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What are you reading? What are some of your favorites?

I recently finished 'In Cold Blood' by Truman Capote. Heart breaking book about the senseless murder of a family of four in Kansas back in 1959.

Currently in for another tear jerker with 'Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee' by Dee Brown. I'm only 15 pages in and it's already rough. About the systematic annihilation of the Native Americans by European settlers, featuring actual accounts from Native Americans of the time.

No one?

I remember "A Brief History of Time" being a good read. Hawking is a good explainer

More recently I read "1989: The Year that Changed the World". It was a fascinating look at different singular events all over eastern Europe and how they contributed to the fall of the Berlin Wall

not reading any nonfiction at the moment, but i second A Brief History of Time. i really liked that book. also Hawking's Brief Answers to the Big Questions.

i've been meaning also to read Carl Sagan's Cosmos and Pale Blue Dot. i should do that sometime soon.

I like reading books about people with addiction troubles. Haven't read a non fic book in a while though.

I mostly read fiction but the last non-fiction book I read was Daft Punk's Discovery: The Future Unfurled by Ben Cardew

Really interesting read if you're a Daft Punk fan

Last book I read before the start of the semester was Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution by Susan Stryker. Highly recommend it!

Probably going to start in on Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity soon.

I tried reading Being and Time for the second time, this time on audiobook. Didn't go much better.

I read about half of A Brief History of Time, then it started going over my head

MedeaLysistrata posted...

I tried reading Being and Time for the second time, this time on audiobook. Didn't go much better.

try it again. Greg Sadler says you could read most philosophy works 5 or 6 times and still not get all of it.

i should get back into reading more philosophy books.

Nosferatu_Zodd posted...

I read about half of A Brief History of Time, then it started going over my head

really? it is supposed to be written with the audience in mind of people who have no prior knowledge of physics.

Last book I finished was:

https://www.amazon.com/Daily-Life-United-States-1920-1940/dp/1566635845

I am re-reading The Black Swan by Naseem Taleb and Blink by Malcolm Gladwell.

Highly recommended.

DoesntMatter posted...

try it again. Greg Sadler says you could read most philosophy works 5 or 6 times and still not get all of it.

i should get back into reading more philosophy books.

i'm going through it again and it makes a bit more sense

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huh, must have ran across this before at some point, because it's already on my "want to read" list on goodreads. i have no recollection of that though, lol. but yeah, looks good, i should get to that too.

In Cold Blood is hmmmmm in the non-fiction department. Very well-written book, quite fascinating, but Truman Capote certainly did love to play around with what's real and what's not, and not always in the most honest manner. Lots of massaging events to shape the story. Since he himself was personally embroiled with the people in that book, the whole enterprise is even more dubious. I kind of view it as a progenitor to reality TV, where "reality" is edited and scripted for the most dramatic effect.

I don't read much non-fiction myself, but I finished An Immense World about a month or two ago. That was a good one. Why Fish Don't Exist was also a nice quick little read.

I don't have any non-fiction books on the go at the moment, but the next book I start will be Gaza in Crisis - Reflections on the U.S.-Israeli War on the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky & Ilan Pappe.

I read it several years back but want to re-read it because I recently watched a documentary film that was about Israeli's 2008/2009 assault on Gaza. The film didn't really go much into the history of the conflict but rather just showed the perspective from the ground of what it's like when a largely defenseless civillian population gets bombed.

a-c-a-b posted...

I don't have any non-fiction books on the go at the moment, but the next book I start will be Gaza in Crisis - Reflections on the U.S.-Israeli War on the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky & Ilan Pappe.

I read it several years back but want to re-read it because I recently watched a documentary film that was about Israeli's 2008/2009 assault on Gaza. The film didn't really go much into the history of the conflict but rather just showed the perspective from the ground of what it's like when a largely defenseless civillian population gets bombed.

I always annotate my books. It makes re-reading them more enlightening.

DoesntMatter posted...

really? it is supposed to be written with the audience in mind of people who have no prior knowledge of physics.

Clearly I'm an idiot