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    Default Re: What book are you reading?

    I'm reading Bertrand Russell's Power.

    It is an intense analysis of power is all its forms.
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    Here be dragons by Sharon Penman. Historical fiction about King John and the welsh Prince Lewellyn (or something like that) and it is basically about medieval England and Wales centered around John's bastard daughter who is wed to the Prince of Gwynned.
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    I was reading Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, but am now between books. By the way The Things They Carried is an extremely good book which is centered around the Vietnam War and things related to it like draft-dodging and readjusting to civilian life.
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    Default Re: What book are you reading?

    Couple of different things-Ranulph Fiennes's biography of Captain Scott, as well as Focault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco.
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    Default Re: What book are you reading?

    Critique of Pure Reason, Kant; and A New Essay concerning Human Understanding by Leibniz -- a pt. by pt. refutation of Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (actually just reading the bit on innatism).
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    Default Re: What book are you reading?

    Quote Originally Posted by Big King Sanctaphrax
    Focault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco.
    Cool.

    I'm reading Celts: History and Civilization by Venceslas Kruta. It's less of a text and more like a photo-documentary.
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    Default Re: What book are you reading?

    I'm re-reading Stephen and Matilda: the Civil War 1139-54 by Jim Bradbury (some of you may guess why), I just finished Enemy of God by good old Cornwell and reading bits of On War. I would also be reading the Pale Horseman by Cornwell again, but I forgot it at home. I'm supposed to read l'Ingenu by Voltaire, but I just forgot about. Philosophy and me do not mix.
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    Default Re: What book are you reading?

    For school I have required reading (To Kill A Mockingbird) But in my spare time im currently reading The Enemy Within and Liberalism is a Mental Disorder (I love that title.)
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    Default Re: What book are you reading?

    eh, not reading but writing

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