Slaughter House Five
and
Forgot the name, book about how marketing has infantilized the consumer, how companies now market to children. There is a red/white/blue popsicle on the cover.
Slaughter House Five
and
Forgot the name, book about how marketing has infantilized the consumer, how companies now market to children. There is a red/white/blue popsicle on the cover.
I'm reading The Libertarian Reader edited by David Boaz, re-reading Heart of Darkness for school, and browsing Poems, Poets, Poetry by Helen Vendler, half for school and half for me. "For school" means for instructional purposes; I'm a teacher. I've been dipping in and out of Supposedly Fun Things I'll Never Do Again, and thus far I'm less impressed than others.
Right now:
Justice by Michael Sandel for school (not a real big fan of ethics)
West Virginia Politics and Government (multiple authors, school)
Shia Revival by Vali Nasr for school (pretty interesting, good for a basic introduction to islam)
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Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile (for fun, way better than the movie, Charlie Wilson partied harder than Charlie Sheen ever could)
I read karnaszes confessions of midnight runner and it was as cringeworthy. I hope in my heart that his ghostwriter is responsible for the sheer shameless shyte that the book shovels, otherwise the poor guy is just so absent of any real humanity.
Also reading Deleuze Anti-Oedipus, slow going but trying to get ready for Thousand Plateaus.
When the Killing's Done by T.C. Boyle
Fred Simmons wrote:
Right now:
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Get out while you still can.
Here's a fiction novel about a runner. Just released. Run For Your Life
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FP5RX6E/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_dp_HFlVsb10580F9
Just finished Netherland by Joseph O'Neil. About to start The Hitchhikers's Guide to the Galaxy.
"When I Left Home" Buddy Guy w/ David Ritz
Recently finished:
The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
1493 - Charles Mann
Just starting on:
The Fall - Albert Camus
On and off trying to get through:
Collapse - Jared Diamond
Just started The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big Time College Football by Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian. So far it is very good.
The chapter on directors of football operations, i.e., janitors - 'I fix shit'- is fascinating. Cleve Bryant, who was forced out at Texas after a seemingly bogus sexual harassment claim by an athletic department staffer, tells of seeing a woman in the lobby of a team hotel in a mini skirt who he thought might be a groupie looking to hook up with a player. Turns out she was a registered hotel guest. He told the hotel manager to get rid of her, no matter who she was, or lose the 100 rooms the team had rented. She was gone before the night was over.
The Orphan Master's Son
Just starting King and Maxwell, by David Baldacci. Christmas present from dad.
"Who Am I" by Pete Townshend
None Dare Call It Conspiracy
The Gone Fishin' Portfolio
Think Big by Ben Carson
The Warren Buffett Way
Stop Acting Rich
My System, by Nimzowitsch
reading "the monkey wrench gang"
Freedom(just started reading it so can't say whether it's good or not yet, but loved Corrections)
Just finished On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome, with Love and Pasta (great book)
Just finished : Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance by Perry Mehrling. Just started : Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo.
el Mejor Troll Del Mundo! wrote:
Crime and Punishment
This and I just finished Catch-22 today. Both have been excellent in very different ways.
Almost finished with Confederacy of Dunces by Toole and Justine by the Marquis de Sade. The latter is a very difficult read but extremely interesting.
Picked up a couple other books, but i couldn't say I'm "reading" them, since I expect to leave them unfinished for the time