So....What Are You Reading? (Volume III)

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  1. metroflip73

    metroflip73 Member

    Mar 3, 2000
    NYC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Lincoln

    Gore Vidal
     
  2. MRod

    MRod Member

    Jun 30, 2005
    Bakersfield, Ca
  3. nicodemus

    nicodemus Member+

    Sep 3, 2001
    Cidade Mágica
    Club:
    PAOK Saloniki
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  4. bungadiri

    bungadiri Super Moderator
    Staff Member

    Jan 25, 2002
    Acnestia
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Got
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    for my wife last year. I picked it up the other day.
     
  5. DamonEsquire

    DamonEsquire BigSoccer Supporter

    Sep 16, 2002
    Kentucky
    Club:
    Leeds United AFC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    letters to a young mathematician by Ian Stewart. Pretty cool things. pg. 207 in reference to page 111.
    I think. The object is to duplicate image of missing conors. So if two diagonally conors are missing. The dominoes cannot produce same board but if it is topside/botomsides. The dominoes fill it in for matching images. Book is thin and pretty easy to read. I just had to do it.
     
  6. CG

    CG Member

    Jul 25, 2001
  7. Fossolari

    Fossolari New Member

    Mar 19, 2005
    GRR
    He's great.

    Just finished Human Natures: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Perspective by Paul Erlich. In retrospect, I should stick to dead people and our precursors instead of culture/behaviors/etc. It's wicked sticky.
    Read Lynne Truss' (or should it be Truss's?) ;) Eats, Shoots & Leaves
    which is very funny (and, perhaps unsurprisingly, makes reading some posts on BS more interesting).
     
  8. Anthony

    Anthony Member+

    Chelsea
    United States
    Aug 20, 1999
    Chicago
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    DC United
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    Still somewhat early in the book, but her thesis is that while oil plays an important role in the US-Saudi relationship, it is not everything. Rather, it really was more an outgrowth of the Cold War, namely the use of Islam as a bulwork against godless communism. The current difficulties are really an outgrowth of the end of the Cold War, and a need to reevaluate the relationship (and deal with the energies released by using Islam against communism). It also is an outgrowth of the now somewhat forgotten US rivialry with the UK (and to a lesser extent France) that carried over into decolonialism and the early post WWII period. (People forget that the US pushed decolonialism and that annoyed both the French and British)

    It is interesting. I would not underestimate oil of course. And I do not think she does (noting that Aramco acted as a virtual agent of the US government in early days as the government had few intelligence sources in the region).
     
  9. alliu23

    alliu23 I'm a Yank til I Die

    Jul 28, 2004
    Williamsport, PA
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    San Jose Earthquakes
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    United States
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    great one, tear jerker
     
  10. IvanIV

    IvanIV King of all He purveys

    Apr 8, 2006
    TN
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    Good one.

    Just finished Ivan the Terrible by De Madariagra. Great.
    So far this year I have read, The First Crusade by Asbridge
    and Benjiman Franklin by Isaacson

    I just started The Fourth Crusade... by Phillips so far it is fantastic.
     
  11. alliu23

    alliu23 I'm a Yank til I Die

    Jul 28, 2004
    Williamsport, PA
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    just started The Complete Idiot's Guide to Hinduism

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  12. nicodemus

    nicodemus Member+

    Sep 3, 2001
    Cidade Mágica
    Club:
    PAOK Saloniki
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I'm getting back into my bad habit of reading 12 trillion books at a time.

    I've started another:

    A look at the work of modern Ethiopian artist Qes Adamu Tesfaw:

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  13. bigredfutbol

    bigredfutbol Moderator
    Staff Member

    Sep 5, 2000
    Woodbridge, VA
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    DC United
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    United States
    I started reading that here at work (I'm a librarian), and realized I needed to own a copy. Half.com has already mailed my copy. The first few chapters were excellent, can't wait to finish it.

    EDIT: "Secularists" aren't necessarily atheists or agnostics, FWIW.
     
  14. NoodlesMacintosh

    NoodlesMacintosh New Member

    Aug 24, 2004
    Salt Lake City
    Club:
    Real Salt Lake
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  15. NER_MCFC

    NER_MCFC Member

    May 23, 2001
    Cambridge, MA
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    New England Revolution
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    United States
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    The original two-in-one paperback edition of Samuel R Delaney's first novel, published when he was just shy of his 20th birthday.
    [plug]I was inspired by the rereading of his memoir, so I made use of the Advanced Book Exchange. [/plug]
     
  16. CosmosKramer

    CosmosKramer Member

    Sep 24, 2000
    Yokohama
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    Yokohama F Marinos
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
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    Just started this 1907 Jack London dystopian vision of struggle between a plutocracy and the people - easy to see why this was one of George Orwell's favorite books.

    So far very, very good.
     
  17. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Reminds me of my favorite science fiction joke:

    Q: Name three places no human being has ever been.

    A: The far side of the sun, the dark side of the moon, and beyond page 170 of Dhalgren

    I'm reading

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    Very short vignettes that imagine the literary origins of businesses that are named after people who have the same name as famous writers (or in some cases, were named after the writers), written as if the writers themselves were the founders of the business. Pretty damn funny, most of them.
     
  18. CG

    CG Member

    Jul 25, 2001
  19. TeamUSA

    TeamUSA Member

    Nov 24, 1999
    Tianjin, China
    Club:
    Borussia Mönchengladbach
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Only half way through this 600 or 700 page book.

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    But waiting in the wings are two of Stephen Kinzer's books:

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  20. nicodemus

    nicodemus Member+

    Sep 3, 2001
    Cidade Mágica
    Club:
    PAOK Saloniki
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
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    I'm not super crazy about the writing style and I disagree with a lot of the evangelical protestant theology in it, but I'm digging the overall point he's trying to get across so far.
     
  21. CG

    CG Member

    Jul 25, 2001

    decided to pick this up. will start it tonight.
     
  22. Doctor Stamen

    Doctor Stamen New Member

    Nov 14, 2001
    In a bag with a cat.
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    Interesting book this. It's amazing how many times the newspapers the Daily Mail and the Daily Express pops up ;).
     
  23. jatm516

    jatm516 Member

    Feb 4, 2005
    Hope, Arkansas
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
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    Interesting and witty account of "soccer hooligans". American, Bill Buford takes you inside the ranks of the soccer firms, the NF, etc.
     
  24. LeperKhan

    LeperKhan New Member

    Aug 10, 2000
    St. Paul, MN
    I'm catching up on a big stack of things I've bought or been given, but haven't read yet. Right now I'm on Irvine Welsh's Filth. Then I think I'm going to go back and start in on Eco's The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana again. I started it a while back but never fully got into it.
     
  25. peledre

    peledre Member

    Mar 25, 2001
    Sioux Falls, SD
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    The End of Faith, by Sam Harris, should be in my mailbox today, I ordered it after seeing him on TDS last week.
     

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