Grand unified books thread

[The Brain]

Finished Naval Firepower: Battleship Guns and Gunnery in the Dreadnought Era, by Norman Friedman. I am no expert on naval gunnery so it was fairly interesting. Not the widest approach to the subject though: "btw there's also guns, shells and armor to consider, they get their own short chapter at the back of the book".

[MadImmortalMan]

"It is the kind of thing you either immediately say yes or no to. You don't think about it for very long," said Atwood

Correct. You immediately say no.

What's the point of denying everyone the ability to read it for a hundred years? It's not like it won't exist by then or anything. You just make it so people who might want to read it will die without the opportunity.

[MadImmortalMan]

Cleaning out pop's books from my mother's house. I've salvaged so far:



The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler 1953

The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain 1921  Edit: Also Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, all 1921

We by Charles Lindbergh 1927

North to the Orient by Anne Lindbergh 1935

A History of England and the Empire-Commonwealth, Hall-Albion-Pope Fourth Edition 1965


A History of Modern Germany 1648-1840, A History of Modern Germany 1840-1945 and A History of Modern Germany The Reformation by Hajo Holborn 1967

The Arms of Krupp 1587-1968 by William Manchester 1968

Disraeli, A Picture of the Victorian Age by Andre Maurois 1928

The Deerslayer by JF Cooper 1938

Complete Poems of Keats and Shelley 1940

Salome by Oscar Wilde 1930----Together with a clipping from a NYC newspaper that my grandmother apparently saved and put in the book. It's a play review that starts off "Salome's first performance is still the most notorious cause celebre in the musical annals of New York. It was an occasion comparable only to the riot which Stravinsky's Sacre du Princeps created in Paris." On the back is an ad for Schenley Reserve whiskey.

Bismarck and the Development of Germany by Pflanze 1963

[Habbaku]

/envy

[CountDeMoney]

Sounds like Pops had some real taste in books.

[Admiral Yi]

Sounds like pops might have been a fan of Herr Schickelgruber. 

[Maladict]

Caved in and read one of Crowley's books, Empires of the Sea. Sadly, it's as overdramatized as I'd feared.

[Savonarola]

I read Joan Abelove's "Saying it out Loud" about a young Jewish girl whose high strung mother is dying of brain cancer while her aloof father is unable to relate to her.  It's not much of a story; just a quick sketch (probably autobiographical.) 

I'm glad I don't have Jewish parents; it sounds like that would be a terrible experience.   

[jimmy olsen]

Can anyone recommend good books on the history of Japan and/or Korea?

Anything from around 500B.C. to the early 20th century.

I'm particularly interested in the Yayoi migration from Korea to Japan, the three kingdom era of Korea, the Kamakura shogunate, the Goreyo Kingdom, the warring state era of Japan, the Imjin War and the Meiji restoration.

[jimmy olsen]

Any suggestions? There are plenty of well reviewed books for the 1600-2000 period that I've seen but I want to start with earlier periods.

[Eddie Teach]

Won't you get lynched if they see you reading a Japanese history book? 

[jimmy olsen]

Won't you get lynched if they see you reading a Japanese history book? 

Kindle.

Plus, I did request Korean suggestions.

[Queequeg]

Anyone know any books on super early Roman/Classical Italian history?  Pre-Punic wars.  Etruscans and Tarquins and whatnot. 

[Admiral Yi]

Isn't that all mythology?

[Queequeg]

That's what I mean.  I want anthropology as much as anything.