What are you reading tonight Lounge? I've just started "Thinking Fast and Slow" by Daniel

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Kahneman. About intuition and such. I love it so far.

[arcane1]

1. I've been re-reading "The Shock Doctrine"

Chock full of bedtime stories and lullabies

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2. I know. That is harrowing.

[hifiguy]

3. Just started re-reading Robertson Davies'

wonderful "The Deptford Trilogy" for the first time in more than a decade. Lovely stuff. Just finished Anthony Summers' bio of Tricky Dick Nixon "The Arrogance of Power." I'd forgotten just what a crazy shit Nixon really was even after living through his entire administration.

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5. I totally saw myself as a "fifth business" when I read his book. I wasn't an actor in my own life at

the time. I was a doormat. I had learned helplessness. I should read it again because I haven't since the end of high school.

[annabanana]

12. I LOVE Robertson Davies. Spectacular prose.

And the most unpredictable story lines imaginable. I was so sorry when I finished his oeuvre.

[Auggie]

6. I just finished "My Life In France" by Julia Child

[Turbineguy]

7. That one's next on my bedside table.

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8. Just finished Rouseau - Social Contract and Discourses - started

reading a biography of Malcolm X. And I'm reading a study by Hayek, Denationalization of Money.

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9. I loved the biography of Malcolm X.

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14. I read the autobiography a long time ago; so far this bio has been pretty good. (nt)

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17. I read the one written by Alex Hailey.

[parisbrando]

10. Woman Trouble: Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life

Hi, if you're after a short article to read, Melanie Cheung has written a piece called 'Woman Trouble: Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life'. Thought it might be interesting to you

http://kubrickontheguillotine.com/2011/10/08/woman-trouble-douglas-sirks-imitation-of-life/

[annabanana]

11. Bossypants (Tina Fey's autobio)

It reads just like she talks.. very funny

[Odin2005]

13. "Battle Cry Of Freedom: The Civil War Era" by James McPherson.

This book needs to be thrown at any RW douchebag who insists that the war was not about slavery.

Oh, and General McClellan was a moron.

[Canis Mala]

15. Michael Moore

Here Comes Trouble - Very readable and very funny. Also very sad at times.

[MiddleFingerMom]

16. Often when I go grocery shopping, I'll have to pick up a prescription refill...

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from their book/magazine section. I'm about halfway through (in
little 10-minute-at-a-time bursts) James Patterson's "Worst Case".
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His novels are filled with little two- and three-page chapters that are
just perfect for this kind of venue!!!
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(on edit) He writes light fiction about horrible serial killers that are
pretty good suspense thrillers, but his law enforcement officials
(usually a male-female pairing from different bureaus) are always
annoyingly acting like junior high school students as they wonder
if the other cop "likes" them or not.
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