What Book Are You Currently Reading? (2.0.)

[Cassius]

The Mothman Prophecies by John Keel

The sacred text.

[diptheriadan]

Just pulled in quite a haul from McKay's in Nashville. Cataloging here for ease later:

1. A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
2. A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
3. A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
4. Windhaven by George R. R. Martin
5. The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
6. The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
7. The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
8. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
9. "Co. Aytch" by Sam Watkins
10. Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson
11. For Cause and Comrades by James McPherson
12. Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
13. The Nine by Jeffrey Toobin
14. Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
15. The Martian by Andy Weir
16. Polk by Walter R. Borneman
17. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
18. The Era of Reconstruction by Kenneth M. Stampp
19. The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward
20. The Cultural Life of the American Colonies by Louis B. Wright
21. The City in American Life by A bunch of people
22. Philomena by Martin Sixsmith
23. Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff (still in plastic for a buck)
24. Our Revolution by Bernie Sanders
25. 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
26. Citadel to City-State by Carrol G. Thomas and Craig Conant
27. In Search of the Trojan War by Michael Wood
28. The Prize by Daniel Yergin
29. The Great Deluge by Douglas Brinkley
30. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
31. Truman by David McCullough
32. The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
33. I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt
34. History of Ireland by Malachy McCourt (planning on giving this one as a gift)
35. All The President's Men by you know who
36. The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

All in worn by overal decent condition and for the relativly low price of 122$.

[1978 New Wave skinny trousers]

In Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party 1714-1760, by Linda Colley.

[H. Ross Peron]

Just pulled in quite a haul from McKay's in Nashville. Cataloging here for ease later:

1. A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
2. A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
3. A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
4. Windhaven by George R. R. Martin
5. The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
6. The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
7. The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
8. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
9. "Co. Aytch" by Sam Watkins
10. Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson
11. For Cause and Comrades by James McPherson
12. Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
13. The Nine by Jeffrey Toobin
14. Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
15. The Martian by Andy Weir
16. Polk by Walter R. Borneman
17. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
18. The Era of Reconstruction by Kenneth M. Stampp
19. The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward
20. The Cultural Life of the American Colonies by Louis B. Wright
21. The City in American Life by A bunch of people
22. Philomena by Martin Sixsmith
23. Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff (still in plastic for a buck)
24. Our Revolution by Bernie Sanders
25. 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
26. Citadel to City-State by Carrol G. Thomas and Craig Conant
27. In Search of the Trojan War by Michael Wood
28. The Prize by Daniel Yergin
29. The Great Deluge by Douglas Brinkley
30. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
31. Truman by David McCullough
32. The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
33. I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt
34. History of Ireland by Malachy McCourt (planning on giving this one as a gift)
35. All The President's Men by you know who
36. The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

All in worn by overal decent condition and for the relativly low price of 122$.

I see you are like me in doing massive book hauls

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

On The House (John Boehner, former speaker from 2011-2015)
The Long Game:How I ruin everything for the bad of the country (Addison Mitchell McConnell Jr, former Chief Obstructionist of The United States from 2015 to 2021).

[VPH]

The Quest for Community by Robert Nisbet and The Mafia and the Machine: The Story of the Kansas City Mob by Frank Hayde.

[diptheriadan]

Just pulled in quite a haul from McKay's in Nashville. Cataloging here for ease later:

1. A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
2. A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
3. A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
4. Windhaven by George R. R. Martin
5. The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
6. The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
7. The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
8. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
9. "Co. Aytch" by Sam Watkins
10. Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson
11. For Cause and Comrades by James McPherson
12. Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
13. The Nine by Jeffrey Toobin
14. Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
15. The Martian by Andy Weir
16. Polk by Walter R. Borneman
17. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
18. The Era of Reconstruction by Kenneth M. Stampp
19. The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward
20. The Cultural Life of the American Colonies by Louis B. Wright
21. The City in American Life by A bunch of people
22. Philomena by Martin Sixsmith
23. Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff (still in plastic for a buck)
24. Our Revolution by Bernie Sanders
25. 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
26. Citadel to City-State by Carrol G. Thomas and Craig Conant
27. In Search of the Trojan War by Michael Wood
28. The Prize by Daniel Yergin
29. The Great Deluge by Douglas Brinkley
30. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
31. Truman by David McCullough
32. The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
33. I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt
34. History of Ireland by Malachy McCourt (planning on giving this one as a gift)
35. All The President's Men by you know who
36. The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

All in worn by overal decent condition and for the relativly low price of 122$.

I see you are like me in doing massive book hauls

I didn't mean to, but when I saw The Prize at only 1.50$ I just sorta blacked out and then suddenly my cart was full.

[Mexican Wolf]

I'm a little over halfway through The Return of the Mexican Wolf. So far, most of the book has focused on the author's and her wildlife group P.A.WS' efforts in the 1980s and 90s to raise awareness about the Mexican wolf and convince the Arizona and New Mexico Game Departments, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and ranchers and other environmentalists to support wolf reintroduction in the Southwest.

It's frustrating to learn about the many governmental hurdles P.A.WS had to overcome to get a reintroduction plan passed and implemented. It's also been interesting to see all the familiar names in government who supported and opposed wolf reintroduction in the Southwest. A couple of chapters ago, then Governors Fife Symington and Gary Johnson both sent letters to the USFWS where they opposed wolves returning to the White Sands Missile Range because they said that the wolves would threaten humans and the department overstepped its boundaries, even though these claims weren't accurate.

I was hoping there would be more information about the biology and behaviors of the wolves themselves, but seeing as the wolves were just released into the Blue Range Wilderness Area last chapter, maybe the book will start focusing more on them.

[Geoffrey Howe]

Equality by Keith Joseph. Won't be popular here:

Redistribution is unwise. But it is also morally indefensible, misconceived in theory, and repellent in practice.

[Babeuf]

Finally starting The Power Broker, very excited to delve in to this one.

[FrancoAgo]

Theories of Surplus Value, in a italian editition

[Karpatsky]

I just finished Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea. Very immersive and terrifying read - I'd recommend it even if you aren't particularly interested in NK. The author does a great job of creating a vivid and immersive narrative from secondhand and thirdhand sources.

[Dr. MB]

Behold a Pale Horse by William Cooper

I'm taking this book with a big grain of salt (sorry Dule but despite painting me as a total lunatic I don't just take every wild conspiracy theory at face value). Especially since the author isn't the most credible source. Should be an interesting read though and it's already a wild trip.

[FrancoAgo]

I just started the Third Book of The Capital, this i my 4th attempt to read this book, i hope this is the right time

[Spark]

Still reading A Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek

[Benjamin Frank]

Still reading A Road to Serfdom

You like nonsensical fiction I see.

[Brother Jonathan]

I just finished Thinking the Twentieth Century which was generally interesting. I have recently been plodding through The Russian Empire, 1801-1917 by Hugh Seton-Watson in the evenings, and am looking for a new audiobook for when I am working. I was going to start Bloodlands:
Europe Between Hitler and Stalin but I might look for something about the 18th century instead.

[Benjamin Frank]

Murdered by Milkshake:  An Astonishing True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and a Charismatic Killer

I've been trying to finish Thinking, Fast and Slow which I had read about half of before misplacing it (it should be required reading in high school) but my eyes are struggling to read the small type now. 

[Mexican Wolf]

Just bought and started reading Frankly, We Won This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost by Michael Bender. [I figured since I read Lucky earlier this year, I should also read about the 2020 election from the Trump campaign's side, too.]

Some funny/interesting tidbits so far:

- The "Front Row Joes" were a group of 1,500 Trump supporters who regularly travelled all over the country to be the first in line at Trump rallies and to be interviewed by reporters after the rallies. One woman had been to thirty-one Trump rallies before his Battle Creek one in December 2019, while another man quit his job and used a $120,000 family inheritance to travel around the country to these rallies.
- Trump banned snow machines at his rallies after some fake snow that tasted disgusting landed in his mouth.
- Trump would regularly say his girlfriends were more attractive than Warren Beatty's in New York tabloids, and at one point, Warren Beatty considered running for president.
- In early February 2020, Brad Parscale shared the results of an incomplete poll with Trump that showed him winning Colorado and New Mexico and topping 400 electoral votes.
- Trump flip-flopped back and forth on having witnesses called during the impeachment trial to try and embarrass Democrats, but was discouraged by his legal team and Mitch McConnell.

I just started on the chapters on the outbreak of COVID-19 earlier.

Sure, the book is a little too gossipy or obvious at points, but so far I'm finding it interesting.

[Mexican Wolf]

Just started reading Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

On the advice of a friend who wants me to read more contemporary (read: post-1970ish) fiction, I just read Pachinko by Min Jin Lee and will next be picking up one of the two Umberto Eco novels I haven't read before.

[Mexican Wolf]

Finished The House of the Spirits earlier today. Very fascinating novel, especially how Allende depicts her recollections and interpretations of Salvador Allende's presidency and the early years of the Pinochet dictatorship.

My order for This is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakauwila just shipped today, so that's the next book I'll be reading once it arrives.

[CEO Mindset]

jacques barzun's "from dawn to decadence"

very good book imo, even if it is quite dense and takes a while to get into

[LBJer]

Ireland: A History by Thomas Bartlett.  Covers Irish history from 431 to 2010.  Highly recommended--both very scholarly and detailed and very well-written. 

[Georg Ebner]

PATER, "Plato and Platonism".

ReReading.
The amusing aspect is, that we have reversed roles: PATER tried hard to spin out like a serious german scholar PLATO's system; whereas i am more the AngloSaxon aesthet disliking any systematization...