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« Reply #1275 on: May 13, 2015, 01:06:47 PM »

Re-reading All the Wrong Questions in Lemony Snicket's newest series while I wait to get the chance to get the next two books.

Also re-read Skin Game from The Dresden Files series.

Hopefully once I get back to my hometown, I'll be able to check out something new.
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« Reply #1276 on: May 15, 2015, 06:47:24 PM »

Thomas, the Other Gospel by Nicolas Perrin

Reading John by Christopher Skinner


the latter is more or less aimed at undergrads, but it's still something worth picking up, IMO.
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« Reply #1277 on: May 15, 2015, 06:58:55 PM »

Currently reading through the works of former Stanford Professor Antony C. Sutton, often maligned as a "conspiracy theorist", if he's mentioned at all. He was kicked out of the Hoover Institution for exposing how the USSR and Nazi Germany were actually funded and supported by the U.S. government, as well as by financial and corporate interests from the beginning. His assertions are pretty crazy but he backs up his claims and is pretty convincing. Very eye-opening stuff.







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« Reply #1278 on: May 15, 2015, 10:00:42 PM »

Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography by Charles Moore.
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« Reply #1279 on: May 16, 2015, 09:57:41 AM »

1. The Giver
2. Dog Whistle Politics
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« Reply #1280 on: May 16, 2015, 07:29:58 PM »

East and West, by Chris Patten. Patten's term as Governor of Hong Kong is rather fascinating (specially considering the reaction of the Chinese government to some of his actions), and his analysis of China and the Asian Tigers is interesting as well.
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« Reply #1281 on: May 20, 2015, 10:05:28 AM »

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« Reply #1282 on: May 22, 2015, 06:25:56 AM »

Started and finished In Defense of October by Leon Trotsky yesterday, and then started this last night:

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« Reply #1283 on: May 22, 2015, 08:51:36 AM »

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« Reply #1284 on: May 22, 2015, 09:22:48 AM »

Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72-Hunter S. Thompson
The Speech-Bernie Sanders
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« Reply #1285 on: May 22, 2015, 11:15:48 AM »

Amongst other things, I recently finished Lila. Marilynne Robinson can really write, can't she? A remarkable work that everyone should read.
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« Reply #1286 on: May 22, 2015, 11:20:52 AM »

Most recently read Happy Birthday, Wanda June a play by Vonnegut. Pretty fun read.

On a bit of a reading break right now sadly. Sad
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« Reply #1287 on: May 22, 2015, 05:25:43 PM »

Triumph and Demise: The Broken Promise of a Labor Generation by Paul Kelly.
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« Reply #1288 on: May 27, 2015, 03:23:21 PM »

Just picked up The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon. Would like to expand my horizons within the realm of Marxist-inspired thought.
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« Reply #1289 on: May 27, 2015, 03:45:55 PM »

Finished Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder by Lenin the other day, and now I'm reading A Short History of Reconstruction by Eric Foner.
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« Reply #1290 on: May 29, 2015, 12:20:43 AM »





In retrospect, reading the first two in quick succession was a good idea, given that they dealt with similar subjects and characters, but set in two different locations (Judea v. Rome). Of course the third book was by far the most depressing.
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« Reply #1291 on: May 29, 2015, 03:45:49 AM »

Amongst other things, I recently finished Lila. Marilynne Robinson can really write, can't she? A remarkable work that everyone should read.
Fantastic novel.
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« Reply #1292 on: May 31, 2015, 01:01:31 PM »

Took a break from nonfiction to read Fight Club the other day. Now firmly back in the nonfiction genre with The Revolution Betrayed by Trotsky.
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« Reply #1293 on: June 01, 2015, 03:08:48 PM »

A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russel
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« Reply #1294 on: June 07, 2015, 09:22:01 AM »

I finished The Wind from Vulture Peak and then read The River Ki by Ariyoshi Sawako. The River Ki is a stranger novel than it looks at first glance; if The Makioka Sisters is a woman-oriented Japanese Seinfeld, then The River Ki is surely a Japanese Gilmore Girls (with eerily similar family politics, the only real difference--admittedly a major one--being that everybody involved has their children in wedlock), crossed with a feminist reworking of the premise of Buddenbrooks. The writing style is lucid but there were some sentences that I had to read several times to understand purely by dint of the fact that I was mostly reading it in bed very late at night.

I'm currently reading Yoshimoto Banana's Kitchen, and I'm next going to start two well-known (and dense) series of books, one fiction and one nonfiction: The Sea of Fertility and Jan Morris's Pax Britannica trilogy. I'm not expecting to like Pax Britannica's politics, and I know for a fact that I'll dislike The Sea of Fertility's, but I'm perversely drawn to Mishima's body of work much as a rubbernecker is to the oddly beautiful flames of a bad car crash, and I've resolved to read more Morris partially since I find her writing style endlessly entertaining and partially because she was one of the first openly transgender public figures.
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« Reply #1295 on: June 07, 2015, 11:33:13 AM »

I'm on page 200 of this tome-it's really interesting just a pain to read around exams

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« Reply #1296 on: June 07, 2015, 01:24:10 PM »

America in Our Time
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« Reply #1297 on: June 07, 2015, 07:22:47 PM »
« Edited: June 07, 2015, 07:33:04 PM by MalaspinaGold »




The first three I read as a mix of leisure and as background for a paper I was writing. Reds or Rackets? (on the split between the corrupt East Coast and radical West Coast longshoremen) is excellently written, and, more importantly, gives a convincing answer. Highly recommended.
The Ethnic Factor was pretty good, with a lot of details and figures, but was ultimately a little forgettable. Emerging Democratic Majority was a borderline DLC  hackjob. Making's of Modern Zionism is also a must-read.
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« Reply #1298 on: June 08, 2015, 03:46:31 AM »

The Emerging Democratic Majority is seen as predicting the Obama Coalition a decade before it formed. It's an important work and not at all a "DLC" hackjob.
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« Reply #1299 on: June 09, 2015, 11:45:16 PM »

Well, among other things, they argued that West Virginia would lean Democratic, and that Georgia, Tennessee, Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas would be Lean GOP/competitive. On the other hand, these predictions just ended up being incorrect; what they argue that is harder for me to swallow is the that the Emerging Democratic Majority is almost entirely the work of the DLC and Clinton.
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