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The first one is hilarious.
What book are you currently reading?
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The first one is hilarious.
Deerhunter
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The Brothers Karamazov
That's a fantastic series. And he's a bastard for taking so long on the next one.
Flowers-Of-Bloom
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The Green Mile by Stephen King... again.
secretly awesome
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"As a Man Grows Older", by Italo Svevo
Tiercel
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My nose is in yet another World War II book right now. I recently started Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust by Richard Rhodes. And since I consider reading books on some of Humanity's finer moments "fun," is it any wonder that I only curl up with a book every night?
And before I start another debate in the endless stream of Nazi internet arguments, yes, I was being sarcastic. But if it's a crime to be fascinated with the largest armed conflict in recorded history then you can shoot me now.
And before I start another debate in the endless stream of Nazi internet arguments, yes, I was being sarcastic. But if it's a crime to be fascinated with the largest armed conflict in recorded history then you can shoot me now.
Deerhunter
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War and Peace, haven't put it down in the last 5 days or so.
Square_Eyes
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This week I finished Stephen King's The Stand and Ben Elton's Popcorn.
The Stand is quite simply the best thing I've ever read. 1325 pages of awesome.
Currently reading Yann Martel's Life of Pi.
The Stand is quite simply the best thing I've ever read. 1325 pages of awesome.
Currently reading Yann Martel's Life of Pi.
market.garden
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My nose is in yet another World War II book right now. I recently started Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust by Richard Rhodes. And since I consider reading books on some of Humanity's finer moments "fun," is it any wonder that I only curl up with a book every night?
And before I start another debate in the endless stream of Nazi internet arguments, yes, I was being sarcastic. But if it's a crime to be fascinated with the largest armed conflict in recorded history then you can shoot me now.
I used that same book for my final year dissertation at uni. A 10,000 word mammoth on the Einsatzgruppen. Grim reading but Masters of Death is a really good source on them.
Tiercel
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I've been busy lately, so I'm only about half way through it so far. But despite the grim subject matter, I've found it to be pretty interesting and thorough. So far I haven't had a moment where I read something and said, "Yeah, but what about (insert related topic here)?" It's just as well, though, as that usually leads me to the internet. And that usually means more books that I find that I'd like to read.
And what exactly was your dissertation on? The actions of the Einsatzgruppen alone, or did you somehow tie it in with more current events?
market.garden
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It was looking into the psychological make up of the members of the Einsatzgruppen and how the murders affected them. Also a large part of it was narrative to put it all into context. Helmut Langerbein's book "Hitler's Death Squads" was also pretty useful.
My fiance' reads her books, and other authors similar to her..
Luke1993
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Ross Kemp in Afghanistan, he is most famous for the TV version but I'm just reading his book of it. Basically he is a former actor turned journalist who goes out to the frontlines with a cameraman and British soldiers, joins them on the battlefields and talks to them about soldier life and things.
Oh and it's non-fiction lol
Oh and it's non-fiction lol