'm only managing to read Ellis Peters's A Morbid Taste for Bones and Drew Karpaschyn's Mass Effect: Ascension.

 

[holy king]

i just read war and peace in two hours.