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Trancer-X
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quote:
Originally posted by tathi
Gregory David Roberts - Shantaram

41 Reviews, every single person gave it 5 stars:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...199062?v=glance

one of the best books i have ever read. it's amazing.


Wow! 700+ pages, there must have been some seriously detailed complexity in that story line. Do you remember how deep in the book you read before he escaped from jail in Australia? Just curious.

If I didn't have a stack of about 7 books already I would probably pick this up. I wish there were more hours in a day! Damn it!!!

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shaolin_Z
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The Anti-Chomsky Reader


A more appropriate title for the book would be "Anti-Chomsky Propoganda."


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I'm guessing someone probably posted this already but what the hell:

A People's History of the United States : 1492-Present
by Howard Zinn


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I would all recommend any book written by Roger Garaudy. It depicts political systems in the US and other capitalist countries from a French viewpoint. Although Garaudy is not a radical, he still reminds of some horrible effects of both ultra-capitalism and stalinism.

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Mao: The Unknown Story ~ Jung Chang, Jon Halliday

absolutely can't wait for this to come out. Read the review and it'll have you salavating at the mouth.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos...1318799-7311052


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quote:
Originally posted by S_madis
Mao: The Unknown Story ~ Jung Chang, Jon Halliday

absolutely can't wait for this to come out. Read the review and it'll have you salavating at the mouth.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos...1318799-7311052

nice Sid, at the moment i'm working my way up the continent, with these books:

Grahame Green - The Quiet American
First they killed my father - A daughter of Cambodia Remembers
and just started:
Lost Over Laos
all of the above I can't recommend enough, the reviews speak for themselves

next book is Wild Swans and then i might have to grab Mao: The Unknown Story

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quote:
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Wow! 700+ pages, there must have been some seriously detailed complexity in that story line. Do you remember how deep in the book you read before he escaped from jail in Australia? Just curious.

If I didn't have a stack of about 7 books already I would probably pick this up. I wish there were more hours in a day! Damn it!!!

The book starts when he arrives in Bombay, he only talks about how he escaped the Australian jail briefly when he is being tortured and starved to death in Aurthur Road Prison in India.

The complexity is absolutely amazing, it reads like fiction because he is such an amazing writer, it would be impossible for anyone to go into that much detail if it was made up.

It doesn't get bogged down in detail either, the perfect balance. While reading this book i was living inside a slum in Bombay, fighting the Soviets with the Mujahadeen in Afgahnistan, working for the Bombay Mafia, I now know the ins and outs of international passport forgery

get this book, it stands out amongst the hundreds of 5 star books i've ever read, i lost my social life while reading it aswell haha, couldn't put it down

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Salman Rushdie - The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Jhumpa Lahiri - The Namesake
Joseph Heller - Catch-22

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Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...=books&n=507846


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quote:
Originally posted by S_madis
Mao: The Unknown Story ~ Jung Chang, Jon Halliday


S_Madis, did you read the book yet? Very interested to hear about it.

Lebezniatnikov, what did you think about _Black Garden_?


On the list of things recently read or to get done:

_Mud, Blood and Poppycock_ by Gordon Corrigan.
(Probably of interest to people here, an examination of the myths of Historiography of the British in WWI).

_Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader : North Korea and the Kim Dynasty_ by Bradley K. Martin.
(880 pages, but one I really need to get read).

_Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer_ by Victor Cherkashin.
(Interesting historio-biography of a KGB counterintelligence agent).

_Vaccine A: The Covert Government Experiment That's Killing Our Soldiers--And Why GI's Are Only The First Victims_ by Gary Matsumoto.

_The Record of the Paper: How the New York Times Misreports US Foreign Policy_ by Howard Friel, Richard A. Falk.

_Black Earth: A Journey through Russia After the Fall_ by by Andrew Meier.


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