So... What are you reading? (Volume IV)

The content of the book or the writing or both?

That's been one I've wanted to read for a while.

You should check out The Assassination of Lumumba.

 

good?

 

Just finished:

 

Finished:


Started:

 

What did you think of this? I've seen her perform multiple times at the "Manhattan Monologue Slam" and she's incredible.

 

The content. The prose is pedestrian, and tone is that of an investigative journalist rather than historian, but the story loses none of its power.

I'm gonna need to read about kittens, puppies and rainbows for a bit to get King Leopold's Ghost out of my head. After that I'll take up your recommendation.

 

Paul Hawken's Blessed Unrest was pretty good. I'm not as optimistic as he is, but he has some pretty good stories and stats about grass-roots resistance to corporate-driven globalization. The book is about 50% appendices and directories, so I got through it pretty quickly. Which is good because now I'm on... (damn, there aren't any decent images turning up on a google search...

Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of On the Road (They're Not What You Think) by John Leland. The first hundred pages are quite good.

 

Taking a break from the Commissario Brunetti mysteries for:

 

Just finished :



Just started:

 

thanks for the recomendation. Loving this book so far.

Does anyone else like transgressional fiction, where characters do things like sin and commit crimes and become sexual deviants. I do!

 

It's not my favorite genre, but I'll be teaching Naked Lunch next spring.

 

Did you know that the Vatican actually had Hitchens do just that.

See:

http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=hitchens_24_2

where Hitches wrote:

 

Just bought it, havent started it. The sequel to the brilliant Pillars of the Earth

 

A 'biography' of the relationship between Cosell and Ali. Wonderfully written so far.

 

I am loving this quirky, hilarious and wonderfully written little gem.