History: especially military and economic history books. Specific areas of history: am biased towards classical and Early Modern/Modern history. Also, works of military theory fall into that category, I suppose, with a strong bias towards von Clausewitz and Liddell Hart. Graphic novels (comic books): mostly Marvel, especially the Amazing Spider-Man line, even after Quesada's butchery of the last few years; also, have been reading Knights of the Old Republic and the Vector storyline. Philosophy: strong tendency towards Nietzsche and Nietzsche-oriented scholarly work. (Sorry, Fifty. 
) Really a big fan of most Russian literature, especially recently; expanded my interest to Pushkin, Saltykov, Lermontov, and Sholokhov in the last few months, in addition to the Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Solzhenitsyn that I always liked. (Oh, and Pasternak; Doctor Zhivago is one of my favorite books.) Goethe and Mann are also pretty big ('specially Mann; Magic Mountain is a really excellent book). And then I usually am bouncing back and forth between various national literature texts, mostly to improve knowledge for quiz bowl originally, but nowadays because I'm interested in good books. Nizami is usually good for sheer awesome, for example.
Stuff that I used to read but still remember very well and sometimes revisit occasionally include Tom Clancy books and other technothrillers, as well as spy novels like Day of the Jackal and The Russia House; Star Wars Expanded Universe novels; and humor books, mostly Dave Barry. Tintin, Asterix (and Obelix), and other comics are usually pretty good for laughs, too.
) Really a big fan of most Russian literature, especially recently; expanded my interest to Pushkin, Saltykov, Lermontov, and Sholokhov in the last few months, in addition to the Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Solzhenitsyn that I always liked. (Oh, and Pasternak; Doctor Zhivago is one of my favorite books.) Goethe and Mann are also pretty big ('specially Mann; Magic Mountain is a really excellent book). And then I usually am bouncing back and forth between various national literature texts, mostly to improve knowledge for quiz bowl originally, but nowadays because I'm interested in good books. Nizami is usually good for sheer awesome, for example.Stuff that I used to read but still remember very well and sometimes revisit occasionally include Tom Clancy books and other technothrillers, as well as spy novels like Day of the Jackal and The Russia House; Star Wars Expanded Universe novels; and humor books, mostly Dave Barry. Tintin, Asterix (and Obelix), and other comics are usually pretty good for laughs, too.
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