I am now reading Hermann Hesse’s Glass Bead Game. I am about one quarter thorough. This is my forth book by Hesse. Previously I have read Journey to the East, Steppenwolf, and Siddhartha. I love Hesse’s works. I should like him less then I do, since I find that his writing is often flawed and can be...

I have begun Phillip Roth's "Zuckerman Bound". This is actually the first four short novels of the Zuckerman series in one volume. It includes "Ghost Writer", "Zuckerman Unbound", "The Anatomy Lesson" and "The Prague Orgy". I am almost through, "...

Well, I'm glad I read Virgil and Ariosto before I read Homer. Man, they're all written so similarly. I think I'm epic't out. I think it'll be a while before I read The Odyssey. Homer's similes are nearly all alike and either deal with lions/hunting, the ocean, or trees. They aren't very imaginative...

I read Ayn Rand's "Anthem" last year for the first time, and the cashier at Barnes & Noble informed me that her entire philosophy could be captured within the book. He said he'd read "Atlas Shrugged" first, followed by "Anthem," and that he could have just read the...

I agree with finding out why people choose to create gods - but I think I know. It's a form of groupthink where one main azzhole gets a group of people to believe what he's saying and then, by gaining a foothold in society, increases power by making life difficult for those who don't accept the tru...

NY152 wrote:Sound like a work of Fiction, but is it? Does sound interesting.

It is a non fiction history book.

Based upon my first impressions and upon reviews that I have read, it emphasizes the effects of the conflict on people and schools of thought, with less emphasis on battles and politics.

I have begun The English Civil War: Papists, Gentlewomen, Soldiers, and Witchfinders in the Birth of Modern Britain by Diane Purkiss. I primarily decided to read this one to better understand events that later influenced the American Revolution, but this looks like it will be fascinating read in its...

I just finished this one. It is a great, taut and well written history book. It is full of brutality and cruelty so it might be a little hard to take for some. It is amazing how inhumane and cruel that humans can be to each other. Having read a lot of history it sometimes seems that murder, rape and...

The wounded giant sought emotional revenge for the humiliation of 911. The invasion of Iraq was about teaching Islamists that the USA is the dominant secular power of our planet. Saddam was an easy target. Action motivated by emotional revenge rarely produces desirable results. Containing Saddam an...

Though I do not agree 100% with the list, I do find these fun. So many books, so little time! 1. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne 2. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 3. Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 4. Walden by Henry David Thoreau 5. Gulliver's Trave...