Books

Norman Davies - Warszaw '44

Higly recommended

Music to go with the book would be Fluttering Dragon's 63 days serie.

Has anyone read Evola's 'Ride the Tiger' or Guénon's 'The Crisis of the Modern World' ? Or anything by these authors?
Pls pm me

I'm reading I Am Legend right now, along with The Eddas and the Kalevala. >:3

I switch to the scary book when I'm a little bored with the epics.

AEnator said:
Pewpewlazers said:
I'm reading I Am Legend right now...

I'll bet you're highly anticipating the film adaptation starring Will Smith? [sarcasm]I'm sure it will be wonderful.[/sarcasm] :)

I've heard about it. I can't believe it. Richard Matheson must be spinning in his sepulcher.

So I got the course guides for my university, and one of the top tier latin courses offered will be on Caesar's De Bello Civile.

Should be great fun, and I will look forward to taking it.

I'm the meantime I'm being a total sissy-girl and reading Winnie Ille Pu

Finished David Conway's Metal Sushi during the weekend. I'll probably start something I haven't read yet by Blavatsky or William Judge towards the end of the week.

Just received Niall Ferguson's "The War of the World" yesterday and started reading immediately. Bought it through ebay for a sweet 18 euros (postage incl.) ! Saw it in Fnac for 60 euros !!!
:-)))

Also bought his "Pity of War" book but haven't received it yet.

Ah, and i recommend Richard Evans' superb series on the Third Reich, currently reading the second part "The Third Reich in Power"

the_mazzatello sagte:
You really should get hold of Jacques Tardi's "Trench War". It has been voted Best Graphic Novel on a Dutch Comics site :

http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/9489.html

And believe me, that's not overstating it, I have a copy at home, and it is really gripping.

The only drawback is : it is widely available in Dutch and French, but not in other languages as far as I know.

the_mazzatello


I have it. Truly gripping stuff !!! He has another comic on the same topic called Soldat Varlot. It´s only a short story but it is certainly as good as Trench War.

During World War II,German Scientists developed Futhark Five,a Substance that allowed human beings to reach superior status...Very good music themes by Puissance,Death in June,TMLHBAC,Der Blutharsch and Other Great Musicians!

yeah, just like they also developed the Hainebu and the Vrille, right ?

Spent the last two weeks in Normandy, France.
Saw some great museums and war-sites there.
Tip for all those who plan to visit that region some time in the future :
http://www.armourer.co.uk/maisybattery.htm

The owner is a neat guy called Gary Sterne. He's a passionate amateur-historean/archeologist and invested a great deal of his time/resources in the development of this site. Truly worth a visit !!!

I am finishing Jean-François Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition, am in the middle of Dorothy L Sayers' Translation of Dante's Purgatory, and just started Natsuo Kirino's new novel Real World, which is about some murders and the vulnerability that young girls feel living in modern Japan.

After that, I will read perhaps a new edition of a book on Swedish Metal.

Jesse

I am now in the middle of Maggie Jackson's new book, DISTRACTED: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age. This fine sociologically centered scholarly work is non-explicitly-political and runs down the author's observations about fears of coming generations inability to think through complex ideas or make intelligent decisions because of the training of ourselves to jump from one image to the next word to the gadget. I do concede that there is a fear-of-the-future possibility in it but if even half of her fears are realized, then culture in the west will be dead and thought, or everything that we call thought, will be hindered.

I think this book is worth checking out.

Jesse.

I liked this book quite a bit. It is finished now and I am getting through a few other books, including Richard Hofstadter's
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. DISTRACTED was a fine read. she tackled the need to focus on one thing, the impossibility of multi-tasking, and the choices a person must make in order to really learn something valuable over time. She also brings up the physical exhaustion that takes place if something is fully engaged upon and how the body itself is part of learning anything well and with nuances.

Hofstadter's book won the Pulitzer Prize, I think in 1965 or something, and is a great piece of intellectual history that explores traditions of the intellect in American political life and the ways in which other political groups created strong rhetoric against intellect going all the way back to America's starts.

Jesse