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« Reply #100 on: February 27, 2011, 06:18:07 PM »

I have a tendency to read a lot of books at once, so unfortunately I don't finish them all Tongue.

Currently there's Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky
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« Reply #101 on: February 27, 2011, 08:08:41 PM »


Currently there's Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky

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« Reply #102 on: February 27, 2011, 09:17:42 PM »

I've got a lot on my reading plate also, but it doesn't include Saul Alinsky. this is a recap of stuff I've posted previously as well as other books:
The Choice by Bob Woodward (almost half-way)
Atlas Shruggedby Ayn Rand (over half-way)
Life by Keith Richards (about one fifth or fourth done)
Known and Unknown by Donald Rumsfeld (Like a tenth done)
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« Reply #103 on: February 27, 2011, 10:17:03 PM »

Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
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« Reply #104 on: February 27, 2011, 10:28:48 PM »


I've got that one. Haven't read it, though.

Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

Another good one. I found it pretty interesting. I usually use it as a reference book.
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« Reply #105 on: February 28, 2011, 12:49:10 AM »

Just finished The Great Gatsby - took me only about 5 hours to read.
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« Reply #106 on: March 01, 2011, 04:10:46 AM »

     Almost done reading The Old Devils.
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« Reply #107 on: March 01, 2011, 03:49:34 PM »

Conscience of a Conservative-Barry Goldwater
Decision Points-George Bush
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« Reply #108 on: March 05, 2011, 11:57:10 PM »


It's about organization, it's a lot more interesting than I would have given it credit for.
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« Reply #109 on: March 06, 2011, 04:20:46 AM »

I'm now reading Hunger by Knud Hamsun, the Norwegian author. It's the current book of the Literary Society of my university.
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« Reply #110 on: March 06, 2011, 06:32:06 AM »

I'm now reading Hunger by Knud Hamsun, the Norwegian author. It's the current book of the Literary Society of my university.

Despite being over a century old, it is ridiculous how accurate to the experience it describes the book is in places. Pity about the author, you know, being a Nazi and all that.
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« Reply #111 on: March 06, 2011, 02:53:10 PM »

Business Analysis with Microsoft Excel 2010

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« Reply #112 on: March 07, 2011, 04:05:24 PM »

I'm now reading Hunger by Knud Hamsun, the Norwegian author. It's the current book of the Literary Society of my university.

Despite being over a century old, it is ridiculous how accurate to the experience it describes the book is in places. Pity about the author, you know, being a Nazi and all that.

Yeah, that aspect of Hamsun is obviously less palatable. Although from what I recall reading about it he wasn't really a Nazi by Hitler standards, but more of a general conservative fellow who was too naive to bother with what the Nazis were actually up to.

But it's always good to remember that great artists don't necessarily have any political judgement. At all.
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« Reply #113 on: March 14, 2011, 06:17:04 PM »

I'm a little longer than halfway though Man of the House, by the late Speaker Tip O'Neill.
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« Reply #114 on: April 22, 2011, 09:00:05 AM »

Just finished Animal Farm in one sitting. Very easily comparable to most of the history of the Soviet Union might I add.
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« Reply #115 on: April 22, 2011, 09:37:45 AM »

I'm about a third of the way through John Adams by David McCullough.  Debating whether or not to buy 1776 when I'm finished.
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« Reply #116 on: April 22, 2011, 01:20:19 PM »

Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King
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« Reply #117 on: April 22, 2011, 04:43:42 PM »

A first draft of one I wrote.  A committee is editing it.
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« Reply #118 on: April 27, 2011, 04:04:49 PM »

The Anarchists of Casas Viejas - Jerome R. Mintz
Ninety Three - Hugo
Homage to Catalonia - Orwell
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I'm detecting a common theme here. Tongue
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« Reply #119 on: April 27, 2011, 04:58:16 PM »

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon.  I am ashamed it's taken me this long to get to it; it's been on my shelf for a solid four years now.
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« Reply #120 on: April 27, 2011, 05:28:34 PM »

To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson
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« Reply #121 on: April 27, 2011, 08:00:03 PM »

Goldwater, the memoir of Barry Goldwater written by Barry Goldwater and Jack Casserly
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« Reply #122 on: April 27, 2011, 09:08:03 PM »

The Prodigal Daughter, Jeffrey Archer

Book club, not exactly a taxing read - but the closest thing to a 'popcorn' author until Dan Brown came along
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« Reply #123 on: April 28, 2011, 02:48:16 PM »

The Progressive Party in Canada by W.L. Morton. The seminal work on the topic.
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« Reply #124 on: May 02, 2011, 08:39:00 PM »

Goldwater, the memoir of Barry Goldwater written by Barry Goldwater and Jack Casserly


Cool. I'd like to read it.
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