I lied - picked up a couple of books from the library and started reading one yesterday afternoon, nearly done now.
"The DEVIL'S PARTY, a History of Charlatan Messiahs" - a little too much of the psychological interpretations, but a real eyeopener. I knew about a couple of these 'messiahs', but it's scarey to see just how quickly a movement led by these charismatic types turns into sexual abuse, torture and murder.
man's search for meaning-viktor e. frankl
it's a paperback revised and enlarged version of-from death camp to existentialism
it's very good, can't believe i've missed this one.
"Star Of The Sea" by Joseph O'Connor
pueo, you're reading one of my all-time favourites.
beth, it's a great book and more importantly, understandable. i just bought it yesterday afternoon, and even with work and being here, i should finish it today. very absorbing...
Well, you are all reading stuff I love. Gravy, you are reading the Tom Friedman book I am into. Mr. Stillwater, I read An Unquiet Mind last year. It was impressive. urs53, I want to read that book by Bourdain; I loved his Kitchen Confidential.
And Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning. A classic.
I just finished The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. It was pretty good. Now I am into Tim O'Brien's...oh, dear, forgot the name. Not Lake of the Woods, that was earlier....anyway, it's good.
I am also reading Papal Sin by Garry Wills and dipping into Elmore Leonard's book of short stories, When the Women Come Out to Dance.
I recently read The Hamlet by Faulkner (the Snopes book, or rather one of them) and I'm now reading the second one, The Town, and as usual Faulkner manages to amaze me more. It also occurred to me that what Bush is is a Snopes (albeit a patrician, nonetheless in temperament and worldview, categorically a Snopes).
So the latest Snopes is Doublyuh Snopes.
And as Ratliff might say, Well, well, well.
the last lion/winston spencer churchill /visions of glory 1874-1932
william manchester
I'm listening to "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides.
OhMyGosh, I am loving this book!! The book is being read by Kristoffer Tabori, and he is Excellent.
I was a little wary of the subject matter...... the story is told in the first person by a man (Cal) who was born female (Calliope), but he is a hermaphrodite due to a genetic mutation caused by in-breeding in his ancestors. The book spans eight decades, tracing the genes. I've laughed out loud, while driving down the road, while listening to this book. This author is extremely talented. He touches on "mutations" on many levels.... wars, discrimination.....
Thank you, Deb, for mentioning this book!
:-)
Speros - good to see you on A2K, last I saw you we were zapping around in and out of Ethels cafe.
I just started Letters From Prison, Milan Simecka. He was a Check writer and dissident for several decades before his death at the end of the 1980s. I am reading it mostly because my housemate helped translate it. Actually, she grew up knowing this man. So far it is fascinating.
Speros,
Where have you been? Done any flying lately? Good to see you!
Borrowed and zipped through Chomsky's "September 11". And Rich Hall's "Things Snowball" has just turned up (I had better mention that I work in the Tech Services Dept for a local library network). Also took out a book on kite-making for my daughter.
Just started on Prey, Michael Crichton's latest.
Great! Give us a report after, MA, but don't give away the plot!
James Lee Burke........."Jolie Blon's Bounce"
Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers - David Edmonds, John Eidinow
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Thomas Kuhn
Can't recommend 'Things Snowball' enough. Rich is very, very funny. I rode the train in this morning chuckling, not very quietly either
Hi Littlek,
Good to hear from you.
That book sounds interesting. I have an interest in Czech goings on. I was once there. Is it a recent book readily available? You must have a special insight on the book through your housemate.
