What Book Are You Reading at the Moment?

[heydaralon]

It’s time for CME (Continuing Medical Education) units. I won’t be reading anything else for a while except during 15 days in Panama & Columbia when I’ll be rereading some of my old David Brin books, then back to CME.

I thought you said that you just got re-certified. Well, good luck with your studying. I've always wanted to go through the Panama Canal. My grandfather went through there during WW2. They all took showers while they were passing through fresh water.

[Martin Hash]

After recert, it’s time to start a new round of CMEs. I do those first then I do CLEs, then CPEs, and finally CEEs, all starting anew on a rare sync.

[heydaralon]

Started listening to Moby Dick. I will listen to more of it tomorrow on the way to work.

[heydaralon]

I am reading Utopia in Power by Mikhail Heller. It is a book on the Soviet Union from 1917 till Gorbachev. It is very very good so far.

GloryofGreece: Check this book out if you have a chance man. I read a couple of short summarized books on modern Russian history for a class years back. They were ok. This one is a lot more fleshed out, with stats, figures and detail. You would enjoy it man. You can find it cheap used on amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Utopia-Power-His ... 332&sr=1-1


I also started Robert Service's: Lenin. Service is also a hardhitter when it comes to debunking Communist saints. He wrote a bio of Stalin and Trotsky as well. I have not read either, but the Trotsky one got some serious flack from some marxist university professors, mainly because it showed that Trotsky was a grotesque arrogant figure who was as eager to slaughter innocents as his butt buddy Lenin and future nemesis Stalin. Orlando Figes, another historian of the USSR, got into it with him, and I believe he got in trouble for leaving some fake amazon reviews under troll accounts. Academic politics are very weird man.

[Speaker to Animals]

Started listening to Moby Dick. I will listen to more of it tomorrow on the way to work.

I love that novel.

[heydaralon]

I got a routine. I listen to an audiobook on the way to work (usually fiction) and at my job before the store opens. Then on my break I usually read a nonfiction book. There is this pretty awesome park near a lake where I work that I hang out in and read. Its actually pretty relaxing. One of my few minor joys in life at the moment.

[GloryofGreece]

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/18446 ... merReviews
Yamashita's Gold. How we likely plundered Japan's loot from Asia. Makes me wonder how much gold, silver, gems, cash, and valuables the "allies" looted from Germany / Italy after the War too.

[GloryofGreece]

Started listening to Moby Dick. I will listen to more of it tomorrow on the way to work.

I love that novel.

Often im more interested in the man behind the novel than the story itslef.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville

For example for me learning about guys like Dickens, Twain, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky through biography was as good or better than their writings.

[Montegriffo]

Anything would be better than reading Dickens.

[heydaralon]

Charles Dickens loved America when he first went there. And Americans loved him greeting him in the street. Later he found out American publishers were pirating his books and publishing them without giving him royalties, and he hated America from then on. Fuck that guy. He's not half as good as Dean Koontz.