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« Reply #575 on: September 21, 2012, 10:56:36 PM »

Going Bovine by Libba Bray...very different from what I usually read, and I like it very much.
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« Reply #576 on: September 22, 2012, 04:16:59 AM »

C.P. Snow, Corridors of Power. The things you find at fleamarkets... first Penguin imprint, 1966. Prize marked as 6 Shillings on the backcover.
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« Reply #577 on: September 22, 2012, 03:23:05 PM »
« Edited: September 22, 2012, 05:42:15 PM by Insula Dei »

C.P. Snow, Corridors of Power. The things you find at fleamarkets... first Penguin imprint, 1966. Prize marked as 6 Shillings on the backcover.

I have found that the likes of Snow and Anthony Powell make great escapist reading.

EDIT: Where did you find the picture in your sig? I believe it's from a Flemish Television show (Man Bijt Hond), no?
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« Reply #578 on: September 22, 2012, 05:36:30 PM »

Bah, I've got you guys beat. The book I'm reading right now is quite literally the epitome of escapism/wish fulfillment. I don't even know why I'm reading it.


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« Reply #579 on: September 22, 2012, 05:40:21 PM »

Currently reading The Odyssey (Fagles), Parallel Lives (Dryden), A History of Our Time (Chafe, Sitkoff, Bailey)
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« Reply #580 on: September 23, 2012, 04:52:42 AM »

C.P. Snow, Corridors of Power. The things you find at fleamarkets... first Penguin imprint, 1966. Prize marked as 6 Shillings on the backcover.

I have found that the likes of Snow and Anthony Powell make great escapist reading.

EDIT: Where did you find the picture in your sig? I believe it's from a Flemish Television show (Man Bijt Hond), no?
Slinkachu.

Been aware of his work for a while, but got the idea of sigging him from... uh... some noob (now who was that? Red avatar IIRC) ... having another one of his in their sig.
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« Reply #581 on: September 24, 2012, 06:03:15 AM »

Ouch, just noticed whose sig that is. Tik's. Not a noob by any stretch of the imagination.
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« Reply #582 on: September 24, 2012, 08:19:44 AM »

White Power: the Rise and Fall of the National Party by Christi van der Westhuizen.
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« Reply #583 on: September 24, 2012, 10:26:04 AM »

Frondizi and the Politics of Developmentalism in Argentina, 1955-62 by Celia Szusterman
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« Reply #584 on: September 25, 2012, 11:10:16 PM »

Frondizi and the Politics of Developmentalism in Argentina, 1955-62 by Celia Szusterman

Dear god why? Argentinean politics in the 1950s is probably the least accessible subject ever.
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« Reply #585 on: September 28, 2012, 04:49:42 AM »

in an attempt to simultaneously display the best and worst of tastes, I'm approaching 50% done with War & Peace (P/V translation) and poking around a pdf of Fifty Shades of Grey.
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« Reply #586 on: September 28, 2012, 02:10:35 PM »

Frondizi and the Politics of Developmentalism in Argentina, 1955-62 by Celia Szusterman

Dear god why? Argentinean politics in the 1950s is probably the least accessible subject ever.

That's what makes it fascinating! I don't understand Peronism even a little bit.
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« Reply #587 on: September 28, 2012, 05:12:55 PM »

Frondizi and the Politics of Developmentalism in Argentina, 1955-62 by Celia Szusterman

Dear god why? Argentinean politics in the 1950s is probably the least accessible subject ever.

That's what makes it fascinating! I don't understand Peronism even a little bit.

Argentina is also a wonderful example of everything not to do with a developed nation.

Anyways, I'm going through this.

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« Reply #588 on: October 02, 2012, 10:29:31 AM »

in an attempt to simultaneously display the best and worst of tastes, I'm approaching 50% done with War & Peace (P/V translation) and poking around a pdf of Fifty Shades of Grey.

gave up on 50 Shades after 3 chapters, up to the 1812 war in W&P, and re-starting my January-downloaded pdf of Age of Revolution in honour of the late Eric Hobsbawm.
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« Reply #589 on: October 02, 2012, 10:33:47 PM »

I'm absolutely immersed in the book Team of Rivals right now. One of the most fascinating historical books I've ever read. There's great insight into not only the personality and thought process of Lincoln, but also Seward, Chase, Bates, Stanton, Welles and Blair. One thing I actually wasn't aware of... Edwin Stanton suffered severe vertigo and a fear of heights just like me.
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« Reply #590 on: October 02, 2012, 10:48:10 PM »

Can anyone recommend any good books on modern Latin American history? The Venezuelan election has piqued my interest and it's one of the areas of the world I never really learned a great deal about in school.
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« Reply #591 on: October 03, 2012, 12:43:49 PM »

Can anyone recommend any good books on modern Latin American history? The Venezuelan election has piqued my interest and it's one of the areas of the world I never really learned a great deal about in school.

as for Venezuela itself, a Marxist-Leninist professor buddy of mine recommends the following.

Greg Wilpert, Changing Venezuela by Taking Power, Verso, 2007.
Steve Ellner, Rethinking Venezuelan Politics, 2008.
Michael Lebowitz, Build it Now.
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« Reply #592 on: October 08, 2012, 10:42:30 PM »

Give me reccomendations, I have a week long break and want to indulge my brain with leisurely reads. History (specifically latin american) , philosophy, econ or literature is welcomed
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« Reply #593 on: October 08, 2012, 10:51:24 PM »

well you can take a look at the post above you for some Chavez stuff.
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« Reply #594 on: October 08, 2012, 11:14:23 PM »

well you can take a look at the post above you for some Chavez stuff.

I want to read up on Mexico though. Have you read any good books on my motherland?
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« Reply #595 on: October 09, 2012, 02:48:58 AM »

way too many. i'm pouring through choice and coercion, sexual reckonings, and a bunch of other books related to a research project on eugenics. on the non assigned end of things i'm finally reading the great divergence. somewhat embarrassing given how frequently this thing is name dropped these days but i had a lot of other things on my plate.
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« Reply #596 on: October 09, 2012, 04:06:25 AM »

Books? This is some other obscure internet term for "Journal articles", correct?
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« Reply #597 on: October 12, 2012, 11:37:22 AM »

an abridged version of Leon Trotsky - History of the Russian Revolution that I've been meaning to read for some time.  he's so much the better writer vs. Stalin that it hurts.  no wonder Stalin was a bit jealous.
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« Reply #598 on: October 12, 2012, 12:14:12 PM »

River of Darkness, Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon, by Buddy Levy
good reading about the Spanish Expedition to Find El Dorado I liked it alot
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« Reply #599 on: October 13, 2012, 05:07:53 AM »

A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
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