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« Reply #650 on: January 07, 2013, 08:57:54 PM »

Just got done with Levon Helm's autobiography-"This Wheels on Fire."
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« Reply #651 on: January 08, 2013, 12:28:22 AM »

The last book I ready before Christmas was "Warriors of Christendom: Charlemagne, El Cid, Barbarossa, Richard Lionheart" by John Matthews and Bob Stewart.

It had been my desire to read "Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot" by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard, starting on Christmas, but I had to delay it for the sake of another, much more "extensive" gift until the 2nd of January. I finished it within three days.
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« Reply #652 on: January 08, 2013, 12:52:05 PM »

I just finished The Tourist by Olen Steinhauer. It was a decent espionage thriller. The second half was a lot better than the first half. Sometimes Steinhauer had a tendency to overdo it with mentioning American pop-culture.
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« Reply #653 on: January 08, 2013, 02:42:20 PM »
« Edited: January 08, 2013, 03:06:29 PM by Governor Scott »



Added this to my 'currently reading' list last night.  It's a fairly short book, so I thought, why not?
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« Reply #654 on: January 08, 2013, 03:15:40 PM »

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« Reply #655 on: January 14, 2013, 02:44:57 PM »

Just finished The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch.
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« Reply #656 on: January 14, 2013, 03:21:02 PM »

This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

I'm about halfway through it and I'm still not sure how I feel about it. A lot of exposition so far. I'm considering moving on to another book.
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« Reply #657 on: January 14, 2013, 04:48:15 PM »

Sam Kean is a great popular science writer. A couple of years ago I was regaled and also educated by The Disappearing Spoon, which tells the story of the history of the development of the periodic chart of the elements. Wow, does THAT sound boring. Nope. Not at all. He relates anecdotes about the discovery of the elements, the politics surrounding the Nobel Prize, and personal histories of folks who made a splash in the discovery of the elements that had me page-turning.

Getting ready to start his The Violinist's Thumb concerning the genetic code. Looking forward to it.
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« Reply #658 on: January 16, 2013, 01:31:24 AM »

"Speechless", James Button's account of his time as Kevin Rudd's departmental speech writer and a bit of a memoir of being a son of the ALP. A good read, and particularly good for people who were in Canberra at the time, either on the firnges of the mess, like I was, or more centrally, like Polnut.
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« Reply #659 on: January 16, 2013, 02:19:03 PM »

I finished South Africa's Brave New World over break, started on Nudge (pop behavioral economics) and You Just Don't Understand (pop linguistics/psychology). I'm on page 750 of Infinite Jest.
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« Reply #660 on: January 17, 2013, 08:04:48 PM »

The Unmaking of Israel, by Gershom Gorenberg.
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« Reply #661 on: January 17, 2013, 08:37:30 PM »

"The Letters of Ayn Rand" has been interesting so far.
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« Reply #662 on: January 18, 2013, 11:05:04 PM »

Public Policy by Kraft and Furlong; This Fiery Trial by Gienapp; American Government by Sabato, O'Connor, and Yanus; Thinking in Time by Neustadt and May; The Infinite Cosmos by Silk; Before the Beginning by Rees, The Mind of God by Davies, and The Universe in a Nutshell by Hawking.
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« Reply #663 on: January 20, 2013, 05:13:23 PM »

American Gods by Neil Gaiman and Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell. Like them both a lot.
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« Reply #664 on: January 20, 2013, 08:09:49 PM »

Robert Penn Warren All The King's Men. I like it's description of the time period. Plus the correlation between it and Huey Long is well done.
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« Reply #665 on: January 20, 2013, 08:37:35 PM »

Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
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« Reply #666 on: January 25, 2013, 01:35:54 AM »

Hobsbawm's Industry and Empire
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« Reply #667 on: January 31, 2013, 03:26:00 PM »

picked up a copy of Kolakowski's Main Currents of Marxism (all three volumes in one) the other day from the library.  some of the best sh**t I've ever read, particularly those parts that I'm naturally interest in (reading it front to back proved impossible for me).  may have to splurge and buy it for $24 on Amazon
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« Reply #668 on: January 31, 2013, 05:38:32 PM »

It's a fantastic thing, yes.
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« Reply #669 on: January 31, 2013, 05:50:22 PM »
« Edited: January 31, 2013, 05:52:46 PM by Nathan »


I've read probably a dozen other books of Eco's already- he's probably my single favorite author.  I can't imagine it being difficult to get through in any way, except possibly in the way the subject matter shines a light on some of the darkest aspects of our history and human nature.

But I knew that going in.

That's what I meant. I love Eco too, and I'm glad I read The Prague Cemetery, but it took me weeks and weeks and I never want to read it again.

Anyway, I'm rereading The Silmarillion, out of order this time. I skipped ahead from the Flight of the Noldor to Beren and Lúthien and am now going back to the Dagor Bragollach.
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« Reply #670 on: February 01, 2013, 01:28:51 PM »
« Edited: February 02, 2013, 11:56:01 PM by TheDeadFlagBlues »

The Republic
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The Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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« Reply #671 on: February 04, 2013, 12:29:47 PM »

Mikhail Lermontov: A Hero of Our Time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hero_of_Our_Time

Also, last weekend, besides Lermontov, I purchased Ernesto Sabato's On Heroes and Tombs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Heroes_and_Tombs

Notice the heroic coincidence. It was random, unintentional.
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« Reply #672 on: February 06, 2013, 08:00:20 PM »

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« Reply #673 on: February 06, 2013, 10:48:09 PM »

I decided to learn more about the Spanish Civil War, so I just read Franco by Paul Preston (good analysis on Franco's propaganda), Every inch a King: Alfonso XIII by Princess Pilar of Bavaria (obviously biased, but good), Count Ciano's Diary (a work of narcissism) and España bajo el sable, by Rodrigo Soriano (good). I guess that will give me the viewpoint of foreign diplomats, monarchists, republicans and Franco.
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« Reply #674 on: February 07, 2013, 08:08:56 AM »

I decided to learn more about the Spanish Civil War, so I just read Franco by Paul Preston (good analysis on Franco's propaganda), Every inch a King: Alfonso XIII by Princess Pilar of Bavaria (obviously biased, but good), Count Ciano's Diary (a work of narcissism) and España bajo el sable, by Rodrigo Soriano (good). I guess that will give me the viewpoint of foreign diplomats, monarchists, republicans and Franco.

Interesting. I need to read Preston's biography of Franco. Probably I'd take it in lending at the public library or at the university student's. I think that the last book on the Spanish Civil War that I read was one by Antony Beevor, but I found it a bit disappointing (probably Preston is better on this subject).
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