I don't have any kids so I'm not an expert. Some of the things 6 year old Ender said were just wild.MrPopo wrote:You'd be surprised just how much kids talk like adults.Gnashvar wrote:Just finished reading Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.
A good read. I couldn't put it down. There are some things that are out of date like the Warsaw Pact. The kids talk way too much like adults but overall great.
Books Read: 2011
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Also just read Ender's Game, found it at Goodwill for 50 cents. Very memorable read, left quite an impression, highly recommended.Gnashvar wrote:I don't have any kids so I'm not an expert. Some of the things 6 year old Ender said were just wild.MrPopo wrote:You'd be surprised just how much kids talk like adults.Gnashvar wrote:Just finished reading Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.
A good read. I couldn't put it down. There are some things that are out of date like the Warsaw Pact. The kids talk way too much like adults but overall great.
Finished Ghost Story by Peter Straub most recently, another cheap Goodwill find. Well written, has it's moments where it lives up to the title, but my interest fell through some large plot holes and stunted characters who make implausible decisions. My lasting impression is to never become involved with a woman whose initials are A.M......
Re: Books Read: 2011
1. Disquisition on Government - John C. Calhoun
2. Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
3. Breaking the Backcountry: Seven Year's War in Virgina and Pennsylvania, 1754-1765 -Matthew C. Ward
4. Christianity in Latin America: A History - Ondina and Justo Gonzalez
5. The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America - Walter R. Borneman
6. Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570
7. John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union - John Niven
8. Hall of Mirrors - Laura A. Lewis
9. Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ - Carolyn Dean (half read)
10. Texas Revolution - William C. Binkley
11. Wild Yankees - Paul B. Moyer
12. Fries's Rebellion: The Enduring Struggle for the American Revolution - Paul Douglas Newman
13. Taming Democracy - Terry Bouton
14. Dimity Convictions - Barbara Welter
15. The Faces of the Gods - Leslie G. Desmangles
16. The Presidency of James K. Polk - Paul H. Bergeron
17. Colonization After Emancipation: Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement - Phillip W. Magness and Sebastian N. Page
18. Freedom Under Siege - Ron Paul
19. Mighty Stonewall - Frank E. Vandiver
20. The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience - Emory M. Thomas
21. The Dawn of a New Era, 1250 -1453 - Edward P. Cheyney
22. Lincoln's Darkest Year: The War in 1862 - William Marvel
23. The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn - Nathaniel Philbrick
24. George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I - Miranda Carter
25. North against South: The American Iliad, 1848-1877 - Ludwell H. Johnson
26. The Corpse Walker – Yiwi Liao (new)
27. History in Three Keys – Paul A. Cohen (new)
28. Discovering History in China – Paul A. Cohen (new)
29. Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx (new)
Here are the recent additions to my list, although there were also three books not listed in which I have half read (I intend on finishing two of the three). I have more or less began my school reading, yet am still trying to fit in some recreational reading, as evident by the Communist Manifesto (although to be fair it is extremely short and can be read fairly quickly).
The Corpse Walker is interesting book about a journalist who went around China compiling interviews with all sorts of different people. If the interviews can be trusted, some of them are remarkable about the savagery the Chinese had to endure during the Mao years.
The Cohen books are mostly intellectual history about how to write and interpret Chinese history as a westerner, although History in Three keys is primarily about the Boxer Rebellion. Cohen has great writing style and lot of what he says not only makes sense for writing Chinese history, but history in general. I would elaborate, but I doubt most people here are begging to know about Chinese historiography.
Lastly is the Communist Manifesto, a book that I have wanted to read for a while. My political views have always been in stark opposition to Mr. Marx, but I never gave him his due. The book is actually so incredibly sophomoric that I have hard time seeing how anybody could have taken it seriously, let alone allow it to become such a staple of cultural and intellectual history. I know Marx has written other, more in depth books, and I plan to read them eventuality, but as the Manifesto goes, it is just plain silly.
2. Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
3. Breaking the Backcountry: Seven Year's War in Virgina and Pennsylvania, 1754-1765 -Matthew C. Ward
4. Christianity in Latin America: A History - Ondina and Justo Gonzalez
5. The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America - Walter R. Borneman
6. Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570
7. John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union - John Niven
8. Hall of Mirrors - Laura A. Lewis
9. Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ - Carolyn Dean (half read)
10. Texas Revolution - William C. Binkley
11. Wild Yankees - Paul B. Moyer
12. Fries's Rebellion: The Enduring Struggle for the American Revolution - Paul Douglas Newman
13. Taming Democracy - Terry Bouton
14. Dimity Convictions - Barbara Welter
15. The Faces of the Gods - Leslie G. Desmangles
16. The Presidency of James K. Polk - Paul H. Bergeron
17. Colonization After Emancipation: Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement - Phillip W. Magness and Sebastian N. Page
18. Freedom Under Siege - Ron Paul
19. Mighty Stonewall - Frank E. Vandiver
20. The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience - Emory M. Thomas
21. The Dawn of a New Era, 1250 -1453 - Edward P. Cheyney
22. Lincoln's Darkest Year: The War in 1862 - William Marvel
23. The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn - Nathaniel Philbrick
24. George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I - Miranda Carter
25. North against South: The American Iliad, 1848-1877 - Ludwell H. Johnson
26. The Corpse Walker – Yiwi Liao (new)
27. History in Three Keys – Paul A. Cohen (new)
28. Discovering History in China – Paul A. Cohen (new)
29. Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx (new)
Here are the recent additions to my list, although there were also three books not listed in which I have half read (I intend on finishing two of the three). I have more or less began my school reading, yet am still trying to fit in some recreational reading, as evident by the Communist Manifesto (although to be fair it is extremely short and can be read fairly quickly).
The Corpse Walker is interesting book about a journalist who went around China compiling interviews with all sorts of different people. If the interviews can be trusted, some of them are remarkable about the savagery the Chinese had to endure during the Mao years.
The Cohen books are mostly intellectual history about how to write and interpret Chinese history as a westerner, although History in Three keys is primarily about the Boxer Rebellion. Cohen has great writing style and lot of what he says not only makes sense for writing Chinese history, but history in general. I would elaborate, but I doubt most people here are begging to know about Chinese historiography.
Lastly is the Communist Manifesto, a book that I have wanted to read for a while. My political views have always been in stark opposition to Mr. Marx, but I never gave him his due. The book is actually so incredibly sophomoric that I have hard time seeing how anybody could have taken it seriously, let alone allow it to become such a staple of cultural and intellectual history. I know Marx has written other, more in depth books, and I plan to read them eventuality, but as the Manifesto goes, it is just plain silly.
Re: Books Read: 2011
1. Disquisition on Government - John C. Calhoun
2. Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
3. Breaking the Backcountry: Seven Year's War in Virgina and Pennsylvania, 1754-1765 -Matthew C. Ward
4. Christianity in Latin America: A History - Ondina and Justo Gonzalez
5. The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America - Walter R. Borneman
6. Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570
7. John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union - John Niven
8. Hall of Mirrors - Laura A. Lewis
9. Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ - Carolyn Dean (half read)
10. Texas Revolution - William C. Binkley
11. Wild Yankees - Paul B. Moyer
12. Fries's Rebellion: The Enduring Struggle for the American Revolution - Paul Douglas Newman
13. Taming Democracy - Terry Bouton
14. Dimity Convictions - Barbara Welter
15. The Faces of the Gods - Leslie G. Desmangles
16. The Presidency of James K. Polk - Paul H. Bergeron
17. Colonization After Emancipation: Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement - Phillip W. Magness and Sebastian N. Page
18. Freedom Under Siege - Ron Paul
19. Mighty Stonewall - Frank E. Vandiver
20. The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience - Emory M. Thomas
21. The Dawn of a New Era, 1250 -1453 - Edward P. Cheyney
22. Lincoln's Darkest Year: The War in 1862 - William Marvel
23. The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn - Nathaniel Philbrick
24. George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I - Miranda Carter
25. North against South: The American Iliad, 1848-1877 - Ludwell H. Johnson
26. The Corpse Walker – Yiwi Liao
27. History in Three Keys – Paul A. Cohen
28. Discovering History in China – Paul A. Cohen
29. Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx
30. Neanderthin - Ray Audette (new)
31. The Paleo Diet - Loren Cordain (new)
When I was updating my list the other day I felt I was forgetting something, and then it hit me that I also read two diet books centered around the Paleo diet. For those unfamiliar, the diet is off evolutionary research that our bodies were not meant to eat refined carbohydrates. The underlying evidence for this is that since man has adopted agriculture only 10,000 years ago, humanity has been plagued by diseases and obesity, something that was unknown to our paleolithic ancestors. However, because its almost impossible to recreate what our ancestors ate, I am little skeptical of certain aspects of the diet. But to be fair, I have been on it for only a few weeks and am starting to see improvements in my weight and health, so I feel that the overall concept of avoiding refined carbohydrates is solid.
As for the books themselves, Audette's book was one of the original diet books (released 1995) intended for a large audience to adopt a paleolithic diet. Audette was personally a very sickly man, so he did his own research and discovered people had been researching evolutionary diets for quite some time. It just so happened that most of their research was published in academic journals and such and not really out in the public sector. So he took their research and tested it out for himself, resulting in a dramatic increase in his overall health. His book I believe is out of print and has been superseded by several paleolithic diet books written by researchers and nutritionists, but it is written in such a basic and matter of fact prose that if you can find this book cheap or at the library, and are interested in the Paleo diet, I would say go ahead and give it a read.
Cordain's book (2010 revised edition) is generally seen as the standard diet book for those who are interested in the diet. He is published researcher of evolutionary nutritionist and therefor his book is more refined than Audette's and offers a lot scientific reasoning for why you should be on the diet. But since it is just a diet book, a lot of that information is watered down for the general public (although you can access all his scholarly publications online for those interested in the nuts and bolts). If you are serious about adopting a paleo lifestyle, this book should be in your collection.
2. Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
3. Breaking the Backcountry: Seven Year's War in Virgina and Pennsylvania, 1754-1765 -Matthew C. Ward
4. Christianity in Latin America: A History - Ondina and Justo Gonzalez
5. The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America - Walter R. Borneman
6. Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570
7. John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union - John Niven
8. Hall of Mirrors - Laura A. Lewis
9. Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ - Carolyn Dean (half read)
10. Texas Revolution - William C. Binkley
11. Wild Yankees - Paul B. Moyer
12. Fries's Rebellion: The Enduring Struggle for the American Revolution - Paul Douglas Newman
13. Taming Democracy - Terry Bouton
14. Dimity Convictions - Barbara Welter
15. The Faces of the Gods - Leslie G. Desmangles
16. The Presidency of James K. Polk - Paul H. Bergeron
17. Colonization After Emancipation: Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement - Phillip W. Magness and Sebastian N. Page
18. Freedom Under Siege - Ron Paul
19. Mighty Stonewall - Frank E. Vandiver
20. The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience - Emory M. Thomas
21. The Dawn of a New Era, 1250 -1453 - Edward P. Cheyney
22. Lincoln's Darkest Year: The War in 1862 - William Marvel
23. The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn - Nathaniel Philbrick
24. George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I - Miranda Carter
25. North against South: The American Iliad, 1848-1877 - Ludwell H. Johnson
26. The Corpse Walker – Yiwi Liao
27. History in Three Keys – Paul A. Cohen
28. Discovering History in China – Paul A. Cohen
29. Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx
30. Neanderthin - Ray Audette (new)
31. The Paleo Diet - Loren Cordain (new)
When I was updating my list the other day I felt I was forgetting something, and then it hit me that I also read two diet books centered around the Paleo diet. For those unfamiliar, the diet is off evolutionary research that our bodies were not meant to eat refined carbohydrates. The underlying evidence for this is that since man has adopted agriculture only 10,000 years ago, humanity has been plagued by diseases and obesity, something that was unknown to our paleolithic ancestors. However, because its almost impossible to recreate what our ancestors ate, I am little skeptical of certain aspects of the diet. But to be fair, I have been on it for only a few weeks and am starting to see improvements in my weight and health, so I feel that the overall concept of avoiding refined carbohydrates is solid.
As for the books themselves, Audette's book was one of the original diet books (released 1995) intended for a large audience to adopt a paleolithic diet. Audette was personally a very sickly man, so he did his own research and discovered people had been researching evolutionary diets for quite some time. It just so happened that most of their research was published in academic journals and such and not really out in the public sector. So he took their research and tested it out for himself, resulting in a dramatic increase in his overall health. His book I believe is out of print and has been superseded by several paleolithic diet books written by researchers and nutritionists, but it is written in such a basic and matter of fact prose that if you can find this book cheap or at the library, and are interested in the Paleo diet, I would say go ahead and give it a read.
Cordain's book (2010 revised edition) is generally seen as the standard diet book for those who are interested in the diet. He is published researcher of evolutionary nutritionist and therefor his book is more refined than Audette's and offers a lot scientific reasoning for why you should be on the diet. But since it is just a diet book, a lot of that information is watered down for the general public (although you can access all his scholarly publications online for those interested in the nuts and bolts). If you are serious about adopting a paleo lifestyle, this book should be in your collection.
Re: Books Read: 2011
B is for Bad Poetry, by Pamela August Russell
The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction, Edited by Isaac Asimov
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, by Stephen King
Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein
Kull, Exile of Atlantis, by Robert E. Howard
The Exorcist, by William Peter Blatty
The Great Train Robbery, by Michael Crichton
Von Ryan's Express, by David Westheimer
Sphere, by Michael Crichton
The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle
Hondo, by Louis L'Amour
The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli
We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam, by Lt. Gen. Hal Moore (Ret.)
Mao Tse-Tung and China, by C.P. FitzGerald
Farmer in the Sky, by Robert A. Heinlein
In Gallant Company, by Alexander Kent
Korea, by Patricia K. Kummer
The Koreans, by Russell Warren Howe
Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob, by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill
Making Strategy: An Introduction to National Security Processes and Problems, by Col. Dennis M. Drew and Dr. Donald M. Snow
The Withering Away of the Totalitarian State ...And Other Surprises, by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes: Chile, by Arturo Valenzuela
The Polynesian Triangle, by Erick Berry and Herbert Best
Farnham's Freehold, by Robert A. Heinlein
Making War To Keep Peace, by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
The Science of Michael Crichton, edited by Kevin R. Grazier, PhD
The Beginnings of American Foreign Policy, by Felix Gilbert
TOTAL: 27
Farnham's Freehold is an odd book, apparently quite popular with survivalists who enjoy the earlier chapters, in which Farnham and his group are forced by nuclear war to survive in a world they believe to be devoid of human life. The tribulations they face then change rapidly as they are then captured by members of the New World Order, the government of the future. In the new world, African-based ethnicities rule the world while Caucasian(and many Asian nationalities) serve as slaves. The book's considered controversial for both portions, and include moments of racism, cannibalism, discussions of incest, and much more. Quite an interesting scifi novel.
Making War to Keep Peace concerns the United States and its military operations of the 1990s and early 2000s, including both times in Iraq, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. Kirkpatrick is quick to point out both policy successes and failures during both Bush administrations and the Clinton administration, remarking heavily on the use of American armed forces and their use in our foreign policy, as well as the strengthening of the United Nations and the broadening of peacekeeping operations. I'd recommend it to anyone interested in the lead up to our ongoing struggles in Iraq and Afghanistan and has helped me to shape my opinions on our interactions with Libya. I'd also caution anyone thinking that things are cut and dry in any aspect, as the book also delves into the interesting power grabs and assumptions of men like Boutrous Boutrous-Ghali and Kofi Annan.
The Science of Michael Crichton is a collection of essays based around Michael Crichton's novels which consider the possibility of his stories and give descriptions of how accurate they are in terms of modern technology. The essays range from Ray Kurzweil's thoughts on The Terminal Man and how encompassing technology will soon be in our society, descriptions of quantum physics and time travel, and a critique on Crichton's opinions on global warming and the politicization of science in his book State of Fear.
The Beginnings of American Foreign Policy details the prevailing views on foreign policy during the formation of the United States and reveals how the new Americans changed and wavered in their beliefs regarding the topic between Idealism and Realism. Of particular interest to me was the final section on George Washington's Farewell Address, in which he announced his retirement and urged the public to do away with political parties, which he felt would only manage to disrupt the Constitution and embroil animosity between the people, resulting in governmental deadlocks as opposed to serious and educated debate on how to handle the United State's problems. This last portion had a significant impact because it warns against the polarization of political discussion, which was considered to be a major factor for government collapse in the Breakdown of Democratic Regimes series.
The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction, Edited by Isaac Asimov
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, by Stephen King
Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein
Kull, Exile of Atlantis, by Robert E. Howard
The Exorcist, by William Peter Blatty
The Great Train Robbery, by Michael Crichton
Von Ryan's Express, by David Westheimer
Sphere, by Michael Crichton
The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle
Hondo, by Louis L'Amour
The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli
We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam, by Lt. Gen. Hal Moore (Ret.)
Mao Tse-Tung and China, by C.P. FitzGerald
Farmer in the Sky, by Robert A. Heinlein
In Gallant Company, by Alexander Kent
Korea, by Patricia K. Kummer
The Koreans, by Russell Warren Howe
Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob, by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill
Making Strategy: An Introduction to National Security Processes and Problems, by Col. Dennis M. Drew and Dr. Donald M. Snow
The Withering Away of the Totalitarian State ...And Other Surprises, by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes: Chile, by Arturo Valenzuela
The Polynesian Triangle, by Erick Berry and Herbert Best
Farnham's Freehold, by Robert A. Heinlein
Making War To Keep Peace, by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
The Science of Michael Crichton, edited by Kevin R. Grazier, PhD
The Beginnings of American Foreign Policy, by Felix Gilbert
TOTAL: 27
Farnham's Freehold is an odd book, apparently quite popular with survivalists who enjoy the earlier chapters, in which Farnham and his group are forced by nuclear war to survive in a world they believe to be devoid of human life. The tribulations they face then change rapidly as they are then captured by members of the New World Order, the government of the future. In the new world, African-based ethnicities rule the world while Caucasian(and many Asian nationalities) serve as slaves. The book's considered controversial for both portions, and include moments of racism, cannibalism, discussions of incest, and much more. Quite an interesting scifi novel.
Making War to Keep Peace concerns the United States and its military operations of the 1990s and early 2000s, including both times in Iraq, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. Kirkpatrick is quick to point out both policy successes and failures during both Bush administrations and the Clinton administration, remarking heavily on the use of American armed forces and their use in our foreign policy, as well as the strengthening of the United Nations and the broadening of peacekeeping operations. I'd recommend it to anyone interested in the lead up to our ongoing struggles in Iraq and Afghanistan and has helped me to shape my opinions on our interactions with Libya. I'd also caution anyone thinking that things are cut and dry in any aspect, as the book also delves into the interesting power grabs and assumptions of men like Boutrous Boutrous-Ghali and Kofi Annan.
The Science of Michael Crichton is a collection of essays based around Michael Crichton's novels which consider the possibility of his stories and give descriptions of how accurate they are in terms of modern technology. The essays range from Ray Kurzweil's thoughts on The Terminal Man and how encompassing technology will soon be in our society, descriptions of quantum physics and time travel, and a critique on Crichton's opinions on global warming and the politicization of science in his book State of Fear.
The Beginnings of American Foreign Policy details the prevailing views on foreign policy during the formation of the United States and reveals how the new Americans changed and wavered in their beliefs regarding the topic between Idealism and Realism. Of particular interest to me was the final section on George Washington's Farewell Address, in which he announced his retirement and urged the public to do away with political parties, which he felt would only manage to disrupt the Constitution and embroil animosity between the people, resulting in governmental deadlocks as opposed to serious and educated debate on how to handle the United State's problems. This last portion had a significant impact because it warns against the polarization of political discussion, which was considered to be a major factor for government collapse in the Breakdown of Democratic Regimes series.
Re: Books Read: 2011
The Beginnings of American Foreign Policy sounds like a pretty good book so I added it to my already long amazon wish list. Did you have to read it for school? It's a pretty old out of print book.
Re: Books Read: 2011
Actually I found it in a thrift store for $0.25, so I figured I'd pick it up and give it a read through out of personal curiosity. I think you'll probably like it if you can get your hands on a copy.
Re: Books Read: 2011
Flying through The Chris Farley Show.
Best book I've read all year, might be the best biography you read this year. From Tim Meadows tripping balls off mushroom tea to Farley almost falling out of a hotel window, there's a lot about Chris Farley and the SNL cast I always made assumptions about, and the book clarifies every incident.
The book goes in every direction. Chris is a star. Chris has no talent. Chris is amazing. Chris is a dick. Read it and draw your own conclusions, but one conclusion I came to is that david spade is a complete insecure, leeching, back stabbing dick. Seriously, fuck spade.
Fun Fact: The hot chick that strips down in the hotel pool in Tommy Boy... She and Chris totally did it.
"Do, d-d-do you remember that um, scene where you got naked and um, went swimming in the pool? Um... That was awesome"
Best book I've read all year, might be the best biography you read this year. From Tim Meadows tripping balls off mushroom tea to Farley almost falling out of a hotel window, there's a lot about Chris Farley and the SNL cast I always made assumptions about, and the book clarifies every incident.
The book goes in every direction. Chris is a star. Chris has no talent. Chris is amazing. Chris is a dick. Read it and draw your own conclusions, but one conclusion I came to is that david spade is a complete insecure, leeching, back stabbing dick. Seriously, fuck spade.
Fun Fact: The hot chick that strips down in the hotel pool in Tommy Boy... She and Chris totally did it.
"Do, d-d-do you remember that um, scene where you got naked and um, went swimming in the pool? Um... That was awesome"
Re: Books Read: 2011
Currently leafing through these
VALIS had me grasping at straws but the Divine Invasion is more ADHD-friendly
VALIS had me grasping at straws but the Divine Invasion is more ADHD-friendly
Thy ban hammer shalt strike 
Re: Books Read: 2011
If I could spend my life studying one author, it would be Kafka, just so I could finish this book.