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Leon Uris Armageddon
Leon Uris Topaz
Leon Uris QB VII
Leon Uris The Haj
Leon Uris Mitla Pass
Leon Uris Redemption

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Mila 18 was on our reading list in 10th grade.

Part 2 of the list of books.

(Letters E, D, NL stand for the language my copy is in. E=English, D=Deutsch, NL=Nederlands)


Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim E
Kingsley Amis - The Old Devils E
Cervantes - Don Quixote E
Joseph Conrad - Lord Jim E
William Golding - Lord Of The Flies E
William Golding - Rites Of Passage E
Hermann Hesse - Der Steppenwolf D
Aldous Huxley - Those Barren Leaves E
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World E
Aldous Huxley - Eyeless In Gaza E
Aldous Huxley - The Devils Of Loudun E
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World Revisited E
James Joyce - Ulysses E
Franz Kafka - Das Schloss NL
Franz Kafka - Amerika D
Franz Kafka - Das Urteil (und andere Erzählungen) D
Franz Kafka - Tagebücher 1910-1923 D
Franz Kafka - Der Prozess E
Bernard Malamud - The Fixer E
Herman Melville - Moby-Dick, Or The Whale E
Multatuli - Max Havelaar NL
George Orwell - Animal Farm E
George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four E
Jean-Paul Sartre - L'Âge De Raison NL
Jean-Paul Sartre - Le Sursis NL
Jean-Paul Sartre - La Mort Dans L'Âme NL
Alan Sillitoe - Saturday Night And Sunday Morning NL

Dostoyevsky - Poor Folk NL
Dostoyevsky - White Nights/The Landlady NL
Dostoyevsky - A Nasty Story E
Dostoyevsky - Crime And Punishment E
Dostoyevsky - The Gambler E
Dostoyevsky - The Idiot E
Dostoyevsky - The Possessed E
Dostoyevsky - Bobok E
Dostoyevsky - A Gentle Creature NL
Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov NL
Gogol - Dead Souls E
Gorky - The Life Of A Useless Man E
Gorky - The Mother NL
Gorky - Life Of Klim Samgin NL
N.S. Leskov - Cathedral Folk NL
V. Shalamov - Kolyma Tales E
Solzhenitsyn - One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich E
Solzhenitsyn - Short stories E
Solzhenitsyn - The First Circle E
Solzhenitsyn - The Cancer Ward E
Solzhenitsyn - August 1914 E
Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago (Vol. 1-3) NL
Solzhenitsyn - Letters/Autobiography/Related Material NL
L. Tolstoy - Childhood E
L. Tolstoy - Boyhood E
L. Tolstoy - Youth E
L. Tolstoy - War And Peace E
L. Tolstoy - Anna Karenina E
L. Tolstoy - Resurrection E
L. Tolstoy - Hadji Murat E
I. Turgenev - Novels, Shorter fiction, Letters (Vol. 1-5) NL

Got a last minute train ride to New Orleans tomorrow and just bought this for the 8 hour ride there and back:

haven't read a rock bio since high school, but i love the stooges.

Enjoyed this a lot. Maybe I read it too fast as I feel like going back and reading it again; slowly this time.

Finally, reading the source for "Homicide" and "The Wire."

In terms of writing, better than expected; for a journalist (written in 1991, eventually wrote eps for the "Homicide" TV show, the rest is history...) has talent for setting and black humor.

The second Anita Blake novel, The Laughing Corpse by Laurell K. Hamilton

Furuno 1850DF Operations Manual

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if that was facetious then well played and i'm calling Power 106 to dedicate a song- know that Gia will hear it.

Helter Skelter again, celebrating Susan Atkins death.

Leon Uris - Mitla Pass

I enjoyed this book a lot. So far the best I've read from Uris. Where characters in other books remain little developed, because of the main plot/storyline, in Mitla Pass multiple characters are shown to their full extent. The theme of fears that people experience is (of course) not exactly new, but in this novel it's described in a superb way. Not unlike the great 19th century Russian writers.

Historically interesting as well. It describes life in the Pale of Settlement at the end of the 19th century, beginning 20th century, as well as the Jewish communities at the US east coast in the beginning of last century.

Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchet's
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch.

Quite funny.

I took some books from the library:

Last book that I read was K BLOWS TOP, about Nikita Khrushchev's 1959 tour of the USA. Damn fine read.

this:

Martin Gilbert - Auschwitz and the Allies

Solid writing. (Gilbert also wrote some parts of the Churchill biography.)
Earlier I read Walter Laqueur's 'The Terrible Secret' and 'London has been informed..' by Henryk Swiebocki (ed.). Laqueur's focus is more on the general situation and attitude towards the news about the extermination camps; 'London has been informed...' deals mostly with the way the reports came from Poland to the West.
Gilbert writes extensively about the reaction both in the US and UK to the news and information about Auschwitz and other camps. He's not mild on what both governments did and did not do.


Maxim Gorky - The Mother

I was a bit surprised by this. It's a perfect example of socialist realism, but a very good read. It's also in typically Russian style with long, detailed descriptions of events, people and thoughts/emotions. I read a older Dutch translation, which (I think) is very close to the original Russian.

Tolstoy - Hadji Murat

Nice, rather short novel. It's about an Avar commander in the Caucasus. A kind of tale of war and betrayal.


Varlam Shalamov - Kolyma Tales

Superb. Dry stories, told from a distance. Highly recommended.

Nightmare USA: The Untold Story Of The Exploitation Independents by Stephen Thrower


Possibly the most awesome work ever printed, and big enough to kill a man with a single blow, even in paperback.

Just finished reading this book while taking a dump:

I read that book a couple of months ago. It was pretty interesting. Reading SuperFreakonomics now. After that the new Malcolm Gladwell book: What the Dog Saw.

Not a big Gladwell fan.

I am reading Eating the Dinosaur, Chuck Klosterman's new book. Meh....

Enjoy a work of perverse genius...I did. I'm still a little queasy.



"I came suddenly, a jolt that emptied my head like a spoon scraping the inside of a soft-boiled egg."

from:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/04/books/04litt.html

“The Kindly Ones,” the 983-page novel by Jonathan Littell that went on sale on Tuesday, is a fictionalized memoir of a remorseless former Nazi SS officer, who in addition to taking part in the mass extermination of the Jews, commits incest with his sister, sodomizes himself with a sausage and most likely kills his mother and stepfather. Oh, and it’s been translated from the French.

Then again, long before the book was released in the United States by the Harper imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, it came with a laureled publishing history. Mr. Littell, an English-speaking American who decided to write in French and now lives in Barcelona, Spain, won the Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary award, as well as a prize from the Académie Française.

The book, published as “Les Bienveillantes” in France in 2006, sold around 700,000 copies there. A French critic compared it to Tolstoy’s “War and Peace.”

It was the talk of the Frankfurt Book Fair two years ago, and the subject of a heated auction here in the United States, resulting in Harper’s paying, according to Publishers Weekly, about $1 million for the rights to publish the novel in this country. Now, as it hits bookstores — and the time is near when Harper will find out whether such a tome can earn back such a hefty advance — the novel is meeting a dramatically polarized critical response. Last week in The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani wrote that “the novel’s gushing fans, however, seem to have mistaken perversity for daring, pretension for ambition, an odious stunt for contrarian cleverness,” adding that the book was “willfully sensationalistic and deliberately repellent.”

But on The Daily Beast (thedailybeast.com), Tina Brown’s blog, Michael Korda, the former editor in chief of Simon & Schuster and the author of several biographies, hailed “The Kindly Ones” as a masterpiece and Mr. Littell as a genius.

“I guarantee you, if you read this book to the end, and if you have any kind of taste at all, you won’t be able to put it down for a moment — lay in snacks and drinks! — you will be upset, disturbed, revolted and deeply challenged,” Mr. Korda wrote. (Some of Mr. Korda’s books have also recently been published by Harper.)

Just started reading this one:

Checkout my collection of books. I just finished uploading every pic of the book that I have.

Almost done with this:

Finally getting into Don DeLillo. Just finished White Noise. Really dug it.

Now starting Mao II.

The inspiration for both Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.

this

Kingsley Amis - The Old Devils

It's funny as hell and carries the (assumed) message in a light way. I like his writing; Lucky Jim was also very good.


Leon Trotsky - The History of the Russian Revolution

I bought this a while ago and only recently felt up to reading it. Trotsky's not the easiest writer to read, but his eye for detail and his historical knowledge and comparison are very impressive.

For those interested, <clicky> for online version.

I'm reading Censored 2010. I've read a few of their past collections, this one is bad so far. One article is about schools being more segregated now than in the 50's. They use a small section for the base of the argument. Then in an article about toxic waste in North Carolina, they say there are 200million people in the area. 300million in the US, 200mill in a corner of NC, yep makes sense. I put the book down after that. I'll probably pick it up again at some point, but it should not b called Project Censored this year. It should be called, Journalism So Lousy They Couldn't Get Paid For It.

Just finished reading this one:

Last book I read was Harry Turtedove's How Few Remains. Nice read, but I disagree with his fundamental premise that McClellan would have ever offered battle to Lee on the west bank of the Susquehanna. IMO he would have intrenched on the east bank and required Lee to cross at his peril. BTW I would like to read Edmund Morris on TR, and thanks for jogging my memory. Have to boost that to the top of my reading list.

@ Dean Wormer: EXCELLENT Book. Much better than part II, IMO.

White Line Fever is pretty good. I like that there is at least one entertainer out there that didn't get all faggy and weepy about his past.


I just read Punching with Power by Ross Enamait. A lot of guys I respect swear by his shit.
http://rosstraining.com/blog/

This scared the shit out of me.

Just finished reading this one:

Michael Jackson's Autopsy report.

This book:

I've been reliving my Florida youth by reading Tim Dorsey novels one after the other.

Right now I'm on "Nuclear Jellyfish"