much to the detriment of the items on my 'to do' list, I'm immersed in "dead or alive" by tom clancy (and other unnamed author; or at least, I don't remember the co-author's name)
Originally Posted by big nasty kcnut:
I'm reading The New American Revolution by tammy bruce. She is a great thinker and funny.
Just began reading the book "The Greatest Generation" by Tom Brokaw. I was turned to it by another planateer recently....My curiousity was piqued because I have always felt that the generation of world war II was the last great generation of Americans.... [Reply]
Finished "War" by Sebastian Junger - author follows one platoon of paratroopers over the course of a 15 month deployment (2007-08) to the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan; hard to put down. Sometimes you might have to. Excellent read.
Started "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable" by Nasim Nicholas Taleb.
Originally Posted by keg in kc:
I'm making another attempt to slog through Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces. I picked it up about a year ago, and while the idea of the monomyth grabs my imagination, the book itself clearly did not; I couldn't make it more than a couple of pages on my initial effort.
(It's better than Tylenol PM if any of you ever have problems sleeping.)
But I've managed to make it through Chapter 1 this time around, and I'm going to keep soldiering on.
Three weeks later....I'm still at the beginning of Chapter 2. :-)
I've gotten into a Gene Wolfe kick. Read Pirate Freedom (which I really, really liked - I could swear somebody told me it sucked) and re-read The Knight, and I've just started re-reading The Wizard. Also been reading The Best of Gene Wolfe, which is a collection of stories from throughout his career. [Reply]
