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« Reply #1000 on: May 29, 2014, 08:45:17 AM »

Finally getting around to reading Team of Rivals by Kearns-Goodwin in its entirety.  Partly for the interest it holds and partly because I'm going to be chair of a fairly rancorous department that is also disliked by the school administration next year, so I need some pointers.  Smiley  I might well be looking in the wrong place in the latter regard.  But I'm really enjoying the book so far anyway.
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« Reply #1001 on: May 30, 2014, 08:23:39 AM »

General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse by Joseph Glatthaar. The book is not just a millitary account but really looks into the lives of soldiers who fought in the Army of Northern Virginia. I particularly liked the chapters which covevered the reasons the men fought and also the issues in terms of feeding the army.
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« Reply #1002 on: May 31, 2014, 04:33:54 AM »

"The Red Room" by August Strindberg. Very well written and sharp satire from one of my favourite eras (1870s) and a lot of it is still remarkably relevant.

It's a nice book. In English or Swedish?
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« Reply #1003 on: May 31, 2014, 10:48:45 AM »

Rereading Michael Dobbs' 'House of Cards'.
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« Reply #1004 on: May 31, 2014, 12:38:14 PM »

The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Hands down one of the best things I have read in a while. Bonhoeffer was a truly great pastor and writer.
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« Reply #1005 on: May 31, 2014, 04:42:03 PM »

"The Red Room" by August Strindberg. Very well written and sharp satire from one of my favourite eras (1870s) and a lot of it is still remarkably relevant.

It's a nice book. In English or Swedish?

Danish, I can only be bothered to read Swedish literature in the original if I know the Danish translation is sub-standard and Sven Lange's classic 1923 translation is excellent (which is no surprise since he was a great writer himself).
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« Reply #1006 on: May 31, 2014, 10:34:53 PM »

Animal Farm by George Orwell
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« Reply #1007 on: May 31, 2014, 11:12:19 PM »

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« Reply #1008 on: June 01, 2014, 12:03:53 AM »

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« Reply #1009 on: June 02, 2014, 01:51:10 PM »

Just finished



Highly recommended. The CIA in the 50s and 60s was even crazier than I had thought, and that's impressive.
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« Reply #1010 on: June 05, 2014, 02:31:14 PM »

Just finished



Highly recommended. The CIA in the 50s and 60s was even crazier than I had thought, and that's impressive.

I haven't read this book, but Naomi Klein's "Shock Doctrine" does a really good job of describing the disgusting experiments done by the CIA on unsuspecting subjects.
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« Reply #1011 on: June 06, 2014, 10:40:50 PM »

Started working on two:





Not trying to be ironic here.  I ordered Misquoting Jesus when I started studying the New Testament in depth, and I got the second book after I read a little about the Norwegian black metal scene in the 1990s.  Now I'll actually get to read them. Tongue
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« Reply #1012 on: June 07, 2014, 12:04:13 AM »


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« Reply #1013 on: June 07, 2014, 12:55:04 AM »

On a Michael Lind binge lately:


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« Reply #1014 on: June 07, 2014, 02:02:08 AM »

Frankenstein and The Kite Runner.
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« Reply #1015 on: June 07, 2014, 07:15:31 AM »

"The Red Room" by August Strindberg. Very well written and sharp satire from one of my favourite eras (1870s) and a lot of it is still remarkably relevant.

It's a nice book. In English or Swedish?

Danish, I can only be bothered to read Swedish literature in the original if I know the Danish translation is sub-standard and Sven Lange's classic 1923 translation is excellent (which is no surprise since he was a great writer himself).

Yeah, I realized after I wrote that that it might as well have been in Danish. And I guess Swedish translates well into Danish. Crazy guy that Strindberg though not my favourite Swedish author.
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« Reply #1016 on: June 07, 2014, 04:16:58 PM »

I'm always impressed/surprised how (very!) "highbrow" this forum is in its reading habits. Though of course those reading high-brow litterature are probably more likely to post about it here
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« Reply #1017 on: June 08, 2014, 11:11:53 AM »

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« Reply #1018 on: June 08, 2014, 11:13:45 AM »

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« Reply #1019 on: June 08, 2014, 11:42:22 AM »

The Valley, Richard Benson. Fantastic.
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« Reply #1020 on: June 08, 2014, 11:50:35 AM »

'All the Kings Men: The British Redcoat in the Era of Sword and Musket' - Saul David.
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« Reply #1021 on: June 08, 2014, 12:02:20 PM »

Recently finished From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple (one of my favorite authors...the book's a travelogue through the former realms of the Byzantine Empire examining the remnants of Eastern Christendom in what was once their stronghold and is now the stronghold of Islam) and Destiny Disrupted by Tamim Ansary (a rather surface-level intro-y book that made me mad at some points but still had new information for me, specifically about late Medieval Islamic thinkers...I didn't have as solid a grasp on Islam in the 12th and 13th century eras before reading that book).

Currently reading Crusades: A History by Jonathan Riley-Smith.  I have become very, very interested in the Crusades, and this book is amazing in its intricate detail.  I just finished a section explaining the diet on a typical day in a Hospitaller hospital.  There was another great section talking about how the various Christian sects of the east interacted with the Franks, right down to multiple tiny Armenian churches, which is a topic I hadn't really seen explored before. 
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« Reply #1022 on: June 08, 2014, 12:34:25 PM »


That's actually one of my favorite books.
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« Reply #1023 on: June 08, 2014, 12:55:44 PM »
« Edited: June 08, 2014, 12:57:37 PM by Paul Kemp »







...but once I'm done with that, I'll be giving Under the Volcano another shot. Have started to read it twice before but always seem to get pulled away by something else.
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« Reply #1024 on: June 09, 2014, 07:02:10 PM »

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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