What are you reading?

[oenguinseatsocks]

So just how many books do you read at once?

that many

just finished the gods themselves.  had a pretty cool premise but for some reason asimov chose to focus on the least interesting possible aspects.  needs more splosions too

[garebear]

hate I think is too strong

What is the feeling when something is overrated?  What is the word for that?  it escapes me now....

Gare I notice you react strongly to pro capitalism stances.   Are you a european socialist or something? or just a hardcore democrat from usa ?  or what?

I am a east coaster living on beach in socal and made it on the free market.  Super tall german frnech irish russian guy with blue eyes.   I think ayn rand is right except about israel. 

Where do you get your views? Any particular source?

No, I don't get my views from a particular source, but rather through reading history.

Any extreme isn't viable. Sure, capitalism does ensure innovation, because most people do things to enrich themselves rather than to better those around them. However, pure capitalism has a tendency to put great wealth in the hands of very few. It also produced sweat shops, child labor and slavery.

Communism doesn't work, as history has shown over and over, because people won't have any motivation to work harder.

As is nearly always the case, the truth lies in the middle and the devil is in the details of finding the right balance.

HST isn't a great author because of some philosophical force, he is just amazing with the English language and is one of a kind - a rare type of truth teller.

[Mr Nobody]

Not a damn thing.

[Tapeworm]

Principles of Hydraulics
Industrial Hydraulics
The Reciprocating Pump

and just for fun: The Valve Selection Handbook

[Agnostic007]

The Signal and The Noise

[magikusar]

ginger star by brackett who wrote empire strikes back

[dr.chimps]

Just finished Blood Horses, by John Jeremiah Sullivan. Part memoir of his journalist father, and part an investigation into thoroughbred horse racing, especially around Kentucky. Sullivan is a super writer, so when he bounces from the '73 Belmont with Secretariat to the slaughter of 30,000 horses by retreating WWII Germans in the Crimea it is a seamless narrative. Just a really, really interesting read and a pleasure.   

[Benny B]

[JBGRAY]

On a string of Bizarro fiction





Oh..and a book about Marine Drill Instructors.

[Mr Nobody]

Just finished Blood Horses, by John Jeremiah Sullivan. Part memoir of his journalist father, and part an investigation into thoroughbred horse racing, especially around Kentucky. Sullivan is a super writer, so when he bounces from the '73 Belmont with Secretariat to the slaughter of 30,000 horses by retreating WWII Germans in the Crimea it is a seamless narrative. Just a really, really interesting read and a pleasure.   

In short, the horses are all drugged up to run when they cant anymore they are "put out to pasture to die" or slaughtered that's horse racing.

[dr.chimps]

In short, the horses are all drugged up to run when they cant anymore they are "put out to pasture to die" or slaughtered that's horse racing.

Yes, he covers that. There aren't a lot of grace notes that the owners hit. 

[Roger Bacon]

On a string of Bizarro fiction

Looks cool, checking it out

[magikusar]

the silkie ae van vogt

the guy who inspired star trek with his story the space beagle

[dj181]

And God Laughs by Mr. Arthur Jones

[magikusar]

And God Laughs by Mr. Arthur Jones

can you get it online?

[B_B_C]

Principles of Hydraulics
Industrial Hydraulics
The Reciprocating Pump

and just for fun: The Valve Selection Handbook

but thats enough about your sex manuals : )

[dj181]

can you get it online?

here ya go... http://www.arthurjonesexercise.com/GodLaughs/GodLaughs.html

and it's a great read btw

[Powerlift66]

[240 is Back]

i'm looking for more alternate history books.   Any more recommendations?  thanks!!

[Roger Bacon]

Thanks for sharing garebear! 

 



























Now I know what books not to read.

[JBGRAY]

i'm looking for more alternate history books.   Any more recommendations?  thanks!!

Check out Harry Turtledove's the Great War series.  The Confederacy and Union fight to a stalemate and continue to fight through WW1 and finally settle all accounts in WW2.  Awesome books.

[garebear]

Thanks for sharing garebear! 

 



























Now I know what books not to read.

The list is growing, my friend.

Don't paint yourself into a corner.

But, worry not, I never read comics so your collection will remain safe.

[dr.chimps]

i'm looking for more alternate history books.   Any more recommendations?  thanks!!

Lot of alternate history books deal with WWII - not sure if that is your speed. If it is, then Robert Harris' 'Fatherland' is a good place to start, or Len Deighton's SS-GB. If you like Philip Dick, check out his 'Man in the high Castle,' - it's aces. That Stephen King book about the Kennedy assassination is alternate history, if you like him. Philip Roth, who recently announced his retirement, wrote 'The Plot against America' where President Charles Lindbergh presides over America. More 'literary' would be Michael Chabon's 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union.' I guess the grandaddy of all would be Orwell's '1984,' if only for the first line: 'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.'


 

[Roger Bacon]

The list is growing, my friend.

Don't paint yourself into a corner.

But, worry not, I never read comics so your collection will remain safe.

haha!!! 

[Mr. Magoo]

Just finished Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

now reading Kant: A Biography by Manfred Kuehn

also rereading Sovereign Virtue by Ronald Dworkin