Books you're currently reading???

[Urbane Guerrilla]

The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power, Max Boot. It's about America's small wars, exclusive of the Indian Wars and other military actions inside the North American continent and around the national frontiers, starting really with the Barbary Wars beginning 1802, as it really doesn't get into the conflict-that-wasn't-quite-a-war with France of 1798-1800. Packs a lot between two covers. Persons interested in the history of the US Marines should give this one a look -- I never knew Smedley Butler had a middle name (and it sure doesn't look like he had a first name). It outlines American interventions in Central America and the Caribbean -- there was one dustup where the US Marines were fighting to defeat a coup instigated by United Fruit!

[lookout123]

how to win friends and influence people... by some guy.

yet another series of books for yet another professional designation that geniuses like tw will scoff at.

[elSicomoro]

Books for my first graduate class...I start in 2 weeks:

--Management Mistakes and Successes
--The Time Trap
--Effective Teamwork
--a management textbook published by Houghton Mifflin

[SteveDallas]

Just remember, there's no "I" in "team," but there's an "M" and an "E"!

A couple months back I randomly picked up a Terry Pratchett "Discworld" novel at the local library. (I think it was "Night Watch".) I've enjoyed them a lot--they mostly have newer ones. "Going Postal" is my favorite so far.

However I attempted to read the first one of the series, "The Color of Magic," and I found it an unbearable snooze and abandoned it halfway through.

[seakdivers]

I just got done reading State of Fear by Michael Crichton.

Absolutely faaaaantastic!! I loved it.
If you are considering reading this book, I would suggest reading the appendices first. It really helps you to get an idea of where this book is coming from.
I really hope they make a movie out of it!

[BigV]

Originally Posted by seakdivers

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If you are considering reading this book, I would suggest reading the appendices first. It really helps you to get an idea of where this book is coming from....

This is a good strategy for many books. I only learned this after the fact, sadly, for the LoTR trilogy. Interestingly, many of SonofV's books he checks out from the school library have these helpful appendicies in them. Many of them are kind of science-y, Bats, Reptiles, Sharks, Snakes, etc, and the appendix at the end is informative to me and I use it as a stealth teaching tool sometimes when we talk about the book.

[wolf]

The Way of A Pilgrim

It's part of a five-book series of 'spiritual classics' that I got from the One Spirit Book Club several years ago that I never got around to reading. It's supposed to be a first person account by a Russian peasant who seeks to learn the secrets of constant prayer.

The others in the series were a book of Sufi Poetry, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, The Tao Te Ching, and The Essential Kaballah. The Way of the Pilgrim is the only book of Christian Mysticism in the set.

[Trilby]

Currently reading 'LETTERS HOME', Sylvia Plath. Have article due soon.

Holy, holy.

[Trilby]

Originally Posted by wolf

The Way of A Pilgrim

from FRANNY AND ZOOEY?

I read that right after Salinger's RAISE HIGH THE ROOFBEAMS, and, CATCHER IN THE RYE .

ZOOEY AND FRANNY, or something or other, very good book.

Lotsa luck, girlfriend. I sincerely hope you can e'slpain it to me. Meaning any of the Salinger books. I 'know', but I'm afraid that I don't really "know"..---ya know?

[Cyclefrance]

Originally Posted by sycamore

Books for my first graduate class...I start in 2 weeks:

--Management Mistakes and Successes
--The Time Trap
--Effective Teamwork
--a management textbook published by Houghton Mifflin

Get yourself a copy of Goldratt's 'The Goal' - it won't cost you much second-hand but it will be one of the most useful management books you read, being the entry novel to a management and business process concept that stands up to scrutiny and that really does work and deliver. I'll be surprised if you don't get hooked.

[lumberjim]

I went old school on my last audiobook purchase:

The Illiad
The Odyssey
Ben Hur

[Griff]

Verbal Behavior- B.F. Skinner

[wolf]

Originally Posted by Brianna

from FRANNY AND ZOOEY?

I read that right after Salinger's RAISE HIGH THE ROOFBEAMS, and, CATCHER IN THE RYE .

ZOOEY AND FRANNY, or something or other, very good book.

Lotsa luck, girlfriend. I sincerely hope you can e'slpain it to me. Meaning any of the Salinger books. I 'know', but I'm afraid that I don't really "know"..---ya know?

Nope. It's a translation of some Russian Mystic Shit.

I have never actually read any Salinger. I somehow avoided that class in high school where you have to read The Catcher in the Rye.

Yes, I can see that you are surprised.

Would it reassure you any if I told you I have at least three copies of The Turner Diaries, as well as two other books from the same author?

[Trilby]

Yes, I am duly reassured!---Now--can you explain THE WAY OF THE PILGRIM? coz after reading FRANNY AND ZOOEY, I got that book and tried to read it and I think I may have (read it) but I didn't get much out of it. Yeah--it's Russian Mystic shit and it made Franny have a complete breakdown....so....what is the deal with that book?

[Griff]

Originally Posted by sycamore

Books for my first graduate class...I start in 2 weeks:

--Management Mistakes and Successes
--The Time Trap
--Effective Teamwork
--a management textbook published by Houghton Mifflin

Dude, are you that pissed at tw?