What Book Are You Currently Reading?

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Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne Heller. A critical and detailed look into the life of a very secretive woman.

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Just got The Private Life of Chairman Mao and The Power Broker-Robert Moses and the fall of New York from the library.

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Learned all I need to learn from the Power Broker, moving on to the Years of Lyndon Johnson. I also checked out "Walden And Other Writings" by Henry David Thoreau.

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Checked out the Canterbury Tales from the library today. I'm kind of getting into poetry.

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Checked out the Canterbury Tales from the library today. I'm kind of getting into poetry.

Which translation, and does it also have the original Middle English?

Modern English translation.

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Checked out the Canterbury Tales from the library today. I'm kind of getting into poetry.

Which translation, and does it also have the original Middle English?

Modern English translation.

Yes, but by whom?

Translated by Joseph Glaser. Pretty good so far, but I'm still only in the prologue.

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Still reading the first volume of the Years of Lyndon Johnson. Robert Caro has written a hell of a biography. I plan on reading every volume of the series after this.

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A Norwegian Tragedy: Anders Behring Breivik and the Massacre on Utøya by Aage Storm Borchgrevink.

Very well written and a fascinating tale of class, race relations, politics, youth culture, internet culture, outsider dynamics and a dysfunctional family.

The sheer fact that Breivik was examined by a team of child psychiatrists when he was 4 and they basically knew that this boy had severe personality disorder and would be ruined if he wasn't removed from his mentally ill mother is scary and thought provoking.

That sounds like a really good read.

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Nixonland. It's great. Perlstein's an entertaining writer (even if he writes the book more like an internet article than a book at times) and his thesis is interesting and makes a lot of sense.

Yeah, that was an incredible book. It is my go-to source for everything related to the 1968 election.

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I received several books for Christmas, but won't be able to get a hold of them until then .

-On His Own Terms (Richard Norton Smith): The Nelson Rockefeller biography.
-The Nixon Tapes (John Dean): Transcripts of Nixon's tapes.
-The Greatest Comeback (Pat Buchanan): Buchanan's years with Tricky Dick.
-Another Side Of Bob Dylan (Victor Memedes): A biography of the Bobster.
-The Invisible Bridge (Rick Pearlstein): The latest bio of his 1965-1981 history trilogy.

Which one should I read first? I'm leaning towards The Invisible Bridge.

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I'm about to finish Barbara Branden's "The Passion of Ayn Rand" and am about to start reading "Judgement Day: My Years with Ayn Rand" by her ex-husband. I also read "Goddess of the Market" a few years back in High School.

This is going to sound lame, but I've been doing a lot of writing and am working on a project right now (and no, it isn't a Atlas Shrugged ripoff philosophical tract, it's just a story. I'm not that pretentious) and have a side concept for a possible play about Rand's life that shows the good, the bad, and the ugly. I'm not going to publish it or anything, I just want to see if I'm capable of it.