What are you currently reading?

[Col. Reb]

We Were Soldiers Once and Young for Military History 301. One of the most in-depth books I've ever read. Excellent reading.

[Ria]

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Is that pre or post movie ?

Definitely pre. The movie is actually really different than the book. It's a great read; not corny (as some people may think) at all.

[Opening Batsman]

Mukiwa - A White Boy in Africa
Peter Godwin

[HooyahCQB]

I'm trying to find my copy of Baudolino, by Umberto Eco...pretty freakin' funny little read. Story about some jackass wandering around during the Fourth Crusade. (Obviously it's been awhile since I've picked this one up, but I thought I'd be all pretentious and intellectual and stuff )

Is it really? He wrote a boring-ass article in a book called "Literacies and Technologies" that I had to read this semester. It sucked major donkey balls, but it was non-fiction. Maybe i'll pick up a copy of Baudolino

[Shaw]

I'm reading Combat Swimmer Memoirs of a Navy Seal by Captain Robert A. Gormly

not finished yet, but a very interesting read about the authors career as a Seal in Vietnam, Grenada, and the Persian Gulf.

[Double Tap]

[b.scheller]

Mitla Pass by Leon Uris.

[digrar]

RE-reading Sleeping with your ears open. By Gary McKay MC. On patrol with the SASR in Malaya and Viet Nam.

[Opening Batsman]

RE-reading Sleeping with your ears open. By Gary McKay MC. On patrol with the SASR in Malaya and Viet Nam.

I have read that cover to cover about three times and read snippets of it hundreds of times.

[scrybe]

John Keegen: "The Face of Battle"
Michael Howard: "War in European History"
Richard Overy: "Why the Allies Won"
James McPherson: "Crossroads of Freedom: Antietem"

This is more like a list of books I should have been reading over the last 9 weeks. I've read Howard and half of Keegen, but I just skimmed over the other two. I had other books for other classes as well.

[walford]

I'm working on a 20-page research paper for my 'Gender Conflict and Development in Non-Western Societies' class [which I refer to as my 'cee you next Tuesday' class]. I'm slogging through a mail tub full of books with titles like:
- Gender & Development in the 3rd World
- Women in Guinea-Bissau
- Gender Caste and Class in India
- Women and Revolution in Viet Nam
- Chinse Feminism Faces Globalization

So those of you who don't like me take heart: I'm not having fun.

[fred_engles]

I'm working on a 20-page research paper for my 'Gender Conflict and Development in Non-Western Societies' class [which I refer to as my 'cee you next Tuesday' class]. I'm slogging through a mail tub full of books with titles like:
- Gender & Development in the 3rd World
- Women in Guinea-Bissau
- Gender Caste and Class in India
- Women and Revolution in Viet Nam
- Chinse Feminism Faces Globalization

So those of you who don't like me take heart: I'm not having fun.

You poor shmuck =)

If it makes you feel any better - I have a 20 page paper I'm writting as well - and I'm not having fun either. Although I must say my topic is a little less, err, sucky.

Anyway, for fun I'm slowly rereading both "the glass bead game" and the "tao te ching." But mostly I don't have time for them (classes and life and all).

[James]

"The System of the World" - Neal Stephenson. It is part III in the "Baroque Cycle" which started with "Quicksilver" and continued with "The Confusion".

[Phil642]

Patrick Ourednik
Europeana
A short history of the xxiest century
I do highly recommend it, full of humour and all is true

[snake]

Lee The Last Days

Bio of Robert E Lee's Days after the war