[Stipe]

All Gall is Divided - Emile Cioran
Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age - Bohumil Hrabal

[Lokakyy]

Lawrence James - The Rise and Fall of British Empire

and

Germaine Greer - The Female Eunuch

[Steven_K]

Gag Rule by Lewis H Lapham
Crime and Punishment by Dosteovsky

[Apollos]

The Case for a Creator by Lee Strobel
How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth by Gordon D. Fee and Douglas Stuart

[Aeschylus]

Plato's Republic... again.

[QatzelOk]

The Consumer Society Jean Baudrillard [Excellent]

How to Read Nietzsche K. Pearson

The Allure of Toxic Leaders J Blumen [Mediocre]

Graceful Exits S. Blackman

Listening to Fear S. Marans

Advertising Ethics Spence and Heekeren

[cool weather = less sports, more book reports]

[arcis]

How to Read Nietzsche

Some time ago a met a student from Italy who is spending some semesters in Munich.
She had to do a translation from German into English. The German text was a half page of
Nietzsche. I read the five sentences again and again but I couldn't figure out what is
meant. It was such an inexpressibly twisted stuff. She was quite desperate when she noticed that even a German couldn´t explain the meaning. So had to do comfort her.

IMO 99 % of the people who claim that they are reading Nietzsche are cheater.

[Lokakyy]

IMO 99 % of the people who claim that they are reading Nietzsche are cheater.

You're right.

Though I don't know if it is necessary to understand _everything_ that Nietzsche wrote. Much of what he wrote is rather open to different intepretations.

[Aeschylus]

Up From Liberalism, by William F. Buckley, Jr.

Let Us Talk of Many Things (Collected Speeches of WFB)

This is an exercise in rapid vocabulary expansion. I love it.

[postpositivist]

The Mandarins - Simone de Beauvoir

Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity - Leah Greenfeld

Harry Potter a l'ecole de sorciers - JK Rowling

Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century - Mark Leonard

One for general reading, one for study, one for French study and one mostly for its pretty shiny cover (and because my favourite lecturer told me to read it.)

[Downer]

The O'Reilly Factor for Kids. A pretty outstanding book. I recommend it to everyone who wants to know what life is all about.

[Aeschylus]

The O'Reilly Factor for Kids. A pretty outstanding book. I recommend it to everyone who wants to know what life is all about.

[Steven_K]

The Little Prince - Atoine De Saint-Exupéry (Translated by Richard Howard)

[Ideational Ontarian]

The Road to Serfdom - F.A. Hayek (great anti-collectivist book, recomended for all libertarians)

Japan From Prehistory to Modern Times - J. Hall (pretty good although somewhat bland)

Nation of Nations - J. Davidson (realy a great American history book, very well illustrated too, its striking how much a good text can make a uni course easier)

The Prince - Machiavelli (havent gotten very far yet but im not sure i like this translation, i wish it was more modern english)

Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert (im sad that i dont like this book as much as the original Dune, i was hoping i could enjoy the whole series, does anyone know if it gets any better in "Children of Dune"?)

Its unbelievable how much fuckin reading you have to do for a PoliSci major....

[Subversive Rob]

The Road to Serfdom - F.A. Hayek (great anti-collectivist book, recomended for all libertarians)

Surely there are much better books than this one!? I find the Road to Serfdom to be puerile and simplistic.

[Ideational Ontarian]

It is simple, its an easy read, precisely why I like it so much. Its far from childish though, its one of the most respected books in economics. You dont know what you're talking about.

[Spin]

Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert (im sad that i dont like this book as much as the original Dune, i was hoping i could enjoy the whole series, does anyone know if it gets any better in "Children of Dune"?)

I would advise you to leave it after Children Of Dune. The end of God Emperor I dislike because it kinda ruins the entire point of Leto. And the subsequent books which correct that are absolute shite IMHO. Less focus on an interesting plot and LET'S TALK ABOUT SEX.

[Lokakyy]

A World History of Art by Hugh Honour & John Fleming and
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.

[Tattoosofmemory]

I just finished 'The Story of B' by Daniel Quinn.

Now I'm reading 'Wicked' by Gregory Maguire.

[Kamil]

Reading:

Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

Finished:

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley