What Book Are You Reading? Volume 9

[sophie]

All Quiet On The Western Front

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

It's a great book!

 

[Communisto]

On recommendation from Dachs; The Battle Cry of Freedom by James MacPherson

On a side not, the book also doubles as an excellent bludgeoning weapon!

 

[Arriaga II]

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

Finished this over the weekend. Donovan had quite an interesting revisionist appraisal of Custer.

Now on my quasi-pop history reading list which I'm currently reading:

Retribution: The Battle For Japan, 1944-45 - Max Hastings

 

[Smellincoffee]

Casino, Nicholas Pileggi. Inspired the movie with Pesci and de Niro.

 

[cardgame]

It's a great book!

Finished it early this mornin'

Pretty great book, especially for being so old.


Now I'm reading Vanishing Acts by Jodi Piccoult

not being an emotional person I am struck by how absurdly irrational her characters are. And yet. I can't stop reading her books!

Spoiler book discussion :

In this book, her father (her being the main character) gets arrested out of nowhere for kidnapping.... her. His own daughter. Apparently it happened 28 yrs ago - and it completely changes how she viewed him, as if the 28 years he cared for her meant nothing at all. I dun geddit. He's still the same person he's always been. She won't even give him a chance to explain why he did it. She doesn't know jack about his motives yet judges him anyway. gah.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Aside from my daily reading from The Life of the Greeks, I'm also reading a detective story set in China -- The Mao Case, by Qiu Xiaolong.

 

[Whiskey_Lord]

Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens

 

[Shylock]

Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby.

 

[Cutlass]

Just finished Castles of Steel by Masse.

 

[FriendlyFire]

ENDKAMPF - Soldier, civilans and the death of the Third Reich
Stephen G. Fritz

 

[Cull]

What book does OT recommend I read?

 

[Takhisis]

Tales from Watership Down.

 

[cardgame]

I second that motion! Awesome book

 

[Cutlass]

What book does OT recommend I read?

Kushel's Dart.

 

[Azale]

What book does OT recommend I read?

Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury or, if you haven't yet read it, The Search for Modern China by Jonathan Spence. Should be some good edumacation for a Maoist like you

 

[Dachs]

Spence is good. I also recommend Tyerman, God's War

 

[Elrohir]

Just finished On the Beach by Nevil Shute. Not bad, but one of the most depressing books I've ever read.

 

[Takhisis]

I read it when I was 12 or 13. Great reading for a kid . Gives you an optimistic outlook on life.

 

[cardgame]

one of the most depressing books I've ever read.

Gives you an optimistic outlook on life.

wait, what?

 

[Whomp]

Anymore economics book you care to recommend Whomp?

I just finished "The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity" by Richard Florida.

It was a bit North America centric but most of his premise seemed to apply globally. Mega regions, a new spatial fix, the decline of 2nd and 3rd tier cities that can't adapt and the creative class graviatating towards the mega regions. Interesting read though I'm having a hard time getting my head around how the service industry of the future needs to become the manufacturing industry of the past.