What are you reading now?

[Animavore]

This.



Again.

I actually had to back off that and read some primer material before I felt comfortable giving it the reading it deserved. The second time through it was much easier to filter through my brain-substitute.

I love this book. Its very detailed. It was this guy who gave me the idea of asking that creationist mate of mine about the practical applications of creation science which he still hasn't answered.
I didn't find any of it difficult to read although since 2006 when I read The Ancestors Tale I've been alternating my reading between books on evolution an aspects of it and books on other subjects (including other sciences) so I guess I had all the primer material I needed. I'm just reading it again so it sinks in a little deeper into my head.

[Faithfree]

This.



Again.

I actually had to back off that and read some primer material before I felt comfortable giving it the reading it deserved. The second time through it was much easier to filter through my brain-substitute.

It's been on my bookself for most of this year, but is still in the queue. Perhaps time I bumped it up a couple of places.

[Clinton Huxley]

The Donald Prothero book is excellent.

Just finished reading The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid, got Iran: Empire of the Mind by Michael Axworthy on the go and possibly will go for Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the the Winning of the Great War At Sea after that.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

It's been on my bookself for most of this year, but is still in the queue. Perhaps time I bumped it up a couple of places.

He added a lot to my knowledge of the topic, but only after I was ready to read him. He is very much over my level on this topic, but the stretching of the (very) grey matter felt good to me.

[klr]

The Donald Prothero book is excellent.

Just finished reading The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid, got Iran: Empire of the Mind by Michael Axworthy on the go and possibly will go for Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the the Winning of the Great War At Sea after that.

Ohhh ... have you read Dreadnought as well by the same author?

[Clinton Huxley]

The Donald Prothero book is excellent.

Just finished reading The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid, got Iran: Empire of the Mind by Michael Axworthy on the go and possibly will go for Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the the Winning of the Great War At Sea after that.

Ohhh ... have you read Dreadnought as well by the same author?

I have a very well thumbed copy of Dreadnought, one of my all time faves of military history, so I've been looking forward to reading Castles of Steel

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The Donald Prothero book is excellent.

Just finished reading The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid, got Iran: Empire of the Mind by Michael Axworthy on the go and possibly will go for Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the the Winning of the Great War At Sea after that.

Ohhh ... have you read Dreadnought as well by the same author?

I have them both. Tasty!

[klr]

The Donald Prothero book is excellent.

Just finished reading The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid, got Iran: Empire of the Mind by Michael Axworthy on the go and possibly will go for Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the the Winning of the Great War At Sea after that.

Ohhh ... have you read Dreadnought as well by the same author?

I have them both. Tasty!

"You can't have one without the other"

[Clinton Huxley]

The Donald Prothero book is excellent.

Just finished reading The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid, got Iran: Empire of the Mind by Michael Axworthy on the go and possibly will go for Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the the Winning of the Great War At Sea after that.

Ohhh ... have you read Dreadnought as well by the same author?

I have them both. Tasty!

"You can't have one without the other"

At 800+ pages each, they definitely fall into the "tome" category...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

At 800+ pages each, they definitely fall into the "tome" category...

I read Dreadnought while researching the German Naval Staff demographics and the "good old boy" club that sprang from it. I was neck deep in pre-WWI material at the time, and my prof was a German History specialist so I couldn't fake any of the material. I felt much put upon by that.

[klr]

The Donald Prothero book is excellent.

Just finished reading The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid, got Iran: Empire of the Mind by Michael Axworthy on the go and possibly will go for Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the the Winning of the Great War At Sea after that.

Ohhh ... have you read Dreadnought as well by the same author?

I have them both. Tasty!

"You can't have one without the other"

At 800+ pages each, they definitely fall into the "tome" category...

"The bigger the better ...". I have so many door-step sized history books that I just don't know where to start right now ... :RAH:

At 800+ pages each, they definitely fall into the "tome" category...

I read Dreadnought while researching the German Naval Staff demographics and the "good old boy" club that sprang from it. I was neck deep in pre-WWI material at the time, and my prof was a German History specialist so I couldn't fake any of the material. I felt much put upon by that.

Hey, there's nothing wrong with being forced to know your material in depth. It builds character.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I read Dreadnought while researching the German Naval Staff demographics and the "good old boy" club that sprang from it. I was neck deep in pre-WWI material at the time, and my prof was a German History specialist so I couldn't fake any of the material. I felt much put upon by that.

Hey, there's nothing wrong with being forced to know your material in depth. It builds character.

I don't read German, so there was a bit more excitement for me in that.

And hey, guess what? The Germans discriminated against Jews even in uniform.

[Clinton Huxley]

Just been flicking through Castles of Steel - you gotta love this bit:-

"...At 5:59pm....they emerged from a thick bank of mist to behold a terrible sight: the Grand Fleet spread before them upon the northern horizon. Twenty four British dreadnoughts and a host of cruisers and destroyers were 16,000 yards away..."

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Just been flicking through Castles of Steel - you gotta love this bit:-

"...At 5:59pm....they emerged from a thick bank of mist to behold a terrible sight: the Grand Fleet spread before them upon the northern horizon. Twenty four British dreadnoughts and a host of cruisers and destroyers were 16,000 yards away..."

"Und vhere vere ze Zepplins?"

[Clinton Huxley]

Just been flicking through Castles of Steel - you gotta love this bit:-

"...At 5:59pm....they emerged from a thick bank of mist to behold a terrible sight: the Grand Fleet spread before them upon the northern horizon. Twenty four British dreadnoughts and a host of cruisers and destroyers were 16,000 yards away..."

"Und vhere vere ze Zepplins?"

For you, Admiral Zilla, ze vor is ovah!