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Re: What are you READING right NOW? < Reply # 161 on 12/13/2013 2:22 AM > | Reply with Quote
Just finished Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Live in North Korea. Very interesting, and more than once brought tears to my eyes.
Now reading The Guns of August.
“We are not going to have the kind of cooperation we need if everyone insists on their own narrow version of reality. … the great divide in the world today … is between people who have the courage to listen and those who are convinced that they already know it all.”
Re: What are you READING right NOW? < Reply # 162 on 1/3/2014 5:37 PM > | Reply with Quote
I read The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why it Matters and Out of Mao's Shadow a few weeks ago both interesting but Nothing to Envy was a lot better. It's tragic but its one of those books that you start reading on a Saturday afternoon and end up finishing the next day...
Recently finished Explore Everything: Placehacking the City it's not a bad read, thoroughly enjoyed it, but at times it reads like a PhD thesis that has been recycled (which it is).
Right now I'm nerding out on archaeology books: Food and Gender in Fiji: Ethnoarchaeological Explorations A Shark Going Inland Is My Chief: The Island Civilization of Ancient Hawai'i The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island Societies: Archaeological and Demographic Perspectives
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Re: What are you READING right NOW? < Reply # 166 on 1/28/2014 3:59 AM > | Reply with Quote
Just finished Wild by Cheryl Strayed. Next up: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Carl Sagan.
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Re: What are you READING right NOW? < Reply # 167 on 2/9/2014 5:48 AM > | Reply with Quote
Just finished reading The Dobe Ju/'Hoansi Pretty interesting, its about the African bushmen. They have no formal leader so basically everyone contributes to the group. When hunting they swap arrows so whoever kills something doesn't get the respect it might just have been a good arrow. Also hunters 'insult the meat'. Saying ohh... I killed something but its not that great - still you guys should probably come check it out. People refuse to eat meat captured by a boastful hunter. So if the hunter remains humble (insulting his kill) then the tribe will partake.
Re: What are you READING right NOW? < Reply # 168 on 5/11/2014 8:55 PM > | Reply with Quote
- Through the Eye of the Needle: A Maori Elder Remembers - The Yanomamo - Argonauts of the Western Pacific - Hijras: Neither Man nor Woman - The Gift: The Forms and Reasons for Exchange in Archaic Society
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Re: What are you READING right NOW? < Reply # 170 on 5/22/2014 4:03 PM > | Reply with Quote
I'm between books at the moment, but I just finished Blue at the Mizzen by Patrick O'Brien, and I have 21: The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey on order at the library.
“We are not going to have the kind of cooperation we need if everyone insists on their own narrow version of reality. … the great divide in the world today … is between people who have the courage to listen and those who are convinced that they already know it all.”
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Re: What are you READING right NOW? < Reply # 173 on 6/30/2014 1:01 AM > | Reply with Quote
Neil Stephenson's Cryptonomicon.
“We are not going to have the kind of cooperation we need if everyone insists on their own narrow version of reality. … the great divide in the world today … is between people who have the courage to listen and those who are convinced that they already know it all.”
“We are not going to have the kind of cooperation we need if everyone insists on their own narrow version of reality. … the great divide in the world today … is between people who have the courage to listen and those who are convinced that they already know it all.”
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On the bleeding edge of cocking things up.
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Re: What are you READING right NOW? < Reply # 176 on 7/2/2014 4:21 PM > | Reply with Quote
Posted by splumer I have that!
I bought it as a replacement for my really cheap and abused paperbacks from the early 90's. I also picked up Eldrich Tales. I really like the bindings on these.
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Re: What are you READING right NOW? < Reply # 177 on 1/7/2015 2:27 PM > | Reply with Quote
Panzer Leader by Heinz Guderian, and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty.
“We are not going to have the kind of cooperation we need if everyone insists on their own narrow version of reality. … the great divide in the world today … is between people who have the courage to listen and those who are convinced that they already know it all.”
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Re: What are you READING right NOW? < Reply # 178 on 1/23/2015 2:52 PM > | Reply with Quote
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill. Almost done. Not sure what to read next.
“We are not going to have the kind of cooperation we need if everyone insists on their own narrow version of reality. … the great divide in the world today … is between people who have the courage to listen and those who are convinced that they already know it all.”