What are you reading?

[Pachyderm]

Toadfish Monastery . com

[beagle]

Russell Davies/Benjamin Cook - Doctor Who, The Writer's Tale

[Pachyderm]

C S Forester's The Age of Fighting Sail

[Swatopluk]

C S Forester's The Age of Fighting Sail

Don't know that one and I thought I had read most of his stuff.

[Sibling Chatty]

Greg Palast "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy"

Tony Blair's bunch get a really scathing going over toward the end.

[pieces o nine]

^ excellent book.

There were (3) public access channels in Denver, and he showed up fairly regularly on one of them. Quite disappointed that the "m-s-m" gives his research such a pass.

[Swatopluk]

Bonk : The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
by Mary Roach

[Pachyderm]

James Jones, The Thin Red Line

[beagle]

Tony Blair's bunch get a really scathing going over toward the end.

What for? Civil liberties or spin or hiding public sector pensions off balance sheet,  or dodgy dossiers or .....)     

[Sibling Chatty]

All of the above and more.

[beagle]

They had David Davis on Desert Island Disks this weekend. Doubt he's well known enough in the States to get a  mention in your book though.

[anthrobabe]

The Good Earth- Pearl S. Buck

[Swatopluk]

Just finished the biography of Peter the Great. Next is the history of china (not the country).

[Griffin NoName]

Booker Shortilisted (didn't win) The Northern Clemency Philip Hensher.

Up to page 25 of 738. Big book.

So far, dull drivel. Will it improve? Or is being shortlisted corrupted? Or is it meant to test one's staying power in the face of irrefutable evidence one should abandon ship?

Still on same word on p25. Progress slow.

[anthrochild87]

Drawing Down the Moon by Margot Adler