What book are you reading and what's it like?

[Dawood H]

I just picked up The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and am only putting down long enough to chime in here that I am on page 57 and fully hooked.

 

[Asteroid B-612]

I just picked up The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and am only putting down long enough to chime in here that I am on page 57 and fully hooked.

It's fantastic isn't it?

I'm trying to fit in The Girl Who Played With Fire when I can.

[Dawood H]

I just picked up The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and am only putting down long enough to chime in here that I am on page 57 and fully hooked.

It's fantastic isn't it?

I'm trying to fit in The Girl Who Played With Fire when I can.

I finished it a few hours ago, it just kept getting better and better.
Big thanks to whom ever it was who suggested it to me.

[nate]

I'm reading a book by Matthew Clavin about the Haitian Revolution and the American Civil War. It's good. Among other things, I learned that one of the people who went on the raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry traveled to Haiti just before that.

[Brandon]

3/4th of the way into A Peoples History of the USA. Love it.

[Modernist Communist]

3/4th of the way into A Peoples History of the USA. Love it.

Great read that. You could do a good movie adaptation based on any of the chapters. An unusual quality in what at first glance appears to
be a history text book.

[snowball]

Next on my reading list: British Syndicalism 1910-1914 by Bob Holton

Decent enough, but has the International Socialists/SWP spin to it.

Just finished said book now, an interesting read.  Didn't detect any obvious IS/SWP spin though? Could you elaborate syndicalist?

I thought the book was a bit quick to brand any form of industrial unrest "proto-syndiclaist" (whatever that means), however its central thesis, that Brittish Syndicalism has been downplayed in importance, and that the movement did not die off preceeding the war but was going strong up until the outbreak, is convincing.

For those in the UK who don't know much about the native syndicalist movement, I would recommend this book as a good intro.

Now to read:

[Dawood H]

Russian fascism: traditions, tendencies, movements by Stephen Shenfield
http://books.google.com/books?id=M0Qkk-r2buQC

I skipped straight to chapter 7 "Dugin, Limonov, and the National-Bolshevik Party"

And holy fuck I wish I had I read it a year ago.
Creepy shit.

[Mick]

I'm almost finished reading Headhunters by John King. Pretty decent book. Not as rich in character development as Skinheads but better than The Football Factory. I also picked up England Away which is next on my list.

[Dimitri]

I'm still reading Alexandre Skirda's "Nestor Makhno - Anarchy's Cossack". It is really interesting especially in the last chapters when Makhno is in France trying to orgaise his life there...

[Dimitri]

I finished A. Skirda's book on Makhno and tomorrow I will start reading Joao Freire "Freedom Fighters - Anarchist Intellectuals, Workers and Soldiers in Portugal's history" (Black Rose Books).

[Dimitri]

Earlier today I finished Joao Freire "Freedom Fighters - Anarchist Intellectuals, Workers and Soldiers in Portugal's history" and I'm intending to start E, Krebs's "Shifu - The Soul of Chinese Anarchism".

[ronan]

I recently read Kim Stanley Robinson's Forty Signs of Rain and Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood. I enjoyed them both a lot. Forty Signs of Rain is a far more hopeful book, it casts scientists as activists in the fight to stop global warming. In The Year of The Flood, capitalism is even more crazy and out of control than it already is. The only people resisting it are cultist nutcases, which isn't very hopeful.

Today I've borrowed a collection of short stories by William Gibson and A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle.

[bennycompton]

I recently read... Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood.

Did you check out the prequel, Oryx and Crake? Those two books are pretty top class sci-fi in my book.

[ronan]

no, I'll check it out. I liked the book, but it's pretty obvious she's a Tory.