Books Read 11.15.05 - 11.15.06
Submitted by Slothrop33 on Wed, 01/18/2006 - 02:02
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- 1. The Freedom- Christian Parenti
- 2. Inside Hitler's Bunker- Joachim Fest
- 3. Sleeping With the Devil- Robert Baer
- 4. See No Evil- Robert Baer
- 5. Koula- Menis Koumandareas (Greek)
- 6. Blood and Oil- Michael Klare
- 7. Full Spectrum Disorder- Stan Goff
- 8. A Tale of Love and Darkness- Amos Oz (Israeli)
- 9. Gotz and Mayer- David Albahari (Serbian)
- 10. Wild Thorns- Sahar Khalifeh (Palestinian)
- 11. Justine- Lawrence Durrell
- 12. Osama's Revenge: The Next 9/11- Paul L. Williams
- 13. Goodbye, Columbus- Philip Roth
- 14. Just Like a River- Muhammad Kamil al-Khatib (Syrian novelist)
- 15. The Beggar- Naguib Mahfouz (Nobel Prize winning Egyptian writer)
- 16. The Assasin's Gate: America in Iraq- George Packer
- 17. America's Secret War- George Friedman
- 18. The Third Man- Graham Greene
- 19. The Newton Letter- John Banville
- 20. The Sorrows of Young Werther- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- 21. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde- Robert Louis Stevenson
- 22. A Pale View of the Hills- Kazuo Ishiguro
- 23. The Awakening- Kate Chopin
- 24. The Ghost Writer- Philip Roth
- 25. Chess Story- Stefan Zweig (Austrian Novelist)
- 26. Rising Up, Rising Down Volume 1- William Vollmann
- 27. The Ice Shirt- William Vollmann
- 28. Rabbit Punches- Jason Ockert (great young American writer)
- 29. The Use and Abuse of History- Marc Ferro
- 30. Inside the Resistance: The Iraqi Insurgency- Zaki Chehab
- 31. Imperial Ambitions- Noam Chomsky
- 32. An Inconvenient Truth- Al Gore
- 33. Life and Fate- Vassily Grossman (amazing russian novel about Stalingrad)
- 34. Memories of my Melancholy Whores- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- 35. The Lecture- Lydie Salvayre (french novelist)
- 36. Frontera Dreams- Paco Ignacio Taibo II (Mexican Novelist)
- 37. American Theocracy- Kevin Phillips
- 38. Becoming Abigail- Chris Abani (Nigerian Novelist/Poet)
- 39. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep- Philip K. Dick
- 40. Little Jinx- Abram Tertz (Russian Writer)
- 41. 2001: A Space Odyssey- Arthur C. Clarke
- 42. Houseboy- Ferdinand Oyono (Cameroon Writer)
- 43. King Rat- China Mieville
- 44. The Age of Wire and String- Ben Marcus
- 45. The Tent- Margaret Atwood
- 46. American Vertigo- Bernard Henri-Levy
- 47. Go Down, Moses- William Faulkner
- 48. A Bend in the River- V.S. Naipaul
- 49. The Secret Agent- Joseph Conrad
- 50. Everyman- Philip Roth
- 51. The Cement Garden- Ian McEwan
- 52. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight- Vladimir Nabokov
- 53. The Penelopiad- Margaret Atwood
- 54. Jacob's Room- Virginia Woolf
- 55. Amsterdam- Ian McEwan
- 56. Youth- Joseph Conrad
- 57. Iwo Jima- Richard Newcomb (WW II history)
- 58. Okinawa- Robert Leckie (WW II history)
- 59. Where Angels Fear to Tread- E.M. Forster
- 60. The Invention of Curried Sausage- Uwe Timm (German, amazing novel)
- 61. Never Let Me Go- Kazuo Ishiguro
- 62. I Spit On Your Graves- Boris Vian
- 63. Armed Madhouse- Greg Palast
- 64. The House of Paper- Carlos Maria Dominguez (Uruguayan novelist)
- 65. The Sea- John Banville
- 66. The Life of Insects- Victor Pelevin
- 67. The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip- George Saunders
- 68. The Yellow Wallpaper- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- 69. Woyzeck- Georg Buchner
- 70. The Metamorphosis- Franz Kafka (4th time)
How was See No Evil? I'm interested because I loved the film Syriana, which was "suggested" by the book.
It was a great read and informative. He details the structures of the CIA and the changes it has undergone over the years. It is also an excellent adventure story and does contain some great political insight. His book on Saudi Arabia is more politically informative and frightening. Do you know how easily a few jihadis could blow up the saudi oil and create a depression in the west?
Right now, I'm reading Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore, and he's mentioned Robert Baer quite frequently, especially his 2003 book Sleeping with the Devil. I'm going to assume that's the one on Saudi Aarabia, since in the chapter of DWMC? he's mentioned in, Moore discusses in detail the oil situation and the possible economic depression it could lead to should it collapse.
Yes that is the book! What makes it so frightening is that he was CIA, he is not really speculating as much as interpreting the intelligence.
I really enjoyed Youth (the stage of my life and the book). Did you?
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
I enjoyed it; recently I read The Secret Agent and felt it a more substantial work.
I still haven't read that one yet, to my shame. I'll put it on my list. Thanks!
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs