Which book are you reading now? Volume XI

[GenMarshall]

Picked back up on Get off your "BUT" by Sean Stephenson.

 

[Traitorfish]

The Blueshirts by Maurice Manning. Those wacky Irish.

 

[Luckymoose]

Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa by Jason Stearns, The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch, and Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans by Joyce Appleby.

 

[Cutlass]

Thirteen Kelley Armstrong.
Betrayer of Worlds Larry Niven and Edward Lerner.
Word Divided Mercedes Lackey and others.
Redoubt Mercedes Lackey.
The Magistrates of Hell Barbara Hambly.

 

[nebur]

The Fallen Angel by Daniel Silva, the series by the same author is highly enjoyable.
Well, if you like novels about spies (or rather, spies who act like assassins )

 

[Antilogic]

Finished American Emperor, and was amazed at the role reversal of Jefferson and Marshall at the end of the book (but then again, treason trials tend to make strange bedfellows). Not to mention that one (arguable) traitor was giving testimony against another and yet went unpunished--General Wilkinson, the effective head of the US Army, was taking bribes directly from the Spanish government for almost a decade, with the intent of securing the Louisiana territory for Spain. The intrigue is easy to follow and the precarious nature of the early USA's position in the world is really emphasized.

Figured I should add some light reading to my slate (Morris's Theodore Roosevelt and Cronon's Nature's Metropolis), so I figured Michael Holt's epic work The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War would fit the bill. That thing is as thick as my biochemistry textbook.

 

[Masada]

Women in Purple: Rulers of Medieval Byzantium

 

[sophie]

Women in Purple: Rulers of Medieval Byzantium

Let me know what you think of it - I was considering getting it for my mom.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Cattle: An Informal Social History, Laurie Winn Carlson. I'm not particularly impressed. Apparantly cows are magic and responsible for virtually every aspect of civilization. The author is using a somewhat contrivedly strict dichtomy between pastoral and agricultural societies when even she references the agricultural societies using oxen to plow their fields.

 

[Borachio]

Pardon? I don't understand. Pastoralists don't plough anything. You mean pastoralists are employed to plough the agriculturalists' fields?

 

[Smellincoffee]

Pardon? I don't understand. Pastoralists don't plough anything. You mean pastoralists are employed to plough the agriculturalists' fields?

There was a mistake in my post, which I've since corrected.

 

[Masada]

Storm Front & Fool Moon - Jim Butcher: I'll admit, I enjoyed them a lot.
In Evil Hour - Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Not his strongest work, perhaps.
Of Love and Other Demons - Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Fantastic.
The Enchantress of Florence - Salman Rushdie: I like Rushdie, a lot. Shalamar the Clown is still a favorite of mine. But this was weak, too much exposition and, I dunno, not a lot of characterization. I still liked it - and the historical in-jokes had me snorting out loud - buuuut I dunno. (And that buuuut is fatal to my mind).

Let me know what you think of it - I was considering getting it for my mom.

Solid.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I started sorting through The Necronomicon, starting quite obviously with "The Call of Cthulu." This stuff is way awesome.

 

[Glassfan]

I'm reading Tom Clancy's Locked On (2011). Jack Ryan heading back to the White House and those wily Middle Eastern terrorists up to no good...

Isn't "middle" a funny word?


"I Kill You!"

 

[madviking]

I bought this book. Seems like a very good read.

 

[Glassfan]

I bought this book. Seems like a very good read.

Amazing. mv, tell us if that book is worth getting...

 

[Mango Elephant]

For school I read The Awakening. I expected Edna to really give it to Robert, but I was disappointed.

I'm rereading The Color Purple.

I started sorting through The Necronomicon, starting quite obviously with "The Call of Cthulu." This stuff is way awesome.

That's what I hear. I want it.

 

[Traitorfish]

Juggling Apologies to Thucydides by Marshall Sahlins- an early Christmas present- with the The City & The City by China Miéville.

I bought this book. Seems like a very good read.

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Amazing. mv, tell us if that book is worth getting...

I read it last year, and I'd definitely recommend it.

 

[_random_]

I started listening to an audiobook of The Brothers Karamazof on my way to and from school.

 

[Smellincoffee]

I just finished Riding Rockets, which is the story of a shuttle astronaut obsessed with his penis, and am starting on The Road to Serfdom, by F.A. Hayek.