What Book Are You Currently Reading?

[Inks.LWC Supports Chuck Hagel]

Khrushchev Remembers

[Jbrase]

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

[Mr. Taft Republican]

As I Lay Dying, on a Faulkner binge. Next up, Absalom Absalom!

[Platypus]

Does anyone have any good suggestions that I could bring up for the next meeting of my international book club? The last book we read was a looping polemic that turned out to have been chosen solely so that the libertarians in the club could use it as a jumping off point to spread their gospel. The next book is Niall Ferguson's "The West and the Rest", and I can already tell that I won't like it. I desperately need to be equipped with a good suggestion the next time around. We want some more women to attend the book club so ideally it would be a book that would attract some more women. I am thinking of Nicholas Kristoff's 'Half the Sky' but I wonder if that is too explicitly feminist. Another book that I like is Mara Hvistendahl's 'Unnatural Selection'.

Markus Zusak: The Book Thief.

[Vasall des Midas]

Geert Mak, Jorwerd: the Death of the Village in the Late 20th Century (in German translation, of course, not in either English or the Dutch original) and Michael Thumann, der Islam-Irrtum.

[asexual trans victimologist]

Does anyone have any good suggestions that I could bring up for the next meeting of my international book club? The last book we read was a looping polemic that turned out to have been chosen solely so that the libertarians in the club could use it as a jumping off point to spread their gospel. The next book is Niall Ferguson's "The West and the Rest", and I can already tell that I won't like it. I desperately need to be equipped with a good suggestion the next time around. We want some more women to attend the book club so ideally it would be a book that would attract some more women. I am thinking of Nicholas Kristoff's 'Half the Sky' but I wonder if that is too explicitly feminist. Another book that I like is Mara Hvistendahl's 'Unnatural Selection'.

Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, The Makioka Sisters. Though I'm biased towards this book and author.

Doris Lessing, The Grass is Singing. Same problem as Kristoff?

[Purch]

Reading : A history of IRAN -Empire of the mind

Anyone ever read?

[homelycooking]

Just finished Discipline and Punish - Foucault was a genius.

Now, on to some Edgar Allan Poe. It's not quite as good as I thought it would be.

[© Tweed the Younger]

re-read the opening parts of David Harvey's A Brief History of Neoliberalism; picked up Civilization and Its Discontents from an (awesome) used bookstore on Saturday night.

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

The Double by Dostoevsky

One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Kessey

[ShadowOfTheWave]

I didn't know OFOTCN was a book. It disgusts me no one comes with great films themselves.

[© Tweed the Younger]

The Double by Dostoevsky

insufferable in parts.  still worth reading, to see where he came from.

[Vasall des Midas]

I didn't know OFOTCN was a book. It disgusts me no one comes with great films themselves.

And as ever, the book is even better than the film. Though the film is very good, too.

[Sibboleth]

Border Country

Meant to add this a while ago: it's actually very, very good. My Nan's from that corner of the world as well, which gives a degree of added meaning or something.

[Beet]

Thanks for the suggestions guys.

It looks like we're going with the Great Transformation by Polyani, which I am looking forward to.

[© Tweed the Younger]

Thanks for the suggestions guys.

It looks like we're going with the Great Transformation by Polyani, which I am looking forward to.

I didn't like it as a reading-book but I suppose it's something that you 'should' read.

[Big Wiggly Style]

[© Tweed the Younger]

bought my first Eric Hobsbawm book yesterday, his most recent.  though I had pirated .pdfs of about three others.

[politicus]

bought my first Eric Hobsbawm book yesterday, his most recent.  though I had pirated .pdfs of about three others.

You naughty boy...

[© Tweed the Younger]

bought my first Eric Hobsbawm book yesterday, his most recent.  though I had pirated .pdfs of about three others.

You naughty boy...

ah, I was just about to tell you how that sounded creepy, and I only like it when women talk to me like that, and in clicking through to your profile I discovered that you were a woman.  keep it up!

[The Mikado]

Which Hobsbawm book?  I'm quite fond of Nations and Nationalism Since 1780.

[© Tweed the Younger]

How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism

[ChairmanSanchez]

Just finished Atlas Shrugged. Amazing book

[Governor Scott]

Really nice romance novel that I enjoy reading around this time of the year.

[© Tweed the Younger]

Just finished Atlas Shrugged. Amazing book

no.  say whatever you want about the 'theme', she is a formally terrible writer.  read some real literature.