My current read.. "ITIL V3 Foundation Certificate study guide." -----Original Message----- From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 8:02 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Book Club
I wish I had more time to read. Currently, I'm trying to read "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" along with "The Rails 3 Upgrade Guide" Usually, if read anything nowadays, it seems to be tech related. On Aug 31, 2010, at 9:37 AM, Jerry Barnes wrote: > > Several times over the years, I have thought about starting a monthly > thread about what people are reading. I am always looking for good > reading material. For different reasons, I have never done this. > > Since their is so much acrimony about politics on the list, this might > be a diversion. Though, I am sure with a little effort, it can > devolve into another political flame thrower match. > > So, here are the books I have read over the last two months (July and > August). > > > Robert Parker - Pastime - A Spenser detective novel. Spenser takes on > case of missing woman. > > William Shirer - The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - Excellent novel. > Probably the longest book I have ever read. It is not a war history > in that it does not talk about strategies and such. It talks about > the impact of battles on the Nazi Party and Germany in whole and how > the Nazi's gained power. Hitler was not a great military leader it > seems. His ability seemed to be in politics alone. He had an uncanny > ability to know how other governments would react to Germany's > political moves. With this ability, he was able to annex three > countries with out firing a shot and divide Poland without resistance from France and England. > > M Beaton - Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham, Agatha Raisin and > the Witch of Wyckhadden , Agatha Raisin and the Fairies of Fryfam - > These are all murder mysteries. Imagine combining a middle aged > Bridget Jones with Barney Fife. You would then have the protagonist. Very humorous. > > Robert Parker - Double Deuce - Another Spenser Novel. - Spenser and > Hawke take on the job of cleaning up a project. > > Milton Friedman - Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History - An > interesting book. It talks a lot about how the US used to be on a > bimetallic standard (silver and gold) and how that became a gold > standard, and then a fiat standard. It also links how changes in the > standard effected different parts of the world. For example, The US > implemented a huge silver buying program. At the time, China was the > only country on a silver standard. Silver fled the country leading to > mass inflation. This lead to Chiang Kai Shek's early departure and > the beginning of communism in China. Interestingly enough, now is the > only time in recorded history when all money around the world is > issued by fiat. There is material base to any money anymore. > > Glenn Beck - The Overton Window - A very short book that is conspiracy > centered. It's less controversial than I thought it would be. In > terms of conspiracy or writing, it's no worse than a Steve Berry or > David Baldacci Novel. > > Robert Ludlum - Trevayne - Another conspiracy novel. Written around > the Watergate time. This one centers on the defense industry and > government being so intertwined that it's hard to tell where one ends and one begins. > > Robert Parker - Paper Doll - Another Spenser novel. Spenser > investigates the apparently random murder of a well off mother. But > is anything really random? > > Agatha Christie - The Listerdale Mystery - A collection of short stories. > > Agatha Christie - The Sittaford Mystery - An interesting locked room > mystery. It does not contain any of the Christie standards like > Poirot or Miss Marples. > > Daniel Silva - The Defector - A Gabriel Allon novel. Very well > written spy story. Allon works for the Israeli intelligence service. > In this novel, he is trying to save a Russian defector who was kidnapped by Russia. > > Michael Crichton - Pirate Latitudes - not a very good Crichton story. > One of his worse. I would say everything from Timeline on was bad. > This book centers on a group of privateers in the Caribbean during the > 1600's. As usual for Crichton, all kinds of stuff goes haywire. > > Dick Morris - Catastrophe - A book that got pushed way down in my > stack. It would have been better if I would have read it last year. > Anyway, as you would expect, there is a lot of Obama bashing in the > book. A lot of you would not appreciate that. However, there is a > lot of other interesting sections as well. There is a part on the neglect in treatment of Post > Traumatic Stress in returning soldiers. There is a good section on how > lobbyist skirt lobbying laws. Another section on some corrupt > politicians with the gory details. Those parts would be a good read > for anyone, but I think some couldn't get past the Obama bashing. > > > J > > - > > No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is > in session. - Mark Twain > > The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, > and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy. - Thomas > Jefferson > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:326350 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
