Vhat Booke Arrr Ye Reedin'?

[Nostromo]

I'm growing increasingly interested in WW1

It may not be exactly what you're looking for, but you should read Storm of steel by Ernst Junger. Its a novel he wrote about his WW1 experience.

[Ted Striker]

How dare nobody post a picture of Brooke Burke????

[Zkribbler]

I like the picture of Brooke Burke followed by the sig: "Victory is the ONLY option."

[Ted Striker]

Fitting

[Dracon II]

Today I bought:

The selected works of Marx and Engels volume 1

The Origin of the Family, Private Property and The State by Friedrich Engels

Quotations of Mao Zedong

and Collapse, by Jared Diamond.

[Atahualpa]

DaVinchi's Code (english; page 108)

[Zoid]

Tonight I will start to read Asimovs Foundation books again, I haven´t read them since I was 15 (I think). It will be interesting to see what I think about them this time.

[Evil Knevil]

Chugging through Discipline and Punish by Foucault (Michael this time!) and just finished Dorian by Will Self (sat) and The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks(yesterday).

Also going to have a look at Camus's The Plague, if Foucault proves too much.
Can you tell I'm sick in bed at the moment?

[Solomwi]

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and just picked up Guns, Germs and Steel, which I'm eager to get into. Having just finished Sowell's Conquest and Cultures (, btw), which seems to tackle similar ideas, I'm interested to see where Sowell and Diamond agree and disagree.

[Solomwi]

Originally posted by JohnT


I'm growing increasingly interested in WW1, but am having a little bit of difficulty finding a good "overview" of the conflict... the books I've looked at so far are a bit too detailed in the various troop and regiment movements for my tastes. I tried Stevenson's Cataclysm: The First World War as Political Tragedy, for example, which was called "The best comprehensive one-volume history of the war yet written." This will be a fine work in the future, but for now assumes a familiarity with the period that I, frankly, don't have.

Have you tried Keegan's The First World War? I haven't read it, but judging from Keegan's other works that I have read, it would be the place I'd start.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Solomwi


Have you tried Keegan's The First World War? I haven't read it, but judging from Keegan's other works that I have read, it would be the place I'd start.

ive read it, its pretty good.

[lord of the mark]

finished Pipes.

Returned to Braudel's Civilization and Capitalism, Vol 2: The Wheels of Commerce. The kinda book I can pick up, read a bit, and put down for months. (note, ive never read Vol 1)

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Solomwi


Have you tried Keegan's The First World War? I haven't read it, but judging from Keegan's other works that I have read, it would be the place I'd start.

I almost got it last night.

Instead, I got a survey of the war written by Brig. Gen. S.L.A. Marshall, World War 1. Not a bad book, probably a little less scholarly than the Keegan (though Marshall does have the advantage of actually having served in the AEF), but to be quite blunt, the Marshall has more, and better, maps.

[Solomwi]

LOTM: I read Pipes' Militant Islam Reaches America a while back.

JohnT: Good deal. The lack of maps was one thing I didn't like about Keegan's Second World War, but I also have The Times Atlas of the Second World War, edited by Keegan, so it wasn't too much of a hindrance.

Maps definitely help immensely. I recently finished a biography of Chingis Khan that had just a handful of maps at the back. A world atlas was very helpful during the chapters discussing the various tribes and Mongol homeland.

[Immortal Wombat]

Received Evolving the Alien by Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart today. Halfway through. Slightly annoyed that someone already wrote the book I wanted to write. Very glad they did it better than I would've.