#261348 - 07/23/0903:41 PMRe: What are you reading?
freestylah
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Lately, the following:
Tom Clancy's Powerplays - Zero Hour I expected another shyte episode after 'Cutting Edge', but was very pleasantly surprised by this one.
Tom Clancy's Netforce - Changing of the guard Good. The whole Netforce series is ok, I think.
Leon Uris - Armageddon Another good book by Uris. He writes well, has good plots and character building. Is it amazing literature? No. Is it nice to read? Yes.
Dostoyevski - The Gambler Second book I read from him. It's kind of autobiographical and has (as all 19th century Russian writers) great descriptions of both people and surroundings. It's not too difficult or complicated; a good way to start with Dostoyevski.
Book on the Auschwitz Trials in 1963-1965 It's about the trial on Mulka and 19 other men/women. Written by two left-wing journalists, it's more interesting as an insight to how the Dutch society looked at Germany and WWII during the sixties, then as document on a trial on warcrimes.
Léon Poliakov - The Aryan Myth Difficult to read, but worth it. It describes the development of the concept of the aryan 'race' as superior. Poliakov is an expert in this field and gives a lot of information on the antropological roots of it and traces it back to the Early Middle Ages. Via the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, it ends in the early 20th century when 'aryanism' becomes part of the NS ideology in Hitler Germany.
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