Grand unified books thread

[Admiral Yi]

On my flight here I read And the Mountains Echoed by Kite Runner dude.  Kind of disappointing.  He piles on what are IMO a number of pointless plot threads a la J R R R R Martin.

However, still picked up A Thousand Splendid Suns, his second book.  I believe Jo Jo was pitching it.

[Razgovory]

Currently reading Jung's "Man and His Symbols". Extremely engaging. Next on my list, re-reading of the "newly abdridged" Frazier's "Golden Bough". Then most likely back to Jung.

I thought you already read Frazier.

[The Brain]

Projective stuttering. The silent killer.

[mongers]

I've already read more than one book this year.







Oh and one of these for those here with broken detectors.

[Eddie Teach]

I've already read more than one book this year.

[Admiral Yi]

Just picked up Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana.  A significant gap in my historical knowledge.  So far the book is quite good.

[Gups]

Dual tracking fic and non-fic at the moment. Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts is a decent overview. Not hagiographic but comes close on some occasions. However, well-written with a good balance of personal, political and military.

Mark & the Void by Paul Murray - novel set in Dublin after the crash. Main character is a French banker. Weak-ass clichéd satire on bankers with cardboard cut out characters and thinly disguised information dumps (would any analyst, even a trainee, really ask what a T-Bill is?). A real shame - his last book Skippy Dies is sensational.

[The Brain]

Finished the Iliad. Like reading the script to an extended version of 300.

[Malthus]

Finished the Iliad. Like reading the script to an extended version of 300.

A lot of 'The hard bronze clove him between the groin and the navel, and his shade fell whimpering into Hades', as I recall.

[Razgovory]

Finished the Iliad. Like reading the script to an extended version of 300.

A lot of 'The hard bronze clove him between the groin and the navel, and his shade fell whimpering into Hades', as I recall.

That's nothing.  The song of Roland has like a dozen occasions where someone swings a sword down on top of a knight's head and cuts him and half and also spits his horse in two.

[The Brain]

Finished the Iliad. Like reading the script to an extended version of 300.

A lot of 'The hard bronze clove him between the groin and the navel, and his shade fell whimpering into Hades', as I recall.

That's nothing.  The song of Roland has like a dozen occasions where someone swings a sword down on top of a knight's head and cuts him and half and also spits his horse in two.

That's an impressive feat.

[Valmy]

They just do not write them like that anymore.

[Admiral Yi]

Just picked up Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana.  A significant gap in my historical knowledge.  So far the book is quite good.

About a third of the way in.  I've read nothing so far to disabuse me of the notion that fucking things up is hard coded in Latin American.

[dps]

They just do not write them like that anymore.

Don't find too many people that can spit like that anymore, either.

[Queequeg]

Just picked up Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana.  A significant gap in my historical knowledge.  So far the book is quite good.

About a third of the way in.  I've read nothing so far to disabuse me of the notion that fucking things up is hard coded in Latin American.

How so?