BOOKS - What are ASF members reading?

[gav]

Just finished Everyday Traders - Nick Radge

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

The Kindly Ones

A harrowing account of genocide during the Second World War.

gg

 

[trainspotter]

"Cry, the beloved country" by Alan Paton. Sad but rivetting of how a country and society is allowed to decay for profit with a family moralistic overtone.

 

[GumbyLearner]

Capitalism and Freedom
by Milton Friedman

 

[Julia]

Tim Winton recently won the Miles Franklin award for "Breath".
Just a wonderful book.

 

[Robb]

Nudge - Improving decisions about health, wealth and happiness
Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstien

 

[GumbyLearner]

The Shock Doctrine
by Naomi Klein

 

[white_crane]

Have recently read:
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - great book
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini - brilliant book

Currently reading:
The Complete Robot by Isaac Asimov

 

[Iggy_Pop]

Tried to read the Wolf of Wall Street, but could not get into it. Gave it back to the library.

 

[Julia]

Tried to read the Wolf of Wall Street, but could not get into it. Gave it back to the library.

I'm reassured to read that, Iggy Pop. I had the same experience. It was so badly written I couldn't hack it.

 

[drillinto]

"ROGUE BULL. The story of Lang Hancock, King of the Pilbara"
By Robert Duffield
Publisher: Fontana/Collins
Publication date: 1979

[ Hancock's campaign to convince the country's power holders that Australia's only secure future lies in her mineral resources ]

 

[dalek]

"Fugitive Pieces" by Ann Michaels
An extraordinary demonstration of english language skills by this author who is apparently more well known as a poet.

Also "Longtitude" by Dava Sobel
An well written and absorbing account of the development of an accurate means to measure/find global position in the 1700's
Yes, sounds a bit tedious but it is a great read.

 

[It's Snake Pliskin]

Outliers, Malcom Gladwell.

Read this one the other day and found the section on pilots quite interesting.

 

[happytown]

'how to talk about books you haven't read' - bayard, pierre

cheers

 

[Ghetto23]

I just finished Stephen King's Dark Tower series.

Quite the saga, but well worth it.

 

[GumbyLearner]

My Regards to Broadway - A Memoir

James Fairfax

 

[berbouy]

hijacked-the true story of flight 705 by d. hirschfeld-gripping book!

 

[berbouy]

and fittingly, with le tour ,its not about the bike -lance armstrong.couldnt put it down.

 

[wonderrman]

I just finished reading never say die by Prof. Chris Obrien. very good bio about a very good man.

w.

 

[berbouy]

just read a good fishing book "a jerk on one end " by robert hughes-think he is the art critic? anyway, some good anecdotes in there, and an enjoyable easy read