What's The Last Book You've Read?

[Dr_PepPeR]

That's why the stories of Kafka are timeless =)

 

Hahaha! I have a love/hate relationship with Kafka's works.

[Joie]

I am rereading Nabokov's Lolita right now.

[Karma Policeman]

Great book.

[vagabond]

The Men Who Play God: A collection of ten stories by A.B. Rotor

[bluegreen717]

Free to Choose by Milton Friedman. Paperback, secondhand, from Book Sale. Thirty bucks. A timely read, much more a timely find. May his soul rest in peace.

[RPinay]

I'd like to go back to a lot of classics too but oftentimes the Victorian style of writing is a real pain in the ass to read. Kafka is another matter altogether.

Try reading Bram Stoker's Dracula. Its an Epistolary Novel. That is, you understand the story from reading newspaper clippings, diary entries, police reports and the like. It's truly and extraordinary read. :mtc:

[Candice]

jose riza life,works and writing by ZAEDE

[vagabond]

relasyon: Mga Kuwento ng Paglusong at Pag-ahon edited by Rolando B. Tolentino and Luna Sicat

[vagabond]

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson

[bluegreen717]

Unabomber: On the Trail of America's Most-Wanted Serial Killer by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker.

 

It probably would have been better as a docu-film. Not enough of a backgrounder on Kaczynski, though, but his manifesto's in the appendix. (Not an easy read, but very, very interesting.)

[rafi]

Ward No. 6 And Other Stories by Anton Chekhov

[vagabond]

The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the World by Benedict Anderson

[vagabond]

The Rape Of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust Of World War II by Iris Chang

[Larry]

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk

 

Just the first story "guts" is worth the whole book

[icejam]

Neil Gaiman's The Sandman: Fables and Reflections

 

just four more volumes to go

[vagabond]

By Sword And Fire: The Destruction Of Manila In World War II 3 February-3 March 1945 by Alfonso J. Aluit

[spongebobby]

"mind set!" by john naisbitt, the same author of megatrends. from harpercollins.

 

excellent book. good complement to "dealing with darwin" by geoffrey moore.

[rafi]

The Rape Of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust Of World War II by Iris Chang

 

 

 

if i remember it correctly, iris chang committed suicide not too long ago

[rafi]

am currently re-reading Cervantes' Don Quixote. last read it back in high school

[punkus]

sophie's world by jostein gaarder never thought i could learn so much history from a book

 

saka

 

the historian ayus din...a new twist to the vlad the impaler legend....

[vagabond]

The Philippines Under Japan: Occupation Policy and Reaction edited by Ikeheta Setsuho and Ricardo Trota Jose

[vagabond]

if i remember it correctly, iris chang committed suicide not too long ago

oh really? how sad...

[cuatro_ojos]

Currently reading "Stalin and His Hangmen" by Donald Rayfield.

[foxy_fujiko]

geez... Nights in Rodanthe... simple... it's cool

[LostCommand]

Was reading the following manual today,

 

Liquified Gas Handling Principles on Ships and Terminals

(White & De la Vega, 1986)

Chapter 10.5.8.

 

Abandoning of Ship

"This is not a decision that can be incorporated into planned procedures. Suffice it to say that only general guidelines can be given; much lies upon the judgement of the master and the aggressiveness of the situation at hand..."

 

 

I have this constant unnerving feeling that if I do not deliberately seek out danger and gamble long odds with storm and disaster, they themselves will seek me out, and ambush me on their own terms and timing at that. I suffer the insecurity that if I enjoy and bask upon my achievements and my laurels one moment too long, then fate will take them away; so I must keep fate itself on the defensive, distract it by my ceaseless and remorseless taking of what is not yet mine. Instead of defending my various fortunes, I'd better off going out my fortress and getting even more.

 

Those patriotic, heroic, and hardworking enough can cope and defend entrenched positions against all comers (especially us pinoys; witness Bataan and Corregidor). But at best, defense merely delays defeat. To counterattack successfully, especially against overwhelming odds, we need another breed; we need to enlist the traitors from other side, the corrupting spies, the devious gunrunners, the devil may care bullies, the souless conjuring magicians. And we need the most demon-blooded pirates we can find -to lead properly and to lead well these best, worst, and craziest of our lot, to charge with them side by side in the sleepiest hour of night, and under the most complex cover of deceit. And that is how we finish the fight.

 

Defense may win battles, yes, but not wars.

 

"It is when most quiet that the Enemy draws nearest" - let the stupid enemy learn that Jesuitic wisdom all over again. We learned it long ago.

 

LC