Grand unified books thread

[Ed Anger]

Deadly Quicksilver Lies by Glen Cook. Rather mediocre Garrett mystery.

[ulmont]

Deadly Quicksilver Lies by Glen Cook. Rather mediocre Garrett mystery.

Yeah, that series is played out.  I like his "Instrumentalities of the Night" recent series, though.

[Ed Anger]

Deadly Quicksilver Lies by Glen Cook. Rather mediocre Garrett mystery.

Yeah, that series is played out.  I like his "Instrumentalities of the Night" recent series, though.

That is his one series I just can't get into.

[Faeelin]

and Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution

Dry stuff, and I fear the latter is written by a crypto-communist or at the very least someone soft on the reds, but its a subject I need to expand my knowledge of.

The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy

[Syt]

I finally ordered Brin's Uplift Trilogy.

[Sheilbh]

India After Gandhi:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/India-After-Gandhi-History-Democracy/dp/0230016545
A very good book though difficult because so much of post-Independence Indian history is quite alien to me, so I kept on forgetting which person was which and which party was which and so on.  So it involved flicking back a fair few points to re-acquaint myself.  Though strongly recommended.

It's also whet my appetite.  Does anyone know if there's a good English language history of Indira Gandhi?  I don't really want a biography that focuses too much on her but a history of her within her time.

[Razgovory]

and Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution

Dry stuff, and I fear the latter is written by a crypto-communist or at the very least someone soft on the reds, but its a subject I need to expand my knowledge of.

The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy

I tried to slog through that one.  Man that's fucking dry.  You have so many people operating in a government that nobody actually understands how it works.

[Ed Anger]

Deadly Quicksilver Lies by Glen Cook. Rather mediocre Garrett mystery.

Petty Pewter Gods by the same guy. Everybody's favorite internet octopus god gets mentioned.

A bit better than the last book in the series.

[syk]

Read that first Witcher book. It was entertaining.

[Syt]

Read that first Witcher book. It was entertaining.

Start reading this:
http://www.imagecomics.com/iconline.php?title=walking_dead_001&page=cover

[syk]

Read that first Witcher book. It was entertaining.

Start reading this:
http://www.imagecomics.com/iconline.php?title=walking_dead_001&page=cover

I might do that. The reviews were good. But first I have the 2nd Witcher book and Frank Schätzing's "Der Schwarm" on my list.

[Barrister]

Haven't finished it, but I've been reading the newest Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy Book.

It's interesting.  It's almost a 'greatest hits' book, since all kinds of characters from the past are making an appearance.  Zaphod Beeblebrox and the Heart of Gold for one.  Wowbanger the Infinitely Prolonged has become a major character (with a surprisingly good explanation on why he's trying to insult the entire universe).

But there was a fun scene where 'everyone's favourite octopus god' is nervously interviewing to be the new chief diety of a new human colony.   

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Finished Ondaatje's "Divisadero". Well written but not as engaging as any of his earlier books that I've read.

Started John Scalzi's sequel to Old Man's War - "Ghost Brigades" also reading coffee table books I got used yesterday: "Pirates an Illustrated History" (bare bones stuff, not much new, but well presented, fun pictures, drawings.) and a pamphlet/magazine called "Raincoast Chronicles" that has interesting histories of local Native tribes and frontier living in the Vancouver region. Cool piece on local petroglyphs and others I haven't got to including Rum Running back in Prohibition era.

[Lettow77]

 Farm to Factory: a new look at soviet industrialisation.

Part of my ongoing close scrutiny at Russia and Communism. The author I think may be slightly pink himself, but it is still enlightening.

[ulmont]

Can anybody recommend a good book or two on the Russian Civil War?