What are you reading?/Book Recomendations

Depending on the book I feel the same way, in fact there are probably several solitary-type activities I could list as things I would prefer engaging in over talking to most people.

I have books that I have read multiple times as well. Sometimes I get a little down when I get to the end of a good book, like I just lost a friend.

 

Cool, thanks. Your description of "neuropath" is as enticing as it gets in my opinion.

 

''Go dog go'' by Dr. Seuss

 

I'm about to start reading The Help, by Kathryn Stockett.

 

Good read. Funny, people always see this book as being about adolescent angst, and an in depth look at how society collides with an individual's want for personal expressionism, but its really just about your kid stuttering out his first attempts at reading something. It's true I got the cliff notes.

Seriously though Dr. Seuss does have some great books. "Oh the place you will go" (which always gets me a little vaclempt at the end) and the "the Lorax" are my favorites to read with my son.

 

I like the one about the Star Bellied Sneeches. You see, they live on these beaches, and some have stars and some dont.

 

Hyperion - Dan Simmons (mindless fun, science fiction)
The Road to Serfdom - F.A. Hayek (time to re-read, Austrian Economics)

 

I don't know if I ever read that one. "Yurtle the Turtle" is another good one.

 

I liked the Hyperion series, but I enjoyed the Illium series more. I like how he intertwines classical writers into his works.

Would you recommend "The Road to Serfdom"?

 

whats the Dr. Seuss book called where that thing runs a factory and is cutting trees down or something like that?

 

The Sneetches!!!!
Great Book - I actually read that to a business group toastmaster club, they loved it!

Now, the Star-Bell Sneetches had bellies with stars.
The Plain-Belly Sneetches had none upon thars.
Those stars weren’t so big. They were really so small.
You might think such a thing wouldn’t matter at all.
~ The Sneetches, Dr. Seuss

You do know Theodore Geisel was a political cartoonist before he became an author

Also like Yurtle and The Places You'll Go

 

That would be the The Lorax

 

I'll look into the Illium series when I'm finished with the Hyperion series.

Yes, I highly recommend F.A. Hayek. This book really influenced my perspective of the last 70 - 80 years of our political/economic evolution.

 

I will have to pick it up. I did not know that he was a political activist, I could definitely see it in his writings though. His stories do have many great moral lessons that are ageless. I gave "oh the places you'll go" to my sister for part of her high-school graduation present. Probably one of the best children's books ever written.

 

2866. Tomsen, Peter. The Wars of Afghanistan, Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the Failures of Great Powers. New York: Public Affairs, 2011. (H)

The book is huge - over 700 pages. No one comes out looking good, although some look dumber than others.

I think I'll start 2873. Trifkovic, Srdja. The Krajina Chronicle, A History of Serbs in Coratia, Slavonia, and Dalmatia. Chicago, IL: The Lord Byron Foundation for Balkan Studies, 2010. (P). I've read about 20 pages already. It's written from the Serb point of view, which I usually don't accept, but the basic historical facts seem mostly accurate and, besides, it never hurts to see what others think and why, even if you don't agree with them (or start out that way, anyway). If all else fails, it's a LOT shorter than 700 pages.

For kid's books, try If You Give A Mouse A Cookie and the other books by that author. My grand-kids loved it.

 

The good doctor was after my time, I grew up on The Little Engine That Could, not on cats in hats.

 

Farewell to Manzanar

 

Summoning the Gods, by Collin Cleary

From Amazon:

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Great book if you're interested in the pre-Christian religions of your European ancestors.

 

I've been waiting for a thread like this, lol.

At the moment I'm about to dive into Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. I just finished A Midsummer Night's Dream, as well.

 

I am more interested in the post-Christian beliefs of my descendents, which is why I love Science-Fiction and Fantasy--lol

 

in a few of my letters. A lot of people don't know or haven't read another of his books, "Hayek, Friedrich A.. The Constitution of Liberty. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1978. (P)." It's out in paperback (that's what the (P) means), is available from amazon.com, and contains a lot of interesting material which people who have only read "The Road To Serfdom" really should consider. One thing it contains is "Why I am Not A Conservative." If you haven't read "The Constitution of Liberty. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1978. (P)," all you have is a comic book idea of Hayek's thought.

 

I am currently reading "A Song of Fire and Ice".

 

The Blue Death by Robert Morris. A history of cholera in Europe and the USA and the slow progression of understanding the relation to public drinking water followed by the evolution of public water purification.

 

I bought the five books in the Song of Fire and Ice for my Kobo, but have yet to get around to reading them.They will more than likly be next, after I finish the MAN-Kzin wars series.

 

Fantastic book!