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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 11:55 am
by SLAAKMAN
Assignment in Utopia
http://www.amazon.com/Assignment-Utopia ... 0837144973
This 1937 publication is an invaluable eye-witness account of the realities of Communism in the Soviet Union during the early 1930s as Stalin was directing the Soviet Union into a dark period of collectivization, state-engineered famine, show trials, and terror (Lyons also just happened to be in Berlin on the way through just as Hitler was taking power in Germany in January 1933, no doubt a frightening experience for a young leftist Jewish intellectual). Lyons wrote this book to expose the realities of what was happening in the USSR to leftist and liberal readers in the United States who, while not Communists, were inclined to be sympathetic to a "progressive" workers' state at a time when the American economy remained mired in the depths of the Great Depression.
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:35 pm
by warspite1
Robert Harris - The Fear Index. All very good - typical Harris fare, well written, well paced and difficult to put down..... until the end....which was something of a let down [&:]
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:58 pm
by TulliusDetritus
Theodor Mommsen's History of Rome, book IV (almost done with it and then book V) [8D]
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 4:03 pm
by Orm
Michael Tamelander - Malta : Kriget i Medelhavet 1940-1942. A stonkig good read.
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 4:26 pm
by parusski
ORIGINAL: warspite1
Robert Harris - The Fear Index. All very good - typical Harris fare, well written, well paced and difficult to put down..... until the end....which was something of a let down [&:]
Recently listened to the audio book version and it was hard to stop listening.
Last night started reading
Russia Against Napoleon: The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace, by Dominic Lieven.
This morning I began the audio book
City of Thieves, David Benioff
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 4:38 pm
by warspite1
ORIGINAL: parusski
ORIGINAL: warspite1
Robert Harris - The Fear Index. All very good - typical Harris fare, well written, well paced and difficult to put down..... until the end....which was something of a let down [&:]
Recently listened to the audio book version and it was hard to stop listening.
Warspite1
Were you disappointed with the ending too?
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 5:18 pm
by parusski
ORIGINAL: warspite1
ORIGINAL: parusski
ORIGINAL: warspite1
Robert Harris - The Fear Index. All very good - typical Harris fare, well written, well paced and difficult to put down..... until the end....which was something of a let down [&:]
Recently listened to the audio book version and it was hard to stop listening.
Warspite1
Were you disappointed with the ending too?
There are certainly flaws in the book. I was disappointed Harris did not further explore the ethics of artificial intelligence. The biggest problem is there is no explanation of why Alex was set up. Also, Harris used tech-speak as tension...that does not work. The reason I did not want to stop listening was because I thought he would, at some point, explain things.
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 5:26 pm
by warspite1
Have you read any of his other stuff? I have read - and really enjoyed - Fatherland, Enigma, Pompeii and Archangel.
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 5:35 pm
by parusski
ORIGINAL: warspite1
Have you read any of his other stuff? I have read - and really enjoyed - Fatherland, Enigma, Pompeii and Archangel.
Enigma
Read and enjoyed those plus Conspirata.
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 6:16 pm
by JamesM
"The Second World War", by Anthony Beevor and I am finding it a thoroughly engrossing read. I am only a third of the way through but from what I read I thoroughly recommend it to anyone.
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 7:17 pm
by Titanwarrior89
Is it the complete history of rome?
ORIGINAL: TulliusDetritus
Theodor Mommsen's History of Rome, book IV (almost done with it and then book V) [8D]
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 7:44 pm
by TulliusDetritus
ORIGINAL: Titanwarrior89
Is it the complete history of rome?
ORIGINAL: TulliusDetritus
Theodor Mommsen's History of Rome, book IV (almost done with it and then book V) [8D]
Yes, the whole thing [:)] Books I, II, III, IV and V (in four volumes).
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 7:46 pm
by TulliusDetritus
In fact it's just the history of the republic (and its end).
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 9:46 pm
by radic202
Just Finished Robopocalypse and it was a quick easy read. I enjoyed it just because it resembled in a way WWZ which I think to this day is the best damn Book I have ever read and I read at least 1 book per week (mostly fantasy novels though)
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RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 9:30 am
by fvianello
ORIGINAL: warspite1
Have you read any of his other stuff? I have read - and really enjoyed - Fatherland, Enigma, Pompeii and Archangel.
Fatherland was quite good...and the movie was visually intriguing.
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 9:42 am
by british exil
I read the books from Conn Iggulden. The Emperor series and the Ghengis Khan series were quite interesting.
I find the Robert Harris books on the Roman stories makes the day to day aspect of life in Rome more understandable.
Pompeji, Imperium and Lustrum.
Just got my D-Day book today,ordered about 8 weeks ago, so will spend a few days reading and looking at pictures and listening to the CD that belongs to the book. Had hoped to get it in time for the June landing days to read while it happened 68 years ago.
Mat
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 12:17 pm
by cpdeyoung
"The Gray Man" and "Ballistic" by Mark Greaney.
If you like Lee Child books, or the Bourne movies, you will enjoy Mr. Greaney's books. He has "On Target" in this series too, and I can't wait to read it.
This is really good stuff. Very competent single man against the world type stuff, and well done.
Chuck
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 5:24 pm
by shunwick
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
I love this book.
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 7:01 pm
by parusski
Mark Greaney.
I love Greaney's books. Court Gentry is one helluva hitman.
RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment?
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 7:03 pm
by parusski
ORIGINAL: shunwick
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
I love this book.
Really? I have considered this book in the past but passed on it. That good?