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Filuwaúrdjan
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« Reply #700 on: March 23, 2013, 06:59:29 PM »

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« Reply #701 on: March 24, 2013, 07:50:37 AM »

So, after Dead Souls I read Dead-Eye Dick by Vonnegut. It was a funny little book. Then I read The Road which I absolutely loved. It really shook me and moved me to tears at times. I think I read something else but cannot for the life of me recall what right now. Tongue

Then there has been a stretch of limited time for reading for me, but I've been trying to get through Midnight's Children. Hope to finish it on my flight today. So far it's weaker than the other two Rushdies I've read. 
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« Reply #702 on: March 24, 2013, 01:16:08 PM »

No time for books - I just reread Saki's "On Approval"

I love short stories, usually the shorter the better.  Feels like taking a pill.
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« Reply #703 on: March 25, 2013, 04:28:53 PM »


What are you surprised at? Surely an Arkansas republican can't be expected to spend his days with much different fare.
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« Reply #704 on: March 25, 2013, 04:31:14 PM »


What are you surprised at? Surely an Arkansas republican can't be expected to spend his days with much different fare.
I take insult to that, just because I am a republican from arkansas does not mean I just read conservative books. 
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« Reply #705 on: March 25, 2013, 05:12:49 PM »

Still, you'll agree it's hardly a surprising book to read for anyone with that specific profile.
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« Reply #706 on: March 25, 2013, 05:53:26 PM »

I was registering yawning contempt rather than surprise.
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« Reply #707 on: March 25, 2013, 06:15:18 PM »

My Aunt gave me her copy of the Oddessa File.
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« Reply #708 on: March 25, 2013, 06:47:38 PM »

Still, you'll agree it's hardly a surprising book to read for anyone with that specific profile.
I'll give you that, but i am not like that
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« Reply #709 on: March 25, 2013, 09:56:16 PM »

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
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« Reply #710 on: March 25, 2013, 09:59:48 PM »

Just finished up Sam Pizzigati's excellent The Rich Don't Always Win. Highly recommend it. It's like Zinn's People's History but less boring and more for a general audience. A lot of surprising stuff in it, too. I was kind of surprised to learn that FDR actually proposed capping income during WWII, taking another page from Huey Long's book. And that progressives were so successful during the Great Depression and World War II.

And now I'm about halfway through Josh Freeman's American Empire, which is good, but not as good as the book I just finished. It covers 1945 to 2000 and the changes in American society within and abroad. I just hit the Nixon administration, so I've got a ways to go. It's mind-blowing how much society was democratized by the New Deal, the Great Society, and the Civil Rights Revolution. Simply mind-blowing, and kind of awesome. Gives me hope for the future of the progressive movement in this country, while also providing a cautionary tale on how not to let things get too out of hand and allow reaction to creep in.

After that, I've got a lot of things I'm probably going to try and read in the next few weeks. The Noir Forties just came in the mail and my girlfriend lent me Bob Dylan's autobiography, which I kind of want to read before we see him in concert next month. Oh, and I finally got around to buying Grapes of Wrath, Main Street, and Babbitt. No idea where to begin there. Any suggestions?
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« Reply #711 on: March 27, 2013, 08:39:50 AM »

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« Reply #712 on: March 27, 2013, 09:14:31 AM »

Victor Hugo "Les Miserables"

I'd read that Hugo Chavez was influenced by Victor Hugo and his thinking, and that he urged Venezuelans to read Les Miserables.  Apparently his government even printed and gave away a million copies of the book to its citizens, so I figured I'd give it a go.  Man, it's long.  Jean Valjean doesn't get introduced till page 78 or so.  I read a bit when I take a dump or when I'm waiting for someone.  I'm on page 193 (out of 1432.) 

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« Reply #713 on: March 27, 2013, 09:22:47 AM »


If you want to read in interesting book, see Inside the Third Reich, by Speer.

Currently I'm reading Achebe's, A Man of The People 
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« Reply #714 on: March 27, 2013, 09:28:53 AM »


If you want to read in interesting book, see Inside the Third Reich, by Speer.

Currently I'm reading Achebe's, A Man of The People 

"In the Garden of the Beasts" by Erik Larson if you want a the perspective of an American Werewolf in Berlin.  Well, not a werewolf, actually, but William E. Dodd, Roosevelt's ambassador to Germany 1933-37.  A good read.  Tense, gritty, non-fiction. 
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« Reply #715 on: March 27, 2013, 01:44:49 PM »

Fustel de Coulanges, the Ancient City
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« Reply #716 on: March 27, 2013, 01:48:35 PM »

i've got altogether too many on the go at the moment:

23 things they don't tell you about capitalism by ha-joon chang
the sublime object of ideology - slavoj zizek
being and time - martin heidegger
philosophy of history - g.w.f. hegel
science of logic - g.w.f. hegel
ecrits - jacques lacan
interpretation of dreams - sigmund freud
discipline and punish - michel foucault
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« Reply #717 on: March 28, 2013, 05:35:42 AM »

i've got altogether too many on the go at the moment:

23 things they don't tell you about capitalism by ha-joon chang
Bit lightweight. I lent this back to my mother who gave it to me as a Christmas gift (after reading it, of course). Unlike me she can actually learn something from it.
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« Reply #718 on: March 28, 2013, 01:43:45 PM »

氷点 (Freezing Point), by Miura Ayako. Reading for the second time overall, attempting to read for the first time in Japanese. I'm also reading a translation of her 塩狩峠 (Shiokari Pass) and looking for ones of her 道ありき (The Wind is Howling) and 細川ガラシャ夫人 (Lady Gracia).
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« Reply #719 on: March 28, 2013, 05:37:10 PM »

i've got altogether too many on the go at the moment:

23 things they don't tell you about capitalism by ha-joon chang
Bit lightweight. I lent this back to my mother who gave it to me as a Christmas gift (after reading it, of course). Unlike me she can actually learn something from it.

intriguing tho
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« Reply #720 on: March 30, 2013, 07:38:02 PM »

Finished the Oddessa File in a couple of days. My Uncle is a trucker and we ended up at the Tropicana Plant in Bradenton for four hours on Thursday, abd six hours on Friday, so I got through it fast.
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« Reply #721 on: March 31, 2013, 07:11:40 PM »



Already seen the film though.

Going for this next:
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« Reply #722 on: April 01, 2013, 10:16:04 PM »

I will starting tomorrow be reading the Great Gatsby, Huck Finn, and The Crucible for my summer A.P. Work.
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« Reply #723 on: April 03, 2013, 07:58:18 PM »

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« Reply #724 on: April 03, 2013, 08:05:13 PM »

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