Non-Fiction, just read, being read, going to get read...
The Politically Incorrect Guide to The Founding Fathers - Brion McClanahan
Stalingrad - Antony Beevor (second time around)
The Culture Of Fear - Barry Glassner (ten years down the road and it now seems to have been prescient)
John Zogby - The Way We'll Be - The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream
The Most Powerful Idea in the World; A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention - Willian Rosen
Forgotten Voices of the Holocaust - Lyn Smith
Recently read:
The First Paul: Reclaiming the Radical Visionary Behind the Church's Conservative Icon
by Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan
A Discourse on Inequality
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Marx's Das Kapital: A Biography
by Francis Whelan
Home Cheese Making: Recipes For 75 Homemade Cheeses
by Ricki Carroll
Currently reading:
The Dispossessed
by Ursula K. LeGuin
Originally posted by lolofI read that trilogy as well. I usually avoid the "must read" books of the season but these were good fun. Lisbeth Salandar, a one of a kind character.
The Millennium trilogy by the Swedish writer Stieg Larsson
Avenger (2003) by Frederick Forsyth
My Sister, My Love (2008) by Joyce Carol Oates
Originally posted by badmoonYes, I agree - I tried to avoid these books too, for a long time. After reading the first one I wasn't all that impressed but the other two... and the films! What a pity the writer never even experienced the edition of the novels, he died before that.
I read that trilogy as well. I usually avoid the "must read" books of the season but these were good fun. Lisbeth Salandar, a one of a kind character.
Originally posted by Bosse de NageNothing except other books - it got put to the bottom of a pile, then recycled in to my bookcase and was forgotten about. (I think I was reading an interview with Will Self on Ballard when he mentioned it, and I thought 'don't I have that?'. Devoured it in two days.)
What put you off?
I loved the oblique glimpse (maybe) at Ballard's life and the events that fed in to his fiction, but - more than that - I liked the subversion of autobiography (like the details that differed so much from Empire and the bits, like how his wife died, that I knew to be 'untrue'😉.