[Dusty Chalk]

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Originally posted by KR... This Thread

I've read that. The ending sucks.

 

[dhwilkin]

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Dusty Chalk said... I've read that. The ending sucks.

Can I get my five minutes back?

 

[blip]

Purchasing Power by Dana Frank - It's a book on consumer organization and gender in the Seattle Labor Movement. Not bad, maybe a little slow and I wish it focused more on the 1919 General Strike than its aftermath but I tend towards the dramatic.

I just finished Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions... It was good but I liked Slaughterhouse Five better.

 

[plainsong]

Putting my two years of Latin to good use:

The conclusion to my favorite series of books:

The October Horse - Colleen McCullough

Obviously it's in English, but there's enough Latin that there's a glossary in the back of the book... that I don't need.

 

[jaskin]

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Originally posted by spaceman Just curious as to what others are reading on this board. I'm actually into two books right now. How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of how Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It

My GF's been bugging me to get that book since it first came out. Apparently she's been reading too many books fro mthe Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon. I've been reading a few books by Nick Hornby. First, About a Boy, now, High Fidelity.

 

[fractus2]

Execution - The Discipline of Getting Things Done, by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan

 

[RacerX]

Lucky Wander Boy by D.B. Weiss - videogames and philosophy

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco - 14th century Franciscan monk uses reason and logic in his investigation of a murder in an abbey.

 

[scrypt]

Fiction:
Algernon Charles Swinburne: Lesbia Brandon
Gombrowicz: Pornografia
Witkiewicz: Insatiability (Polish title: Nienasyncenie)

Nonfiction:
The Letters of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, edited by Edmund Gosse

(Note: Silent films are often close to novels in form and in their reliance on the audience's imagination. Am currently making my way through Lang's four hour epic, Dr. Mabuse the Gambler. After that, I'll watch Lang's Spies.)

 

[ai0tron]

"How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of how Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It"

The point of this title is that its a boldfaced lie and thus youre curiosity is piqued? Am I right? Please tell me I am right.

 

[eric343]

Bolger, Dan. The Battle for Hunger Hill

Randi, James. The Faith Healers
Randi, James. Flim-Flam!


Bolger's book is a description of what happened when the battilion he commands went to the Joint Readiness Training Center to experience combat against the kind of guerillas they might meet in the numerous 'police actions' and 'military interventions' that the US participate in (Bolger got totally creamed), and a more organized but still seriously skilled army like the one that we didn't meet in Iraq (Bolger barely won).

Randi is a professional magician who's also one of the founding members of the Committe for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), and his books are very fascinating analyses of such things - Faith Healers deals with just that, faith healing, and Flim-flam! is a general analysis of stuff like UFOs, the Bermuda Triangle, psychics, astrology.

 

[ai0tron]

Oh yeah, the book I'm reading, well I watched the Matrix DVD and they had some of the books listed that supposedly inspired the movie. So I went and picked 2 of them up. The one I am reading now is "Out of Control" by Kevin Kelly. It's pretty interesting and it does put the movie in a different light. The only complaint I have with it is that the ideas are just a smidgen dated. Good book though.

 

[Old Pa]

Breakout: The Chosin Reservoir Campaign, 1950 by Martin Russ

Six Days of War; June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren

The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis

How to Break 90 by Tomasi and Adams

Something for everyone.

I always read several books at a time so I can digest the material and compare things back and forth.

 

[raymondlin]

Harry Potter - The order of Phoenix

 

[Matthew-Spaltro]

The English Assasin by Daniel Silva

 

[ServinginEcuador]

An Elementary Christian Metaphysics, by Joseph Owens.

Very interesting reading, but difficult to plod through.