Wine Snobbery, picked up a new copy on Amazon Marketplace for like 4 bucks. Amazing book, it should be re-released now that wine has taken off in the US.
I am re-reading Lone Wolf and Cub, an epic manga series by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima. It is unbelievably good.
As for novels, I just finished "Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures" by Vincent Lam. He recently won the Giller Prize and I wanted to see what the hoopla was about. I must say, I enjoyed it.
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Posts: 53 | Location: Our Nations Capital | Registered: Dec 14, 2006
Currently reading Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson. How this book ever got by me before is beyond me. Guterson is a great writer.
Of course, I'll have to check out the movie now when I'm done with the book and see how bad it sucks in comparison.
"I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens." - Thomas Jefferson
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I'm being a bit of a book slut and dividing my time between "Suite Francaise" by Irene Nemirovsky and "College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Coeds, Then and Now" by Lynn Peril.
Posts: 1068 | Location: Chicago | Registered: Jun 22, 2005
The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk. A very challenging, scholarly work. I think I need to read and reread some prerequisite books before really delving into it.
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Posts: 4510 | Location: Dubai | Registered: Dec 20, 2002
Originally posted by RobM: Currently reading Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson. How this book ever got by me before is beyond me. Guterson is a great writer.
Of course, I'll have to check out the movie now when I'm done with the book and see how bad it sucks in comparison.
The book and the movie are naturally a lot different. Both are good, and is worth picking up if you see it in the $5 bin at Wal-Mart. Seeing as I am married to a Korean woman, there were some themes in the novel that hit close to home. Then again, being married to a Korean woman, there was a lot of character development that I felt apathetic towards.
No less, it is a great narrative of a very dark portion of our history.
I'm hooked on "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond. I'll give him credit at least for being as ambitious to explain human development in its completeness. Great perspective on how we came to be who we are as a [global] society. A welcoming change from all the PC-Ivory Tower theories that abound.
I'm hooked on "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond. I'll give him credit at least for being as ambitious to explain human development in its completeness. Great perspective on how we came to be who we are as a [global] society. A welcoming change from all the PC-Ivory Tower theories that abound.
Really enjoyed that a couple of years ago. Thought-provoking. Gave me a lot of insight as to how Europe achieved its dominance.
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Posts: 6489 | Location: Vancouver, BC | Registered: Oct 17, 2001
Originally posted by cdr11: The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk. A very challenging, scholarly work. I think I need to read and reread some prerequisite books before really delving into it.
Originally posted by cdr11: The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk. A very challenging, scholarly work. I think I need to read and reread some prerequisite books before really delving into it.
Hannibal Rising - Thomas Harris Roadshow - Neil Peart (drummer of Rush) An Illustrated History of Guitars - Nick Freeth Ultramarathon Man - Dean Karnazes An Inconvenient Truth - Al Gore
