Steerpike7 |
Steerpike7 wrote:Is this good? I have seen it in the bookstore a lot.
Liberal Fascism - Jonah Goldberg
It's pretty good. Well-research, but approaching things from a decided political angle (i.e. the conservative one). The political book I read before that was by Susan Estridge and was decidedly liberal, but not as well researched as Goldberg's.
Paul McCarthy |
Finished Becoming Charlemagne by Jeff Spyycek. Didn't realize it was so short, half the book was footnotes and bibliography. Still was pretty well written and not as dry as most history books.
Started The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Hitman about Richard Kulinski, a man who carried out mob hits and claims he killed over 200 people. Nice guy.
Sol |
Finished:
"Dreams of my Father" by Barak Obama. I totally recommend this to anyone living in the US at this time. It is a very concise and biting look at race in America and what it means to grow up biracial in the last quarter of the 20th century in the USA.
Reading:
"The Phillip K. Dick Reader" - Got to love that old drug addled paranoid guy. So much Paranoia, so many cigarettes smoked, so many A,B,C,E, & H bombs dropped.
Soon to be read:
"The end of America" by Naomi Wolf
or
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by Phillip K. Dick
Sol |
Oh yeah, and I'm reading Jazz by Toni Morrison and a big collection of Hemmingway (right now in A Farewell to Arms). Next on the list is Lies your teacher told you, by James Loewen.
Loved "Lies my Teacher Told Me" I recommend it to anyone who is going into teaching as well as many high school students. Check out Lowen's "Lies Across America" when you get finished with that. Oh and on a side note be sure, if you ever email Prof. Lowen, to proofread that email first. I learned the hard way.
Patrick Curtin |
Rereading the Swords series from Fritz Leiber. Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are perrennial favorites of mine, and Lankhmar is one of the best-realized fantasy cities ever.
niel |
Just finished 'Sister Time' by John Ringo and Julie Cochrane
(found the hardback for 5 bucks at a Barnes and Noble in Williamsburg) considering I haven't read 'Cally's War', it wasn't hard to follow. Choppy, though, as is correct for this stage of the series.
Up Next:
'Codespell' by Kelly McCullough The first two of the series have me well hooked. I'm excited about this.
'Paladins II: Knight Moves' by Joel Rosenburg Its by Rosenburg- 'nuff said.
'Hell Hath No Fury' by David Webber and Linda Evans This will probably be the last of these I get to. Book one 'Hell's Gate' was long, not action packed, and well written, if somewhat predictable. Alot of political build-up, but the two sides adapting to each others tactics should be good. Hopefully, this will happen in book 2, not book 3.
james noyes |
Im reading a variety of things:
CUrrent paizo modules
Current paizo adventure path
Tom Deitz's Tales of David Sullivan series (re-reading actually for third time). One of my favorite authors and he hasn't produced a book in a while and if anyone knows what hes doing lately, that would be great. I would love to see more stuff from him...
Jamie
cwslyclgh |
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
that sounds like an excellent book... I'll have to look for it.
I am currently reading "The Anelects of Confucius" by Confucius, translated by David Lee and Joseph Cambell's "The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology".
The Eldritch Mr. Shiny |
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Read that a few years ago. One of very few books that have actually given me nightmares.
Zeugma |
"The Yiddish Policemen's Union" by Michael Chabon is my commute novel, currently.
That's my commute novel too! I'm keeping it in the back of my car, so I can sneak in a chapter at the car wash or if I get to work early. I'm more than half way through and I'm really enjoying it. I didn't expect to like an alternate-history novel, but Chabon puts a lot of cool little references in that make me smile, like the former president's wife being Marilyn Monroe Kennedy! (Don't worry, that's not a spoiler). I got the book as a graduation gift. I've also read Chabon's "The Final Solution" but I haven't got to "Kavalier and Clay" yet.
SmiloDan RPG Superstar 2012 Top 32 |
Patrick Curtin |
Just started The Name of the Wind By Patrick Rothfuss. So far is a very excellent fantasy novel (50 pages in so far)
vikingson |
reading atm
"Going to the Wars" by Max Hastings ( memoirs of an englisch battlefield/crisis journalist )
and
"The Lies of Locke Lamora" by Scott Lynch (re-immersing for athmospheric purposes, as I am GMing the CotCT-AP right now^^ )
for commute/transfer on business apointments
"Treason Harbour" by Patrick O'Brian (book nine of the Aubrey/Maturin cycle, also a re-read of an all-time favourite )
sozin |
I just finished Doctorow's mind-blowing Little Brother . (If you don't like paying for hardcopy, it's download-able for free at Cory's Craphound site.)
It's basically a near-future novel about the Department of Homeland Security going totally nuts and monitoring everything we do, and a group of high school students that fight back against The Man using a variety of technological and sociological techniques.
A scary, eye-opening, "this could happen" piece of near-sci-fi.
Ed Healy Contributor |
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
Some of the things Ariely brings up in this book... stunning. Well, they are stunning if you geek out on why people do things / business / marketing issues...
Patrick Curtin |
Friend just dropped this lil' gem on me: A Confederacy of Dunces ... looks like a pretty good read.
Steerpike7 |
Just started The Name of the Wind By Patrick Rothfuss. So far is a very excellent fantasy novel (50 pages in so far)
This is a great book all the way through. One of the best Fantasies I've read in the past few years.
Patrick Curtin |
Patrick Curtin wrote:Just started The Name of the Wind By Patrick Rothfuss. So far is a very excellent fantasy novel (50 pages in so far)This is a great book all the way through. One of the best Fantasies I've read in the past few years.
Yeah I'm almost done now. Absolutely fantastic.
Patrick Curtin |
Had a rare day yesterday when all forces were in conjunction and my wife and I got a day off together. Went to our local library's Book Sale/Craft Fair and I picked these beauties up for a paltry Jackson:
Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver
Freda Skinner: Wood Carving
Jimmy Carter: The Hornet's Nest
Richard Erdoes, ed.: American Indian Myths and Legends.
Keith Bowen: Among the Amish
Maurizio Scarpari: Ancient China: Chinese civilization from its origins to the Tang Dynasty
Garden Design Magazine eds.: The Garden Design Book
plus two CD box sets, one of the opera Faust one of Ermione
Man I love used book sales :)
carborundum RPG Superstar 2010 Top 32 |
DMFTodd |
Finished two books this weekend.
"Kitchen Confidential" - Anthony Bourdain
"A Cook's Tour" - Anthony BourdainBoth have convinced me that I never ever ever want to work in a kitchen - that would utterly kill my love of cooking.
Follow those up with Bill Buford's Heat. Will make you want to get back in the kitchen. New season of Bourdain started yesterday as well, yeah!