What are you reading right now?

[Spent]

'Bash The Rich' by Ian Bone, founder of Class War. In case you ever wondered who Britain's most dangerous man was during the Thatcher's Years. Terribly written but a fascinating history.

[Fish]

"War on the Middle Class"

"The government, big business, and special interest groups are enriching themselves at our expense. Now more than ever, we're finding ourselves at the mercy of those individuals and organizations that control jobs, provide goods and services, and wield power... The middle class is being picked apart and its future mortgaged for the benefit of a small group of powerful American interests." - Lou Dobbs

For all of you in denial.

[navier-stokes]

still slogging through a 'people history'.... though just stared 'The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry' which is a popular math history about group theory... fun and the elegant part of maths......

[Wilbur Kookmeyer]

Poets on the Peak

[gills]

Under the banner of Heaven

[nasty]

That is an amazing book. It really opened my eyes to pologomy and how we as tax payers fund these families. I have recommended that book several times since I read it.

[2tone]

Life of Pi

[gills]

That is an amazing book. It really opened my eyes to pologomy and how we as tax payers fund these families. I have recommended that book several times since I read it.

yeah, it's way creepy....I like that Krakauer singles out fundmentalism as the real evil--- lots of parallels can be made to christianity and islam--- but I have to say, being a recovering catholic who is not fond of any religion, though whole Joe Smight megolomaniac, decoder glasses, looking in a hat with gold tablets, etc...is about as absurd as it comes--- not to mention how Mormonism views women as property-- all mormonism does. That the modern, non-fundimentalist church doesn't subscribe to polygamy is bizarre.

I don't think this book will help FW with his case against monogamy though.

[CBtransplant]

I just finished Searching for Captain Zero by Alan Weisbecker.

I thought it was a pretty cool book. Lot's of crazy stories from the author's trip all the way down Baja, over to mainland Mex and then down to Central America. He also throws in some flashbacks to his days as a drug smuggler.

[riverjetty]

That the modern, non-fundimentalist church doesn't subscribe to polygamy is bizarre.

I think it was abolished to gain statehood. The Mormons picked the lesser of two evils, either denounce polygamy, or go to war with the United States. If Washington hadn't insisted they denounce it, they never would have.

Saving for Retirement (without living like a pauper or winning the lottery),
by Gail MarksJarvis

[pra_ggresion]

The reason they started practicing polygamy in the first place was because Joseph Smith got cauht cheating on his wife. So he says "but baby god told me to do it." Must be nice to be a modern day prophet.

[2tone]

Been pretty lucky with the books lately... Loved every one I've read in the last few weeks...
The Life of Pi - loved it
The Road - loved it
The Tao of Pooh - loved it
Now reading The Te of Piglet - good but but so far, liked the Tao of Pooh more
My next read - The timetraveler's wife...

[Wilbur Kookmeyer]

The sex lives of cannibals.

[grizldoldfk]

old issues of "the horse"
and "mongo", again

[escondido_vida]

Molecular biology of the cell, its a horror story