What book are you reading?

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  1. cerberus

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    Just finished The Revenant - wow, strong stuff.
     
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    Is this the only book thread? I was looking for a topic section on political books, but I don't see one anywhere. I'm currently reading Ideas Have Consequences, a classic political book from 1948. Interesting to see the analysis of left and right from that far back.
     
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    That's not a tail fin... THIS is a tail fin:

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    For those who don't know cars, that's a 1959 Cadillac. Fins all but disappeared in the 1960 model year.
     
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    Do books on tape count? I drive a lot.

    Im a good way through 'Guns, Germs Steel' a compendium on the history of the americas from early man to colonialism. Its quite good, as its written by a journalist.
     
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    Seminal work, won the Pulitzer.

    Try to read the sequel. Collapse , if you can. A bit more activist but still very interesting, especially the section on Edo period Japan
     
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    I just started Hacks, the Inside Story of the Breakins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House.
     
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    Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz. Fascinating!
     
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    John Lewis Gaddis's "The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past". I'm thinking about starting his new book "On Grand Strategy."

     
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    Takedown by Kengor is also a good read.
     
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    "It Can't Happen Here", Sinclair Lewis
     
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    The Splintered Empires: The Eastern Front 1917-21
     
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    The Cruel Sea - again!
     
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    The Smear
    How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote

    I also just read the original 6 Dune books again (I read them when I was 10).

    I'm intending to reread Slaughterhouse 5 as I seem to remember it's bat **** crazy lol but really good.
     
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    That looks like an excellent book. I just so happened to binge-watch Apocalypse WWI again on AHC over the weekend - it's an outstanding series (all 5 episodes are posted on YouTube, as well):



    It's somewhat amazing how we're still living with the consequences of that insane conflict a century after it ended...
     
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    One of my favourite books is catch 22 and I have a black white cat who tries to sleep on my head...
     
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    I totally agree. World War One was the most important event of the 20th Century and set up and made inevitable the 2nd most important event, World War Two.
     
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    One might argue that the Cold War was also made inevitable by World War I since the latter contributed greatly to the fall of Czarist Russia and the rise of the Soviet Union.

    I have to agree with you that World War I was the most important event of the 20th Century...
     
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    Slaughterhouse-Five is a great book (so is Catch-22). I don't think I've ever read a Kurt Vonnegut book that I didn't like - Deadeye Dick is a crazy novel, too...
     
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    Yep, WW2 and the Cold War are children of WW1. Another child of WW1 is liberal non-deferential Britain Another is the rise of Japan to first rank. Then there is the Middle East. What a mess WW1 made of that region and we are still caught in its snares. The war also changed the United States beyond recognition and not necessarily for the better.
     
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    Ubik (Philip K Dick) is excellent if you want to go sci fi but on acid lol.
     
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    Other than the demise of the family dynasties who caused World War I I'm hard pressed to think of any good that came out of that needless cataclysm.
     
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    The end of trench warfare?
     
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    On that scale and as a centerpiece of strategy, perhaps. There have been smaller examples of trench warfare in the Iran-Iraq war and the current conflict in eastern Ukraine (Donbass).
     
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