What book are you reading right now?

**bustak** · 20-08-2009, 10:04 AM

The Three Pillars of Zen : Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment by Philip Kapleau Roshi

it's a nice overview of Zen, but by no means "general." I'm early in to the book, but so far it's a nice read.

Albanjoe · 20-08-2009, 06:49 PM

I am not reading any book right now........but i am trying to search an interesting topic.......

**Jet Gorgon** · 21-08-2009, 07:42 AM

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

Sounds good. Fiction, huh?

Pretty much.

**Jet Gorgon** · 21-08-2009, 07:45 AM

Originally Posted by Albanjoe

I am not reading any book right now........but i am trying to search an interesting topic.......

Go on.

**machangezi** · 21-08-2009, 01:54 PM

Eleven minutes by Paulo Coleho.

Story of a young Brazilian girl who always dreamed about her prince charming.

Dan · 21-08-2009, 02:15 PM

Francis Wheen's biography of Marx. Excellent. I usually avoid biographies but I'm very glad I didn't in this case.

**Loy Toy** · 21-08-2009, 02:26 PM

Egged on by a fellow Teak Door member, and so I can relax I have started to read a book about a bored billionaire who has a bet with his friend that he can get a complete stranger, selected from an unknown group of 100 to kill for money.

Having not read a fiction/ thriller book for over 30 years I am finding this one quite complicated with the number of different characters involved.

The Chance by Andy Shea is the book.

**ItsRobsLife** · 27-09-2009, 03:31 AM

I've just finished Generation Kill by Evan Wright. Picked it up for £5.

I haven't seen the HBO TV series, but I'm sure the book delivers a much grittier realism than the show. It's an enjoyable read, a good factual insight into the frontline workings (or lack of) of the Iraq invasion.

For something more objective, and yet more damning, about the Iraq invasion, read Fiasco by Thomas E Ricks

**lysander** · 27-09-2009, 03:44 AM

Originally Posted by ItsRobsLife

I've just finished Generation Kill by Evan Wright. Picked it up for £5.

I haven't seen the HBO TV series, but I'm sure the book delivers a much grittier realism than the show. It's an enjoyable read, a good factual insight into the frontline workings (or lack of) of the Iraq invasion.

I did it the other way round. I saw the show (which is well worth watching and is downloadable in the usual places). Now I'm reading the book.

You ought to get 'One Bullet Away - The Making of a Marine Officer' by Nathaniel Fick - the lieutenant in Genration Kill.

**attaboy** · 27-09-2009, 08:04 AM

I'm at the point that the Catholics have rescinded the Diet of Worms edict calling for Luther to be burned at the stake. Protestantism is born.

There is no better government on Earth than under the Turks, who have neither civil nor canon law, but only the Koran. - Luther.

Suleyman has defeated Hungary at Mohacs. The king, 500 knights, 20 magnates and 7 prelates are wiped out. There are no Hungarian administrators left Sulyeman can leave in charge while he returns to Anatolia. He finds a Transylvania prince to tend things who is promptly defeated by the Austrian Ferdinand.

(You'd think people would learn from mistakes made in history and they'd leave some Ba'athists in charge of civil affairs at the municipal level. But nooo!)

**ItsRobsLife** · 27-09-2009, 02:06 PM

Originally Posted by lysander

You ought to get 'One Bullet Away - The Making of a Marine Officer' by Nathaniel Fick - the lieutenant in Genration Kill.

Yes the book is mentioned in the afterword, I will look out for it. Thanks.

**SiLeakHunt** · 11-10-2009, 06:02 PM

Just finished Any Old Iron by Anthony Burgess, not his best but not bad either.

Cheers

**SiLeakHunt** · 18-10-2009, 05:29 PM

Just read Blowback, as recomended here, not a bad few pages, whilel I doubt it'll change your life, it was a nice quick easy well written read. Easy way to kill a day.

Cheers

Dan · 18-10-2009, 06:04 PM

Just started A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey. Harvey is a Marxist academic from CUNY so he's certainly got an axe to grind but he's a good writer, and the book is very well researched. His main thesis - as far as I can tell from the first chapter - is that neoliberalism - in the guise of globalisation, the dominant ideology of our time - which is nothing more than the re-assertion of class power, is a threat to democracy and perversion of concepts of freedom. If stats are your thing, there's a very solid factual basis, running from the abandonment of Bretton-Wods to contemporary China, showing how everywhere neoliberalism has resulted in the the transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich. You can download a pdf of it from Radical Ebook Archive which also has a lot of other interesting lefty stuff.

**SiLeakHunt** · 20-10-2009, 05:42 PM

Anybody recommend a good comedy/humour title? Funniest book I've ever read was "The Wrong Boy" by Willy Russell.

Cheers

**bsnub** · 20-10-2009, 06:05 PM

War Dog. Awesome read. Check it out.

Amazon.com: WAR DOG: Fighting Other People's Wars -The Modern Mercenary in Combat (9781932033090): Al Venter: Books

**Scottish Gary** · 20-10-2009, 06:10 PM

Ive just finished Slash the autobiography of Slash from Guns N Roses.
He said that his drug problems got so bad he used to get up in the middle of the night and chase aliens around his house with a gun and a knife.
Thats was when he decided the drugs might be doing something to his mind. lol

**SiLeakHunt** · 21-10-2009, 12:45 AM

Originally Posted by Scottish Gary

Ive just finished Slash the autobiography of Slash from Guns N Roses.
He said that his drug problems got so bad he used to get up in the middle of the night and chase aliens around his house with a gun and a knife.
Thats was when he decided the drugs might be doing something to his mind. lol

Thats pretty normal behaviour !

**Boon Mee** · 22-10-2009, 04:20 AM

Pretty relevant for these times...

**Scottish Gary** · 24-10-2009, 02:57 AM

If you like true crime books Grass by Phil Sparrowhawk is a good read. He was originally from Essex but lived in Bangkok and shipped huge loads of hash around the globe before he was caught and jailed in Thailand and then America.
He was in cohorts with Howard Marks so if you like Mr Nice you will enjoy this.

**lysander** · 24-10-2009, 03:47 AM

One Bullet Away:The Making of a Marine Officer by Nathaniel Fick. An excellent description of the making of a USMC officer.

**natalie8** · 25-10-2009, 07:11 PM

Originally Posted by SiLeakHunt

Anybody recommend a good comedy/humour title? Funniest book I've ever read was "The Wrong Boy" by Willy Russell.

Cheers

I read To The Nines by Janet Evanovich a few weeks ago. Very witty humour and strong characters make the story a good read. I'll look out for other books by her.

http://www.evanovich.com/novels/novel/54

**jandajoy** · 25-10-2009, 08:20 PM

Originally Posted by SiLeakHunt

Anybody recommend a good comedy/humour title? Funniest book I've ever read was "The Wrong Boy" by Willy Russell.

Puckoon by Mr. S. Milligan

**Loombucket** · 27-10-2009, 03:50 AM

Originally Posted by jandajoy

Puckoon by Mr. S. Milligan

Hitler, my part in his downfall, also by Spike Milligan. A 'laugh out loud until it hurts', type of book. Also, Rommel, my part in his etc.

**crazy dog** · 30-10-2009, 08:59 AM

Send them to hell, another book about life in the hell hole prisons of bangkok. The guy in this instance spent 17 years here on fitted up charges before they let him out. Worth reading if only for the side stories of others even more unfortunate, such as the Thai guy with next to no arms sentenced to death for a shooting when he could not even pick up a gun. The real culprit's family paid the one charged family to say he did it in order to get their son from being charged. The Thai justice system comes out of it all somewhere between the Spanish inquisition and the courts of Stalinist Russia, terrifyingly unjust that is.

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