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« Reply #450 on: June 28, 2012, 07:59:08 AM »

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« Reply #451 on: June 28, 2012, 08:30:50 AM »

I just finished to read Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine and Ellroy's The Big Nowhere and I loved them. Especially Vonnegut's book which I read third time. It made just the same impact than last time when I read it when I was 15.
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« Reply #452 on: June 28, 2012, 02:19:43 PM »

Rereading one of my favorite books: Royal Babylon: The Alarming History of European Royalty by Karl Shaw. Its hilarious and you all should read it if you need a good laugh/want to be horrified at Europe over the past few centuries.
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« Reply #453 on: June 28, 2012, 03:19:20 PM »

I just finished to read Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine and Ellroy's The Big Nowhere and I loved them. Especially Vonnegut's book which I read third time. It made just the same impact than last time when I read it when I was 15.


Quite a fun one, that, eh?

I'm finishing the Collected Works of Willem Elsschot right now, for completeness' sake.
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« Reply #454 on: June 28, 2012, 10:30:05 PM »

Currently I am reading Jefferson Davis and His Generals: The Failure of Confederate Command in the West by Steven E. Woodworth. It is an older work but it is one of the few treatments of President Davis and his handling of the Western Theater of the War Between the States.

Off and on when I have a spare moment I also am reading One Man's America by George Will.
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« Reply #455 on: June 29, 2012, 12:46:02 PM »

American Insurgents
A Brief History of American Anti-Imperialism
by Richard Seymour



http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/American-Insurgents
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« Reply #456 on: June 30, 2012, 02:02:10 PM »

A biography of Muddy Waters.
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« Reply #457 on: June 30, 2012, 08:24:45 PM »

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« Reply #458 on: July 06, 2012, 01:20:27 AM »

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« Reply #459 on: July 06, 2012, 03:27:49 AM »

I finished my Tolstoy short stories and now I'm about to finish a book called In Praise of Older Women. I made a deal with a female friend that we would recommend and lend each other a book and read until our next encounter. She gave me that, which is a strange Hungarian book chronicling a man's sexual adventures with older women, basically. A fun read but a bit weird.
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« Reply #460 on: July 06, 2012, 11:27:16 AM »

I read my first fiction in half a year, Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha
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« Reply #461 on: July 06, 2012, 01:24:08 PM »

I just finished Michael Barone's "Our First Revolution: The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America's Founding Fathers".

Took only four days to read it. I was previously familiar with the Glorious Revolution thanks to watching Simon Schama's History of Britain series a few years back and from playing EUII. This book provided some interesting details, though.
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« Reply #462 on: July 06, 2012, 10:31:22 PM »

Leo Tolstoy - The Kingdom of God is Within You
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« Reply #463 on: July 08, 2012, 11:37:21 AM »

Conn Iggulden's Emperor: Gates of the Rome. It was entertaining and a quick-read.
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« Reply #464 on: July 08, 2012, 09:45:12 PM »


wow.  there's a book?  That's disturbing.
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« Reply #465 on: July 09, 2012, 08:58:22 AM »

Just began Shame by Salman Rushdie. Very entertaining read so far.
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« Reply #466 on: July 09, 2012, 12:16:35 PM »


Yes.  The movie was made afterwards. Tongue
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« Reply #467 on: July 09, 2012, 04:42:23 PM »

Just picked up Brave New World
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« Reply #468 on: July 09, 2012, 05:47:15 PM »



For school.
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« Reply #469 on: July 10, 2012, 03:38:00 AM »

Just began Shame by Salman Rushdie. Very entertaining read so far.
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« Reply #470 on: July 10, 2012, 06:51:50 PM »

Chris Ealham - Anarchism and the City


Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace (translated by Constance Garnett Sad)
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« Reply #471 on: July 11, 2012, 04:02:37 AM »

Fall of Giants by Ken Follett. It's no Pillars, but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a fun read. Just quick and simple, but I like it.
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« Reply #472 on: July 11, 2012, 12:20:24 PM »

Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace (translated by Constance Garnett Sad)

No access to Pevear and Volokhonsky? Or are you feeling masochistic?

I would have to buy it
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« Reply #473 on: July 12, 2012, 01:25:46 PM »

I finished my Tolstoy short stories and now I'm about to finish a book called In Praise of Older Women. I made a deal with a female friend that we would recommend and lend each other a book and read until our next encounter. She gave me that, which is a strange Hungarian book chronicling a man's sexual adventures with older women, basically. A fun read but a bit weird.

That sounds right up my alley.  Is your friend an Older Woman?  Perhaps she's sending you a not-so-subtle hint.

I'm currently reading one of Somerset Maugham's lesser works - The Magician.
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« Reply #474 on: July 14, 2012, 04:59:42 AM »

I finished my Tolstoy short stories and now I'm about to finish a book called In Praise of Older Women. I made a deal with a female friend that we would recommend and lend each other a book and read until our next encounter. She gave me that, which is a strange Hungarian book chronicling a man's sexual adventures with older women, basically. A fun read but a bit weird.

That sounds right up my alley.  Is your friend an Older Woman?  Perhaps she's sending you a not-so-subtle hint.

I'm currently reading one of Somerset Maugham's lesser works - The Magician.

Yeah, I think it safe to say that you'd like it. It's not misogynistic though, which is what made is possible for me to enjoy it.

She is an older woman, yes. Tongue She is a quite strange person though. She invited me to come visit her at some point when I happened to be nearby (we normally live in different cities) and as we were having tea together she asked me if I had had expected to sleep with her upon coming there. I was very awkward and taken aback and sort of just muttered things and then she said that she would have but currently was in a too complicated situation to allow for an extra lover. Tongue

But that was 6 months ago, so I guess things might have changed.
Just began Shame by Salman Rushdie. Very entertaining read so far.
Oh yes.

So, I've finished it and thought it was pretty awesome. I happened to be in a book store yesterday to buy a gift for my dad and stumbled upon several Rushdie books that I very spontaneously bought. What did you think of it and how do you interpret it?

As a side note having had a taste of his sarcasm (this was my first Rushdie) I totally understand that he would get a fatwa against him. The man is a total asshole. And I mean that in the good way.

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Latest is that I'm reading Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene. Awesome read so far, highly entertaining.
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