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« Reply #725 on: April 05, 2013, 09:43:00 PM »

Richard Nixon, a life in full

by Conrad Black
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« Reply #726 on: April 07, 2013, 12:21:27 PM »

I'm reading Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. It's a 2002 translation that actually reads very beautifully.
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« Reply #727 on: April 11, 2013, 09:38:00 AM »

I just finished "Two Treatise on Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration" by John Locke.

This version is part of the "Rethinking the Western Tradtion" series, and contains essays at the end by John Dunn, Ruth Grant and Ian Shapiro concerning different aspects of Locke's legacy and perspectives on his views.
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« Reply #728 on: April 11, 2013, 09:23:49 PM »

Just started reading American Dream Machine by Matthew Specktor. Didn't know much about it but I saw someone mention it on Twitter and it seemed interesting.

http://www.amazon.com/American-Dream-Machine-Matthew-Specktor/dp/1935639447
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« Reply #729 on: April 13, 2013, 12:11:17 PM »

Nations and Nationalist Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality by Hobsbawm
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« Reply #730 on: April 13, 2013, 12:47:38 PM »

Nations and Nationalist Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality by Hobsbawm
Good one.
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« Reply #731 on: April 13, 2013, 08:40:24 PM »

Nations and Nationalist Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality by Hobsbawm
Good one.

yeah, he reads cooler sh**t than I did as a second semester freshman.  tracking maybe 12-18 months ahead of me.
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« Reply #732 on: April 26, 2013, 01:10:06 PM »

I just started Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom." So far so good. Just finished Escape from Camp 14 about a guy who escaped North Korea's worst gulag.
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« Reply #733 on: April 26, 2013, 05:10:07 PM »

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville. I was hoping to compare what de Tocqueville had to write about early 19th-century American government and society with contemporary perceptions, but it unfortunately hasn't been as insightful as I had hoped. Before that, I read 1491, which argues that pre-Colombian American societies were far more developed than most believe.
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« Reply #734 on: April 26, 2013, 08:19:51 PM »

I'm reading again "The First Man in Rome", by Colleen McCullough. I want to reread the whole saga again (the only one I'm missing is "Antony and Cleopatra"), since I have been discovering several details I missed the first time, and because I enjoy the way she solves the lack of information on several characters by merely improvising an explanation that is both reasonable and plausible (most of the time).
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« Reply #735 on: April 26, 2013, 08:41:40 PM »

Finished "The Purgatorio" a while ago. I'm in the midst of "The Aeneid" and am struggling to read "The Paradiso".
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« Reply #736 on: April 26, 2013, 08:42:30 PM »

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« Reply #737 on: April 26, 2013, 10:52:59 PM »

Most of you read too much nonfiction.
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« Reply #738 on: April 27, 2013, 08:19:20 AM »

... and terrible non-fiction at that.

Anyway,

Richard Eaton, The Social History of the Deccan 1300-1761: Eight Indian Lives (2008)
John Eliot, A Further Accompt of the progresse of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New England (1659)
John Eliot, A Further Account of the progress of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New England (1660)
Daniel Gookin, Historical Collections of the Indians in New England (1674)
Colin Calloway and Neil Salisbury (ed), Reinterpreting New England Indians and the colonial experience (2003)
Sidney Rooy, The Theology of Missions in the Puritan Tradition (1965)

All but the first are thesis stuff of course. I currently have 36 books out of my Uni library. I haven't finished any of them - and haven't started the majority of them.
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« Reply #739 on: May 09, 2013, 07:01:38 PM »

About fifteen days ago, I finished reading the Harvard Classics Edition of a Collection of works by Edmund Burke that included his following works:

"On Taste"
"On the Sublime and Beautiful"
"Reflections on the French Revolution"
"A Letter to a Noble Lord"

Since then I have been reading the signet classics edition of "The Federalist Papers", which includes the Articles of Confederation, Constitution and Declaration of Independence.
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« Reply #740 on: May 09, 2013, 08:32:52 PM »

Taking a break from The Road to Serfdom (very repetitive book) to read the 48 Laws of Power.
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« Reply #741 on: May 10, 2013, 01:42:46 PM »



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« Reply #742 on: May 12, 2013, 09:45:12 PM »

I'm trying to balance Stanley Hauerwas, Henry James, and Diane Duane, and have been for some time. I'm also thinking of rereading the Quixote.
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« Reply #743 on: May 14, 2013, 03:13:38 PM »

Audio version:

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« Reply #744 on: May 24, 2013, 02:48:49 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. 

I think this was my last post.

Finished Midnight's Children. It was nice but I liked it less than the other Rushdies I've read.

Since then:

White Nights early Dostoevsky, nice but a bit too romantic for my tastes.

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Vargas Llosa, awesome entertainment, lots of fun.

The Pearl fantastically moving. I love Steinbeck.

The Great Gatsby slightly underwhelming to be honest, but still a good read.

The Western Lit Survival Kit very funny take on Western literary history. Highly recommended.

Cat's Cradle fun yet depressing. Typical Vonnegut. Very enjoyable.

The Red Pony less interesting Steinbeck, but my copy contained a gem of an even shorter story called Julius M...something. And that was fantastic.

England Made Me not Greene's best work, but set in Sweden so points for that. And, well, I love Graham Greene so I liked it a lot.
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« Reply #745 on: May 24, 2013, 02:49:33 AM »

Oh, and currently I'm supposed to be reading Orlando. But I've been slacking off the reading a bit. :/
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« Reply #746 on: May 24, 2013, 04:44:35 PM »

Mocking Jay/Huck Finn
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« Reply #747 on: May 27, 2013, 03:26:45 PM »

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« Reply #748 on: May 28, 2013, 08:11:42 PM »

Signet Classics, "The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates: the Clashes and Compromises that Gave Birth to Our Government", edited by Ralph Ketcham.

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« Reply #749 on: May 28, 2013, 08:38:04 PM »

Just finished Joshua Freeman's American Empire, about to the third chapter of Richard Lingeman's The Noir Forties.
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