What Are You Reading ?

[Music Head]

Another Bush bashing tell all. Not much respect for this guy from me. Anybody who stabs a friend in the back deserves that. Love how when he talks about what he disagreed with, it's always "in hindsight". That's pretty easy to do. Last chapter he has all his cures for the evils of Washington so there will be no more partisan bickering. Dream on Scott. Hope he enjoyed his 5 minutes and has been banned from politics.

Grade - C

next up - Anthem by Ayn Rand

[ziesha098]

I m reading Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg.

[Ruby]

next up - Anthem by Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand’s Fountainhead was, for me, one of those life changing, eye opening revelations. I loved it. Atlas Shrugged is brilliant too.

I’m reading something called ‘The Visitors’ by Sally Beauman. It’s a combination of fact and fiction and is set in Egypt and the UK around the early twenties. It centers on lifelong friendships forged in childhood, as well as Howard Carter’s discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb. The author has done a lot of research, and the relationships between some of the protagonists, such as Lord Carnarvon and Carter and a host of other colonial bodies that were present at the time, are quite believable. It’s a good read. As a side note - Tutankhamun turns out to have been a rather tragic figure; a boy king with all sorts of congenital defects (thanks to the practice of incestuous marriages) who was likely smashed up in a chariot accident. He died at age 19. Quite sad.

[jazzboCR]

Ayn Rand
Tutankhamun--smashed up in a chariot accident. He died at age 19. Quite sad.

What, that he died semi-suddenly doing something he loved and not waiting for the long, slow, painful process of inherited diseases take him? WTF are you wishing on him?
About Ayn Rand--The queen-Goddess of the "I got mine--f^ck you" "Me Generation"--the Queen Bee of the hedge fund--venture capital, 'let's shtup'm with fake derivatives" gang: http://leftsolutions.wordpress.com/ayn-r...-politics/ << admiring her tells the world alot about you--mostly self-centered and negative.

[Music Head]

Ayn Rand’s Fountainhead was, for me, one of those life changing, eye opening revelations. I loved it. Atlas Shrugged is brilliant too.

both great books

[Music Head]

about Ayn Rand--<< admiring her tells the world alot about you--mostly self-centered and negative.

glad to see someone is recognizing my admirable traits - thanks jazz

[Music Head]

Ayn Rand - Anthem - 1937



Well that was a breeze. Could be the shortest book I ever read at 80 pages. Big Brother is at it again. Everyone has a number and no name. The word I has been banned. Our place in society is determined by the feds. Two rebels defy the man and seek to learn. That's forbidden too. One discovers electricity along the way. I don't know, I guess we were wiped out or something. This may have been good in 1937, not so much now for me. This is Ayn's second book and like her first, We The Living, it was not well accepted. Not until the success of The Fountainhead in 1943 did her previous work become well known. Of course Atlas Shrugged remains her best know, and that was her last work of fiction.

Grade - D

next up - The New Mind Of The South by Tracy Thompson

[Ralgrim]

I just began reading Stephen King's Doctor Sleep. Since I'm not much of a fan of anything more than his short stories it will probably take me the remainder of this year(maybe more)to read it all the way through.

[ziesha098]

I'm reading Lean In book by Sheryl

[Music Head]

Very enjoyable light read mostly about black/white relations in the south from the Civil War onward. Paints a rather broad brush to label people I think but I'm not a southerner. The author was raised in the Atlanta area but became a yankee 20 years ago. Returns to the south to write this book and is confused because folks aren't sitting around talking about slavery and racism. Of course that's all she wants to talk about with people, why? because she's writing a book about it. Most folks don't like to talk about something that ugly. But it was a good book that was borrowed from that neighbor again. And it inspired me for my next read.

next up - Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell