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Fast Food Nation. I love, love, loves me a good burger but after reading the description of mass-produced ground beef, I am thinking of raising my own steer.
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Eggers "What is the What". Interesting non fiction goes fiction take. Cool, worth the read.
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just finished reading the Lone Wolf and Cub comic series. Easily one of the best comics series I ever read. And "Mother Night" by Kurt Vonnegut and the Marvel Comics "Civil War" series.
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Originally Posted by humancongereel
history's a good subject. let me know about good ones. i don't like dry books about dates and numbers...history is a very human thing, and any book that can effectively communicate that is so good in my eyes...
My recomendations:
Arc of Justice - Boyle (Black family in detroit durring the 20's, it was totally riveting).
Philbrick (Mayflower, In the Heart of the Sea)
Ellis (American Sphinx, His Excelency, etc)
McCullough (Mornings on Horseback, Johnstown Flood, Truman, Adams, etc)
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
Up next on my list are:
A People's History of the United States - Zinn
The Worst Hard Time - Egan (Dustbowl)
Paine - Rights of Man and Common Sense
I am currently reading Streetcar Suburbs, which has thusfar proved rather uninteresting, which is disapointing because it could have been really cool (it is about how streetcars affected the population increase of Boston and it is supposed to talk about the laying of the lines and how they followed
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my two cents on the previous two posts:
"mother night" is a very good vonnegut book.
"a people history..." is also really good: it's well written and is a interesting take on US history.
other good history books (not that anyone would be too interested in either of these subjects) that i read last semester were
Frank Jones and Malcolm Wanklyn's "a military history of the english civil war" (provides a nice, concise synopsis of the first english civil war
AG Dickens "the english reformation" which should be read with Christopher Haigh "the english reformation". the dickens is the traditional view of the reformation, and haigh is somewhat of a revisionist; it's interesting to see both.
"mother night" is a very good vonnegut book.
"a people history..." is also really good: it's well written and is a interesting take on US history.
other good history books (not that anyone would be too interested in either of these subjects) that i read last semester were
Frank Jones and Malcolm Wanklyn's "a military history of the english civil war" (provides a nice, concise synopsis of the first english civil war
AG Dickens "the english reformation" which should be read with Christopher Haigh "the english reformation". the dickens is the traditional view of the reformation, and haigh is somewhat of a revisionist; it's interesting to see both.
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books i have to read for next week
James Joyce Ulysses (the first part)
Charles Brockden Brown Wieland
John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress
Luigi Pirandello Six Characters in Search of an Author
Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray
Eugene Ionesco The Bald Soprano and The Lesson
James Joyce Ulysses (the first part)
Charles Brockden Brown Wieland
John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress
Luigi Pirandello Six Characters in Search of an Author
Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray
Eugene Ionesco The Bald Soprano and The Lesson
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Originally Posted by humancongereel
history's a good subject. let me know about good ones. i don't like dry books about dates and numbers...history is a very human thing, and any book that can effectively communicate that is so good in my eyes...
try anything written by Paul Farmer about Haiti. he puts a very human face on the history of haiti. he has worked intensively in medicine - public health and epidemiology - in rural haiti. "the uses of haiti" is really good. "infections and inequalities" is very good, too, but not history. but rather historical.
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Please more book recommendations.
Best thing I've read recently was "Sex, Drugs and Coco Puffs" by Chuck Klosterman. Laugh out loud funny. Chuck Klosterman IV, not so much more of the same but less funny. Like David Sedaris in that if you read one good one, like "My Talk Pretty Some Day", you should probably avoid the lesser ones.
Also the Tipping Point, which was good when I was reading it but upon further thought seemed pretty facile and not all that interesting.
Would love a good novel. From this thread last year I picked up "The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay" and "Kafka on The Shore" which were both really good. Next on my list is "A Savage War of Peace" about the French war in Algeria which a lot of people in Iraq are reading apparently as a guide to insurgencies. Need something a little less historical to go with it.
Best thing I've read recently was "Sex, Drugs and Coco Puffs" by Chuck Klosterman. Laugh out loud funny. Chuck Klosterman IV, not so much more of the same but less funny. Like David Sedaris in that if you read one good one, like "My Talk Pretty Some Day", you should probably avoid the lesser ones.
Also the Tipping Point, which was good when I was reading it but upon further thought seemed pretty facile and not all that interesting.
Would love a good novel. From this thread last year I picked up "The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay" and "Kafka on The Shore" which were both really good. Next on my list is "A Savage War of Peace" about the French war in Algeria which a lot of people in Iraq are reading apparently as a guide to insurgencies. Need something a little less historical to go with it.
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You all make me jealous.
For me this week it's:
Tannenbaum, F. (1946) Slave and Citizen: The Negro in the Americas. New York, Vintage Books.
Rout, L. (1976) The African Experience in Spanish America. Cambridge University Press.
Russell-Wood, A.J. (1982) The Black Man in Slavery and Freedom in Colonial Brazil. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
Díaz, M. E. (2000). The Virgin, the king, and the royal slaves of El Cobre : negotiating freedom in colonial Cuba, 1670-1780. Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press.
Bennett, H. L. (2003). Africans in Colonial Mexico : absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole consciousness, 1570-1640. Bloomington, Indiana University Press.
Sweet, J. H. (2003). Recreating Africa : culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press.
I Hate Comprehensive exams.
For me this week it's:
Tannenbaum, F. (1946) Slave and Citizen: The Negro in the Americas. New York, Vintage Books.
Rout, L. (1976) The African Experience in Spanish America. Cambridge University Press.
Russell-Wood, A.J. (1982) The Black Man in Slavery and Freedom in Colonial Brazil. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
Díaz, M. E. (2000). The Virgin, the king, and the royal slaves of El Cobre : negotiating freedom in colonial Cuba, 1670-1780. Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press.
Bennett, H. L. (2003). Africans in Colonial Mexico : absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole consciousness, 1570-1640. Bloomington, Indiana University Press.
Sweet, J. H. (2003). Recreating Africa : culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press.
I Hate Comprehensive exams.
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right now:
oscar wilde "picture of dorian gray"
john bunyan "the pilgrim's progress"
aphra behn "oroonoko"
samuel beckett "endgame"
samuel beckett "waiting for godot"
catherine maria sedgwick "hope leslie"
james fenimore cooper "last of the mohicans"
oscar wilde "picture of dorian gray"
john bunyan "the pilgrim's progress"
aphra behn "oroonoko"
samuel beckett "endgame"
samuel beckett "waiting for godot"
catherine maria sedgwick "hope leslie"
james fenimore cooper "last of the mohicans"
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Simultaneously?
I used to read 2 or 3 books at a time, it's not a good idea. 7 is a lot worse. BTW, how are you liking Endgame?
I used to read 2 or 3 books at a time, it's not a good idea. 7 is a lot worse. BTW, how are you liking Endgame?
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niccolo machiavelli - the prince & discourses
peter o'toole - honorable trechery
henry kissenger - diplomacy
and on a lighter note...
khaled hosseini - the kite runner (excellent fiction book)
peter o'toole - honorable trechery
henry kissenger - diplomacy
and on a lighter note...
khaled hosseini - the kite runner (excellent fiction book)
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Originally Posted by 3MTA3
anyone ever read shaara's the killer angels? i can't decide what my next read is going to be.
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Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins
Dry by Augusten Burroughs
Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
That's what I picked up at the library recently.
Dry by Augusten Burroughs
Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
That's what I picked up at the library recently.
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The Meaning of Sport by Simon Barnes.
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I actually have witnessed the fall of civilization in print form. I saw a new series of books.....the 50 cent G=ggggggg G-Unit streetwise hard hittin' novels. Oh yeah. Get some.
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Politics as a Vocation by Max Weber
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader by Bradley Martin
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader by Bradley Martin
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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Originally Posted by Smiziley
Politics as a Vocation by Max Weber
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader by Bradley Martin
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader by Bradley Martin
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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Originally Posted by Griffin
Endgame Vol.1 by Derrick Jensen
i wish i could say that i'm enjoying this read, but it's premise(s) start to weigh on me after a couple of chapters, and i have to set it down to let the material seep into my skull...that's when the interior dialogue starts, i mean, would i have what it takes to live in a world after civilization collapses? i am typing this out on a fancy, electrical, all-too-civilized gadget, not too mention posting it out over a world wide information network; neither of which will survive said collapse...well, i suppose my computer would survive, but with no power, it would become a writing tablet...or i could slip it under my shirt for a makeshift bulletproof vest.
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Originally Posted by LóFarkas
Simultaneously?
I used to read 2 or 3 books at a time, it's not a good idea. 7 is a lot worse. BTW, how are you liking Endgame?
I used to read 2 or 3 books at a time, it's not a good idea. 7 is a lot worse. BTW, how are you liking Endgame?