Which book are you reading now? Volume XI

[Dachs]

Ugh, the early part of that thread makes me wince

 

[sophie]

Ugh, the early part of that thread makes me wince

Ah, those were the days (I wasn't a part of)

 

[Antilogic]

Ugh, the early part of that thread makes me wince

I was much better post-hiatus than pre-hiatus. I pretend any post I made in the first 10 pages doesn't exist.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Jean Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract

 

[sophie]

I read Austen's Emma in all of about 3 days. That was a fantastic read. Now I'm hoping for finish off Waterman's excellent A History of the German Language, and after that I fancy I'll either re-read Joseph Roth's classic The Radetzky March or I'll pick up Halsall's Barbarian Migrations, depending on if I ever get around to getting my permissions at the Maughan Library and whether or not I feel like being depressed for 300 pages reading about Slovenians in Austria-Hungary.

 

[Mango Elephant]

I love Emma. I've thought of naming my daughter Emma just because of that book.

 

[Antilogic]

So, I've finished up the old crop, including the second volume by Hobsbawm. My current reading list is:

Nature's Metropolis by William Cronon - It's a history of the city of Chicago. I haven't read much on the history of urbanization since a class I took in undergrad years ago, so I'm looking forward to diving into this one (I'm on page 4 or 5 of the prologue, not much to say yet). The blurb on the back talks about environmental, economical, and institutional changes from the 19th century to today, so it's casting a fairly broad net (which means it will either be a great work of synthesis or a confusing flop).

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris - I first saw this trilogy on The Daily Show, been waiting to read them for some time. The first book covers Theodore Roosevelt's childhood and early political life, which is what I'm reading now. I probably could have skipped this book given that I'm more interested in his presidency (which is the subject of the second volume), but it is interesting enough that I'm sticking around. Plus, he was involved in the Republican convention that put up James Blaine and later the Secretary of the Navy, Governor of New York, and Vice Presidency in rapid succession, not to mention that stint with the Rough Riders... I think there's a payoff coming.

 

[Aleksey_aka_al]

Tau Zero by Poul Anderson. It has an intriguing premise (based on the annotation) but is so old-fashionly startrekishly stereotyped at the beginning that I fear I won't be able to get past this.

 

[Smellincoffee]

The Conundrum: How Scientific Innovation, Increased Efficiency, and Good Intentions Cna Make Our Energy and Climate Problems Worse; David Owen
Germany: Unraveling an Enigma; Greg Nees
Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash; Susan Strasser.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Emma is a fantastic novel, one of my favorites. The 1996 movie isn't bad either (Gwyneth Paltrow is adorable ).

 

[Huayna Capac357]

I was much better post-hiatus than pre-hiatus. I pretend any post I made in the first 10 pages doesn't exist.

Oh God, another thread I made a billion idiotic posts in.

Right now, I'm reading Dr. Zhivago for school and The Silk Road: A New History by Valerie Hansen (from 2011) because I got it as a gift.

 

[Luckymoose]

Just finished up Sexual Revolution in Early America by Richard Godbeer. Thoroughly enjoyable.

 

[NedimNapoleon]

I started a classic, The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

[sophie]

Emma is a fantastic novel, one of my favorites. The 1996 movie isn't bad either (Gwyneth Paltrow is adorable ).

Yes, it was excellent, as most of Austen's works are, in my experience.

 

[holy king]

i started a classic, the sorrows of young werther - johann wolfgang von goethe

Spoiler :

he kills himself in the end!!!!!

 

[sophie]

I started a classic, The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Are you reading it in German?

 

[NedimNapoleon]

Spoiler :

he kills himself in the end!!!!!

Oh no i just read the spoiler. I actually expected it.

Are you reading it in German?

Nope, I was going to read it in English but couldn't find such a version so Im reading it in Bosnian.

 

[holy king]

Oh no i just read the spoiler. I actually expected it.

oh. it was kind of a joke, kind of like "spoiling" that bruce willis is a ghost...
sorry.

 

[sophie]

Nope, I was going to read it in English but couldn't find such a version so Im reading it in Bosnian.

But isn't that rather like reading Márquez in any language other than Spanish? Or Shakespeare (with a few notable exceptions) in any language other than English? I mean what's the point?

In other news - I finished A History of the German Language. Now I'm off to pick up Barbarian Migrations from the library.

 

[Integral]

I'm reading DeJong and Dave, Structural Macroeconometrics.

Riveting, if terse. It reads more like lecture notes than a textbook.