Books You've Read Recently

[n_huffhines]

I figured this would fit into the media forum. I'm always looking for good stuff to read. What have you recently finished?

I just finished:

Animal Farm - George Orwell (finally)
Chaos Theory - Robert P. Murphy (it's about the functionality of an anarchist society)
Young and Revolting - CD Payne (final installment of the Youth in Revolt series)

 

[volinbham]

there's a thread for this somewhere - maybe in the Pub?

 

[n_huffhines]

I searched "books" and it didn't come up.

I remembered a thread about "books you've read", and people had lists of like 50 titles per post. I'm more interested in what you are reading right now, fresh on your mind.

 

[golfballs]

yeah, this exists somewhere....

 

[volinbham]

http://www.volnation.com/forum/pub/31184-official-book-thread-what-youre-reading.html

:hi:

 

[n_huffhines]

So I guess VN just isn't interested in books? 1 post since January. Merge, por favor.

 

[Panthro]

I started a thread about this two weeks ago.

 

[n_huffhines]

I started a thread about this two weeks ago.

Insult to injury

 

[Panthro]

just pointing out that you are mistaken about there just being one post since January.

 

[OrangeEmpire]

Merge please

 

[therealUT]

I searched "books" and it didn't come up.

I remembered a thread about "books you've read", and people had lists of like 50 titles per post. I'm more interested in what you are reading right now, fresh on your mind.

Currently, halfway through War and Peace, into Book 3 of Hume's Treatise (second time through), and halfway through Genome by Matt Ridley. Also reading (and editing) a 500-page manuscript on military ethics (specifically, systemic "collateral damage").

On my list for the rest of the summer are:

Darkness at Noon
The Sound and the Fury
Appointment in Samarra
Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals
And, the second half of Sidgwick's Method of Ethics

How was Chaos Theory?

 

[n_huffhines]

Currently, halfway through War and Peace, into Book 3 of Hume's Treatise (second time through), and halfway through Genome by Matt Ridley. Also reading (and editing) a 500-page manuscript on military ethics (specifically, systemic "collateral damage").

On my list for the rest of the summer are:

Darkness at Noon
The Sound and the Fury
Appointment in Samarra
Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals
And, the second half of Sidgwick's Method of Ethics

How was Chaos Theory?

Good, and it's only like 50 pages. It's a quick read. Very high level view of how justice would be served, how contracts would be honored, etc. You can download it free from the author (of course you can, he's an anarchist).

Love Ridley, BTW. Haven't read any of his books.

 

[Panthro]

I'm halfway through Atlas Shrugged, and a little exhausted by it. I don't know how it's going to end, but I already feel like the whole thing could have been written in half the pages.

 

[therealUT]

I'm halfway through Atlas Shrugged, and a little exhausted by it. I don't know how it's going to end, but I already feel like the whole thing could have been written in half the pages.

For Ayn Rand in half the pages, read Anthem or We the Living. Of course, both those books lack the really great dialogue and introspection that make The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged masterpieces.

 

[loggervol]

game of thrones,a dance with dragons.

 

[orangebloodgmc]

Wild Ocean, by Villiers

 

[MSUDuo]

Hunger Games series
Percy Jackson and the Olympians series

Yeah, giant kid at heart!

 

[Abe Hoffman]

A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking

 

[therealUT]

A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking

Have you grown tired of the exclamation marks, yet?

 

[n_huffhines]

I'm halfway through Atlas Shrugged, and a little exhausted by it. I don't know how it's going to end, but I already feel like the whole thing could have been written in half the pages.

I totally agree. An abridged version would be perfect.

 

[Scotty's Flat Top]

Amazon.com: Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America (9780684840024): John M. Barry: Books

Highly recommend this read. Covers a broad stroke of topics i.e. culture, politics, corruption and how the Mississippi River ties into all of them and the entire development of our society until this point

 

[PoochPunt3rdDown]

Currently, halfway through War and Peace, into Book 3 of Hume's Treatise (second time through), and halfway through Genome by Matt Ridley. Also reading (and editing) a 500-page manuscript on military ethics (specifically, systemic "collateral damage").

On my list for the rest of the summer are:

Darkness at Noon
The Sound and the Fury
Appointment in Samarra
Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals
And, the second half of Sidgwick's Method of Ethics

How was Chaos Theory?

So you're finally reading War and Peace and Sound and the Fury.... Fuq, those are two of my top five favorite books. Read both multiple times. Can't wait to hear about your thoughts on Alyosha. His character is the reason I'm a Christian, again; no longer an atheist....

 

[PoochPunt3rdDown]

For Ayn Rand in half the pages, read Anthem or We the Living. Of course, both those books lack the really great dialogue and introspection that make The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged masterpieces.

Atlas Shrugged is no masterpiece, imo. It's just The Fountainhead with a vagina.

 

[therealUT]

So you're finally reading War and Peace and Sound and the Fury.... Fuq, those are two of my top five favorite books. Read both multiple times. Can't wait to hear about your thoughts on Alyosha. His character is the reason I'm a Christian, again; no longer an atheist....

You are thinking of Brothers K?

 

[PoochPunt3rdDown]

You are thinking of Brothers K?

Yes. Fawk. I'm an idiot. Obviously, W & P is not about the Karamazovs. It's about a land war in Asia. I started drinking too early, apparently. :lolup: