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Whatcha Reading?; War and Peace? Best of Jugs? I'm curious
Topic Started: Apr 26 2006, 05:09 PM (3,431 Views)
Gruenberg
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Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival
Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Cormac McCarthy, The Road - and, if you'll allow me a smiley, :|
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Oryx and Crake got postponed for the deliriously absurd The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, by G W Dahlquist. Some 750 pages of breathless mayhem, set in the late nineteenth / early twentieth century (it's not specified) and following a society girl, an assassin and a military surgeon who find themselves caught up in a dastardly plot to enslave the human race!

It's as silly as it sounds, and quite magnificent. Filthy, too.
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The Green Mile - Stephen King
A History Of Psychoanalysis - Reuben Fine
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Oh my God. The Green Mile is such a good book.
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The Joy of Swearing, by M. Hunt. I picked this up at Half Price Books. Its a hilarious look at profanity.
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The War of the World
-Niall Ferguson

Almost makes you ashamed of your own species.
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In Life, First You Kick Ass, by Mike Ditka

Da Coach: Men Are from Mars Real Men Are from Pittsburg, by Rich Wolfe

Two books about Da greatest coach of all time Ditka.

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The Cardinal Dictator, by Auguste Bailey. It's a hilariously camp biography of Richelieu from the thirties or twenties, which claims that Mussolini was a left wing dictator, the current thinking back then i believe. too too hilaire! :lol:
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Zanjan,Sep 11 2008
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. . . a hilariously camp biography of Richelieu . . . .



Yeah, that Cardinal was one wild and crazy guy. Just ask the Huguenots.
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Kludgistan,Sep 14 2008
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Zanjan,Sep 11 2008
04:54 PM
. . . a hilariously camp biography of Richelieu . . . .



Yeah, that Cardinal was one wild and crazy guy. Just ask the Huguenots.

Yeah the writer seems to have idolised Richelieu so much, that the siege of La Rochelle becomes a glorious victory and not a grim act of sectarian violence.

That's historians for you i suppose, lol ;)
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As a trainee historian, :P

I'm giving Dreams from my Father a go: it's quite well-written so far.
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Gruenberg,Sep 14 2008
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As a trainee historian, :P

I'm giving Dreams from my Father a go: it's quite well-written so far.

Oops no offence meant ;)
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Conrad Totman's History of Japan.

Roughly the same length and density of the Bible, written from an environmental history perspective. A monster of a book, and one completely interesting.

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The Path to Power, by Margaret Thatcher.

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Just finished "The Last Fighting Tommy"; Harry Patch's (the last survivor of the great war to have served in the trenches) autobiography. Quite fascinating.
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