What are you reading?

[Thaddaeus]

I just finished The Invisible Heart, by Russ Roberts of EconTalk; I'll definitely be reading more of his stuff. It's an exploration of the merits of the free market and libertarian, written in dialogue between an econ professor (Roberts' stand-in, one assumes) and an English teacher who believes in regulation, welfare, etc. Roberts writes her concerns well, and his main character sometimes doesn't have an answer for her except to say that even a perfect system produces imperfect results.

My current read is Chain of Thunder, an American Civil War novel; on the serious side I'm reading Diet for a Warm Planet.

[heavenlyboy34]

SOmetimes when I read Tolstoy or Dostoevsky english translations I feel like I am ingesting vomit. If only I had the mental capacity to learn Russian, and french. I have Shakespeare (Edward D'Veere) and Clemens, perhaps that is enough.

EDIT: And tolkien... never forget the original R.R.

I prefer the original Russian myself. Lots of nuances get lost in translation from Russian to English.

[heavenlyboy34]

I finished 1984 yesterday. Good book, but the ending wasn't as good as I hoped it would be.

[NationalAnarchist]

I have tried reading 1984 3 or 4 times and I just can't get into it...Animal Farm I loved.

[CaptUSA]

Just finished reading Walden. Very thought-provoking. It was a little difficult because my eyes would keep reading while my mind was thinking about something from the last paragraph. Still, though, pretty enjoyable.

Thinking about picking up The Brothers Karamazov.

[VIDEODROME]

[NationalAnarchist]

Cash. Biography of Johnny Cash.

[whippoorwill]

The Federalist Papers

[I<3Liberty]

How Starbucks Saved my Life: A Man of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else by Michael Gates Gill

and

The $1,000 Genome: The Revolution in DNA Sequencing and the New Era of Personalized Medicine


I like non-fiction geeky reads and autobiographies.

[NationalAnarchist]

Phoenix Rising: Day of Judgement.