What Book Are You Currently Reading? (2.0.)

[Cassandra]

Gotta pick out books to take on my trip. Borrowed a history of Central Asia and Neuromancer from a friend.

Neuromancer's great, I really need to read more Gibson.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Gotta pick out books to take on my trip. Borrowed a history of Central Asia and Neuromancer from a friend.

Neuromancer's great, I really need to read more Gibson.

I'm only a bit into Neuromancer but it is super cool.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Gotta pick out books to take on my trip. Borrowed a history of Central Asia and Neuromancer from a friend.

Neuromancer's great, I really need to read more Gibson.

I'm only a bit into Neuromancer but it is super cool.

It gets easier to follow--and the concepts, thus, even cooler--as it goes on.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Gotta pick out books to take on my trip. Borrowed a history of Central Asia and Neuromancer from a friend.

Neuromancer's great, I really need to read more Gibson.

I'm only a bit into Neuromancer but it is super cool.

It gets easier to follow--and the concepts, thus, even cooler--as it goes on.

Actual Neuromancer Joe Manchin

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Gotta pick out books to take on my trip. Borrowed a history of Central Asia and Neuromancer from a friend.

Neuromancer's great, I really need to read more Gibson.

I'm only a bit into Neuromancer but it is super cool.

It gets easier to follow--and the concepts, thus, even cooler--as it goes on.

Actual Neuromancer Joe Manchin

The pun on "necromancer" actually is made in-text late in the book.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Gotta pick out books to take on my trip. Borrowed a history of Central Asia and Neuromancer from a friend.

Neuromancer's great, I really need to read more Gibson.

I'm only a bit into Neuromancer but it is super cool.

It gets easier to follow--and the concepts, thus, even cooler--as it goes on.

Actual Neuromancer Joe Manchin

The pun on "necromancer" actually is made in-text late in the book.

And here I thought that pun was made in the title.

[Schiff for Senate]

Finally began reading McWhorter’s Woke Racism. Seems quite promising so far.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Gotta pick out books to take on my trip. Borrowed a history of Central Asia and Neuromancer from a friend.

Neuromancer's great, I really need to read more Gibson.

I'm only a bit into Neuromancer but it is super cool.

It gets easier to follow--and the concepts, thus, even cooler--as it goes on.

Just finished. I don't wanna say "life changing", but I wanna say "life changing".

[Aurelius]

The Oxford History of Britain, 2001 edition.

[Wiswylfen]

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Parker translation.

[Brother Jonathan]

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1955-1957, Regulation of Armaments; Atomic Energy, Volume XX

[Aurelius]

The Oxford History of Britain, 2001 edition.

Up to the 12th century. Money quote: "The rise of the lawyer, itself the result of changes of one sphere of life, made it harder to change things in others." Just as true today. GOMEZ DAVILA: "Stupid ideas are immortal. Each new generation invents them anew."

[Schiff for Senate]

McWhorter's book is VERY well-written, engaging, interesting, and 100% correct. Recommend that all wokeists and 'politically correct', pro-cancel-culture people (paging the likes of Ferguson, Tchenka, Scarlet, etc), read it and reconsider whether they want to be a part of wokeism or not.

[Pacific Republican]

Art of War

Art of the Deal

[Schiff for Senate]

Starting/started Jane Eyre for Honours English today. (We were allowed to choose between that and Great Expectations, and I’ve already read the latter). We’re expected to read about 50 pages weekly, so roughly a chapter every weekday (assuming you don’t read on weekends, which I almost certainly will).

[HillGoose]

actually started reading books in Yiddish now since I seem to be picking up on learning the language really quickly, started with "One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish" and I have a couple more advanced ones next

[Schiff for Senate]

Last week at the library (I was there to print something out for English) a book on display caught my eye and I spontaneously checked it out. I doubt it’ll have a ton of information I don’t already know (having in this genre also read Michael Bender’s Frankly, We Did Win This Election, Jonathan Karl’s Betrayal, and Bob Woodward’s and Robert Costa’s Peril), but I’ll start reading The Steal, by Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague, today.

[Schiff for Senate]

From The Steal, to describe a first-time Trump voter in Pima County, AZ, who didn't understand how spoiled ballots were recorded/tracked, and became suspicious of the country's election results, LMAO:

When the votes were all in, something caught her eye about that "duplicated" column [referring to spoilt ballots that were then replaced by correctly-filled in ballots] that chilled her. The total of "duplicated" ballots countywide was 6,660. The number 666 is, in the Book of Revelation, the "sign of the beast," the mark of the Antichrist. Stone followed QAnon, a conspiracy theory that posited an international group of Satanic pedophilic sex traffickers as the secret power behind forces fighting Trump. And here was Satan's signature, right there in the county's spreadsheet! The Pima County vote was not just fraudulent, but evil.

Just LMAO. Good luck trying logic on this one.

[Saint Milei]

The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand (2nd read)

[Schiff for Senate]

From The Steal, to describe a first-time Trump voter in Pima County, AZ, who didn't understand how spoiled ballots were recorded/tracked, and became suspicious of the country's election results, LMAO:

When the votes were all in, something caught her eye about that "duplicated" column [referring to spoilt ballots that were then replaced by correctly-filled in ballots] that chilled her. The total of "duplicated" ballots countywide was 6,660. The number 666 is, in the Book of Revelation, the "sign of the beast," the mark of the Antichrist. Stone followed QAnon, a conspiracy theory that posited an international group of Satanic pedophilic sex traffickers as the secret power behind forces fighting Trump. And here was Satan's signature, right there in the county's spreadsheet! The Pima County vote was not just fraudulent, but evil.

Just LMAO. Good luck trying logic on this one.

Speaking of off the rails loony far-rightists believing Satanist conspiracy theories: Just came across this page on a far-right, totally lunatic and extremist website that I found. Not sure if it's satire or not, but I don't think that it is.

https://welovetrump.com/2022/09/28/share-this-democrat-john-fetterman-hiding-satanic-arm-tattoo-he-doesnt-want-you-to-see/

(The comments section is just as insane)

[LBJer]

Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War by R.M. Douglas.

When you start reading a book and immediately start learning a lot, you know it's a book worth reading, and that has certainly been true for me with this one. 

Douglas is certainly right to question why such a monumental event--between 12 and 14 million ethnic Germans were expelled from eastern Europe after the war--is ignored or only barely mentioned in standard histories of Germany or Europe in general, even in those that are otherwise excellent. 

[Aurelius]

About 2/3 of the way through "Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution" by Simon Schama.

I'm up to the Stuarts in the England book but I put that aside for now because this is much more interesting.

Can't help but wonder how things might have been different if Mirabeau had lived.

[Aurelius]

^Any recommendations for books on the Vendee rising?

Paging our French Revolution experts:

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[YPestis25]

The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848–1918 - Historiographically a bit dated, but quite well researched.

[beaver2.0]

August 1914 by Alexander Solzhenitsyn