What are you reading now?

[Trolldor]

OPLAN 5027

Is that the one where you guys provide air cover for an Australian invasion of New Zealand?

Yeah, they throw a couple of paper airplanes along side our model remote controlled one, just in case their anti-aircraft slingshots have a range higher than four metres.

[klr]

... if disturbing at times, given the life (and gory death) of many tank crew.

[Epictetus]

An essay by H.L. Mencken warning of the dangers of reading too many books. People stuff their heads so full of disparate information that in the end they actually know nothing and are unable to articulate their thoughts. They would do well to heed the injunction of Aquina's about being a man of one book (though, god forbid, it should be the book he's referring to).

[leo-rcc]

"Awkward situations for men" by Danny Wallace.

A bit hit and mis. Some parts are meh, others are hilarious and very recognizable.

[Epictetus]

John MacArthur's Bible Studies: Through Suffering to Triumph, circa 1991. wherein I stumbled upon this gem:

"Often we see suffering in the world and philosophically shrug it off as a condition of living--there seems to be nothing special about suffering because so many people, both good and bad, suffer. But the Puritan John Arrowsmith wrote, 'There is as much difference between the sufferings of the saints and those of the ungodly as there is between the cords with which the executioner pinions a condemned malefactor and the bandages wherewith a tender surgeon binds his patient'."

How nice!

[Ian]

Just finished reading it. Quite interesting - at times it's brilliant and insightful, and other times (especially getting beyond 2040) it seems ill-considered and even paranoid. His forecast for the next 20 or 30 years is very interesting, particularly with respect to demographic problems and their influence on macroeconomics/geopolitics, but beyond that his line of thought remains a bit too old-school for me. He also didn't factor technological advances into his analysis as much as I think he should have done.

[klr]

Loaned to me by a friend, who's gone off on holidays:



http://www.amazon.com/Singapore-Burning ... 0141010363

He claims this is unputdownable.

He himself is currently working his way through another compulsive read (just been dipping into it again myself as it so happens):



http://www.amazon.com/Stalin-Court-Simo ... 1400042305

[tattuchu]

Nothing. Nothing at all

[Deep Sea Isopod]

I've been trying to read "The Selfish Gene" but it's beyond my comprehenshun, so I'm reading VIZ issue 195 instead.

[Geoff]

[Bella Fortuna]

[maiforpeace]

Frank Talk II by Frank Devlyn.

[Animavore]

A book of advice for living the good life.

[Animavore]

And also this. Sociologist becomes a gang leader for the day.

[charlou]

Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha .. found in a sh bookshop in Hahndorf