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« Reply #600 on: October 15, 2012, 06:06:22 PM »

The Course of Mexican History

A very light read that hasn't taught me much, this is the time for you wise college graduates to pass your knowledge onto me via reccomendations.
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« Reply #601 on: October 15, 2012, 07:54:20 PM »

Watergate: A Novel by Thomas Mallon. Historical fiction is probably my favorite genre and Mallon, a master of the art of historical fiction, does not fail to deliver a wonderful, thought provoking literary work.
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« Reply #602 on: November 13, 2012, 06:17:06 PM »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_the_King

Not really a novel, but whatever.
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« Reply #603 on: November 14, 2012, 03:04:01 PM »

Going over Tale of the Heike again. I'd also really like to read A Tale of Flowering Fortunes some time soon if I can.
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« Reply #604 on: November 14, 2012, 03:32:38 PM »

A Good Fall, a collection of fictional short stories about the Chinese immigrant experience in Flushing, New York.  Actually read it before, but have assigned it for a class so I'm going back through it.

I'm also finishing writing my own book, my second.  About 20 more pages or so and it will be done.  Smiley
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« Reply #605 on: November 16, 2012, 07:00:10 PM »

Quite a bit of Thomas Bernhard. (Frost, Old Masters, Wittgenstein's Nephew)
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« Reply #606 on: November 16, 2012, 07:52:40 PM »

An English translation of Mother Courage.
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« Reply #607 on: November 16, 2012, 09:58:34 PM »

I am reading Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail of '72, by Hunter Thompson, and Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead." I have not gotten farther than 30 pages into the Fountainhead, but I am loving Fear and Loathing.
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« Reply #608 on: November 17, 2012, 10:28:56 AM »

nicolas nickleby - charles dickens
the wind-up bird chronicle - haruki murakami
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« Reply #609 on: November 17, 2012, 02:09:56 PM »

John Quincy Adams by Harlow Giles Unger. This has been a fair treatment of a fairly eccentric historic character. 
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« Reply #610 on: November 19, 2012, 09:19:07 PM »

David Brinkley's autobiography.  There's a lot of interesting stuff in it.
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« Reply #611 on: November 20, 2012, 06:21:58 AM »

Just finished The Secret History by Donna Tartt. Before that I read Fiesta by Hemingway. Before that A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene.
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« Reply #612 on: November 28, 2012, 06:03:58 PM »

http://www.amazon.com/The-Law-Torts-Examples-Explanations/dp/0735588740/ref=pd_sim_b_1
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« Reply #613 on: November 29, 2012, 05:49:43 PM »

I'm sure such a thread already exists.. but currently just starting Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
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« Reply #614 on: December 01, 2012, 04:49:11 PM »

Jameson's a pretty cool guy, I'll grant you that.
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« Reply #615 on: December 02, 2012, 08:39:46 AM »

Titus Groan

I have read it before, but that was ages ago.
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« Reply #616 on: December 02, 2012, 01:28:02 PM »

Titus Groan

I have read it before, but that was ages ago.

I have to say I didn't quite 'get' it. There were bits, especially at the beginning, which were brilliant (The Scene where the library is burnt down is almost cinematically placed in my mind). But the book as a whole... meh..
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« Reply #617 on: December 02, 2012, 03:43:39 PM »

Titus Groan

I have read it before, but that was ages ago.

Oh, I love Peake. Especially--not 'even'--the endless description.
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« Reply #618 on: December 02, 2012, 04:31:20 PM »

The Machinery of Freedom by David D. Friedman
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« Reply #619 on: December 02, 2012, 05:30:04 PM »

I have to say I didn't quite 'get' it. There were bits, especially at the beginning, which were brilliant (The Scene where the library is burnt down is almost cinematically placed in my mind). But the book as a whole... meh..

I like it a lot, but that it isn't likely to be everyone's cup of camomile is... quite clear, yes.
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« Reply #620 on: December 02, 2012, 05:31:49 PM »

Titus Groan

I have read it before, but that was ages ago.

Oh, I love Peake. Especially--not 'even'--the endless description.

This may well be the single least surprising thing ever posted in this thread.
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« Reply #621 on: December 03, 2012, 05:36:51 PM »

The Machinery of Freedom by David D. Friedman

probably one of the best written arguments for libertarianism.
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« Reply #622 on: December 06, 2012, 06:36:17 AM »

Does nobody else ever read for pleasure? I reckon about 80% of the books in here are academic, intellectual, or technical. What's so bad about sayng you're reading Twilight?

Well, OK, bad example. But maybe some Tom Clancy? Bridget Jones' Diary? Jeffrey Archer?
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« Reply #623 on: December 06, 2012, 09:25:22 AM »


See above!
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« Reply #624 on: December 06, 2012, 09:27:03 AM »

Does nobody else ever read for pleasure? I reckon about 80% of the books in here are academic, intellectual, or technical. What's so bad about sayng you're reading Twilight?

Well, OK, bad example. But maybe some Tom Clancy? Bridget Jones' Diary? Jeffrey Archer?

Too busy to do so right now. But do often.

As for what I'm reading - a variety of books for papers but at the moment: Transatlantic Encounters: Americans Indians in Britain, 1500-1776 by Alden Vaughan.
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