Besides this BBS of course. I just finished Bee Season by Myla Goldberg last night. Interesting to say the least. I'm picking this one up from Barnes and Noble this afternoon: It's about this American author who followed around some football hooligans during the 80s. I've heard good things. After this I'll finally get around to reading Nick Hornby's latest A Long Way Down. He never disappoints.
I thought Rvenge of the Sith was really good. Its by far the best Star Wars adaptation book of all the movies. It answers many question the movie may have left you with and gets. I know many thought Anakin turned to the dark side too quickly in the movie, but the book really explains it all. It was great imo. I also read Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader. It's what happens right after Sith. It was ok. Not as good as I hoped but they never are. I recently read Hey Ho Let's Go: The Story of the Ramones. Interesting but kind of dry.
After watching Munich I felt like reading some Israeli spy book. This book is the true story of a Mossad agent and his 20 years in Israeli Intelligence. Very eye opening and interesting so far.
An Army at Dawn - Rick Atkinson The Face of Battle - John Keegan The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball - Lichtman, Dolphin and Tango
Little Green Men by Christopher Buckley A secret government agency in charge of creating fear to increase the military budget orders an "alien abduction" of a political talk show host.
Just finished: Word Made Flesh by Jack O'Connell "Think BLADE RUNNER as imagined by Kafka in a dream of Fritz Lang. A rhetorical exercise in satiric impersonation that's paced, reactive, and laced with the ghosts of screams." - The Guardian Not a bad read at all. Now, I'm reading this: Chaplin: His Life and Art by David Robinson "Robinson explores Chaplin's early life, his legal difficulties, and anti-communist persecution, as well as his career and the making of films such as Modern Times and The Great Dictator . Includes b&w photos, a chronology and filmography, a list of theater tours, a summary of the FBI's secret file on Chaplin, and a Chaplin who's who." I've had this for awhile, but wanted to wait until I had all of Chaplin's feature-length films before I read it. Now I do. And this:Thoughts on Machiavelli by Leo Strauss "We shall not shock anyone, we shall merely expose ourselves to good-natured or at any rate harmless ridicule, if we profess ourselves inclined to the old-fashioned and simple opinion according to which Machiavelli was a teacher of evil."
