What book are you reading right now?

So how balanced is the book?

Komet posted:

So how balanced is the book?

If the question is directed to The New Sultan my answer would be that I it is well balanced, giving praise and criticizing according to policies and events. The book was being taken to print just after the 2016 coup attempt so the most recent extreme steps taken by Erdogan are not covered here. The writing is pretty academic, clear but a little on the dry side which I don't mind. Definitely worth reading.

German hack Todenhöfer infiltrates Isis hellhole. The man has balls of steel. A brilliant and compelling - if rather depressing - read.

Katy Tur  -  "Unbelievable: My Front-row Seat To The Craziest Campaign In American History" (2017)

Santa bought me this. A great survey of record sleeve, poster and graphic design from the punk era.

Imperium - Richard Harris.

Anyone splashed out on a copy of Fire And Fury yet?

steve

A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young tax attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the Kremlin's corruption.

Paper Plane posted:

Anyone splashed out on a copy of Fire And Fury yet?

steve

Why bother? 

Peter Doggett's masterful account of the breakup of The Beatles:

The story of Lev Termen, Russian inventor, most famous for his invention of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments and the first to be mass-produced. Beautifully written as a novel with Lev as the narrator. Love, music and electricity are the binding threads. Gripping !

Kevin-W posted:

Peter Doggett's masterful account of the breakup of The Beatles:

With due respect for you and your choice of books, I have loved them too much, so I even hope to see them forgotten than become the perennial object of a mix of irrational devotion and cynic, cunning revisionism as it seems to happen to all great things gone.

M.

Brian Kilmeade - "George Washington's Secret Six"  -  the spy ring that saved the American Revolution

The Churchill Factor by BJ. An outstanding read whatever you might think of Boris.

Stu

Max_B posted:

Kevin-W posted:

Peter Doggett's masterful account of the breakup of The Beatles:

With due respect for you and your choice of books, I have loved them too much, so I even hope to see them forgotten than become the perennial object of a mix of irrational devotion and cynic, cunning revisionism as it seems to happen to all great things gone.

M.

Have you read the book Max?

The heroic story of a Polish squadron fighting as part of the RAF in the battle of Britain. The book was written in the midst of the war and copies of it were parachuted to Poland to raise their moral in the struggle to free themselves from the German occupiers. 

Haim Ronen posted:

A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young tax attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the Kremlin's corruption.

Couldn't stomach the self-serving, egotistical, bragging style of the author. Quit about 25% of the way through.

Paper Plane posted:

Anyone splashed out on a copy of Fire And Fury yet?

steve

Bought it and read it over a 4 day stay at a Landmark property. One could almost (almost) feel some sympathy for Drumpkopf.

As a counterpoint to F&F I also read "Slaughterhouse 5" by Kurt Vonnegut and "The Somme" by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore, both rather better written than F&F. 

winkyincanada posted:

Haim Ronen posted:

A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young tax attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the Kremlin's corruption.

Couldn't stomach the self-serving, egotistical, bragging style of the author. Quit about 25% of the way through.

Pity. The writing is nothing to write home about but the real events are captivating.

Haim Ronen posted:

winkyincanada posted:

Haim Ronen posted:

A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young tax attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the Kremlin's corruption.

Couldn't stomach the self-serving, egotistical, bragging style of the author. Quit about 25% of the way through.

Pity. The writing is nothing to write home about but the real events are captivating.

I just couldn't stand reading one more time about how awesome he was.