Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein. About the rise of the Conservative movement in the mid 60s through the early 70s.
Milkman Dan... I was mistaken... Harry Flashman is completely ficticious, but made to look like a historic person. The fiction novel even has historic footnotes to reference actualy historic events. I am very wrong on that point, but the book is great.
Freakonomics was a great read. I liked Tipping Point also but not as much. Currently reading "The World is Flat". I just finished reading "Of Paradise and Power" which was a ~100 page essay/book but I really dug that book. I just got Kagan's new book "The Return of History and the Return of Dreams". By the way, I am a Democrat (he is an advisor to McCain) but I really like some of the stuff he has written.
"Irish Folk Tales" - edited by Henry Glassie "The Italian Secretary" - Caleb Carr "Batista Unleashed" - Dave Batista wh
Right now: Butlerian Jihad by Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson On deck: That Hideous Strength by CS Lewis (the Lewis thread has me reading the space trilogy again, and I usually like to take a break after Perelanda because of the big shift in tone)
Stumbling on Happiness by Gilbert. Bad. Hogfather by Pratchett. Bad. I'm just too compulsive to quit reading them until I'm done.
'Red Square' by Martin Cruz Smith just finished 'Gorky Park' by the same. I have 'Blind Man's Bluff' in the on deck circle.
"Helen of Troy" by Margaret George. She is a great writer of historical fiction. Her other subjects,also great reads, are Henry VIII, Cleopatra, Mary Stuart and Mary Magdalene.
Just finished "Lone Survivor" and it was good, as advertised. Picked up "Lockheed SR-71 - Secret Missions Exposed" and "Silent Warrior" (about a Vietnam Marine Sniper).
Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard by Arthur Conan Doyle Gentleman of the Road and The Final Solution by Michael Chabon
Just finished "Dead Man's Walk" by Larry McMurtry. (guess I'm gonna have to read Comanche Moon & Streets of Laredo now) Currently reading "Snuff" by Chuck Palahniuk. ******* hilarious so far.
I just finished reading RANT by Chuck Palahniuk. It was an easy ready for the most part until the last 80 or so pages and then it just got ridiculously confusing. It's a good book if you like stuff like that-- things to really get you thinking and to wrap your mind around.
The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes. It's basically about how crappy and ineffective the New Deal really was.
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt. I'm reading it for the second time in two years. On deck: the sequel, 'Tis, which will be a first-time read for me. I also keep Ball Four and The Thurber Carnival on the nightstand. When the McCourt gets too heavy, I pick up either Ball Four or Thurber, open to any random page, start reading, and laugh my *** off. Lightens the mood from the heavy Irish Catholic bent of Angela's Ashes.
