a deleuzean on here who knows of the belgian cartesian arnold geulincx?? to the question about zizek, end times does not really go that far into the ideas of the new apartheids, the environmental issues, etc. that it is supposed to, and some of it of course is literally word for word the same (same jokes and so on) from previous books or speeches, but it is overall a very complex book with interesting (not always developed or well-argued but insightful) things to say on pretty much every page. I've read Plague of Fantasies, How to Read Lacan, End Times, First as Tragedy, then as Farce, some of the Hegel book, relevant parts of The Sublime Object of Ideology, the Deleuze book, the totalitarianism book, Welcome to the Desert of the Real, and some of the Year of Dreaming Dangerously, which comments on the Arab Spring.
I just finished Gladwell's Outliers, which had some interesting claims but also has that uncritical treatment of psychology papers and some suppressions and simplifications that affect the conclusions, and I am reading The Outer Limits of Reason by Noson Yonofsky, an MIT Press book about logical puzzles, physics experiments, and so on that mark territory that cannot, in principle, ever be known (so it is not one of those mysticism books). This is a pretty serious book, not one for distraction. I'm also reading Nate Silver's The Signal and the Noise, which starts off with some ludicrously bad remarks about the history of civilization but then gets into some intelligent remarks about the sources of the financial crisis, the way that statistics were misused. That's as far as I've gotten.
Great thread and a reason to come back to the site.