Author Topic: What are you reading? (Read 764811 times)

Taffin · « **Reply #1475 on:** December 21, 2020, 12:19:21 PM »

I'm considering getting 'The Madness of Crowds' by Douglas Murray

"If Douglas Murray were an academic or a politician, or worked for a company like Google, he would probably have been fired. But as a journalist he is, at least for the time being, able to voice his forthright views in a way few others are permitted or prepared to do.

His last book, The Strange Death of Europe, was an indictment of multiculturism and the consequences of mass Muslim migration into Europe at a time when Western values are in decline. It was a bestseller.

Now he’s turned his attention to the rise of the pernicious culture of social justice and identity politics, and how these new ideologies of oppression and grievance, often driven by social media, have broken out from the fringes of academia into politics, the media, corporate life and beyond. He argues not only do they destroy liberal thought, they are dangerous and divisive.

Murray has identified the four most common “oppressed identities” that have been “weaponised” to fight these battles, mostly, though not always, against the white male patriarchy. He has written a chapter on each under the headings ‘Gay’, ‘Women’, ‘Race’ and ‘Trans’, although, as he says, thanks to the arrival of intersectionality, a person can be any or all of these things simultaneously, creating an almost infinite number of oppressed identities. His essay on transgender is the punchiest, probably because the issue is the newest and most controversial. “Among all the complex issues of our age none is so radical in the confusion and assumptions it elicits ... and so virulent in the demands it makes”. He suggests that at one end of the spectrum are people who are born intersex and that somewhere in the middle are people born one sex but who believe they should have been born the other, and at the other end those who simply get a sexual thrill from cross-dressing."

https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/books/the-madness-of-crowds-by-douglas-murray-review-a4241046.html

CalvinH · « **Reply #1476 on:** January 19, 2021, 09:02:30 AM »

Bernard Cornwalls last book “Warlord” was very good

Soul Crusher · « **Reply #1477 on:** January 19, 2021, 09:09:33 AM »

Just read "Tribe" by Sebastian Junger

Grape Ape · « **Reply #1478 on:** January 19, 2021, 10:32:22 AM »

Quote from: Soul Crusher on January 19, 2021, 09:09:33 AM

Just read "Tribe" by Sebastian Junger

You join the GR Tribe thing or just read the book?

Soul Crusher · « **Reply #1479 on:** January 19, 2021, 11:04:30 AM »

Quote from: Grape Ape on January 19, 2021, 10:32:22 AM

You join the GR Tribe thing or just read the book?

I signed up - i need a monthly challenge of sorts. I'll do it for a year and see how it goes.

CalvinH · « **Reply #1480 on:** February 02, 2021, 04:32:30 PM »

Last Vince Flynn book now being written by Kyle Mills sucked

Soul Crusher · « **Reply #1481 on:** February 02, 2021, 05:05:59 PM »

Just read Warrior Creed. Excellent.

CalvinH · « **Reply #1482 on:** February 06, 2021, 05:30:36 AM »

Treadstone Exile. Joshua Hood has taken over for the deceased Robert Ludlum.
Well done

CalvinH · « **Reply #1483 on:** February 09, 2021, 05:34:21 PM »

Quote from: CalvinH on February 06, 2021, 05:30:36 AM

Treadstone Exile. Joshua Hood has taken over for the deceased Robert Ludlum.
Well done

Second one wasn't as good

CalvinH · « **Reply #1484 on:** February 24, 2021, 04:10:57 PM »

Damn the Grey Man series is excellent

Soul Crusher · « **Reply #1485 on:** February 24, 2021, 04:35:47 PM »

Next reading Fight Club.

Just finished a book on Delta Force.

CalvinH · « **Reply #1486 on:** March 02, 2021, 06:07:50 PM »

Nick Petrie-The Drifter
good enough I bought the next book in the series.

Primemuscle · « **Reply #1487 on:** March 02, 2021, 11:19:30 PM »

Quote from: Soul Crusher on February 24, 2021, 04:35:47 PM

Next reading Fight Club.

Just finished a book on Delta Force.

Author of Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk is from my neck of the woods. He's a longtime lifter and former juicer.

Teutonic Knight · « **Reply #1488 on:** March 04, 2021, 11:31:28 AM »

Portland Prime Swallower, should read : UNMASKED (inside antifa) by Andy Ngo !.

This book is now terrorizing ANTIFA in Portland !.

Humble Narcissist · « **Reply #1489 on:** March 20, 2021, 11:56:17 AM »

Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser (1969) LMAO Great book.

Soul Crusher · « **Reply #1490 on:** March 20, 2021, 07:09:08 PM »

Quote from: Primemuscle on March 02, 2021, 11:19:30 PM

Quote from: Soul Crusher on February 24, 2021, 04:35:47 PM
Next reading Fight Club.

Just finished a book on Delta Force.

Author of Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk is from my neck of the woods. He's a longtime lifter and former juicer.

It was ok. I liked some parts.

CalvinH · « **Reply #1491 on:** April 15, 2021, 04:29:24 PM »

Quote from: CalvinH on March 02, 2021, 06:07:50 PM

Nick Petrie-The Drifter
good enough I bought the next book in the series.

Ended up reading the whole series...not bad.

Taffin · « **Reply #1492 on:** May 22, 2021, 11:42:54 AM »

I guess if I was forced and absolutely had to pick just one genre, it would be sci-fi - as opposed to sci-fantasy. I'm sure I don't have to explain the difference to GetBiggers. So it goes without saying that one of my favourite authors - despite his flaws as a writer - is Arthur C Clark. But I also have a weakness for a good old-fashioned dystopia - so a combination of the two is right up my street...

So with that in mind, I found myself lazily browsing Amazon (where else) and decided to order what was described as a classic that I must admit I'd never heard of - The Black Cloud by (Sir) Fred Hoyle. He was a real scientist, and one of the people who first postulated the stellar nucleosynthesis theory (that we're all stardust

) so I was expecting a nicely science-based read

So I open my package this morning to find Amazon's first ever mistake (to me at least) - somehow they managed to post me a used paperback of Huxley's A Brave New World

I've already read this gem several times, and will enjoy reading it again (my old copy is lost to the winds). But isn't it strange I'd receive something so similar? Does this suggest that some Amazon book-sellers store stock by genre? Or was this just random chance?

And has anyone read the book I was supposed to receive? (just reordered - let's see what they send me this time!

)

Taffin · « **Reply #1493 on:** May 22, 2021, 11:59:46 AM »

Quote from: Griffith on May 09, 2020, 05:34:09 PM

Yes, I am reading it.

Marcus Aurelius ruled and his Meditations during the Antonine Plague which lasted about 15 years.

Quote from: Taffin on May 16, 2020, 12:31:03 PM

So, how many points on the Griffith-meter...?

Gentle nudge - what did you think and should I go for it? Which translation were you reading? I'm thinking of the Diskin-Clay version for myself, but there's the Hays or Robertson versions - interested to know which way you went

Thanks in advance
Taf

BB · « **Reply #1494 on:** June 24, 2021, 08:46:15 AM »

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Solid bit of noirish fiction based around the 92 LA Riots, and the day after. Tells the story from gangsters perspectives, cops perspectives, Koreans perspectives, and few others, with a bit of mystery thrown in. Very fine writing for such a varied book, not flabby or sentimental.

CalvinH · « **Reply #1495 on:** August 12, 2021, 05:09:19 PM »

Been reading like crazy the past month or so,need to list them,

CalvinH · « **Reply #1496 on:** September 15, 2021, 07:08:42 PM »

I've been reading the Ace Atkins, Quinn Colson series.

....pretty damn good

Taffin · « **Reply #1497 on:** October 01, 2021, 01:53:43 AM »

--cross posted from G&O--

Quote from: AbrahamG on September 29, 2021, 06:42:14 PM

Would you say it's highly probably that Adam West fucked her?

Your post reminded me that West was supposedly a bit of a swinger/party animal - so I checked Amazon to see if he had an autobiography on there

Answer is yes, but used paperbacks of "Back to the Batcave" are running around $50 (up to $200, anybody?)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Adam-West-Back-Batcave-Autobiography/dp/B00NBQERVI/ref=monarch_sidesheet

So has anyone read it - is it any good/worth the $?

CalvinH · « **Reply #1498 on:** October 02, 2021, 08:01:01 AM »

Quote from: CalvinH on September 15, 2021, 07:08:42 PM

I've been reading the Ace Atkins, Quinn Colson series.

....pretty damn good

A few more in the series to finish

Humble Narcissist · « **Reply #1499 on:** October 02, 2021, 12:36:10 PM »

Quote from: Taffin on October 01, 2021, 01:53:43 AM

--cross posted from G&O--

Your post reminded me that West was supposedly a bit of a swinger/party animal - so I checked Amazon to see if he had an autobiography on there

Answer is yes, but used paperbacks of "Back to the Batcave" are running around $50 (up to $200, anybody?)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Adam-West-Back-Batcave-Autobiography/dp/B00NBQERVI/ref=monarch_sidesheet

So has anyone read it - is it any good/worth the $?

I only read coloring books.