[Heisenberg]

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre.

[Bulaba Khan Jones]

I recently saw the film version of that with Gary Oldman, but found it fairly dull. How was the book?

[Heisenberg]

I only started reading it a couple of days ago, but I', enjoying it so far. It's a very complex, and the author (who used to work for MI6 himself) does a great job of immersing you in the world. Part of the appeal of it is that it isn't sensationalised, and portrays a lot of intelligence work as being an everyday job. I can understand why it might not adapt well to film.

[Red_Army]

I'm reading The Man in the Iron Mask.

I couldn't find the 2 parts of the work between this final part and The Three Musketeers, but its pretty awesome even so.

[Bulaba Khan Jones]

Spoiler alert: there are two Leonardo DiCaprios!

[Pants-of-dog]

Dumas novels are the action movies of their era. Love them.

I just finished reading almost all of Peter Clines's novels. Enjoyable, but no politics.

[Decky]

[RhetoricThug]

Jacques Derrida
The Gift of Death & Literature in Secret
Translated by David Wills

[Sphinx]

I started reading the autobiography of Mahathir Mohamad, the former prime minister of Malaysia. The book is called "A Doctor in the House: the Memoirs of tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad." It is a huge book: 950 pages of large size. I hope it will be a delicious read.

[ViljenFjerstad]

Im reading Team of Rivals of Doris Kearns Goodwin

[Sphinx]

Just finished reading Lenin's book "The state and revolution."

I didn't like his using the two phrases "democracy" and "dictatorship of the proletariate" interchangeably. Makes it sound like a piece of propaganda rather than political analysis.

[Baykok]

Just finished reading Lenin's book "The state and revolution."

I didn't like his using the two phrases "democracy" and "dictatorship of the proletariate" interchangeably. Makes it sound like a piece of propaganda rather than political analysis.

To be fair, the dictatorship of the proletariat is supposed to be the last dictatorship and the dictatorship to end class and state; and one that is the most democratic. Not dictatorship in the sense we in everyday life use the word, but in the sense that (as Marxist analysis puts it) all societies where there is class rule are dictatorships. Even bourgeois democracy, and even a proletarian democracy... so I guess if you accept the basic terminology, using the two notions interchangeably is forgivable.

Anyway, to not be full offtopic; I will soon finish Trouble in Paradise by Žižek.

[drum_tonnal]

A short story about a dynamic American businessman who is visiting his properties in Scotland when he is told by a mysterious lake monster that he and only he was born with the powers necessary to free the world from the terrors of the Magic Ministry.

Guaranteed to be an eye-opener for people who have heard only one side of the story.

[ThirdTerm]

“Always get even. When you are in business, you need to get even with people who screw you.” – Think Big.

Perhaps this is the best advise he gave to his readers. Trump has an entire chapter dedicated for how to get even with your enemies who get in the way of your business or endeavour. Bullies would think twice about doing it again, if they are hit between the eyes.

[The Sabbaticus]

Just finished the first of the Game of Thrones books. I can't believe the show didn't show all five thousand guests during the wedding banquet of Daenerys and Drogo. What a miserly show. I mean the book clearly states that there were five thousand guests.

[Pants-of-dog]

I am reading some crappy sci-fi book while I wait for the next book in the Three Body Problem series.

[Heisenberg]

Just finished this:

[skinster]

Last batch:

This was short and sweet and kind of amusing in parts.


A book called Love 2.0. by a forgettable psychologist...I read an article about the book in BrainPickings or whatever, which made the book appear interesting. Turns out it was about 20% good and really fucking cheesy for the most part, and obviously written for first-world brats.

This was pretty excellent, the writer lived amongst the poor in Wisconsin for a number of years and documented what happens to people who are poor; the men are usually sent to prison and the women deal with collective-punishment reguarly, in the form of evictions.


Brilliant. Everyone should read this.


Halfway through this and it's incredibly well written. Very informative and just..really fucking dark in parts where things in it won't ever leave me.....horrible things.


This next.



Let it be known that I now sell sex for books. This is half-true.

[Admin010]

thanks

[mikema63]

The Dictators handbook by Alastair Smith